Time Tracking Tools Free

I am sure you already know that managing time is one of the best ways to improve your work efficiency. That’s why, today we are talking about one of the most important tools for tracking your time – time tracking software. How does this app help you to manage your time? What are its main functions? And what are the best free time tracker apps on the market right now..? I think you will find it useful.

Time tracking apps are being used extensively these days due to their number of benefits. Free time tracking tools are no less, as they work great for people on a limited budget. If you are looking for an effective way to track your time, you will find the free one on this page incredibly useful.

Cerebro

Free plan: Cerebro’s free version allows up to five users and 10 GB of storage. It’s available as a mobile app or through a web browser, but only paid versions include the offline, desktop option. Users have access to all paid features for the first 60 days.
Paid plans: Cerebro offers multiple paid plans from $6/user/month all the way up to $59/user/month. The paid plans include additional users, expanded storage, support, and more.

Cerebro is a project management tool designed for marketing, architecture, construction, visual effects, and animation teams. It includes planning, collaboration, and time management features, among others. The time tracking feature in Cerebro is a little complex, as users will have to plan a project to use it through a Gantt chart, as seen in the video below. If you’re looking for a new project planning tool as well, this could be useful, but if you just want a simple, straightforward time tracker, you’ll probably want to continue looking.

Everhour

Everhour is a lightweight scheduling app that syncs with productivity apps you may already use. When you connect Everhour to a supported app, such as Asana, all the projects you’ve created in Asana show up as projects in Everhour. As a result, you can get up and running with Everhour faster than other time tracking apps because all your project details automatically get populated in Everhour.

The syncing aspect goes one step further to add a timer button inside the web-based app of your choice, allowing you to start and stop recording time from within the app. For example, in Asana, you’ll see a new button with options to Start Time, Add Time, Edit Time, and Add Estimate. In addition to Asana, Everhour also syncs with Basecamp, Bitbucket, GitHub, Teamwork Projects, Trello, and a few other apps. While having a timer button sync from the app of your choice is an excellent feature, it’s not unique to Everhour.

When used collaboratively, Everhour can track employee availability. For each team member, including yourself, you can enter a maximum number of hours per day or week to work on a particular project. Everhour also has an option to log scheduled time off. You can then look at the team’s schedule, and you’ll see available hours (by day) in green, time off as gray, and sessions that went over time in red.

The web timer doesn’t work offline, making it difficult to track time in certain circumstances. And while Everhour has an included invoicing system, it’s relatively lightweight. If you need invoicing functionality, you’ll want to explore its integration with more robust accounting apps, namely FreshBooks, QuickBooks, and Xero. You can also explore Everhour’s Zapier integrations to connect Everhour with other productivity apps like Google Sheets or Airtable.

ClickUp

Free plan: ClickUp’s free version includes unlimited tasks for five user workspaces, 100 MB of storage, and other monthly limitations.
Paid plans: ClickUp’s paid plans start at $5/user/month and remove the limitations on user workspaces, file storage, and many other features.

ClickUp aims to be an all-in-one work management app with features for everything from project management to collaboration to CRM and more, including time tracking. Users can access the time tracking feature multiple ways in ClickUp, including a simple fan-out button in the bottom right of the main interface, as seen in the video below. This makes ClickUp an attractive option for small teams who want a simple way to track time while also being able to expand into more complex features if needed.

Toggl Track

If you need a time tracking app but can’t pay for one, you should use Toggl Track. The time tracking tool has a generous free tier of service that gives you access to all its apps (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and browser extensions) and includes all the core functionality you’d expect in a time tracking app.

Toggl Track works so effortlessly primarily because it doesn’t ask much of you when you start timing a task. With many time tracking apps, you have to have a client, project, and task entered into your account before the app will let you track time. If you don’t, you have to set your task aside for the time being and enter them. With Toggl Track, you can track your time right away and worry about the details later.

Additionally, when you use Toggl Track through the Chrome or Firefox browser extension, a Toggl timer button shows up in just about every web app you could imagine, from Google Docs and other Google apps to Help Scout. Because you always see the Toggl Track button while you’re working, you have a continual reminder to track your time.

Toggl Track has some of the most detailed options I’ve seen in a time tracking app. For example, in the Toggl Track Chrome extension, you can automatically start and stop tracking time based on whether the browser is open or not. It also has excellent idle detection, which helps you maintain high accuracy across your records. When the app detects your computer has been idle but a timer is still running, it offers ways to correct the recorded block of time. That way, if you’re interrupted while working and get sucked into a 20-minute conversation, Toggl Track can knock out those 20 minutes from your record. Toggl Track even has a Pomodoro Technique setting, so that you can work for a set amount of time on a project that requires your focus and then take a short break, all with simple stopwatch-like reminders.

Harvest

Among the best time tracking apps overall, Harvest is a top option for teams. It’s a stellar option for solo entrepreneurs, too, but it’s built to handle a collaborative workload in a way that’s clear and easy to understand. If tracking and organizing a team’s time isn’t your strong suit, then Harvest is a great app to help you get the job done.

Everyone on your team can install and use as many instances of Harvest as they like, including the desktop app, mobile app, and browser extension. The apps work offline, allowing you and your teammates to record time on tasks even when you’re not online. As team members run their personal timekeeping clocks, all the information flows into the administrator’s Harvest account, where it’s presented in both summary and detail. Harvest can automatically remind team members to submit their timesheets if you like, and the business owner can always edit, review, and approve team timesheets.

Additionally, Harvest integrates with a long list of apps. Some of the supported apps let you track your working hours directly from them (Asana, Basecamp, Slack, Trello, to name a few) and send the results to Harvest. Others are for invoicing and accounting, in case you choose not to use Harvest’s own invoicing tools. Harvest also has its own employee scheduling app called Harvest Forecast (sold separately) that tightly integrates with the core app.

If you need to connect Harvest to a tool that isn’t supported natively, you can make your own Harvest integrations using Zapier to connect to apps like Google Sheets and Dropbox.