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Wakapi

Self-hosted coding activity and time tracking server

Time Tracking ★ 4.4k stars Easy setup GPL-3.0

Wakapi is a self-hosted tool to track and analyze your coding time. It is compatible with WakaTime editor plugins and provides detailed dashboards of programming activity.

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Key features

  • WakaTime plugin compatible
  • Coding activity dashboards
  • Multiple database backends
  • Single lightweight binary

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (4.4k GitHub stars)

Is Wakapi secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Wakapi's latest release (2.18.1). OSV.dev lists 1 past advisory for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-97737, published 2026-09-25 (19 days ago), fixed in 2.17.6

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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