When comparing CodeAlike vs Timing for Mac, the Slant community recommends CodeAlike for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for calculating time spent coding?” CodeAlike is ranked 3rd while Timing for Mac is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose CodeAlike is:
Do you want to understand how your concentration grows and how interruptions affect it? This is the feature for you. Codealike shows you your "Focus Curve" but it also shows you how many interruptions you had during different periods of time. This is handy to show clearly how much effort it takes to recover from undesired interruptions.
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Pros
Pro Focus & Interruptions
Do you want to understand how your concentration grows and how interruptions affect it? This is the feature for you. Codealike shows you your "Focus Curve" but it also shows you how many interruptions you had during different periods of time. This is handy to show clearly how much effort it takes to recover from undesired interruptions.
Pro Pivot table
Pro Web Navigation
Pro Behavior report
Helps you understand how you code day by day. It also shows you how intense is your coding when using different computers.
Pro Personal Dashboard
Pro Fully automatic
No start/stop timers, no forgetting to track time.
Pro Easy time analysis after the fact
once a users day is finished they can go through the history of the app to pick and choose what tasks are worth keeping for time tracking of the day. This makes it easy in the sense that there is no manual tracking needed to be done, everything is recorded and then can be filtered down to the users work tasks.
Pro No Subscription Needed
The app works completely offline - no user data leaves your computer and you don't have to pay some monthly fee.
Cons
Con Only works on one device, no billing, no syncing and no mobile or web apps
Timing has a pretty limited use for a paid app as it only works on one Mac device. There is no cloud sync to get the schedules synced to another device. There is also no billing built into the app.
Con Mac only
Is only compatible with OSX, so is pretty limiting in that regard.