WhatPulse
WhatPulse is a macOS activity-tracking app that records keyboard, mouse, uptime, and app usage statistics and syncs them to your WhatPulse account.
What is WhatPulse?
WhatPulse is a desktop activity-tracking and statistics app for macOS that helps users measure how they use their computer over time. It records keyboard input, mouse clicks and movement, uptime, and application or website activity, then syncs those statistics to a WhatPulse account for reports, comparisons, and history. People use it to monitor personal productivity, quantify computer use, join community rankings, and keep long-term usage records across devices. The app includes local stats views and menu bar access so you can quickly check recent activity without opening a browser. Browser extensions and account features can extend tracking to web activity, while profiles and syncing help organize data for different uses. WhatPulse is published by Martijn Smit and is available for macOS alongside Windows and Linux editions.
Key features
- Track keystrokes, mouse clicks, mouse movement, and computer uptime over time
- View recent activity and unpulsed statistics from the menu bar
- Sync local usage statistics to your WhatPulse account for history and reports
- Monitor application usage and time spent on websites with supported extensions
- Use profiles to organize and separate tracked activity
- Compare your activity with teams, rankings, and long-term account statistics
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
WhatPulse is legitimate activity-tracking software, but it works by monitoring keyboard and mouse input and may request Accessibility permission on macOS so it can count activity correctly. That access is normal for this kind of tool, but it also means the app can observe input events needed for its statistics features. If you use it, review its privacy settings, understand what data you want synced to your account, and only keep it installed if you actively use computer-usage tracking.
Recommendation: Keep WhatPulse if you want detailed computer-usage statistics, menu bar tracking, or account-based history across devices. If you no longer use its activity reports or community features, you can remove it without affecting macOS itself, though you may lose local history that has not been synced yet.
Common paths
/Applications/WhatPulse.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/WhatPulse
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.whatpulse.mac.plist
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