What is best for time-tracking?

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Looking for a product to "clock my hours" for me.

Arielle Crane · Accepted Answer

I've been loving this time tracking tool. Super intuitive and easy to use.
- you just hit play on the timer and track every second you work on a project. You can even run two timers at once
- easily punch in the time you did not track live, just in case
- easily track your time by project and activity
- you can also create invoices based on the time tracked
- iPhone, android & desktop version ;)

Katya Sklyarova · Answer

TMetric is one of the best time-tracking apps I've ever used.

Denis Yanov · Answer

The best time tracker is the simplest one. That's why I vote for TMetric.

Ivan Mir · Answer

Qbserve (our app) tracks both productivity and project time automatically. It shows your current performance at the menu bar and the dock in real-time. If you are a freelancer, it can generate invoices for you from the time you have tracked.

Ayush Mittal · Answer

Just mentioned Toggl - Pomodoro timer with tracking, reporting and other powerful sets of features. You can add a chrome extension for web and directly enable Pomodoro mode from the Toggl extension. Available on iOS/Android/Mac/Windows, everywhere.

Radoslav Stankov · Answer

Best feature - it detects when you are not using your mac and doesn't track that time.

Mike Coutermarsh · Answer

If you're just looking to "waste" less time and need something to nudge you to be more productive. This is helpful.

Gabriel Lewis · Answer

I can't recommend this enough. It tracks your usage in the background and is interrupts your workflow.

Pavan Sethi · Answer

This is a very general time tracking app but it is one of my favorite apps of all time.  Set a timer for how long you want to focus (can't touch your phone) while building virtual trees in your "forest."  Earn coins towards planting actual trees!

Andreas Klinger · Answer

Bit expensive but super flexible and useful for teams

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A time tracking app for iOS (and Apple Watch) that offers some great reporting features through a web dashboard.

Kaspar Manz · Answer

Killer Feature: Define projects in TimeCamp and keywords that go along with it, and TimeCamp will automatically switch between tasks depending on whether your front-most window contains this keyword. I tend to use short IDs for my projects and tag my files using them – and I instantly have my time tracked.

Joanna Wlaźlak · Answer

Super sleek design, very nice freemium option, create projects and subtasks, duplicate the tasks very easily ⏰

Kovács Máté · Answer

I built this app and still improving it! It's for my own needs which is automatic tracking but you can use it for manual time tracking as well. So if you decide to give it a try please let me know, what you are missing and I'll add those to it!

Simon Bromberg · Answer

Simple, free, multi-platform

Kelly I. Williams · Answer

This to do list adds up how you use your time automatically using your tasks. So it works both looking backwards and seeing how booked you are coming up. No timers. And it works for anything you put in your to-do list, not just on the computer (so exercise too, for example).

Alexandra Cote · Answer

They also have an automatic time-tracking feature that can track the time you spend on each activity without you having to manually start the timer for each individual task.

Mike Kulakov · Answer

Accurate employee time tracking. Trusted by over 1,500 businesses. Natively integrates with a dozen of project management apps such as Asana, Trello, Basecamp, GitHub and Jira.

5 stars based on 150+ reviews on Capterra, G2Crowd and GetApp.

https://www.capterra.com/p/133409/Everhour/
https://www.g2crowd.com/products/everhour/reviews
https://www.getapp.com/project-management-planning-software/a/everhour/

Radoslaw Holewa · Answer

Do you want to use it for personal time tracking or track your time in projects? If you need a simple time tracker which is easy to use like filling a spreadsheet then I suggest you take a look at Quidlo Timesheets.

You just put a description, select a project and start live tracker. That's it!

Iouri Khramtsov · Answer

Maesure makes time tracking mindlessly simple for the price of periodic interruptions. With Maesure, it's easier to track time through distractions, task switches, and meetings. Super helpful if you must fill out time sheets or report hours to clients.

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Comprehensive support for tracking time, managing projects, making invoices and tracking payments.

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Due is an extremely unobtrusive app that allows you to track time with automatic idle time detection. Simply start the timer, and a new session will start immediately. As you proceed with a project, you can use Due time tracking to generate invoices based on the hourly rates you set. This time tracking app also makes it easy to organize clients’ information by name, address, hourly rates, or even different currencies.

Lauren Holliday · Answer

I love how this auto-runs in the background, and I don't even know it!!

Ben Raz · Answer

i use it and its fine

thomas ross · Answer

Harvest is an industry standard when it comes to time and expense tracking. It offers a beautiful and intuitive interface that works across all desktop and mobile operating systems — it even has an Apple Watch app and a desktop widget for added convenience. Harvest also allows you to track your time per client, project, and individual task. You can even deduct “idle time” from your hours for those instances when you get distracted from the project at hand. Once you’re done with the project, Harvest can produce itemized invoices ready for delivery to your client.

Andreas Zecher · Answer

Been using Harvest for years. Clean & easy to use. Also offers easy invoicing based on your tracked hours, which is super useful for freelancers like me.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

I love Memory by Timely. I don't need to track activities myself anymore. This helps me log everything so I can focus on getting stuff done!

Aurora · Answer

I love using Timely! It records what I'm doing in the background so I can review afterwards how I spent my day. My only improvement for the product is to make the drag and drop feature more responsive (missing the Google Calendar feeling).

Spencer P Shulem · Answer

WeDo is the first task app to have "Time Estimating" which allows you to keep track of how long tasks take. It'a also minimal, yet feature rich life planner.

Mike · Answer

If you want to have not only time tracking but taska management and budget controll. IC Projext is very easy to use.

Mike · Answer

For me the best time tracking tool ever.
You can manage tasks and you can register your time:
- on the task
- on the "time transking" tab
- on the clock (by pressing play/pause/stop)

More! when you report time, your costs on the project is updating. Try

Alex Popescu · Answer

Simple widget for task-tracking (desktop/mobile), advanced reporting and invoicing in the pro version

Shashwat Pradhan · Answer

Hey, you should try out Instant. It tracks your phone usage, places, fitness activities, travel & sleep automatically! You get all this data on a dashboard with goals, a chatbot coach and weekly reports.

Ola Rybacka · Answer

I'm sure you should take a look at it if you need a time tracking software! Simple, easy to use, but rich-packed with automatic time tracking (switching between tasks and projects automatically), budgeting, invoicing, reporting and screenshots. Available for desktop, mobile and as a Chrome extension. Perfect for staying on the top of advanced projects and every single task.

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ProofHub’s online time tracking tool allows you to set time estimates, track time spent on tasks and maintain a record of every minute you spend working on tasks.