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Buildwatch

Track your build time in Xcode

Buildwatch is a menu bar app for tracking Xcode build times. If you develop Apple apps, you can see how much time builds take across your projects.

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What you get

See how much time your Xcode builds take.

Buildwatch gives you a record of how long your Xcode builds take, so you can judge their impact on your development time. You can check total and average build duration, see how many builds you’ve run, and review individual projects or your combined activity. Choose a day, week, month, year, or your full history to put those numbers in context.

You can explore graphs and hover over them for details, helping you spot which projects account for the most build time and where bottlenecks may deserve attention. Pin the statistics you care about to your menu bar for a quick check while you work. When you estimate future projects, you’ll have past build durations to refer to rather than relying only on memory.

  • Understand your build overhead

    You can see total and average build times alongside build counts to understand how much time builds consume.

  • Find projects worth investigating

    You can review each project’s build history to spot where build time is accumulating.

  • Keep key numbers visible

    You can pin selected statistics to your menu bar and check them without opening the detailed graphs.

  • Ground estimates in history

    You can use recorded build durations as a reference when estimating build time for future projects.

Best for

  • You develop Apple apps in Xcode
  • You juggle several Xcode projects
  • You want to investigate time lost to builds

Skip it if

You don’t need it if you don’t use Xcode or have no reason to measure your build times.

Screenshots

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From the developer

Buildwatch is a menu bar app that tracks the time you spend working on builds in Xcode. To get detailed tracking of your time in Xcode, just click the Buildwatch icon in your menu bar and view graphs showing you how much time you spent working on each project.
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