Counting keystrokes since 2003
How do you actually spend your time on your computer?
WhatPulse quietly tracks your keystrokes, clicks, applications, websites, uptime and bandwidth, turning thousands of tiny actions into a clear picture of where your time actually goes.
- Free plan, no credit card
- Windows, macOS & Linux
- Tracks activity, never content
YOUR DAY LEAVES A TRAIL
Turn activity into insight
Every click, keystroke, app switch and website visit leaves a tiny trace behind. WhatPulse turns those traces into something useful: a clear record of where your time, attention and effort actually went. Your computer already tells a story.
WhatPulse helps you read it.
WhatPulse counts
Four streams. One story.
Your computer records thousands of actions every day. WhatPulse combines four different streams of activity into a single picture of how you work.
Keyboard
See what you type, where you type it, and how your habits change over time.
- Key usage
- Typing history
- Keyboard heatmaps
Mouse
Track clicks, movement, heatmaps and activity patterns across your screens.
- Click counts
- Mouse travel
- Heatmaps
Applications
Find out which software gets your attention and which only feels productive.
- Time spent
- Keystrokes & Clicks
- Context switching
Websites
Understand where your browsing time goes without tracking page content.
- Domain tracking
- Daily habits
- Privacy-first
Every key you press, counted.
Most people know roughly how much they type. WhatPulse knows exactly. See your most-used keys, peak typing hours, application breakdowns, layouts and long-term trends.
Follow your attention
Your mouse often tells a different story than your clock. See where your cursor spends time, how you interact with applications, and how your behaviour changes across screens and devices.
Sort your time into projects
Group your activity into profiles for each project, client or context, and WhatPulse keeps a running tally of the time and input behind every one. Billable hours, side projects and focus blocks stop being guesswork.
See where your effort really goes
Break down time, keys and clicks per application. Compare what you think you spend your day on with what actually happened, and find the tools that quietly eat your hours.
WhatPulse Premium
Go deeper
The free plan gives you everything you need to start understanding your computer habits. Premium adds additional insights, advanced dashboards and more ways to explore your data.
- Web Insights with domain-level website breakdowns
- Application usage trends and comparisons over time
- Extended historical data
- Profiles and categorization
- Data exports
Privacy
Built for curiosity, not surveillance
WhatPulse was built to help you understand your own computer habits—not as big brother. It records activity, never content, and gives you complete control over what gets tracked.
- Tracks activity, never content
- Pause tracking at any time
- Exclude applications and websites
- Incognito browsing excluded
- Full control over your data
Curious what your own numbers look like?
Install WhatPulse, work like you normally do, and check back tomorrow.
More nerdy insights included
For teams
Need insights across your whole team?
WhatPulse Professional helps organizations understand software usage, activity trends and application adoption without invasive employee monitoring. See which tools are actually being used, identify unused licenses, and understand how work gets done across your organization.
Community
Join a community that has been counting since 2003
Compare your typing, clicks and activity with people around the world, join teams, climb leaderboards and become part of one of the longest-running computer statistics communities on the internet.
Really interesting and it works great
Works wonderfully. Been using it without any worries.
Nice little app. I love stats and numbers, and it's fun to peek at it every now and then. You've got nothing to lose by downloading it and seeing what keys you use each day, week, or month. I definite...
This is an excellent tool for those with shoulder, arm, hand issue to monitor their usage -- including mouse clicks and scrolling. I was astounded by the number of mouse clicks that I do -- even on a...
Overall really nice program, I haven't noticed any resources being hogged by the program, and it's interesting to see the difference between the laptop I use for work and the PC I use for playing game...
My first experience with WhatPulse its the best. Good in tracking your day to day activities.
As a school student, I have always wanted to know how many clicks I do, how many keys I use, etc. Whatpulse made it so fun to just to see my statistics over the past 2years. I especially love the heat...
As I am working Online from Home, it is a nice tool, to see what I am doing. :-) I like it!
very cool very nice and awesome thing to have installed on my computer. i like seeing statistics about how many keys i've clicked and how far my mouse has moved.
I really like this program its fun seeing all of the data that gets collected from my keys and it works really well takes up almost no ram so i can just have it on in the background 24/7
Its great for tracking your most productive day either through clicks or keys pressed.
the best part of a monday is getting the whatpulse email frfr
If you're a stats nerd like me, you'll love this excellent program.
WhatPulse made my usage of the computer (which subsequently turned into my full time job as a developer) have more reason. Watching the interface and the stats grow and improve over the time has been...
Whatpulse is the last.fm of using your computer. It shows interesting stats that you will never get bored of
I used a free Windows app from 2015 to 2020 that only displayed key & mouse click totals, but then I found WhatPulse with its charted tracking, heatmap, etc... I've now been using WhatPulse since 2020...
Really great software which analyze our everyday productivity
Fantastic
Having used WhatPulse for 7 years so far, I believe it to be an excellent indicator of how much I've come as a computer user (both Mac and Windows). Tracking my day-to-day computer use tells me when m...
Just a "must have". It is top for the geek who wants to know how frenetic he is on the keyboard, to compare with friends. But also for "normal people" to spot the most productive hours of the day. To...
In addition to allowing me to assign a number to slacking off, WhatPulse has convinced me to play video games with a keyboard even if it's a detriment. Nothing stops the insatiable craving for more ke...
I am someone who just really loves numbers and statistics. And at least on Windows there is just no competition. WhatPulse is really the best and most detailed software you can get for this purpose. T...
I love WhatPulse. I love stats. Beautiful interface, and great software. Not much more to say!
It lets my inner geek run free. How many times did I press the letter H this year?
It's made by nerds who want to count things.
I am a huge statistics nerd, I like using the keyboard and click heat maps to track my programming, writing and gaming habits. Uptime statistics lets me see how I spend my time and I like to look at w...
WhatPulse does what it's supposed to do and does it reliably. The information is presented intuitively and has given me lots of insight into my habits.
I LOVE stats so i LOVE this program, 10/10
I don't know a better app than WhatPulse that can measure all stats like my keyboard or mouse usage and show them in nice heatmaps and lists.
I love that this app is free, supported so many years, so versatile and multi-platform. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to see statistics about anything in their computer. There is no such be...
The security of WhatPulse is impressive! I've had WhatPulse on my computer for over 10 years and have had no security breaches or any compromised passwords.
In hopes of improving my typing speed, being able to see whether I use the backspace button too much or which letters I use the most has been very helpful and all in all just cool to see!
I personally LOVE the Keyboard Heatmap, the application input/uptime tracker, and the on screen widget. I use them mostly for productivity metrics at work. I target more than 25K keys per day as a pro...
It's awesome to see how much traffic and usage happened over the years, how much the keyboard and mouse suffered.
There are so many good things about WhatPulse, but the best would be the fact that it's very minimalistic and it's almost like it's not there while it's doing all of that work. Fantastic.
WhatPulse gives me insight into what I'm spending the most time on throughout the day. This has allowed me to streamline some things and automate tasks that I saw were taking me more time than I had i...
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While you've been reading, you pressed 0 keys, clicked 0 times, and scrolled 0 times. WhatPulse remembers, so you don't have to.
It takes less than a minute. Install WhatPulse, let it run quietly in the background, and see what your computer habits actually look like.
Free on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Tracks activity, never content.
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