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Alternatives to Timely

Before you choose a replacement for Timely, check how billing, cancelling and refunds work, whether the price fits what the product does, whether support answers and fixes problems, whether automatic tracking records and labels work correctly, whether tracking leaves out personal or private activity, and whether the mobile app opens and runs.

Timely's strengths

  • Automatic time tracking, on every plan
  • Apps and websites, from Starter
  • Automatic reminders, on every plan
  • Budget milestone alerts, on Premium and Unlimited
  • Invoices sent to QuickBooks Online, on Premium and Unlimited

Timely's limits

  • No screenshots
  • Team management, on Premium and up
  • Capacity management and reporting, on Unlimited only
  • Starter seats five users

Traqq

Personal activity: Traqq does not record which apps or websites your team uses.

Teams of any size, from enterprises and small and medium businesses to agencies, hybrid and remote teams, independent contractors, and freelancers.

Strengths

  • Time tracking from web, desktop and browser
  • Offline tracking, on every plan
  • Automatic timer, on every plan
  • Shared time-off calendar, on every plan
  • Client invoices, on Business and up

Limits

  • No app or website tracking
  • No screenshots
  • No idle time tracking
  • Project forecasting, on Business and up
  • Focus metrics, on Scale and Enterprise only
$9.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

Workfolio

Billing: you can cancel at any time, and trying needs no credit card.

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)

RescueTime

Meetings and calls counted as work: RescueTime logs meetings, calls, and offline tasks on every plan.

Professionals, freelancers, and students; remote and hybrid teams; and teams in healthcare, architecture, engineering and design, legal, creative agencies, marketing, finance, software development, and consulting.

Strengths

  • Automatic tracking, on every plan
  • Goals and alerts, on every plan
  • Productivity scores and trends, on every plan
  • Offline activity, on every plan
  • Data export and API, on every plan

Limits

  • Shared clients, projects and tasks, on Team+ only
  • Billable rates, on Solo+ and Team+ only
  • Create teams, on Team and Team+ only
$12.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

Harvest

Personal activity: Harvest does not track websites or apps you use, and takes no screenshots.

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)

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