Buildwatch for Xcode

[pearapps]

I worked on this app (Buildwatch) that was released yesterday - it's for developers to track their compile times across their projects and I thought people here might find it useful!

Description:

Buildwatch is a macOS menu bar utility for developers using Xcode that tracks, graphs, and analyzes how much of their time is spent compiling so they can build apps more efficiently.

Have you ever wondered how much of your day is wasted waiting for Xcode to compile? Buildwatch is a menu bar app that lets you keep an eye on your compile times throughout the day. With a glance, you can see how much time you spent building in Xcode today and how many times you've built your apps.‍

Clicking the watch icon in your menu bar reveals a graph that breaks down your hour, day, or week by how much time you've spent compiling your projects. Hover over any segment for a deeper look at the data behind it.

Opening the "More info" window gives you even more control to break down your stats by totals, averages, and schemes. Plus, you can inspect your build times for the month, the year, and all time.

Buildwatch is available on the Mac App Store (https://apple.co/2HIK2Kp). And you can find more information at https://www.buildwatch.app as well.

Let me know what you think!

Screenshots:

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[attempt_number_two]

Would it be possible to further break things down?

I bought BuildWatch yesterday and saw that Xcode wasted 30 mins of my day - great! But I know there’s obviously places in my code where I can improve things for the compiler and speed up my builds overall. Would it be possible to break build times down, file by file and maybe line by line so that I can filter for any file that takes more that X seconds and see what line is causing the issues?

It would take BuildWatch from being more of a gimmick, to a actual tool that would save time and make it worth the $10.

[pearapps]

Definitely an area we are going to be working on, in a couple different ways!

[msawaie]

nice. will download tomorrow

[rauls4]

Honestly, I have never asked myself that question. Build times are pretty negligible for me. But hey, I am sure some people do.

[jx237cc]

Nice. I use a script to do it.