WakaTime differentiates itself by being fully automatic and integrated directly into the developer's workflow via IDE plugins, unlike manual trackers like Toggl or general OS-level trackers like RescueTime.

Leadership

Founders

Alan Hamlett

Founder & CEO of WakaTime. Previously Principal Software Engineer at WhiteHat Security and Software Engineer at Prezi. BS in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas (2010).

Priyanka Sharma

Co-founder of WakaTime. Current Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Former Director of Alliances at GitLab and Head of Marketing at Lightstep. Former Googler.

Executive Team

Alan Hamlett

Founder & CEO

Principal architect and engineer behind WakaTime. Expert in TypeScript, Go, and Python. Based in San Francisco.

Founding Story

WakaTime was created for programmers by programmers to solve the problem of manual time tracking. It began as a side project by Alan Hamlett and grew into a widely used platform through community adoption of its open-source plugins.

Business Model

Revenue Model

SaaS subscription model with tiered pricing for individuals and teams.

Pricing Tiers

Free

1 week dashboard history, unlimited projects, weekly email reports.

Basic

$9/mo

Increased history and additional individual features.

Premium

$14/mo

Unlimited history, programming goals, premium commit & PR stats, and integrations.

Team

$12/user/mo

Aggregated team dashboards and stats for engineering organizations.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Software Developers
Engineering Managers
CTOs
Freelance Programmers

Use Cases

Personal productivity tracking for developers
Engineering team management and velocity tracking
Freelance billing verification
Learning and goal setting for new languages

Notable Customers

Used by over 500,000 individual developers and thousands of engineering teams globally.

Quick Facts

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2013

Entity Type

LLC

Employees

History & Milestones

January 2024

Reached milestone of 500,000 registered users and 90+ IDE plugins supported.

September 2022

Reached milestone of 400,000 registered users.

December 2019

Reached milestone of 200,000 registered users.

October 2017

Reached milestone of 100,000 registered users.

February 2015

Launched Team Dashboards for engineering teams.

Key Capabilities

Automatic time tracking (no start/stop buttons)

Support for 90+ IDEs and text editors

Project, file, branch, and commit-level metrics

Weekly email reports

Programming goals and private leaderboards

AI tool token usage and session tracking

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

VS Code
IntelliJ IDEA
Vim
Sublime Text
PyCharm
WebStorm
Xcode
Android Studio

Key Partnerships

GitHub integration

Bitbucket integration

GitLab integration

Connect

Website

GitHub

X / Twitter

Mastodon

AI Topics

WakaTime focuses on these topics:

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