Have you noticed that lately, the performance of your computer is not as good as it used to be? That can be due to multiple causes, and as discarding one by one would be too time-consuming, the best thing to do is to have an assistant designed for these situations. ManicTime is one of them, and for this reason, we want to show you how it can help you get your PC back to the way it always was.

ManicTime is a paid service with a trial version, which is responsible for performing a detailed analysis detailing all aspects of the use we give to our computer, also allowing us to know information about the active processes and applications that run for longer on our computers. All this is shown through a series of bar graphs, so it will be much easier for you to read the data.

How it works

Then, to manage your analysis in a personalized way, ManicTime offers you the possibility of adding some labels on top of each one to add some clarifications that could be important. As time goes by, all the information about this utility accumulates, so it is only after a reasonable period of use that we can obtain more precise conclusions.

From the very first moment, ManicTime will show you all kinds of details about your computer usage habits, habits that you may not be aware of or that you do not keep in mind most of the time. In general, this program will show you the name of each active process and when it started and finished.

And something that you will probably be interested to know. For that reason, we have decided to comment, which has to do with the fact that all the information that ManicTime can collect is kept private unless you want to share it yourself. The program cannot take that information to make use of it and sell it; if only you use that PC, you won't have to worry about anyone else being able to see the data.

At the same time, ManicTime allows you to schedule specific tasks that are among the most common that you may want to launch from your computer, such as database backups. Thanks to this function, you will not need to be at home while you carry out your subsequent backups, but you will be able to let your computer do them without disturbing you while using other programs.

Here we must say that we would have liked ManicTime to launch even more actions or processes or to have other tools beyond monitoring. However, it lacks them.

What can I say about ManicTime's user interface? That is an absolute marvel. The truth is that although, at first, we were somewhat reluctant to invest in an application of this type, its design alone is worth spending some money on. Everything is ideal for expert and novice users, from the complete translation into Spanish to the perfect location of the main menus and functions without neglecting the choice of colors.

Keep in mind

As mentioned above, ManicTime is not a free application, but we will have to pay for it if we want to continue using it for good once the trial period of just 15 days is over. Although we didn't get into the decision to make this a paid app, it's clear that we would have liked the trial period to be somewhat longer, as two weeks is too short.

The best

Although our protagonist of today has many attractive features, we always try in this section to stop at those that can justify the download -or purchase- of the service in question ahead of the competition. And on this occasion, there is no doubt that ManicTime's user interface is one of the best in its segment and maybe even one of the best of any Windows program we have analyzed.

The worst

While we were commenting during the review, ManicTime leaves a bittersweet taste in that everything it offers is perfect and functional, even attractive from the design, but at times falls a bit short in terms of its features. We believe that this is a platform that has much more potential than it finally takes advantage of, and we hope that, at some point, it will be even more complete.

Rating

Do you want to monitor all the active processes on your computer to know some details about your regular usage, and you don't mind spending money on it? Then run and buy ManicTime, because you won't find anything like it.