What changed in each release of ManicTime for Windows, newest first.
ManicTime Windows v2026.3 Beta
November 2, 2026
Sign-in to ManicTime Server with the new sign-in system: browser sign-in, Windows and Microsoft Entra ID. Clients installed with a deployment file sign in without user input. See Connecting with ManicTime Server.
Chat titles of ChatGPT, Claude and Codex on the Documents timeline.
The "Show tag notes in recent tags" setting (Settings, Tagging) now also applies to Tag time, Stopwatch, Pomodoro and Away.
The configuration wizard asks for the server address and the sign-in on separate screens.
All translations are complete.
Bug fixes and stability improvements
ManicTime Windows v2026.2.4
October 23, 2026
Fixed the Firefox plugin, which did not track the URL on Firefox 158 and newer
ManicTime Windows v2026.2.3
October 9, 2026
Fixed the Timesheet "Total by Week" grouping ignoring the configured first day of the week
Fixed the Excel, Word and PowerPoint plugins keeping a reference to the Office window, which could stop other applications from closing embedded Office documents
Fixed a memory leak when processing screenshots and icons that could stop the tracker
Fixed AltGr key combinations triggering Ctrl tag shortcuts in Add tag
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2026.2.2
August 26, 2026
Added document tracking for Adobe Illustrator
Added document tracking for Adobe InDesign
Added document tracking for Affinity 3 applications
Added document tracking for the new Outlook
Improved URL tracking in recent Microsoft Edge versions
Updated the French translation
Added a warning when changing the screenshot folder because existing screenshots are not moved automatically
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2026.2.1
July 2, 2026
Fixed the get current time MCP tool returning an error and reporting local time in the wrong format
Fixed autotag timeline not updating rules with additional properties in real time
Fixed Top Applications statistics group name not respecting renames
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2026.2
June 16, 2026
Autotag import/export now works when you have multiple autotag timelines
Available tags no longer return duplicate entries when accessed by AI tools
Bug fixes and stability improvements
ManicTime Windows v2026.2 Beta
June 4, 2026
Extended AI support: the local MCP server now exposes more data to AI tools, including recent tags, autotags and screenshots.
Exports can now include additional tracked data, such as remote client address, virtual desktop, workplace, Git repository and Git branch.
UI modernization continued with new themes and updated design system components (buttons, alerts, banners, badges and typography), including improved Compact and High Contrast support
Copy Tags to AutoTags option in Autotag editor now offers a choice between only overwriting or overwriting with modifications
Comfortable and Compact layout now adapts better to screen size on first start
Added option to use WebP format for screenshot
In Statistics Top reports can show up to Top 100 results
Timesheet now remembers the last selected sort
Added document tracking for Rhino and Matrix
Bug fixes and stability improvements
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.8
January 16, 2026
Bug fix: Chrome, Edge, Brave v144 support
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.7
January 12, 2026
Bug fix: Whatsapp tracking works with new Whatsapp version
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.6
January 5, 2026
When timezone changed, ManicTime did not register the change until restart
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.5
December 10, 2025
Bug fix: Edge v143 url tracking support
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.4
December 8, 2025
Bug fix: Chrome v143 url tracking support
Bug fix: Brave v143 url tracking support
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.3
November 27, 2025
Bug fix: Timesheet tab produced an error when no source timelines were selected
Bug fix: In CSV timeline preview, columns width was incorrect in some cases
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.2
November 25, 2025
Opera url tracking fix
Brave browser url tracking fix
Google Calendar plugin timezone fix
Date is displayed in local date format
When double clicking on summary item filter is now correctly assigned
In "Tag time" view tab order now works correctly
ManicTime Windows v2025.3.1
November 14, 2025
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3
October 23, 2025
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.3 Beta
October 10, 2025
We’re continuing our ongoing UI modernization. This release includes a menu bar redesign and improvements to both Compact view and Comfortable view.
Allowed tags - Allowed Tags have been supported on the cloud and server for some time. This feature is now available on Windows client as well.
Time Zone for tracking - ManicTime has always worked well for users who stay in one location, but frequent travelers often encountered tracking inconsistencies when switching time zones. Now, you can choose to always track time in your home time zone.
Bug fix: Advanced search for autotags timeline sometimes didn't return all results
Hungarian translation updated
ManicTime Windows v2025.2.2
July 15, 2025
Socket plugin support for popular Chromium-based browsers (Arc, FlashPeak Slimjet, Epic, Comodo Dragon)
Support for resolutions up to 680px height
Bug fix: Tray Context menu disabled items are not visually disabled
Bug fix: Tray Context menu text is blurry at higher DPI
ManicTime Windows v2025.2.1
July 4, 2025
Bug fix: Context menu on Day view in Summary part (bottom right) sometimes didn't work
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.2 Beta
June 11, 2025
Untagged time can now be based only on Active time
Advanced search can now search over all timelines
"Treat sound and microphone as active" settings were replaced with "Stay active if some application is preventing sleep"
Tag summary now shows a summary for billable tags separately
When restoring a backup, you can now choose a folder where screenshots will be restored to
Logging when mouse mover applications are detected
Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab can now be used for main tabs navigation. On day view Ctrl-T and Ctrl-Shift-T can now be used to change selected timeline
Added setting to stop stopwatch when Active ends
Added document tracking: Master PDF
Bug fix: Applications usage sometimes ended a couple of seconds before Computer usage Active time. Now they should end at the same time
Bug fix: When application group color was manually changed, it was updated again the next time the icon was changed
ManicTime Windows v2025.1.6
May 9, 2025
Timesheet, "Include unrounded" option did not auto save
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.1.5
April 15, 2025
Support for weak http etags
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.1.4
April 1, 2025
Bug fix: Chrome plugin fix
Bug fix: Workspace did not work correctly with some rules
ManicTime Windows v2025.1.3
March 31, 2025
Bug fix: Google calendar plugin crashed
Bug fix: Add tag input text box was to short to display special characters in compact mode
Bug fix: Crashed when reading old ManicTime.xml settings format
ManicTime Windows v2025.1.2
March 26, 2025
Bug fix: Spacing between tags in Add tag window was too small
ManicTime Windows v2025.1.1
March 25, 2025
Bug fix: Chrome plugin now works with Chrome v134
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.1
March 5, 2025
Translations updated
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2025.1 Beta 3
March 3, 2025
Bug fix: Couldn't resize bottom part when screenshot viewer was visible
Bug fix: In export Total column was titled Notes
ManicTime Windows v2025.1 Beta 2
February 21, 2025
Changed Compact view minimum resolution to 800x600
ManicTime Windows v2025.1 Beta
February 18, 2025
Compact view mode - Based on your feedback, we introduced a Compact Mode to bring back the denser layout from version 2024.2. This should address concerns about the UI feeling too airy.
On Timesheet added a “First Occurrence" column, allowing you to quickly see when an activity first appeared.
Office 365 Plugin Update - You can now choose which calendar to display, offering more flexibility in how your data is presented.
ManicTime Windows v2024.3.5
January 9, 2025
Bug fix - UI fixes
Bug fix - ConnectWise plugin sometimes made duplicate entries
ManicTime Windows v2024.3.4
December 20, 2024
Bug fix - Upgrade from high contrast theme did not work
ManicTime Windows v2024.3.3
December 18, 2024
Bug fix - Tracking schedule window was too big for some resolutions
Bug fix - Error on startup when the client attempted to connect to the server for the first time, but the server connection was unavailable
ManicTime Windows v2024.3.2
December 6, 2024
Bug fix - Firefox url tracking
Bug fix - Opera url tracking
Bug fix - Away mode started before assigned time if monitor was shut off
Bug fix - Chinese characters are shown correctly
ManicTime Windows v2024.3.1
December 3, 2024
Bug fix - QuickBooks export did not work
Bug fix - UI fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.3
November 20, 2024
Bug fix - Slow screenshot capturing
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.3 Beta 2
November 8, 2024
Changed system tray icons
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.2.2
November 4, 2024
Last version compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1
Bug fix: Memory leak in Add tag window
ManicTime Windows v2024.3 Beta
October 25, 2024
New UI
In Autotag editor, autotag rules can now be copied from one autotag to another (right click on autotag rule, then Duplicate to)
Settings, Tracking - in previous versions if you unchecked "Track window titles and documents" it also stopped recording screenshots. This setting is now no longer tied to Screenshots. You can still disable screenshot recording in Settings, Screenshots
Windows - when Settings, Tracking, "Minimum activity duration" was set to less than 5 seconds, screenshots were sometimes missing for activities shorter than 5 seconds.
FreshBooks plugin - added setting to include or exclude archived projects
Added document tracking for Affinity Suite (Designer 2, Photo 2, Publisher 2)
Added WhatsApp chat document tracking
Fixed Workflow Max integration
Bug fix: Office 365 timeline plugin – sometimes plugin did not show all calendar events
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.2.1
October 17, 2024
Bug fix: Timesheet with autotags could produce wrong values in some time zones
ManicTime Windows v2024.2.0
August 16, 2024
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.2.0.5 Beta
July 5, 2024
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.2.0 Beta
June 27, 2024
UI changes: New font and icons
Autotag editor - Move to top/bottom
Added shortcut for Assign last tag
Timesheet - Fifth and Sixth tags available as columns
Timesheet - new timesheet now has default columns: All tags, Billable
Added support to load autotag timelines from other users
Bug fix: Day duration export, Start/End incorrectly used setting "Use decimal hour format for statistics".
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.1.1
May 3, 2024
Bug fix: When ManicTime was running in remote desktop it sometimes switched to Away during activity
ManicTime Windows v2024.1.0
April 16, 2024
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.1.0 Beta 2
April 4, 2024
Stopped using embedded IE when connecting to cloud (finally)
Bug fix: Tagging via command line did not take into account "Allowed tags" set on cloud / ManicTime Server
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2024.1.0 Beta
March 12, 2024
UI changes: Main icon and top row changed
Key shortcuts added - Shortcut to open mini window, shortcut for timeline zoom, shortcuts for Screenshot viewer actions
All tags coming from plugins on the cloud (server) will automatically show up on the client - This means that if you configure plugins on the server, there is no need to use plugins in local ManicTime. When tagging, tags will automatically show up in all the clients and on the server.
Obsidian tracking added (install plugin in Obsidian plugin store)
JetBrains tracking added (install plugin in JetBrains plugin store)
Photoshop tracking added (install plugin in Photoshop plugin store)
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v2023.3.3
January 12, 2024
Bug fix: When Autotag timeline sync was forced from server side and Autotag timeline was deleted on the server, it did not re-publish.
ManicTime Windows v2023.3.2
November 14, 2023
Bug fix: CSV timeline didn't correctly show tooltips
ManicTime Windows v2023.3.1
October 27, 2023
Bug fix: Google calendar showed incorrect times
ManicTime Windows v2023.3.0
October 12, 2023
Timesheet - columns Timeline and Group were added to Usage report
Timesheet - when rounding, you can now also show unrounded values next to rounded
Day view - ManicTime now tracks active desktop, which is then displayed on Computer usage timeline
Advanced search - Screenshots are now shown when you hover over results in Advanced search
Tag editor / Advanced search - When editing multiple tags, if you just edit tag and leave notes empty, notes will be preserved
When taking screenshots and ManicTime can't find the window, full screen screenshot is taken. Now if you have screenshot filtering enabled, it will never take full screen screenshot.
Statistics - export chart screenshot was not working correctly on bigger than 100% Windows scaling
ManicTime Windows v2023.2.4
September 11, 2023
Bug fix: Timesheet worked incorrectly if tags started on one day and ended on a different day
ManicTime Windows v2023.2.3
August 28, 2023
Bug fix: Double click on tag color in "Add tag" window did not work
Bug fix: Time was still selected, after "Add tag" window closed
Shortcut for switching selected timeline on Day view - by default it is set to Ctrl-T. You can change it in settings
Space key can now be used to check a checkbox on Day view, summary list on bottom right
"Add to AutoTag" and "Choose tag" windows can be resized
Screenshot viewer now shows date of screenshot
Added Windows explorer path tracking
Scheduled backup shows notification if scheduled backup path does not exist
Plugin settings are shown also when plugins are not configured
"Go to server" shortcut added to task bar menu
Advanced search, export selected - after you select some results (with Shift or Ctrl click) you can right click on selection and choose "Export selected"
Trial length increased to 30 days
Bug fix: If screenshots were disabled on the client, they didn't show on server timelines
Bug fix: Neighboring tags did not merge if casing was different
Bug fix: Fixed crash when screenshot viewer was closed while searching for next screenshot
Bug fix: On AutoTag, double clicking anywhere selected some tag
ManicTime Windows v5.2.6
January 11, 2023
Bug fix: "To" column was missing in statistics export
Bug fix: Screenshots sync with v4.2 or older ManicTime Server verisons
ManicTime Windows v5.2.5
December 9, 2022
More autotags optimizations
Bug fix: Fixed one more upgrade bug from older versions
ManicTime Windows v5.2.4
December 1, 2022
Bug fix: In some cases autotags were slow
Bug fix: Fixed upgrade bug from older versions
ManicTime Windows v5.2.3
November 28, 2022
Bug fix: Settings, Tracking, dark theme bug
Bug fix: Screenshots stopped working when mouse moved over Android timeline
Autotag Prepend - similar to Append, autotags can now also be prepended not just appended
Absorbed autotags will not show up by themselves any more. They need to be absorbed to some other autotag.
Timesheet, Usage details works for timesheet generated from autotags
Added tracking for Davinci Resolve, DaVinci Fusion, VSCode plugin updated to support Remote development with SSH
Away view, "Don't show" -> "Ever again" is disabled if user does not have permission to change settings (option to deny permission to change settings can be enabled on ManicTime Server).
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v5.1.8
October 6, 2022
Bug fix: "Treat microphone as active" setting kept ManicTime Active if data from microphone was not 0. Now it will allow some background noise and still be in Away.
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v5.1.6
September 7, 2022
Bug fix: "Treat sound as active" setting didn't work correctly in v5.1.x
ManicTime Windows v5.1.5
September 5, 2022
Bug fix: When tagging, tags sometimes disappeared from Tags timeline.
ManicTime Windows v5.1.4
August 26, 2022
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v5.1.3
July 26, 2022
Bug fix: When editing a tag, tag changed to billable if tags are billable by default
Jira, added an option to not group tags when syncing
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v5.1.2
June 29, 2022
Bug fix: Timesheet crashed if it was saved without date range
If mouse supports horizontal scrolling you can now use it to scroll timelines left and right
Timesheet will now remember last settings, auto save
If you ever tagged a break in Pomodoro, it was remembered even if you later chose "Do not tag". Now "Do not tag" will reset suggested break tag.
Microsoft Project plugin added
File explorer document tracking added
Bug fix: Away view and similar windows opened via global shortcut (like stopwatch, pomodoro...) were sometimes not focused and did not receive keyboard input
Bug fix: When using Advanced search, tag timeline could become disabled
Bug fixes
ManicTime Windows v5.0.3
May 6, 2022
Bug fix: ManicTime failed to start if newly set shortcut key matched a pre-existing shortcut key.
Export remembers the previous file type chosen (Excel or .csv)
Added setting which remembers the zoom (Settings -> Display -> Remember zoom range)
When connecting to server, there is an option to continue a device from the server. In this case all local data will be deleted. Before this happens ManicTime now makes a backup.
Timesheet didn't show any results before a list of timelines from the server was loaded. It now shows results from local Tag timeline immediately, even if tag timelines from the server are not yet loaded.
If server client settings didn't allow "Off the record", user could still set tracking schedule. Now if "Off the record" is not allowed, tracking is always on.
Bug fix: For some users, Chrome plugin falsly registered any browsing as private browsing. If ManicTime was set to not track private browsing, nothing was tracked when using Chrome.
ManicTimeSettings.xml file, if user was not allowed to changes settings, he/she was also not
allowed access to Plugin manager. From now on, this setting only applies to Settings, not Plugin manager
Bug fix: When testing connection with ManicTime server on a machine where "machine name" contained Unicode characters, sometimes resulted in Bad request (400)
Bug fix: Some timelines imported from server didn't show device name
Bug fix: Sometimes ManicTime didn't open database connection, when coming from sleep
Bug fix: Screenshots created .png image, when .jpg was specified and resolution and quality were 100%
Bug fix: ManicTimeClient crashed when starting it for the first time, before database was created.
Bug fix: ManicTime crashed when it tried to load old plugins
Bug fix: Day start shift was not migrated from v3.x
Bug fix: Statistics showed day summaries wrong when Day start shift was > 0
Bug fix: ManicTime didn't exit cleanly when Windows was shutting down. This had a few side effects, for example stopwatch could continue running even if it was not supposed to...
Bug fix: If password was set in ManicTimeSettings.xml, ManicTime crashed if the database was not already created.
ManicTimeClient.exe will now start ManicTime.exe, if ManicTime.exe is not running. This will help when ManicTimeClient is pinned to taskbar and ManicTime is not running
Bug fix: Sometimes UI crashed when main window was opening (this could also happen when Away window was opening)
Bug fix: Sometimes UI took a long time to open
Bug fix: Under certain conditions when stopwatch was running, ManicTime crashed when exiting
Added: Setting "Minimum activity duration" under tracking. By default, this setting is set to 5 seconds and it tells ManicTime to not track applications which are in use for less than X seconds.
Bug fix: Overnight Away was not used on Day view
Bug fix: Statistics range All used a lot of RAM
Bug fix: Tracking loop waits until previous loop finished
When publishing timelines to the server, Conflict status is returned if this database is already on the server. Now it will just republish the data without showing the message.
Bug fix: Deploy for all users was not working correctly.
Bug fix: Day view, space key did not toggle select when first activity was already tagged.
Bug fix: Timer deadlock which caused ManicTime to stop tracking in rare cases. Let us know if you are having tracking problems, this will probably not help.
Bug fix (again): .csv export was broken, it could not be nicely imported into Excel
Bug fix: When ManicTimeSettings.xml was used and there was a extra space in license name, MT would try to save the license file in a loop until it crashed.
Bug fix: Google deprecated service we were using for the Google calendar. Plugin was rewritten to use the new Google service. If you have Google calendar timeline, you need to remove it and add it again.
Bug fix: In Show only untagged mode, activities were not removed when they were tagged.
Bug fix: Copy autotags to tags, duplicate key bug.
Bug fix: Lock on close Yes and No did not work.
Bug fix: When Remote connecting to a machine, ManicTime crashed when Away view was shown.
Bug fix: Outlook plugin optimizations
Bug fix: Autotag filtering, crash when autotag had no name, only note
Timesheet - include notes – notes are now separated by semicolon
Scheduled backup settings - Keep only last X backups
Day view - details (bottom left) sort by indicator column
Tracking – Win8, WMP, improved tracker stability
Bug fix: Start new stopwatch didn’t start new stopwatch, only changed the tag on the currently running stopwatch. Now it will stop current stopwatch and start new one
Bug fix: double clicking on item in Advanced search sometimes didn’t jump correctly to activity on day view
Outlook plugin is not a part of the installation any more. On some machines, Outlook will show a message every time ManicTime tries to connect to it.
This is very annoying for those who experience it, so we removed it from the default configuration.
You can still use Outlook plugin if you like, but you need to install it manually.
Copy to clipboard on timesheet will create a table when pasted to Word
Translations updated
Bug fix: Order of Old notes was not correct
Bug fix: In settings, 'Scheduled backup' time was not saved correctly
Bug fix: Selection button didn't move with zoom in/out
Bug fix: Google calendar - converted to local time - In the previous versions we added a feature, where you can load multiple Google calendars into Google timeline.
If these calendars were using different timezones, the events didn't line up like they did in Google calendar web app. Now all calendars will be converted to local time, so events will line up as they should.
Bug fix: Most of message forms will now accept Enter for Ok or Esc for Cancel
Bug fix: When working on timesheet for autotags, if Notes field was added, the app would crash
Bug fix: In Export window, if From date was larger then To date, the app would crash
Bug fix: On Day view, it was hard or sometimes impossible to resize existing selections by dragging
Bug fix: Client would crash, when it was closed with stopwatch running
Bug fix: In statistics, if you edited a name and typed Enter to confirm there was no change
Bug fix: In timesheet, when filter was used to filter tags, it was not applied to server timelines
Bug fix: Timesheet was case sensitive, so both tags ‘work’ and ‘Work’ showed up. Now it will just show one
Bug fix: Old notes crashed if there were special characters like <> in the note
Bug fix: When renaming a tag, if you just changed the casing nothing changed
Bug fix: If password was set and ManicTime was locked, after the away window popped up, it was not locked any more
Bug fix: If password was set and ManicTime was locked at windows start, it showed an incorrect icon for unlocked state
Bug fix: Client would crash if on Away window All was clicked multiple times
ManicTime now runs on .Net 4 Client profile - Up until now ManicTime was running on .Net 3.5. From this version on, it will run on .Net 4.0 Client profile. Most likely you have it installed already and will not notice the difference. If you don't have it yet, the installer will offer to install it.
Are you using USB version?
Up until now ManicTime was running on .Net 3.5. From this version on, it will run on .Net 4.0 Client profile.
Most likely you have it installed already and will not notice the difference.
If you don’t have .Net 4 Client profile installed yet, you will have to install it before you can use this version.
To check if you have it installed, go to Control panel -> Uninstall a program and look for Microsoft .Net 4 Client Profile. If you can’t find it, you can get it here.
Bug fix: If you pressed CTRL-enter in tag window it didn't save note
Bug fix: Changing timezone and creating a tag resulted in some weird behavior
TimeSheet Rounding - translations added
Update available dialog is now more flexible, it can display various messages about the new version. For example it can warn that .Net4 needs to be installed for the next version to work.