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Best Time Tracking Software

The category's leading products, the ones the category's own roundups name, each with its strengths, its limits, and the buyer it fits. They are listed alphabetically, and the list ranks none.

Buddy Punch

Businesses whose hourly employees work in more than one place, including small businesses, in industries such as construction, landscaping, cleaning services, plumbing, home repair, HVAC, agriculture, healthcare, restaurants, call centers, retail, schools and medical practices.

Strengths

  • Alerts for punches and breaks, on Starter
  • Vacation, sick and time-off requests online, on Starter
  • Hours tracked by job, location or project, on Starter
  • Punching without internet, on Pro
  • Connection to other tools through an API, on Pro

Limits

  • Geofencing, on Pro
  • Kiosk punching, on Pro
  • Webcam at each punch, on Pro
$5.99/user/month (Billed Monthly)
$19.00/month base fee (Billed Monthly)

Clockify

Teams in law, consulting, startups, construction, software development, and accounting.

Strengths

  • Auto tracker, on every plan
  • Idle detection and reminders, on every plan
  • Time off and leave, on Standard and up
  • Invoicing from tracked time, on Standard and up
  • Offline tracking, synced when back online

Limits

  • Screenshots, on Pro and Enterprise only
  • Budget and estimate alerts, on Pro and Enterprise only
  • Emailed reports, on Pro and Enterprise only
  • Single sign-on, on Enterprise only
$9.99/user/month (Billed Monthly)

Harvest

Teams of all sizes and types, in advertising and marketing, architecture, construction, law firms, accounting and finance, consulting and IT, design, and software development.

Strengths

  • Invoicing, on every plan
  • Invoices sent from Harvest, with late payment reminders
  • Project budgets with cost alerts
  • Project estimates before kickoff, on Free, Teams and Enterprise
  • Accounting and payment integrations, on Teams and Enterprise

Limits

  • No app or website tracking
  • No screenshots or video
  • Single sign-on, on Enterprise only
  • Timesheet approvals, on Enterprise only
$11.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

Toggl Track

Agencies, professional services, software and IT teams, law firms, and accounting and finance teams, from freelancers to teams.

Strengths

  • Apps and websites tracked, with a timeline, on every plan
  • Idle time detection, on every plan
  • Offline tracking that syncs
  • Calendar events tracked automatically
  • API access, on every plan

Limits

  • No screenshots
  • Leave management, as an add-on only
  • Alerts, not on Free
$12.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

Workfolio

Remote and hybrid teams

Strengths

  • Unlimited tracking
  • Unlimited teams
  • Unlimited Storage
  • Screenshots every 1 minute
  • Free Forever

Limits

  • Last 14 days data retention, on Basic
  • 10 GB file storage limit, on Basic
  • After utilising the 10 GB free storage, tracking will be limited to timesheet, on Basic
  • API: Coming Soon
  • Invoice: Coming Soon
$4.99/user/month (Billed Monthly)

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