Døgn vs WakaTime
Last updated: July 2026
WakaTime is the established name in coding metrics: an open-source plugin — including claude-code-wakatime — feeds your activity to a cloud dashboard with per-project, per-language and per-branch metrics, programming goals and leaderboards. For understanding and comparing how you code, it is excellent. Døgn takes the opposite storage trade-off: primary tracking data stays on your Mac by default, and the goal is billable hours linked to the living draft in tjent.
Where WakaTime is the better fit
- Rich dev metrics: time per project, file, branch, commit, language and more.
- An open-source Claude Code plugin (claude-code-wakatime) and a large plugin ecosystem across editors.
- Programming goals and public or private leaderboards to compare and compete.
- A capable free tier, with paid plans for longer history and data export.
- Cross-platform and editor-agnostic — not tied to the Mac.
Where Døgn is the better fit
- Primary tracking data stays on your Mac by default — no Døgn cloud account or telemetry.
- Built around billable time: clients, projects, per-project rates and live earnings.
- Tracks your whole working day, including meetings and manual timers — not just coding.
- A local KveikGraph time-entry sync to the living invoice draft owned by tjent.
- One-time purchase, plus folo meetings imported as billable time.
At a glance
| Feature | Døgn | WakaTime |
|---|---|---|
| Main goal | Billable time → invoice | Dev metrics & leaderboards |
| Where data lives | On your Mac | In WakaTime’s cloud |
| Account / login | None | Required |
| Pricing | One-time purchase | Free tier + subscription |
| Platform | macOS native | Cross-platform, editor plugins |
| Clients & rates | Core feature | Not a focus |
| Time → invoice | Local graph → tjent draft | Not a focus |
The short version
Pick WakaTime if you want detailed coding metrics, goals and leaderboards, and you are fine with a cloud dashboard and an account.
Pick Døgn if you want your AI coding time stored locally on your Mac by default and turned into billable hours linked to the living draft in tjent.
Questions, answered
Is WakaTime local like Døgn?
No — WakaTime sends your coding activity to a cloud dashboard behind an account, which is how it builds its metrics and leaderboards. Døgn stores primary tracking data on your Mac by default with no Døgn cloud account or telemetry; configured integrations are explicit.
WakaTime has a free tier — why pay for Døgn?
WakaTime is great if you want free dev metrics and leaderboards in the cloud. Døgn is a paid, local-first Mac app with a different job: billable hours per client and project, published through the local graph to the draft owned by tjent — none of which WakaTime does.
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