ActivityWatch
Time Tracking
Automatically track how you spend time on your devices.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
MPL-2.0
Modern time tracking application for freelancers and agencies.
solidtime is an open-source time tracking project positioned as an alternative to Time Tracking, with 8.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 84/100. It committed 356 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-06 |
| Days since last commit | 11 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 110 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 356 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-08-07 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Category | Time Tracking |
| Positioned against | Time Tracking |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
solidtime is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.
Actively maintained. solidtime recorded 356 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 110 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-06. Last release: 2026-08-07. Committed within the last 45 days.
solidtime is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
solidtime targets the same job as Time Tracking and is actively shipping. Adoption sits at 8.9k stars. Whether it is a good replacement depends on your deployment constraints: self-hosting adds infrastructure, upgrade and security work that a commercial subscription absorbs for you.
10 open-source implementations, 6 of them actively maintained, led by ActivityWatch at 19k stars. Saturation score 35/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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