PlayLedger Download

Latest release · Free & open source

Know exactly
how much you play.

PlayLedger sits quietly in the system tray, recognises your games the moment they start, and records every session. A Windows 11 dashboard turns it into totals, daily charts, a 30-day history and statistics.

Download for Windows See it in action
  • Windows 11
  • About 10 MB
  • No account, no tracking
  • GPL-3.0
PlayLedger Overview: total playtime, sessions, the past 7 days, the game playing now and a daily playtime chart

No timers. No spreadsheets.
Just play.

Open a game and it's tracked. Close it and the session is logged: when you opened it, when you closed it, and how long you played.

Completely automatic

Nothing to start or stop. A game you're playing counts up live, every second, and a Session logged notification tells you how long it was.

Finds your games

Every major launcher, Windows' own list of games, and popular games that install by themselves. Anything else is one click to add.

Accurate

Sleep never counts, a launcher handing off to its game stays one session, and play survives a crash or a power cut.

Charts, history & statistics

Totals per game, a bar for each of the last 30 days, one card per day, your busiest weekdays and whether you play mornings or nights.

A proper Windows 11 app

Your accent colour, light and dark themes with a true-black AMOLED mode, full keyboard and screen reader support.

History you can trust

Encrypted for your Windows account and protected against hand edits, so your playtime stays honest.

Export everything

Every session to a spreadsheet at any time, plus a plain-text report that's rewritten on every save.

Light, native and up to date

Two small programs written in Rust, with a Slint dashboard. No runtime to install, no browser engine, no background services. Updates install themselves safely, and never in the middle of a game.

Box art on every tile

From Steam's own cache, or SteamGridDB if you turn it on. Or pick any image yourself.

Every store, one ledger.

PlayLedger reads each store's own records, the game folders they install into, and Windows' list of games, then looks again every 10 minutes.

  • Steam
  • Epic Games
  • GOG
  • Ubisoft Connect
  • EA app
  • Xbox app
  • Riot Games
  • Roblox
  • Minecraft
  • Genshin Impact
  • Honkai: Star Rail
  • Zenless Zone Zero
  • osu!
  • Fortnite
  • Any .exe you add

  1. Starts when it appears

    Every 5 seconds the tracker checks running programs against your games, even games running as administrator.

  2. Ends when it's gone

    A session ends 20 seconds after the game closes, at the last moment it was seen. Launcher hand-offs stay one session.

  3. Nothing lost

    Running sessions are saved every minute. After a crash or power cut, at most about a minute is lost.

Take the tour.

Real screens from PlayLedger's dashboard, drawn from its built-in sample data.

OverviewTotals, playing now and the last 30 days GamesA tile for every game, with its box art HistoryOne card per day for the last 30 days StatisticsMost played, busiest days, time of day Session detailsOpened, closed, to the second AMOLEDTrue black for OLED screens SettingsTheme, accent, tracking, artwork
Overview page in the dark theme with totals, the game playing now and a daily playtime chart

Your play stays on your PC.

There's no account, no analytics and no server. Nothing about your play history ever leaves your computer, and you can export all of it whenever you like.

  • No accounts, no analytics, no cloud
  • History encrypted for your Windows account
  • Artwork downloads off until you enable them
  • Open source, every line readable

Protected history

Sessions and settings are encrypted and integrity-checked with Windows' own data protection. Put an older copy back to undo playtime and PlayLedger notices.

What goes online

Only update checks to GitHub, and artwork if you turn it on: Steam pictures by Steam ID, and SteamGridDB with your own key, kept in Windows Credential Manager.

Updates you can trust

An installer must come from this project's GitHub release and match the size and SHA-256 GitHub recorded, or nothing is installed. Never while a game is running.

Nothing to set up.

  1. 1

    Download

    Setup.exe (10 MB) from the latest release.

  2. 2

    Install

    Next → Next → Install → Finish. It installs for your account only, no admin rights, and starts with Windows.

  3. 3

    Play something

    Within a few seconds the game is tracked. Click the controller icon in the tray to open the dashboard.

“Windows protected your PC”? The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognised app the first time. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Used Playtime Tracker? PlayLedger is the same app under its new name. Run the new Setup.exe over the old version and your history, settings and artwork all stay.

Requires Windows 11 on a 64-bit (x64) PC. Windows 10 isn't tested. Nothing else to install.

Start your ledger.

Free, open source, about 10 MB. Your next session is already being counted.

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