Chronos for Jira
Time tracking made easy
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Time tracking made easy
82 followers
Chronos is a time tracking app for Jira, designed to make managing your daily worklogs simple and intuitive. With features like real-time tracking, manual submission, and support for multiple accounts, Chronos is the perfect companion for your Jira workflow.
Chronos for Jira
Congrats on the launch, Adrian! 🚀 Chronos looks like a really smooth way to bring back that Harvest-like simplicity inside Jira. I have a quick question: how does the integration with Jira work technically? Since Jira usually requires add-ons to go through the Atlassian Marketplace and often admin approval for installation, I’m curious how Chronos connects directly - especially if someone just downloads the app outside the Marketplace. Does it work with personal API tokens, or is there another approach?
Chronos for Jira
@ivan_saverchenko It uses the regular oAuth login from Jira. To do that you will have to connect a Jira app to your Jira account, but that happens automatically when logging in. That's basically it.
We didn't have issues with permissions yet, so it seems most people should be able to just use it. I can imagine that there are a few workspaces though where stricter security rules prohibit access.
If you’re a Jira admin, I strongly recommend reviewing your workspace permissions. By default, any user or app can access the worklogs of all members in the workspace. This not only poses a potential security risk but also created performance issues on our side, since we need to dig through everyone’s worklogs just to retrieve those belonging to a specific user (no filtering available on that API).
@adrnf This sounds awesome! I love that Chronos focuses on speed and workflow customization.
How does Chronos handle reporting across multiple Jira accounts? Is it easy to get a quick overview without jumping between projects?
Chronos for Jira
@lina_huchok In the background, we log you into two Jira accounts/workspaces and keep their data separate.
In your overview, you’ll see worklogs from both and for search you can switch between them.
Your total tracked time (including reminders) can come from one account or from both combined.
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Useful! Any other integrations planned for later? Maybe Google Calendar?
Chronos for Jira
@nikitaeverywhere We were thinking about a SAP Fiori integration, since that is what we are working with right now. We also have an unpolished Windows version and could add a Linux build as well. For now this project is done though (except some macOS 26 adjustments), since we would like to focus on new ideas.
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Does it also "differentiate" in which tab you are working? I also know that some trackers use screen recording to see whether you really do what you should. Is this the case?
Chronos for Jira
Hey @busmark_w_nika!
Chronos doesn't have automatic tracking. We used a few of time trackers with that feature before and always came to the conclusion that the automatic tracking isn't accurate enough for our use case. Automatic tracking was also outside of the side-project scope that we had.
I like the concept. For me, the home page is missing a pricing section.
Chronos for Jira
@michael_vavilov I See. Good point!
We are only selling on the macOS App Store for now though, since we didn't add our own licensing logic.