Best Time Tracking Software in 2026

Toggl Track is the time-tracking product of Toggl, which started as a Tallinn-based consultancy in 2006 and built a timer for its own billing before turning it into a product. It remains one of the most widely used manual timers for freelancers, agencies and project teams, with web, desktop, mobile and browser-extension apps.

Toggl takes an explicit position on monitoring: its about page states that it offers no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no webcam tracking, describing this as a line it will not cross even for paying customers. That distinguishes it from Hubstaff and Time Doctor. Instead, the paid tiers focus on billing and project economics. Starter adds billable rates, timeline views, tags, milestones and team reports; Premium adds labour-cost and profitability reports, fixed-fee projects, project dashboards comparing actuals with estimates, timesheet approvals, Jira and Asana integrations and SSO. Paid add-ons cover time-off management and capacity management.

The free plan is limited to a small number of users, and the most useful reporting for agencies sits in the US$16-per-user Premium tier.

Harvest combines time tracking with expenses, invoicing and online payments, and has been in business since 2006. Its customers are mostly agencies, consultancies and other professional-services firms that bill clients for hours, and the company says it serves thousands of customers around the world.

Harvest's design centres on turning tracked time into invoices: users log hours against clients and projects, managers see budget burn, and the same data feeds invoices that clients can pay online. The free plan is aimed at individual freelancers, while the Teams plan is built for teams that need to track, analyse and invoice their time; the base rate includes core features and additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed by usage. Enterprise adds advanced reporting and administrative controls.

Harvest's limitations are scope: it is not a workforce-monitoring tool, it does not offer attendance features such as GPS or kiosks, and resource scheduling is handled by the separate Harvest Forecast product, which integrates with it.

Clockify is a time tracker made by CAKE.com Inc., a company founded in 2009 that reports more than 10 million users across its products and four offices. Clockify was CAKE.com's first product, and the company says it passed 1,000,000 registered users in 2019. CAKE.com also makes the team chat tool Pumble and the project manager Plaky, which are sold with Clockify in a bundle.

Clockify's free plan offers unlimited tracking with a timer, timesheet, calendar and apps, with limits on user numbers, report history, API requests and exports. Paid tiers build up in small steps: Basic adds adding time for others, a kiosk and billable rates; Standard adds time off, invoicing, approvals and time locking; Pro adds scheduling, forecasting, expenses and labour-cost and profit reports; Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, a custom subdomain and an audit log.

Per-seat prices are among the lowest of the paid products in this list, but every active or invited user occupies a paid seat, including owners and admins, and the free plan's reports cover only the most recent month.

Hubstaff is a time-tracking and workforce-management platform built in 2012 and founded as a fully remote company; it reports 133 employees working across the globe. It is aimed at companies managing remote, hybrid and field workers, especially outsourced and contractor teams that are paid by the hour.

Unlike Toggl or Harvest, Hubstaff records activity levels alongside time, and its higher tiers add scheduling, expenses, daily limits, time-off, invoices and contractor payments. The company's materials emphasise analysis of productivity across remote, hybrid and in-office teams.

Because it measures activity, Hubstaff raises privacy and trust considerations that buyers should weigh against its benefits for billing contractors. Hubstaff charges per seat, so every team member counts, including those who only view reports, and its pricing page lists only annual per-seat prices.

QuickBooks Time is Intuit's time-tracking product for hourly and field workforces, designed to feed hours into QuickBooks Payroll and invoicing. Its pricing page still links to a sign-in address on tsheets.com, the domain of the product it grew out of.

Time Premium includes a workforce mobile app, payroll and invoicing sync, time-off management, alerts, photo attachments on timesheets, an on-site time kiosk and unlimited support. Time Elite adds mileage tracking, project tracking, estimates versus actuals, a project activity feed and timesheet signatures. Intuit also sells Workforce plans that bundle time tracking with payroll.

Pricing combines a monthly base fee with a per-user fee, which makes it less economical for very small teams than flat per-user products, and its strongest value comes from integration with the wider QuickBooks ecosystem. Businesses not using QuickBooks accounting or payroll gain less from it.

Timely, made by the company Memory, records work automatically rather than relying on timers. A private Memory tracker captures the documents, apps, meetings and sites a person works in, and the AutoSheet feature drafts timesheets from that record for the user to confirm. It also covers projects, budgets, utilisation reports and invoicing, and lists more than 100 integrations including Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, monday.com and Microsoft Teams.

Timely's pricing ladder runs from Starter, which the company pitches as finishing timesheets in ten minutes, through Premium, which adds budgets, cost management and team planning, to Unlimited, which adds extra capacity management, planning and security features. Task tracking is sold as an add-on from US$5 per person.

The automatic approach suits consultancies whose staff dislike timers, and the captured activity is kept private to the individual until they choose to log it. The trade-offs are price, which is above most manual trackers, and the need to install a tracker on each device.

Time Doctor was co-founded in 2012 by Rob Rawson and Liam Martin, who in 2018 also created the Running Remote conference. The company describes itself as a workforce-analytics provider with a team across more than 30 countries and over 280,000 active users.

Time Doctor tracks time alongside productivity data. The Basic plan gives visibility into remote or hybrid staff; Standard adds schedules and granular productivity reports; Premium adds AI-based benchmarks and further analytics. Optional add-ons include Software Cost Insights, Benchmarks AI (comparing productivity against benchmarks drawn from over 250,000 users), Unusual Activity Reporting that detects mouse jigglers and keyboard simulators, and Meeting Insights. The pricing page also lists a Time Doctor MCP connector on its Basic plan.

Its strength for business-process outsourcing and remote operations is detailed monitoring; the same features make it a poor fit for organisations that prefer trust-based measurement, and many analytics are add-ons on the lower tiers.

Everhour was built in 2015 by the team behind Weavora, a small IT outsourcing firm that needed accurate tracking to bill clients; the company says it is used by thousands of teams in more than 70 countries. Its distinguishing approach is to place timers and estimates directly inside project-management tools such as Asana, so that time is logged where tasks already live.

Everhour's paid Team plan includes all features: native integrations, billing, budgeting and invoicing, SSO and advanced permissions, with unlimited seats above a five-seat minimum. A free plan supports up to five seats with time tracking, projects, tasks, reports and data export, but no integrations. A Custom plan for 50 or more seats adds volume discounts and a dedicated manager.

The single-plan model is simple, but the five-seat minimum makes it costlier for solo users, and its value depends on whether the team works in one of the supported project tools.

TimeCamp has been developing time-tracking software since 2009 and describes itself as a remote-first team of about 50 people. It offers manual and automatic tracking, attendance, billing and productivity features across web, desktop and mobile apps.

Its free plan includes unlimited users and projects, timesheets, apps and two-factor authentication. Starter adds attendance, time off, overtime tracking, invoicing and Excel export; Premium adds billable time, budgets and estimates, a resource planner and app and website tracking; Ultimate adds timesheet approvals, screenshots, remote-work detection, expenses, labour costs and SSO; Enterprise adds self-hosted or private-cloud deployment, geofencing, a time-clock kiosk and an audit log. An AI time tracker is billed by token usage, which TimeCamp estimates at about US$6 per user per month.

TimeCamp packs more monitoring and attendance features into lower price points than most rivals, but the tiers are complex and the structured data on its pricing page did not match the displayed prices at review.

Tempo Timesheets is a time-tracking app for Atlassian Jira, made by Tempo Software, whose portfolio also includes Capacity Planner, Financial Manager, Structure PPM, Portfolio Manager (formerly LiquidPlanner) and Strategic Roadmaps (formerly Roadmunk). It lets users log time against Jira issues and gives managers approvals, reports and billing data.

Tempo is licensed through the Atlassian ecosystem, and its licence size must match the customer's Jira licence size; a user is anyone who can log into Jira, and Cloud licences go up to 100,000 users. Pricing is tiered by team size with a falling per-user rate. Cloud and Data Center editions are both listed.

For software teams already in Jira, Tempo removes the need for a separate tool and ties hours to issues and epics. The constraint is that it must be bought for every Jira user, including those who never log time, and it has little use outside Jira.

RescueTime runs in the background and records which apps and websites a person uses, producing reports on focus time and distraction. The company says it has more than 2 million users. It is primarily a personal productivity tool, though team plans exist.

Its pricing separates Focus features, which provide productivity reports and distraction blocking, from RescueTime Timesheets, which converts tracked activity into timesheets for billing. Solo and Team plans include Focus only, while Solo+ and Team+ bundle Timesheets with Focus.

RescueTime is useful for individuals who want to understand their own work patterns and for freelancers who want timesheets generated automatically. It lacks the invoicing, budgeting and approvals of Harvest or Toggl Track, and team managers seeking oversight will find its reports oriented toward the individual.

Replicon is an enterprise time-tracking and time-and-attendance platform now marketed as Deltek Replicon, part of Deltek's software for project-based businesses. It serves organisations with complex compliance needs, such as government contractors, professional-services firms and companies with large hourly workforces across many jurisdictions.

Replicon's site positions its time tracking around payroll accuracy, faster timesheet completion and project costing, and Deltek's surrounding portfolio includes pricing-intelligence software for federal-contractor proposals. Replicon describes its product as AI-powered time tracking for professional-services firms that need to manage labour costs, accelerate billing and maintain compliance across a global workforce, and it sits alongside Deltek's cloud ERP products for government contracting, aerospace and defence, and architecture, engineering and consulting firms.

Pricing is not published on the site; buyers must contact sales for a quote. The platform is heavier to implement than self-serve trackers such as Clockify or Toggl Track and is generally oversized for small teams.

Jibble is a time-and-attendance tool built around clock-ins rather than project timers. Its pricing page states that it is free forever for unlimited users, with desktop time tracking, mobile and web clock-ins, basic timesheets and integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams and QuickBooks.

Jibble targets shift-based and field teams that need to know when people started and finished work. Its enterprise offering lists flexible schedules, multi-device access, real-time dashboards across departments, SSO, two-factor authentication and dedicated onboarding and support.

The page reviewed for this list did not display paid-tier prices, so buyers who need features beyond the free plan must contact Jibble or start a trial to see current costs. Project-billing and invoicing features are thinner than in Harvest or Toggl Track.