Code Time for Visual Studio Code

Programming metrics right in VS Code.

Power up your development

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.

Weekly email reports Get a weekly report delivered right to your email inbox.

Data visualizations Go to our web app to get simple data visualizations, such as a rolling heatmap of your best programming times by hour of the day.

Calendar integration Integrate with Google Calendar to automatically set calendar events to protect your best programming times from meetings and interrupts.

More stats See your best music for coding and the speed, frequency, and top files across your commits.

Why you should try it out

• Automatic time reports by project
• See what time you code your best—find your “flow”
• Defend your best code times against meetings and interrupts
• Find out what you can learn from your data

It’s safe, secure, and free

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.

Your data is private We will never share your individually identifiable data with your boss. In the future, we will roll up data into groups and teams but we will keep your data anonymized.

Free for you, forever We provide 90 days of data history for free, forever. In the future, we will provide premium plans for advanced features and historical data access.

Getting started

1. Install the Code Time plugin from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

2. After installing Code Time, an alert will appear prompting you to login (you can also click on "Code Time" in the status bar of Visual Studio Code.

FAQs

What does the rocket ship icon in my status bar mean?

In the status bar of your editor/IDE, we show a rocket ship icon when your time code today exceeds your daily code time's 90-day average

Does keeping VSCode open affect time tracking/metrics?

The answer is "No", keeping the editor open should not skew your metrics. You do not need to close VS Code to ensure that Code Time metrics are correct.

The timer starts when you start typing. It stops after 15 minutes without typing or opening/closing files in the editor. We then truncate the last 15 minutes of inactivity from the data.

Contributing & Feedback

Definitely let us know if you have more questions!

Contact cody@software.com with any additional questions or comments.