What is the best time tracking software?

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What software do you use for time tracking?

Ola Rybacka · Accepted Answer

It's packed with automatic time tracking software and features like invoicing, reporting, budgeting, billable time, collaboration and many more!

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TimeLog is a super great tool. It is the only tool I have been able to find that ties together time tracking, invoicing, analytics, salary, project management.

Invaluable if you are in the engineering or consulting business.

Magda Werminska · Answer

Futuramo Time Tracker is a time tracking and productivity app that works great for both individuals and larger teams. It offers fine statistics to help you analyze and monitor your work habits. Some key features: real-time filters, search box, sorting, trackers and manual time recording, offline tracking, overview board, custom timesheet view, and more. Also good for managing multiple client projects thanks to the rich set of features for project management.

Michal Hantl · Answer

Great suggestions here, go with Hubstaff if you need these:
  - Activity reports
  - Integrations with project management and other 3rd party tools (like Github, Trello, Paypal, Zendesk and more)
  - Automatic payroll via payment Paypal, Payoneer etc.
  - if you have people working off site (and need GPS tracking)

Mario Gabriele · Answer

Perfect integration with other aspects of the freelance stack (invoices, expensing, projects)

actiTIME · Answer

Check out actiTIME timesheet software, it's free to try https://www.actitime.com/

Leif Abraham · Answer

AND CO lets you track your time via the mobile apps, the Mac app and the Web app.

Mike Coutermarsh · Answer

RescueTime is my favorite. Works great for giving you insight into where your time has gone. How much is really spent on Facebook vs doing work.

I like "distraction free" mode and the chrome extension makes it easy to see how "good" you have been. I find its a good reminder to keep focused.

jessyjames · Answer

I like the mobile

Denis Yanov · Answer

Maybe the simpliest time tracker I ever used. Totally recommended for your freelance projects.

Sunil Neurgaonkar · Answer

JIRA is way costly but worth it. It has many many customizations and can be used in a wide variety of ways. This is the #1 tool for Agile teams.

Jamie Lawrence · Answer

Although I also use RescueTime I've become quite partial to Qbserve. It's a local app and has a similar functionality to RescueTime but without some of the advanced reporting. It does however, give me some immediate reminder of when I'm being unproductive by changing the dock icon.

Katya Sklyarova · Answer

I really like this app, nowadays TMetric is one of the best time tracking tools. I would like to highlight its functions like the visualized timeline and flexible reports. TMetric can give all the detailed information about your activity.

Tom Bielecki · Answer

If you're interested in Quantified Self, RescueTime integrates with Gyroscope to give you a view into your productive/unproductive time. Only downside is that iOS is not supported.

Roberta Newland · Answer

actiTIME helps us record time spent on projects and bill our clients. The best timsheet software I have been using.

haabe · Answer

Integrates with Google Calendar, Office 365, Moves, and its own tracker (Memory). And has it's own API, so you can create your own apps to communicate with it.

Rambo Ong Ping · Answer

With TimeLog, I can have my project, resource and invoicing overview in the same system. Good luck on finding another software that do that.

Maéva Alméras · Answer

Cool tool!

Shantanu Raghav · Answer

For me it works best, I have set it up for every half an hour. It keeps me on track for most of the meetings. Just simply go to mac OS clock - check announce time - set an period - select an voice

Alex Ledak · Answer

Only for macOS, but works great.

Daniel Alm · Answer

Hi, Daniel, the maker of Timing here. Thanks for the recommendation!

By the way, I'm currently working on a brand-new version, launching next month. You can sign up for the beta at https://beta.timingapp.com. That version has been built from the start for the needs of freelancers and small agencies, with a ton of new reporting features and optional start/stop timers if you need them.

Judith Ratajczak · Answer

You can use use ZEI with TimeTac - simple, fast and easy web based time tracking software for every company size and industry.

Alptekin · Answer

Best time tracking software for time optimization.

Stafie Anatolie · Answer

We're using Hubstaff at EpicCoders since 2011. Its reporting tools, automatic payrolls and the native apps for all the platforms are what makes it stand out from the rest of time tracking apps we tried.

Madhav Bhandari · Answer

I'll definitely vouch for it. The app is truly cross-platform - they've got apps for mac, windows, linux, android, ios & even a chrome extension. With their recent updates, I can also see how much money was spent on each task (calculated based on no. of hours spent x hourly rate) which is pretty cool.

Eric Blanton · Answer

Having used a couple apps for time tracking that were OS based & native only, I found them fine, if not a little limited. Hubstaff's solution of mixing native timers with a web dashboard component is more versatile for my needs.

Jacob Dahl · Answer

I would say TimeOn. It has great time tracking and project management features with a very nice performance dashboard too. Two other unique features are: recurring projects (very useful for projects such as ongoing social media marketing) and automated time reporting to improve client communication :)

Benjamin Powell · Answer

We use that for basic time keepingnin house, good pricing and easy to use.

Keep and eye out for zei as well, recent kickstarter that has a really good physical elemwnt to it. A little pricey though.

Jeff Lewis · Answer

Automatic tagging of project work based on current application keywords. Tiny unobtrusive client (like winamp used to be.) Great integration and plugins.

Mike Kulakov · Answer

One of the best time tracking tools, especially if you need to integrate it with your project management app, such as Asana, Trello, Basecamp, GitHub or Jira.

I bet there is no better alternative.

Nandini Sharma · Answer

ProofHub’s online time tracking tool allows teams to set time estimates, track time spent on tasks and maintain a record of every minute they spend working on tasks. It lets you know how teams are using their time, by keeping record of every minute being spent at work so that they can manage time efficiently and you can bill the clients accurately using the time data.

tampajohn · Answer

I've used harvest at 2 different companies, super easy to integrate into task management solutions (asana/jira/trello have integrations baked in).

James P Menke · Answer

Harvest is simple and inexpensive.

Evan Schoepke · Answer

I used Bonsai's in-app time tracking as well as the tracker they built for Mac OS, it gets the job done and you can export your time into invoices easily.

Kian Lavi · Answer

Bonsai recently added really simple time tracking that integrates directly with their invoice system. I've tested a lot of the team's features, and this has been the most useful thus far! No more manually logging my hours in a spreadsheet.

Aaron Green · Answer

The best time tracking is NOT filling out timesheets cause timesheets suck - Streamtime replaces timesheets with a smart TO DO list that tracks time.

Radoslaw Holewa · Answer

For over a year we were simply using Google Sheets for time tracking. Unfortunately, it was not easy to check time reported between projects. So we decided we will create a really simple app that you just type task description, select a project and start live tracker. It does the job for us and our clients like the way it shows time our developers logged.

Jacob Dahl · Answer

I would say TimeOn. It has great time tracking and project management features with a very nice performance dashboard too. Two other unique features are: recurring projects (very useful for projects such as ongoing social media marketing) and automated time reporting to improve client communication :)

Nikola Novakovic · Answer

I am a relatively new user of Toggle, but it has been a neat little tool to track all sorts of activities. I use it to track time on a couple of different projects and I did not need any of the fancy payed features, so free version serves me well. Highly recommended!

Bill Vieux · Answer

Freckle is super easy to use, has Mac/iOS apps, and nice reporting for us to manage clients & activities.

Tzachi Davidovich · Answer

If you're refering to track SaaS spending and optimization, check out Cardlife :) we're top SaaS product of all times on PH

Mert Nesvat · Answer

If you want simple and cheap solution, that is definitely fine. I was using rescue time but it's very expensive, even most expensive one in the time tracking tools chart :)

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Keep all your team's tasks in one place. Collaborate and work in real time for real results. Teamwork Projects: the most powerful and simple way to collaborate with your team. Everyone can use Teamwork to track their time on a project.

Kevin Siskar · Answer

Big fan of Rescue time. I use it in combination with Escape from the focuslist team

Viktoria Perminova · Answer

+1 to RescueTime

Guillaume L. · Answer

Bonsai has a time tracker integrated to the solution. Very practical if you're using the time tracking to directly bill your client for your work.

Jerry Beers · Answer

The visual timeline, ease of starting and stopping timers and editing time make this a great time tracker to use.

Kristina Zagorulko · Answer

I am looking for such app for a long time! Really helpful for activity organizing

Anthony Mansfield · Answer

Big fan of actiTIME. Highly recommended!

Cristian Baluta · Answer

I recommend it because is built by me because i couldn't find anything to suit me. Jirassic is a mac app that stays in the status bar and tracks automatically the time spent at work. Git commits are tracked, time spent away from computer is tracked, everything from start to finish. The app is work in progress.

Ehsan · Answer

This time tracker works a bit differently -- it tracks the time elapsed since the last occurrence of an event and keeps a history of all occurrences. It's useful for tracking activities, habits, vices, medication, chores/maintenance, and pretty much anything that you want to track that doesn't really belong in your calendar or to do lists.

Alan Hamlett · Answer

It's fully automatic, and integrates with over 40 text editors and IDEs.

Jen Benz · Answer

Easy to use, gps tracking, and awesome support team!

Daniel Alm · Answer

Timing (automatic time tracking for your Mac) has recently been updated to version 2.
The new version is even better than the old one - it shows you exactly when you did what, and how much time you spent on different tasks. Plus, it comes with tons of features for hourly billing that freelancers need, such as automatically recommending blocks of time that belong together (so you can bill them).

Slavyana Ilieva · Answer

I use SCREENish (https://www.screenish.com/), it’s easy and convenient. Work day is visualized as a timeline, there are integrations with popular project management systems. You can also prepare flexible reports by using different filters. 
I like how easy it is to use the desktop application--it's a piece of cake.

Brandon Bayer · Answer

Tyme is amazing because it's very simple and focuses on time tracking versus all the billing, projects, etc. It has just the needed basics for tracking time by different projects and no more.

The UI is so much better than most other time tracking apps.

I'm a happy paying customer!

Judith Ratajczak · Answer

For smaller businesses the simple and easy to use employee time tracking software from TimeTac is useful. The simple mobile app with tasks and live tracking is for free. Bigger companys extend the webbased software with e.g. project time tracking. It is also possible to use a terminal. The TimeTac software is built for many industry purposes.

Matěj Kalužík · Answer

Automatically measures your time and has great integrations.

Filipe Martins · Answer

Timelogger lets you track your time on your iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad. And can keep all your data updated, secured and available across all your devices with iCloud.

Alexandra Cote · Answer

Great if you're looking to improve your productivity, also free for individual users.

Ratomir Soda Jovanovic · Answer

Personally I'm using Toggl, but as "better alternative" I will recommend Time Doctor.
Also there is screen capturing as a option.

Erlowayne John Larase · Answer

Time Doctor is an accurate productivity software on the market. It lets you harvest time tracking data on your company's work habits and then provides analytics to show key areas where improvements can be made.

Tkachenko Arthur 🇺🇦 · Answer

Because this is inside the Atlassian product universe. If you're developer, who track tasks in JIRA - you log your time in JIRA too.

Alfred Beckman · Answer

Having a physical thing to flip over to track time just makes it a tad more fun :)

Benjamin Powell · Answer

Ive not used it yet, but their interface is very exciting

Milena Seba · Answer

Fanurio is a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers and teams for its intuitive interface, flexible timer and ability to produce detailed invoices.

Whether you need to round time, use multiple currencies or create invoices with your own layout, Fanurio has the right tools to help you get paid.

Emanuele Ricci · Answer

Italian startup with a lot of external integrations. Their product comes from a specific internal need to track their webagency time spent on projects.