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Hamster

Hamster is a timer and time tracking program, available on Linux: code completion.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Hamster is a timer and time tracking program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: code completion.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Hamster - The Gnome Time Tracker.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Fast and easy data entry with autocompletion of recent activities” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Hamster is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+ & CC-BY-SA-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Hamster is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track of how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track. Whenever you change from doing one task to other, you change your current activity in Hamster. After a while you can see how many hours you have spent on what. Maybe print it out, or export to some suitable format, if time reporting is a request of your employer. Features: Fast and easy data entry with autocompletion of recent activities Flexible grouping with @categories and #tags Day, week, month or custom views with tallies by groups Generation of html reports (can be customized) Data export in text, xml and tsv formats

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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