I've just shipped WhatPulse 5.11.1, a maintenance release that focuses on one visible change and a lot of "feel better" improvements under the hood.

The headline: there's a new status bar, application syncing is easier to understand, and 5.11.1 includes a good round of crash and shutdown fixes based on real-world reports.

macOS note: After updating, you might need to reset the Accessibility permissions for WhatPulse. It should only take a minute, and there's a step-by-step guide in the help center.

New: a status bar ✨​

There's a new status bar at the bottom of the main window. It's meant to give you a quick "how's WhatPulse doing?" glance without opening extra windows.

Here's what it shows:

Over the years, WhatPulse has grown from a simple key counter into a detailed productivity companion. Today, we're taking the next step with an entirely new Dashboard: built to make your data more meaningful, easier to explore, and a lot faster to use.

This update replaces the old customizable widget system with three clean, focused pages: Overview, Productivity, and Leaderboards.

Overview: your daily pulse​

The 5.11 release brings one of the most useful updates in recent WhatPulse history. It introduces Focused Uptime, a new way to understand how much time you actually spend actively working, and a completely new External PCap Service for Linux users, enabling full network statistics tracking for the first time.

We've built something small but mighty, and we're giving it away for free. ChatStash, the browser extension that keeps local backups of your ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini conversations, is now available for Chrome and Firefox.

We originally made ChatStash to solve a simple problem for ourselves: AI conversations are too valuable to lose. Whether you're debugging code, drafting ideas, or researching, your chat history is full of insights, but it all lives on someone else's servers. So, we built a way to keep it under our own control. And now, you can too.

We've made a small change to how the leaderboards work: participating now requires a public profile.

Why? The leaderboards are meant to be transparent, and for them to be meaningful your username and main stats need to be visible. This way, everyone can see who they're competing with and the numbers behind the rankings stay consistent.

If your profile was set to private but you were included in the leaderboards, we've automatically turned off the “Include me in public rankings” setting. To rejoin, simply make your profile public again from your account settings.

Don't worry—you still have control over what's visible on your profile. You can hide detailed parts of your profile if you prefer, like the computers, applications, pulses, etc. The only requirement is that your username and main stats remain public when you're on the leaderboards.

Thanks for understanding, and happy competing!