What's new with WhatPulse?

A small follow-up release to 6.3 with a few bug fixes and interface improvements.

Scroll counting fixes

• Fixed an issue where scrolls weren't being counted for some mice using software such as Logitech Options+
• Improved scroll direction detection for certain high-resolution mouse wheels.

Input stats

• Gamepad and dictation device buttons once again show their correct names in the input statistics.

Other improvements

• Slightly larger tray menu icons and text for better readability.
• Added a Download avatar packs link in Settings → Geek Window, making it easier to browse and install new desktop avatars.

WhatPulse 6.3 adds window title tracking, a redesigned tray popup, the new Pulsar desktop avatar, a cleaner Settings screen, and a large round of stability and correctness fixes.

Window title tracking

WhatPulse can now break your stats down by window title, not just by application. Expand any app on the Uptime and Input > Applications pages to see the documents, sites, and windows you spent the most time in - along with keys, clicks, scrolls, distance, and words per title - and use the search box to find a title across all your apps at once.

Window title privacy

Because titles can be personal, there is a full privacy layer. Turn off title tracking for specific apps (their uptime still counts), or add words and patterns to hide sensitive titles across every app. Three ready-made filters are included for emails, credit card numbers, and login details in web addresses. Titles from incognito and private windows are always hidden.

Group window titles into projects and workspaces

Long lists of per-title rows fold into meaningful groups: VS Code workspaces, IDE projects, Outlook folders, and similar. Grouping is computed in real time on Uptime and Input > Applications, with a single toggle on each page. Search stays flat so a matching title always shows up.

Redesigned tray popup

The tray menu is now a compact dashboard. A stats grid shows your Keys, Clicks, Words, Uptime, Download, and Upload, with a Today / Week / Unpulsed switch. Everything you had before is still there - Pulse, open WhatPulse, view your online stats, the Geek Window, and profile switching - just laid out to read at a glance.

Pulsar - a new geek window style

A Bongo Cat inspired desktop avatar that bounces on your keystrokes and clicks, falls asleep when you stop typing, celebrates after a successful pulse, and shows a small stats line underneath. You can also swap in your own artwork with custom avatar packs. Switch between the classic geek window and Pulsar under Settings > Geek Window.

More in this release

• A cleaner Settings screen. The exclusion and list screens throughout Settings now share one consistent design - app exclusions are a single list with a type picker, and network interfaces, Web Insights exclusions, window title filters, profiles, and milestones all use the same tidy, searchable table.
• See your update install. User-initiated updates now show a small progress window with a status line and progress bar, from download through install to restart. Automatic background updates stay silent, as they should.
• Correct keyboard heatmaps on non-QWERTY layouts. Layouts like AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, and Colemak now light up the right keys on both macOS and Windows, counted and drawn by the letter you actually type, with better auto-detection of punctuation-position letters, dead keys, and the number row. (QWERTY users are unaffected; the macOS change is forward-only.)
• Apps that never reached your online stats. Fixed apps - often newer ones - never appearing in your online profile despite being tracked locally. This sometimes happened when there are a lot of apps.
• Closing WhatPulse is now smoother and more reliable - sometimes the app would hang for a second or two, sometimes crashing on exit.
• Fixed stats silently freezing after a laptop woke from sleep: if your Wi-Fi adapter took a few seconds to reconnect, monitoring could stay stopped while the clock kept ticking. WhatPulse now keeps retrying until your connection is back.
• Fixed the Uptime page not showing new data on the "All" time period when the window was left open past midnight.
• The Input > Key combinations table now grows with the window instead of stopping at a fixed height.
• The milestones log no longer grows without bound; it keeps the last 100 records.
• WhatPulse is now available in Serbian, in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts (Settings > General > Language).
• Linux: fixed a crash that could happen when input devices (keyboards, mice, USB dongles) were unplugged, suspended, or disconnected, and a separate crash that hit every few hours of idle time as an internal watchdog slowly ran out of system resources.
• Linux builds now ship on Qt 6.9, bringing the Linux version up to date with the latest framework release.

No more manually recreating profiles on every computer. Create them on the website and the WhatPulse desktop apps will automatically sync them.

Create once, track your time towards your Profiles on every computer you have.

There were some leftover issues in v6.2.1 around the mouse heat map that v6.2.2 addresses:

• Windows: Mouse heatmap attribution on secondary monitors: Clicks on secondary monitors now appear on the correct monitor in the heatmap instead of all piling onto the primary. Whether you were affected, depends on the display driver stack. Most commonly affected setups include virtual display drivers (DisplayLink docks, Spacedesk, parsec), HDR or DisplayPort MST chains, multi-GPU laptops, or KVM passthroughs.

• Windows: Click and scroll tracking inside RDP sessions for Premium users: Premium users running WhatPulse on a Windows machine they're connected to over Remote Desktop now have their clicks and scrolls counted again. A 6.2 anti-cheat tightening was incorrectly catching legitimate RDP-delivered mouse input alongside injected input. Keystroke and mouse distance counts were unaffected.

A focused follow-up to 6.2 with mouse heatmap fixes across all platforms, faster heatmap rendering on installs with long history, and a handful of smaller polish items.

Mouse heatmap fixes

• macOS: clicks on non-primary monitors are now placed correctly. Setups with mismatched sizes, vertical offsets, or monitors stacked above/below the primary previously had heatmap data shifted or missing.
• Windows: clicks on monitors hot-plugged after WhatPulse started are no longer silently dropped. The display list now self-heals when a new monitor is detected.
• Fixed the heatmap occasionally going blank or sticking on stale data when rapidly switching time periods.
• Heatmap queries are noticeably faster on installs with months of history.

Geek Window

• Total words variable added alongside the other word counters introduced in 6.2.
• The variable dropdown in Settings > Geek Window now lists "Total Words" and "Today Words" so you can pick them like any other counter instead of typing the variable name by hand.

Linux: Flatpak package

• WhatPulse is now available as a Flatpak in addition to the existing AppImage. Flatpak runs in a sandbox, installs and updates through your distro's software center or Flathub, and works the same way across every Linux distribution — handy if your distro doesn't play well with AppImages or if you prefer managing apps through a package manager.

Other

• Status pills now have a subtle hover effect on inactive items so it's clearer they can be clicked.

Safari support has arrived for Web Insights!

You can now track your website usage in Safari, including active time, keyboard activity, clicks, and more. To enable Safari support, download the new “WhatPulse Web Insights” companion app from the downloads page and install the Safari extension.

There's a walk-through in the Help Center, showing how to install it.

Word counting

WhatPulse now counts how many words you type — no text stored, just numbers. Detected from keystroke patterns, so it works in any language, any input method, anywhere you type. Visible on the overview, input history, per-application stats, websites, exports, and the Geek Window.

Pause data collection

A new pause toggle in the tray popup lets you pause collection at runtime when you want WhatPulse to look the other way. The status bar turns orange, the app window shows a banner, and nothing during the pause is counted (or logged retroactively when you resume).

Redesigned input history

The input history page has been rebuilt with a prettier chart, an interactive legend, and a flexible time period selector. A new group-by control lets you zoom from hours all the way out to years.

Quality of life

• Configure a proxy from the login wizard, before you've signed in.
• Native Wayland support on Linux for the AppImage.
• Searchable application filter in the keyboard heatmap.
• Reset and Export buttons moved to the status bar, freeing up space on every stats page.
• A new animated pill toggle replaces the old mix of buttons and dropdowns.

Bug fixes

A long list of fixes including the application upload loop, Windows admin-startup CPU spike, mouse heatmap drops on DPI-scaled displays, proxy settings not persisting, and several smaller papercuts.

We've added user reporting to help keep WhatPulse fair and enjoyable for everyone. You'll now find a Report button on user profiles, making it easy to flag accounts that may be inappropriate, spam, or potentially cheating.

Reports are reviewed by the WhatPulse team, and help us take action where needed to maintain a healthy and competitive community.

Dynamic keyboard heatmap

The keyboard heatmap now detects your keyboard layout and dynamically updates the key labels and positions accordingly. This means that the heatmap will correctly reflect the keys you are using, even if you switch between different keyboard layouts — or have a layout that wasn't supported before.

Non-alphabetic input methods (such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fall back to the standard QWERTY layout for now. We're planning to add support for non-alphabetic layouts in a future update.

Geek Window formulas

Formula support in Geek Window labels using {= expression } syntax, allowing calculated values and custom displays. Further customize your Geek Window to display anything you'd want. You can find more information about Geek Window formulas in the help center.

Patch update system

A new lightweight patch update system for macOS and Windows that downloads and applies smaller patches instead of full installers. This means faster and less intrusive updates going forward. One-click updates for Windows, zero-click updates for macOS.

Redesigned login wizard

Redesigned the login wizard to be more user-friendly and informative, with clearer messaging about account status and restoration options. If you have online backups of the stats database, the wizard will now prominently offer to restore from those backups.

Other improvements

• Mouse heatmap exclusions: Mouse heatmap points are now skipped for applications you've excluded from tracking.
• Focus events tracking (alpha): Added early support for tracking application focus changes. This feature is experimental and disabled by default — we're working with specific users to test and refine it before a wider release.
• The dashboard data sync now starts 10 minutes after launch, so frequent computer restarts no longer cause sync delays.

Fixed

• Resolved duplicate entries in application statistics that could occur when apps used versioned installation paths.
• Fixed a bug where the realtime network chart could draw loops.
• Addressed around 30 edge-case fixes stemming from crash reports and user feedback, improving overall stability.

Good news for keyboard warriors: We've added a command palette to the dashboard — press ⌘K on Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows/Linux to open it from anywhere on the site. It's the fastest way to get around.

Start typing to search across everything at once:

• Pages — jump to any dashboard page instantly. Account settings, privacy, billing, etc. — they all show up as you type.
• Applications, users & teams — the same search you know from the search page, right in the palette.
• Help articles — find answers from the help center without leaving the page. Results open in a new tab so you don't lose your place.

Navigate with arrow keys, press Enter to go, and use PageUp/PageDown to jump between result sections. There's also a ⌘Enter / Ctrl+Enter shortcut to open the full search page with your current query.

You'll also notice the search icon in the navigation bar now shows the keyboard shortcut — give it a click or just hit ⌘K.