WhatPulse 6.0
WhatPulse 6.0 is a major release, with Web Insights bringing website activity into your stats for the first time. Alongside that, this release delivers a more flexible UI, improved exports, and a long list of stability and performance improvements, especially on Windows. This version lays the groundwork for deeper insights into how you actually use your computer, while making the core app more robust and pleasant to use day to day.
Web Insights: website activity tracking
Web Insights introduces website-level activity tracking through new browser extensions, integrating your browsing activity directly into WhatPulse.
- Track time spent and activity on websites, including keys, clicks, scrolling, and mouse movement
- View website activity alongside applications inside the WhatPulse app
- Associate website stats with profiles to separate work, personal, or other contexts
- Exclude specific websites or patterns from tracking
- Export your website activity data for deeper analysis or reporting
- Privacy-first by design:
- Only website domains are tracked; never full URLs or page content
- Browser extensions don't run in private or incognito mode
- Website stats are private and never publicly visible on your profile
Exports include aggregated website activity such as active time and input effort per domain, with flexible time grouping and profile filtering. Web Insights is available as part of WhatPulse Premium.
UI and usability improvements
WhatPulse 6.0 makes the app more flexible and consistent across platforms:
- The main window is now fully resizable and remembers its size and position
- Application Activity charts are easier to navigate, including forward and backward day navigation
- Dialogs, buttons, and confirmations have been polished throughout the app
- New application sync status window with detailed logging
- Time series handling has been separated from pulsing, making sure the dashboard data is not interrupted
Stability and performance improvements
- Keyboard and mouse heatmaps now render in the background to avoid UI freezes
- Better detection of hardware, input devices, and network interfaces with newer Windows versions
- Multiple fixes for startup, shutdown, and input monitoring crashes
- More reliable updater behavior, especially during restarts
- Improved handling of unusual display and multi-monitor configurations
- Integrated Sentry crash reporting on Windows, respecting the existing bug reports setting. This should help us identify and fix issues much easier.
Overall, WhatPulse 6.0 should feel noticeably more stable and responsive, especially for long-running sessions.
Professional and managed deployments
For Professional users and enterprise environments, this release includes improvements aimed at managed and shared systems:
- Kiosk mode for per-computer data collection
- Support for custom data directories and managed settings
- Cleaner startup behavior for locked-down environments
- Improved installer options for automated deployments