Spectre

A lightweight desktop app that tracks how much time you spend in chosen apps, runs quietly in the system tray, no manual start/stop needed.

Features

• Tracks any process by name; logs start/stop times automatically
• Lives in the system tray — closing the window just hides it
• Single instance — launching Spectre again brings up the running window
• Per-app session history, editable name/process, deletable
• Configurable poll and UI refresh intervals
• Fast startup, published as a single native AOT executable — no .NET runtime install required

Tech

• .NET 10, Avalonia UI 12 (MVVM via CommunityToolkit.Mvvm)
• SQLite (Dapper.AOT, WAL mode) for storage, JSON for config
• Split into Spectre.Core (data/tracking logic) and Spectre.UI (Avalonia app)

Building

dotnet build

Running

dotnet run --project Spectre.UI

Publishing

Native AOT needs your platform's native toolchain (e.g. clang on Linux).

dotnet publish Spectre.UI -c Release -r linux-x64 -o ./publish/linux-x64

Use win-x64 or osx-arm64 for other platforms.

License

GNU GPL v3