Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    1.6k

    Traggo: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Traggo is a tag-based time tracking tool. In Traggo there are no tasks, only tagged time spans.

    TL;DR • Traggo • as of August 2026

    Traggo is an open-source time tracking project, with 1.6k GitHub stars and a health score of 50/100. It committed 39 times in the last twelve months across 5 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    1.6k
    GitHub stars
    50/100
    Health score
    39
    Commits (12 mo)
    5/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-07-31
    Days since last commit 17
    Commits, last 3 months 2
    Commits, last 12 months 39
    Months with activity 5 of 12
    Last release 2026-03-01
    Archived No
    Licence GPL-3.0
    Category Time Tracking

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    GPL-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.

    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.

    What Traggo means for your idea

    Traggo is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    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.

    Traggo: common questions

    Is Traggo still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Traggo recorded 39 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 5 of those months and 2 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-07-31. Last release: 2026-03-01. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Traggo commercially?

    Traggo is published under GPL-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.

    How crowded is the Time Tracking category?

    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.

    Traggo alternatives in Time Tracking

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    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

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    Open business management platform for collaborative, on-demand and sharing economies (ERP/CRM/HRM/ATS/PM).

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    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

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