Comparison

WakaTime Tracker vs Grafana

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

WakaTime Tracker

This app automatically tracks your coding activity across various IDEs and text editors. It provides insights into your coding habits, allowing you to focus on software development.

Highlights
  • Automatic time tracking
  • IDE and text editor plugins
  • Coding activity insights
  • Focus on software creation
  • Open source plugins
Features
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WakaTime is committed to making time tracking fully automatic for every programmer. By creating open source plugins for IDEs and text editors, we give powerful insights about how you code, and let you get back to what matters most: creating amazing software.

About

Grafana

Manage and respond to critical system events from anywhere. Designed for on-call engineers, it offers reliable alert notifications and reminders to simplify incident response duties.

Highlights
  • Incident management
  • On-call reminders
  • Alert notifications
  • System event response
  • On-the-go management
Features
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Grafana is the official mobile app for Grafana Cloud. Stay connected to your observability and incident response workflows wherever you are. With the Grafana mobile app, you can: • Ask Grafana Assistant questions and continue recent conversations • Browse dashboards and view starred dashboards and panels • Receive reliable push notifications for alerts and incidents • Acknowledge, resolve, silence, or escalate alert groups • See who is on call and review upcoming schedules • Respond to incidents and keep the timeline updated • Page a team or trigger a manual alert An existing Grafana Cloud account is required. Available features depend on the products enabled for your stack and your permissions. The app does not support Grafana OSS. Learn more at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/irm/irm-mobile-app/.

Screenshots

WakaTime Tracker4 screens
Grafana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grafana at 67% against WakaTime Tracker's 0%. Grafana also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (65 vs 6). WakaTime Tracker's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grafana holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grafana has 65 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of WakaTime Tracker's written reviews are positive against 67% of Grafana's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WakaTime Tracker ships an update every 8 days, Grafana fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WakaTime Tracker versus Grafana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWakaTime TrackerGrafana
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (6 ratings)4.7 (65 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings665 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTariq AlmazyadGrafana Labs

Customer experience

WakaTime Tracker

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Grafana

All ratings63 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

WakaTime Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Grafana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WakaTime Tracker free?
WakaTime Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grafana free?
Grafana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WakaTime Tracker or Grafana?
Grafana is rated higher. WakaTime Tracker averages 2.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Grafana averages 4.7 from 65 ratings.
Do WakaTime Tracker or Grafana have ads?
Neither WakaTime Tracker nor Grafana shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WakaTime Tracker or Grafana?
WakaTime Tracker ships an update every 8 days, and Grafana fortnightly. Most recently, WakaTime Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Grafana on October 24, 2026.

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