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LevelUp for VS Code

LevelUp for VS Code

Sinan_dev

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Improve focus, have more fun and boost your productivity in VS Code. With clear insights, leaderboards, smart todo and gamification.
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Boost Your Productivity - The Fun Way

Built to make your life in the editor as enjoyable as the games you play.
LevelUp combines gamification, task management with ai support, leaderboards & granular time tracking.

A modern interface bring it all together in a way that barely feels like a VS Code extension.

Take the visual tour on our website and explore the entire workflow interactively:
Visit the website →


Live Dashboard

Your dashboard shows your level, progress, and much more. Set yourself a daily goal or simply enjoy watching the progress you’ve made.

💡 Tip: Hover the tooltips inside the dashboard to explore how each system works.


Explore

Focus Points  •  Vault System  •  Time Tracking  •  Leaderboards  •  Cortex  •  Activity Tracker  •  Anti-Cheat Engine  •  Settings  •  Privacy Claim  •  Discord


🧩 Focus Points (FP)

LevelUp is based on Focus Points.

You earn them automatically while writing or reviewing code, planning your to-dos, working actively in VS Code, and through many other tracked activity states.

You can find the full breakdown in the documentation: https://www.levelupvscode.com/docs/focus-points


💰 The Vault

Your reward builds up in real time, right in front of you.

Vault System

Every action counts — reading, coding, everything in between. Start fresh each day, gain focus and push yourself further. Instant rewards & sounds-effects bring that game-like feeling... where progress feels too good to stop.

The Vault turns your daily coding into a roguelike adventure where your output counts!

Docs: https://www.levelupvscode.com/docs/vault


🕐 Time Tracking

Where your hours actually went.

Time Tracking view

Thanks to the local nature of LevelUp and its activity tracker, your history can provide detailed insights into where your time has gone over the past few hours and days. Your data never leaves your device.

Docs: https://www.levelupvscode.com/docs/time-tracking


✨ Leaderboards

Compete globally or with friends in your own leaderboards.

Daily and Weekly Focus Point leaderboards

Compete with other developers on daily and weekly Focus Point leaderboards. Add other developers as friends. Create your own board and invite whoever from your friends list you want to compete with.

How to create your own leaderboards and more: https://www.levelupvscode.com/docs/leaderboards


📝 Cortex

Your second brain — tasks, notes and code, always where you left them.

Cortex

Break work into small, clear tasks. Track what you did and when. See Claude’s status and leave notes so the next context switch costs you nothing.

Packed with features for everyday development work. Once you’ve tried it, you won’t want to work without it.

Just one shortcut away:

  • Ctrl + T (Windows/Linux)
  • Cmd + T (Mac)

Docs: https://www.levelupvscode.com/docs/cortex


⚡ Your Activity Tracker

Because the best code happens when you're in the zone.

Activity Tracker

The Activity Tracker watches what you are doing in VS Code and condenses it into a single value, the Activity Score (0–100%). This score acts as a multiplier for your Focus Points. It decides how many are actually handed out.

Learn all about the activity tracker and the 11 different states: https://www.levelupvscode.com/docs/activity-tracker


🧠 Anti-Cheat Engine

LevelUp motivates you through real progress

Spam Warning

Spam, copy-paste, AI or idle? LevelUp knows.

No reward for no effort.


💬 Gamified Notifications

Celebrate the small steps along the way.

Notifications

Tiny notifications react to your focus, milestones, and daily moments. Little boosts that keep your coding mood alive.

  • ☕ "Morning warmup - Coffee and code, the classic combo"
  • 🏛️ "Rome wasn't coded in a day"
  • 🚀 "A small commit is still better than a perfect plan"

And yes - sometimes LevelUp roasts you too:

  • 📦 Empty claim - did you forget to work on something?
  • 🧠 Your brain worked harder than your fingers on that one.

See how many you can discover!


🛠 Customizable Settings

Your workflow, your rules. Customize your experience.

Settings

Which style do you prefer: emojis or a more native look? Set your own daily goals or choose what you want to see. All accessible directly from the dashboard sidebar.


🧩 Designed with Principles

I built LevelUp around the belief that that everyone deserves tools that respect their focus and their privacy. Unlike most other trackers, LevelUp lives where you code.
Everything stays on your machine, exactly where it belongs.


🎉 Join the Community

There’s still a long road ahead, and your feedback helps shape its future.

Join Community

  • 👉 Join us on Discord


💬 Feedback from the community

“This Extension makes even repetitive tasks rewarding. I love it.”

Just wanted to give a shout out to @Sinan for making my VS code look 10x cooler XD”

“I was looking for a way to gamify my leetcode training while off the market, instead of wasting my time playing games, a random thought lead me to search for the keyword "gamify" in vscode extensions, and found LevelUp. I can see how each hour of my day can make a difference if i decide to train and collect points, or waste time, all thanks to this extension.”

“I used LevelUp for a while, when i accidentally deactivated it, i realized something was missing...It didn't take long to notice how much I missed seeing those focus points add up in the vault.”



⚙ Settings

Open the VS Code settings and search for "levelUp" — or just click "Settings ⚙️" in the dashboard sidebar.


Your feedback helps shape what comes next. Thank you for being part of it!

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