v0.14.0b1

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.14.0b1.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg, arm64)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@0xbrayo, @2e3s, @BelKed, @0xbrayo, @deancureton, @ErikBjare, @Game4Move78, @HomeArchbishop, @istudyatuni, @kenoma-hld, @luisgerhorst, @matt-seb-ho, @moodyhunter, @mrienstra, @Noorts, @petrroll, @powellnorma, @reddaisyy, @RTnhN, @Senophyx, @TimeToBuildBob, @vdonich, @yuhldr

Changelog

Changes since v0.13.2:

📦 activitywatch

✨ Features (2)

• feat(ci): add automated dev release workflow (#1217) (e9c9915)
• feat: add aw-tauri CI builds alongside aw-qt (#1209) (dc1371c)

🐛 Fixes (17)

Click to expand

• fix(deps): update aw-notify submodule to correct aw-notify-rs ref (5e5bd35)
• fix(build): restore Python.framework symlinks before signing (#1260) (e60719b)
• fix(build): strip signatures and group by content hash in framework signing fallback (#1259) (c9c256b)
• fix(build): always sync canonical framework binary to avoid per-copy signature divergence (#1258) (1a349e0)
• fix(build): snapshot pre-signing checksum to correctly detect framework binary duplicates (#1257) (38a87df)
• fix(build): sign canonical framework binary once and sync to duplicates (#1256) (7d52fcd)
• fix(build): preserve binary identifier when signing via temp-path copy (#1255) (88eadfb)
• fix(build): sign all Mach-O binaries inside non-standard framework bundles (#1254) (0bfc97f)
• fix(notarize): auto-retrieve notarytool log on status: Invalid (#1251) (c94ac70)
• fix(build): sign non-standard framework binary via temp copy to avoid ambiguity (#1250) (93053d0)
• fix(build): handle non-standard Python.framework signing in Tauri build (#1249) (6d836c0)
• fix(build): skip framework main binaries in codesign Step 1 to avoid ambiguity error (#1247) (e376d6c)
• fix(build): replace codesign --deep with inside-out per-binary signing for notarization (#1246) (a41abfb)
• fix(build): notarize macOS app bundle before stapling (#1245) (9949fdf)
• fix(ci): unblock macOS dev-release prereqs (#1231) (c642967)
• fix(ci): use jq for dev-release check-run filter (#1230) (411061f)
• fix: added escaping of html elements in commit messages for changelog generation (6c26ebd)

🔨 Misc (7)

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• chore: bump version to v0.14.0 in pyproject.toml (132ae58)
• docs: update donation badge to reflect April 2026 baseline (#1287) (8e6871b)
• refactor(scripts): improve version handling in build scripts (#1280) (8301338)
• Replace aw-notify with Rust implementation aw-notify-rs (#1211) (5548a0b)
• docs: add link to docs repo in CONTRIBUTING.md (#1190) (ab3316b)
• docs: improve server architecture documentation (bd4c5e6)
• chore: added gptme.toml file (a7608c8)

(excluded 33 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

🐛 Fixes (2)

• fix: reject heartbeats on lock timeout instead of proceeding unsafely (#159) (aa848ce)
• fix(test): resolve flaky test_midnight_heartbeats boundary condition (#157) (153e7fd)

🔨 Misc (2)

• chore: bump version to v0.14.0, update pyproject.toml (26be7f2)
• chore: bumped version to 0.13.2 (cfba0b2)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (18)

• feat(categorization): add category sets — named rule profiles with multi-set combining (#804) (ea1b986)
• feat(auth): bootstrap API token from URL/session (#806) (dd7ae07)
• feat(categorization): extract findCommonPhrases util with bigram support and tests (#803) (5529031)
• feat: add work time report view (#775) (83dc881)
• feat(timeline): add 'Merge by app' filter to reduce event flooding (#782) (38663fb)
• feat(timeline): add category filter to Timeline view (#778) (137ee09)
• feat(timeline): add AFK filter toggle to Timeline view (#776) (ad06461)
• feat(timeline): add keyboard and scroll panning support (#777) (fdd2c4a)
• feat: add a dynamic period to the high uncategorized time notification (#745) (7d43d81)
• feat: Add ability to better visualize value of custom events if not using title (#698) (2cdfe0c)
• feat: hide top-window titles vis on android (#737) (360b1b4)
• feat: add top bucket data by column vis ([#733](https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-webui/issue...

v0.13.2

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.13.2.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@2e3s, @BasileusErwin, @BelKed, @brayo-pip, @davidfraser, @ErikBjare, @Shi-Soul

Changelog

Changes since v0.13.1:

📦 activitywatch

🔨 Misc (7)

Click to expand

• chore: bump version to 0.13.2 (839d99f)
• chore: updated changelog contributors cache (78d2b9d)
• docs: fix mermaid architecture diagram (0951338)
• docs: added links to the mermaid architecture diagram (cdc8d5e)
• docs: added mermaid-diagram for visualization of architecture (#1086) (43cbad1)
• chore: updated changelog_contributors.csv cache (26fe779)
• chore: bumped version to v0.13.1 in various places, including in submodules (6f0518a)

(excluded 5 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

🔨 Misc (1)

• chore: bumped version to 0.13.1 (72108cd)

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (3)

• feat(ux): improve timeline usability (#610) (291da6f)
• feat: revert to the default coloring for non-standard watchers (#613) (85c007e)
• feat: use category colors in the timeline view (#609) (0cf7831)

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: correctly invert colors of alerts in dark mode (#591) (e6ad4cd)
• fix: add a default color for Media category (#593) (6ed3e83)
• fix: add browser app name Microsoft Edge Beta on macOS (#595) (ba1305d)

📦 aw-server-rust

🐛 Fixes (2)

• fix(sync): remove bug-causing workaround for spurious small db files (fixes #466) (#492) (5738246)
• fix(linux): add sd-notify for better systemd interop (#489) (8d7ce89)

🔨 Misc (1)

• chore: bumped aw-server version to 0.13.1 (b8330f1)

(excluded 6 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (3)

• feat(ux): improve timeline usability (#610) (291da6f)
• feat: revert to the default coloring for non-standard watchers (#613) (85c007e)
• feat: use category colors in the timeline view (#609) (0cf7831)

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: correctly invert colors of alerts in dark mode (#591) (e6ad4cd)
• fix: add a default color for Media category (#593) (6ed3e83)
• fix: add browser app name Microsoft Edge Beta on macOS (#595) (ba1305d)

📦 aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (1)

• feat: add exclude_titles config & CLI option for excluding window titles by regex (#99) (76c85c6)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: added exception handling for Xlib.error.BadWindow (#97) (7a89db4)

📦 aw-core

🔨 Misc (1)

• chore: bump version to 0.5.17 (6a58ec5)

📦 aw-client

🐛 Fixes (4)

• fix: fixed lints and type issues (ece2b4c)
• fix: fixed operator precedence bug in query (#86) (292b235)
• fix(example): fixed tz-naive datetimes in time_spent_today.py (ff61703)
• fix(example): replace single quotes with double quotes in query (#83) (c699f43)

🔨 Misc (1)

• format: formatted with black (38acb84)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

Full Changelog: v0.13.1...v0.13.2

v0.13.1

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.13.1.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@BelKed, @ErikBjare

Changelog

Changes since v0.13.0:

📦 aw-server-rust

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

🐛 Fixes (4)

• fix: fixed extra space before punctuation in Home view on desktop (2f3d1e8)
• fix: fixes issue with migrating category settings to the server (#583) (54769b7)
• fix: dark mode (Timeline, Activity, Raw Data) (#575) (05c25c9)
• fix: add saturday as option for 'start of week' setting (80db006)

Full Changelog: v0.13.0...v0.13.1

v0.13.0

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.13.0.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@2e3s, @750, @Alwinator, @BelKed, @chaoky, @Elijah-Bodden, @ErikBjare, @hooger, @iloveitaly, @jkbh, @johan-bjareholt, @Julianoe, @nathanmerrill, @noisersup, @ochen1, @omahs, @Organoidus, @pkvach, @ShootingKing-AM, @skaparis, @skewballfox, @StefanoChiodino, @TSRBerry, @vedantmgoyal2009, @victorlin, @vieteh

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.2

Summary

• ✨ New modules are now shipped with ActivityWatch! (not yet started by default)
  • aw-sync syncs your local datastore with a sync folder (default ~/ActivityWatchSync, which you can sync with Syncthing, Dropbox, etc). We encourage you to try it out and give us your feedback!
  • aw-notify sends you notifications about your activity, like the top categories each hour.
  • aw-watcher-input collects more fine-grained input activity, like mouse delta/clicks/keypresses.
• ✨ Server-side settings. Your categories and other settings are now preserved across browsers!
• 🍎 Stability improvements on macOS, tracking should now be much more reliable (hybrid polling)
• 🎨 Improvements to the dark theme
• 🐛 Fixed tracking issues on Windows for applications running with elevated permissions
• 🐛 Fixed issue on Linux/X11 where aw-watcher-window was getting stuck in a hot loop
• 🐛 Many bug fixes
• And a lot more...

📦 activitywatch

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix(windows): re-add leading double brace to AppId (3ada578)
• fix(windows): remove extra '{' in AppId, potentially fixing #886 (7aeb31c)
• fix: trying to fix building extras on macOS (#935) (2c0216d)

🔨 Misc (7)

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• scripts: add line with count of excluded commits in build_changelog.sh (20649af)
• scripts: many changes to build_changelog.py (038d48a)
• scripts: adapted build_changelog.py to work for any repo (6b67ec6)
• test: make integration tests also run for aw-server-rust (42187d8)
• chore: update tool versions (#940) (de9dbad)
• docs(README): replaced occurrences of "our" (eea6713)
• docs: added CITATION.cff (712f45a)

(excluded 106 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

✨ Features (3)

• feat: added settings endpoints (#147) (520c77c)
• feat: added special hostname !local (#140) (7527c8d)
• feat: added support for bucket data object and updating bucket metadata (#128) (8fecb98)

🐛 Fixes (8)

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• fix: fix a 404 error when loading the dashboard (#144) (8b2cc22)
• fix: refactor Flask init code (b211131)
• fix: fixed updated JSON handling in Flask 2.3+ (7f30c17)
• fix: remove unneeded dependency (#139) (0e035c2)
• fix: removed MANIFEST.in (replaced with pyproject.toml include) (df76a77)
• fix: changed exit(0) to sys.exit(0) (64f57ae)
• fix: removed use of deprecated log_file_json param for setup_logging (99ab85d)
• fix: added ruff linting, fixed lints (abd5b67)

🔨 Misc (4)

• format: formatted aw-server.spec (b686b14)
• chore: added py.typed marker file (400a17e)
• test: improved test_settings (60269e7)
• test: fixed test (dc510b1)

(excluded 46 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

✨ Features (8)

• feat: added query function in aw-client (#477) (c056e50)
• feat: added daemon default subcommand, syncing at 5min intervals (5dd5f34)
• feat(sync): assume sync subcommand if none given (ae8f7bf)
• feat(sync): moved logic in sync-test scripts into rust, enabling sync with a single command (#430) (3ab8291)
• feat: embed webui assets into the binary (#385) (26acc28)
• feat: split client to async and blocking (#396) (e689636)
• feat: added special hostname !local (#399) (857c2a3)
• feat: allow specifying exactly which db file to sync with (72993e7)

🐛 Fixes (14)

Click to expand

• fix: fixed compilation warnings & deprecations (#479) (14165e1)
• fix: fix for served paths in new aw-webui build config (no more /static/) (f1f63c3)
• fix: added sync dir config via global --sync-dir cli param and AW_SYNC_DIR env var (#457) (1b56e03)
• fix: replace panics with results & better option types (#437) (dc70318)
• fix: set rocket_cors log level to Warn (fixes[#975](#975)) (59ee035)
• fix(datastore): fixed deprecations in chrono (timestamp_nanos and from_utc) (88464b5)
• fix: return null for missing settings without 404 (d39f258)
• fix: rewrote settings logic to mimic aw-server-python behavior (#428) (728c00e)
• fix: improve AW_WEBUI_DIR handling (#424) (448312d)
• fix: embed files even in debug mode, minor android build script improvements, update aw-webui (2e3298e)
• fix(android): removed use of asset_path in favor of asset_resolver (f284213)
• fix: fixed verbose logging, added proper closing of db connections, remove...

v0.12.3b19

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.3b19.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@BelKed, @Elijah-Bodden, @ErikBjare, @jkbh, @pkvach

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.3b18:

📦 activitywatch

(excluded 4 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: fixed compilation warnings & deprecations (#479) (14165e1)

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

🐛 Fixes (12)

Click to expand

• fix: only save updated settings to server, store theme and landingpage in localStorage as well (#573) (021acc4)
• fix: removed unused guard (bf16309)
• fix: fixed test needing to await async loading of settings (98dee43)
• fix: fixed categories and views not being stored/loaded from server-side settings (b99efb4)
• fix: correctly convert words from map to array (#569) (5993db3)
• fix: dark mode (Stopwatch, Category Builder) (#570) (8245c37)
• fix: showing of UncategorizedNotification (#571) (1b1209d)
• fix: correct URL encoding for category filter query params (#566) (d3a22c2)
• fix: hopefully fixes bug in category builder for 'constructor' word (and other prototype stuff) (#565) (9d58554)
• fix: fixes bug in category builder when word 'constructor' exists (#564) (74b0d31)
• fix: add 'librewolf-default' browser appname (#541) (75dc005)
• fix: add 'Arc.exe' to browser appnames (#553) (ba148a9)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

Full Changelog: v0.12.3b18...v0.12.3b19

v0.12.3b18

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.3b18.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@BelKed, @ErikBjare, @iloveitaly

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.3b17:

📦 activitywatch

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: fix for served paths in new aw-webui build config (no more /static/) (f1f63c3)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: added librewolf-default browser appname (dd37252)
• fix: move 'brave browser' browser-to-appname entries (#283) (b867e80)
• fix: fix URL matching for toggling of dark-mode style element (#562) (b54b5cb)

Full Changelog: v0.12.3b17...v0.12.3b18

v0.12.3b17

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.3b17.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@ErikBjare, @pkvach, @vieteh

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.3b16:

📦 activitywatch

🐛 Fixes (2)

• fix(windows): re-add leading double brace to AppId (3ada578)
• fix(windows): remove extra '{' in AppId, potentially fixing #886 (7aeb31c)

(excluded 9 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

✨ Features (1)

• feat: added query function in aw-client (#477) (c056e50)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: added sync dir config via global --sync-dir cli param and AW_SYNC_DIR env var (#457) (1b56e03)

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs(sync): updated README for aw-sync with proper usage instructions (41b030a)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (1)

• feat: Add 'app' and 'title' fields to CSV export in Reports (#552) (7c0761d)

🐛 Fixes (14)

Click to expand

• fix: fixed dark theme toggle in webpack (64bc94d)
• fix: added pwa manifest generation in vite (f608a1e)
• fix: make files in ./static serve at root (harmonize webpack and vite) (b78ad4f)
• fix: fix CSP for both vite and webpack (8b2d886)
• fix: fixed vite builds! (a5a6ea0)
• fix: more progress on vite builds (b9978e3)
• fix: rename jest.config.js -> jest.config.cjs (b62b4c3)
• fix: fixed broken icons (0b032ec)
• fix: changed require to import (c7cdade)
• fix: Handle date clearing in Activity view (#554) (97a1089)
• fix: converted components to typescript (#556) (400ba07)
• fix: fixed Search view returning all events unfiltered, and converted component to typescript (#555) (3a6a218)
• fix: use settings store to retrieve useColorFallback setting (#533) (23df3fb)
• fix: add app name for Vivaldi on macOS (#520) (845b12f)

🔨 Misc (3)

• test: fixed import errors in tests (cc82b3d)
• refactor: converted the remaining components to typescript (#558) (3ae4060)
• Revert "fix: use settings store to retrieve useColorFallback setting (#533)" (6bffa65)

(excluded 17 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-qt

✨ Features (1)

• feat: added 'Open config folder' button (#104) (a259608)

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-client

✨ Features (1)

• feat(example): added working_hours_gspread.py example script (#81) (c2b051e)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix(examples): fixed bug where it doesn't update rows between midnight and day_offset (7e12bf2)

📦 aw-notify

🔨 Misc (1)

• format: run black (cf943c2)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

Full Changelog: v0.12.3b16...v0.12.3b17

v0.12.3b16

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.3b16.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Warning

This release is broken on several platforms, we recommend using v0.12.3b15 instead.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@ErikBjare

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.3b15:

📦 activitywatch

(excluded 6 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

(excluded 5 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (2)

• feat: added back wmi method on Windows as fallback for admin processes (#96) (2d878c5)
• feat: added hybrid polling method for macOS (#95) (af38b35)

📦 aw-notify

🐛 Fixes (4)

• fix: fixed AwClient initialization (respect --testing), misc cleanup (ca1a075)
• fix: output all + top 3 top-level categories in checkin (instead of hardcoded) (de461a9)
• fix: added potential workaround for failing NSBundle bundleIdentifier check in desktop-notifier (c640ee3)
• fix: fixed logging (d1d0dec)

Full Changelog: v0.12.3b15...v0.12.3b16

v0.12.3b15

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.3b15.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@ErikBjare

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.3b14:

📦 activitywatch

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: trying to fix building extras on macOS (#935) (2c0216d)

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

🔨 Misc (1)

• format: formatted aw-server.spec (b686b14)

📦 aw-server-rust

✨ Features (2)

• feat: added daemon default subcommand, syncing at 5min intervals (5dd5f34)
• feat(sync): assume sync subcommand if none given (ae8f7bf)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (1)

• feat: added categoryQuery support on Android, fixing 'Timeline (barchart)' visualization (0282eec)

🐛 Fixes (5)

• fix: made navbar menu toggler visible in dark mode (7de395b)
• fix: open edit modal when 'Add Category' clicked (add top-level category) (5540cb8)
• fix: fixed Score visualization on Android (d0d3682)
• fix: reload buckets when opening Buckets view (51330e4)
• fix: fixed IBucket.first_seen for aw-server-python (8babe10)

📦 media

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs: added README (ae8d373)

📦 aw-client

✨ Features (1)

• feat: default to using server-side categories for queries (75ae591)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: added comment about categories always fetched from prod to get_classes() (b4598ff)

🔨 Misc (1)

• chore: release v0.5.13 (4938210)

📦 aw-notify

✨ Features (1)

• feat: use server-side categories, invoke start as default subcommand (4efe542)

📦 aw-watcher-input

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: increase default poll_time to 5s, sleep such that we get even intervals (e012b51)

Full Changelog: v0.12.3b14...v0.12.3b15

v0.12.3b14

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.3b14.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@ErikBjare, @nathanmerrill, @skaparis

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.3b13:

📦 activitywatch

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: replace panics with results & better option types (#437) (dc70318)

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs: removed +nightly from example command (6a93563)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (3)

• feat: improved timeline tooltip, including better time formatting (hide date if same day), fixes #494 (54be44d)
• feat: redesigned timeline filter settings, hid inside <details> (609a7cc)
• feat: filtering clients and hosts on timeline (#502) (d7c70b4)

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: never choose 'unknown' host as default for category builder (819c4e3)
• fix: sort hosts by last_updated in buckets store, so that the first host is probably the primary one (fcbd586)
• fix: made CSP stricter in prod (#503) (35ad0ae)

(excluded 5 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-watcher-afk

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: add +1ms to get rid of 20s afk-events not being merged by heartbeat (#64) (84dd679)

Full Changelog: v0.12.3b13...v0.12.3b14