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Visual Studio

Code time is a time-tracking app for Visual Studio

Powerful Reporting

Integrated time tracking and reports

Your software matters, so we track the data behind the software. Get detailed reports of your code time by project. Visualize your coding metrics, daily progress, and work calendar in one spot.

Automatic

in-editor tracking

Community

of 200k+ developers

Open source

extensions for 15+ editors

Protect Code Time

Focus on what matters

Software’s advanced time tracking makes it easy for developers and teams to level up faster. Discover best code times, defend code time, see the impact of meetings, and improve work-life balance.

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Watch Trends

Measure progress

See productivity trends compared to weekly and monthly averages. See how you stack up against the Software community of over 200,000 developers. Set goals to motivate performance.

Track your progress with Code Time

Measure and Improve

Turn data into action

Visualize meeting time versus code time. See how much coding happens during work hours versus nights and weekends. Schedule dedicated code times to improve productivity and reduce burnout.

Become data-driven with Code Time

All-in-one

Features

Analyze your coding data to increase flow, decrease interrupts, achieve work-life balance, and more.

In-editor dashboard

Get daily and weekly reports of your programming activity right in your code editor.

Status bar metrics

After installing our plugin, your status bar will show real-time metrics about time coded per day.

Calendar integration

Integrate with Google Calendar to automatically protect your best programming times from meetings and interrupts

Weekly email reports

Get a weekly report delivered right to your email inbox.

Data visualizations

Get simple data visualizations, such as top projects, daily active code time, and daily meeting time.

More stats

See your coding outside work hours, code day length, and more.

Privacy-focused

Privacy and security

Your data is just for you. Learn about how we secure data for over 200,000 developers ->

We never access your code

We do not process, send, or store your proprietary code. We only provide metrics about programming, and we make it easy to see the data we collect.

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Your data is private

We never share your individually identifiable data with anyone. When we roll up data into groups and teams, we keep data aggregated and anonymized.

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Free for you, forever

We provide 90 days of data history for free, forever. We provide premium plans for advanced features and historical data access.

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Installation Guide for Visual Studio

First released in 1997 by Microsoft, Visual Studio started as a code editor for Visual Basic and Visual C++, and is now used extensively for .NET and C# programming. With the help of its extension marketplace and support for 35+ coding languages, Visual Studio is now one of the most widely used IDEs. Visual Studio ships with an integrated debugger and terminal, UI designer, and more to improve developer productivity. Visual Studio also brings in modern development features like IntelliSense autocomplete, Live Share collaboration tool, and integrated version control, in addition to a robust extension marketplace of over 10k extensions. Here's how to get started:

Visit the Visual Studio Code extension marketplace and search for Code Time. Click Download to install the Code Time extension to the Visual Studio IDE.
After installation, open Code Time in the sidebar and follow the Getting Started prompts to create a new account, or click Log in to sign into an existing account.
Configure Flow Mode by clicking the gear icon in the sidebar. With Flow Mode, you can protect your time and improve your productivity right inside Visual Studio Code.