Hamster
Desktop time tracker for individual productivity
Hamster is a free desktop time tracking application that helps individuals record how long they spend on activities. It groups entries by category and produces simple overviews and exports of tracked time.
Key features
- Activity categorization
- Daily and weekly overviews
- Local SQLite storage
- Export to common formats
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Active community (1.1k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
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