7 Best Free Time Tracking Software in 2024

• Free: $0 for one user only

Paid plans Two months free when you pay annually.
14-day free trial on all paid plans.

• Starter: $7 per seat monthly (minimum two users)
• Grow: $9 per seat monthly (minimum two users)
• Team: $12 per seat monthly (minimum two users)
• Enterprise: $25 per seat monthly (billed annually)

• Payroll management: You can automatically process payroll by just inputting your employees’ hourly rate and schedule (weekly, monthly, biweekly).
• Smarter, streamlined time tracking: Like most of the software in this guide, Hubstaff works with desktop, mobile, and web apps. It can also record your time even when it is offline.
• Mobile app: The mobile app has a timer and reports and works offline. It rates 4.5 out of 5 with around 1,300 reviews on the App Store but only a 3.2 out of 5 with 850+ reviews on Google Play.
• Geofencing and GPS tracking: Like several others on our list, Hubstaff has geofencing, but it goes a step further by reminding employees to clock in or out when in the zone, or it can clock employees in automatically within a zone.
• Monitor activity levels: Track how your employees spend their time by monitoring mouse and keyboard usage and by taking screenshots (limits apply to the free plan).

Has everything in the free option, plus:

• Scheduling and attendance tracking: Like Homebase, Hubstaff lets you schedule individual or recurring shifts for your employees and receive email alerts for late, missed, or abandoned shifts. You can even set a limit for the number of hours your team members can track each week—a tool unique to Hubstaff.
• Client invoicing: You can track billable hours for invoicing. You can invoice your clients based on the time your team has tracked in Hubstaff, as well as add your own line items and the system will alert you when you’re nearing a budget limit.
• Robust employee productivity tools: If you are worried about your team’s real-time performance, Hubstaff will help you monitor unproductive time through its app, URL tracking, and idle time/inactivity warning.
• Project management: You can create project budgets based on hours, bill rates, or pay rates. It also lets you create work orders as well, so you can keep the client information, team assignments, and a history of actions all in one place.
• Integrations: Hubstaff integrates with a wide variety of third-party apps. Some notables are Salesforce, Zendesk, and Gusto. However, if you need point-of-sale (POS) integrations, you need the API—or check Homebase.
• Payroll: With the Team Plan, you can set payments to go out to employees automatically using PayPal, Payoneer, Wise, Gusto, or Bitwage.

• Free: $0 for one user seat and two active projects
• Pro 10% discount when paid annually plus 30-day free trial : $12 per user seat monthly

Harvest’s free and paid packages only differ by the number of seats and projects you get. With both, you get the following:

• Invoicing and payment tracking: Harvest generates invoices—but, unlike most of the other providers on our list, it also tracks payments. It integrates with Stripe and PayPal, so your clients can easily pay online or from their email.
• Time tracking: You can track hours with timers on your desktop and mobile or enter them all at once. Harvest also has codes for adding a timer button, which lets you track time when working with a particular software.
• Project costs and tracking: You can track hours and check expenses and labor costs against budgets. The team view (with the paid plan) lets you see when an employee is over their allotted time.
• Reports: Harvest has fewer reports than other time trackers in this guide, but the reports cover the basics and are customizable. Reports can be saved, exported, or shared with clients.
• Integrations: It integrates mostly with product management tools (like Asana), Slack, calendar apps, and browser extensions. For payroll and POS, we suggest Homebase; meanwhile, AccountSight works with QuickBooks Payroll, whereas Hubstaff has its own payroll tool.
• Mobile app: The mobile app tracks time, billable hours, mileage, and expenses. It also has invoicing and timesheet management. It rates 4.4 out of 5 with around 1,700 reviews on the App Store and 4.5 out of 5 with about ‎3,000 reviews on Google Play.

• Free: $0; time tracking with unlimited seats and projects

Paid plans Discount when you pay annually. 7-day free trial for the Pro plan.

• Standard: $6.99 per user monthly
• Pro: $9.99 per user monthly
• Enterprise: $14.99 per user monthly
• cake.com bundle: $15.99 per user monthly

• Flexible time tracker: Clockify’s time tracking tool is accessible via computers, mobile devices (iOS and Android), and web browsers. It also has browser extensions for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox.
• Project management: You can monitor your work hours and progress on every project. You can even break projects down by task, categorize time by job type, and track the status of each task.
• Detailed reporting and analytics: Clockify provides you with a visual time breakdown and customizable reports that you can share with others via a link and/or export as PDF, CSV, and Excel files. With this feature, you can set up project estimates for both time and costs and then check your budget versus the actuals.
• Mobile app: The mobile app has a timer and reports and works offline. It rates 4.6 out of 5 with 2,200+ reviews on the App Store and 3.8 out of 5 with 2,000+ reviews on Google Play.
• Multiple third-party integrations: Clockify integrates with over 80 third-party software and web apps. Some of its partner systems include Jira, Asana, Basecamp, GitHub, QuickBooks, Zendesk, Zapier, and Freshdesk (although for QuickBooks integration, you need the Standard Plan). For the best payroll and POS integrations, try Homebase.

Has everything in the free option, plus:

• GPS tracking: Its clocking and location tracking tool can help you locate your staff’s whereabouts during a workday. With it, you can see your onsite field workers’ current or last known locations, current or last clocked-in locations, and all currently visited worksites.
• Productivity tools: Offers timer reminders on a daily and weekly basis through emails to employees, managers, and administrators. It has a screenshot app (to update clients on work progress), idle detection, a Pomodoro timer (which separates work intervals with short breaks), and an auto tracker.
• Invoicing: For Standard plan users, billable hours can be imported into its invoicing tool. The invoices that are generated in Clockify can be downloaded as PDF documents that you can email to clients. You can also edit invoices, as long as they haven’t been paid by the client.
• Advanced administrative features: You can conduct time audits, round time up or down, manually change times for an employee, set up timesheet reminders, schedule reports, and set up budgets and job estimates.

• Basic: $0 for one location; up to 20 employees

Paid plans Discount when paying annually.
14-day free trial for paid plans.

• Essentials: $24.95 per location monthly
• Plus: $59.95 per location monthly
• All in One: $99.95 per location monthly

• Hiring tools: While not related to time tracking, Homebase offers hiring tools like job postings, customizable job descriptions, and applicant tracking tools—however, it is not available in the free plan.
• Time clock: Your employees can clock in with a variety of devices, from computers to tablets and smartphones. You can even integrate it with POS systems, a functionality that most of the time trackers on our list don’t have.
• Scheduling: Homebase’s free plan lets you create templates, consider availability and time off requests, and set open shifts.
• Mobile app: The mobile app includes clock-in and communications tools. It rates 4.8 out of 5 with over 53,000 reviews on the App Store and 4.4 out of 5 with ‎more than 20,000 reviews on Google Play.

Everything in the free plan, plus:

• Advanced scheduling: The paid plans add automated scheduling, with rules for breaks and overtime already set for your state.
• Job costing and billing: Homebase has labor costing and forecasting in its paid versions—but in terms of sales rather than project budgets. You can tie timesheets to payroll software, but it does not have invoicing.
• Advanced employee communications: Aside from employee messaging, the paid subscriptions include announcements, schedule notes, automated reminders, and alerts, such as when employees clock in late.
• Employee shift performance: Conduct shift performance evaluations, approve time off, see employee availability, and more. It goes further with advanced compliance support for breaks and other labor laws, HR advisers, and labor law alerts.

• Free: $0 for one user; time tracking for unlimited projects and clients

Paid plans Discount when paid annually; plus 30-day free trial on paid plans

• Professional: $5 per user monthly
• Business: $7 per user monthly

• Time tracking: Like most apps, you can track time with a click using a desktop, mobile, or web app. It has idle detection, manual and even bulk time adding and editing, plus the ability to categorize your time using tags or labels like milestones, location, or special status.
• Reporting and analytics: TMetric’s range of reports provides detailed information about all projects, tasks, team members, and even the apps and websites they use. It’s rivaled only by AccountSight.
• Mobile app: This app works with multiple projects and lets you categorize time, create reports, and monitor your team. It rates 3.6 out of 5 with 16 reviews on the App Store and 3.1 out of 5 with 200+ votes on Google Play.
• Multiple third-party integrations: TMetric’s timer button works well in 50+ web apps, more than we’ve seen among the free time tracking software in this guide. However, it integrates only with a handful of third-party systems unless you use a REST API.

Everything in the free subscription, plus:

• Productivity tools: Apart from its idle detection tool, TMetric will remind you about break times. It also tracks website and app usage, so you can see where you may be getting distracted.
• Project management: You can add multiple projects and clients without losing track of your actual work time. Aside from putting descriptions or creating subprojects, the paid plans let you set flat hourly rates for each assigned staff, put in time estimates, and create a project budget that you can monitor and analyze to stay on top of your finances.
• Invoicing: With TMetric you can create an invoice and send it to your client, export a report and send it to your client, and mark the time as invoiced.
• Team management: You can customize workspace member profiles, create user groups, assign team leaders, and even activate/deactivate users. You can also monitor time off, take real-time screenshots, and gauge your employees’ activity levels.

• Free: $0 for one user, five clients, and five projects

Paid plans Discount when paying annually

• Basic: $10 per user monthly; comes with a 2-5 user pack
• Small Group: $9 per user monthly; comes with a 6-20 user pack
• Enterprise: $8 per user monthly; comes with a 21-100 user pack

The free plan includes all features but is limited to one user, five clients, and five projects.

• Timesheet management: The free plan enables you to create a timesheet for yourself, but AccountSight’s paid plans let your employees upload timesheets individually or in bulk through Excel.
• Project planning: It allows you to plan projects and forecast resource needs, coordinate teams, and identify and allocate available resources based on role and skill set. You can also monitor forecasted versus actual hours and control costs, plus track expenses for each phase and task.
• Time off tracking: Time off requests can be routed for multiple levels of approvals, and managers can view all leave requests in the dashboard’s calendar and approve/reject requests accordingly.
• Expense tracking: AccountSight allows users to track and manage all project expenses. You can set your own expense types with charge rates or per-unit costs before completing the online expense sheets—which can be updated and submitted individually or in bulk at a specific time.
• Invoicing: You can create three types of invoices: recurring invoices for costs, manual invoices, and invoices based on billable hours and expenses. It also has an option to copy existing invoices. In the paid plan, invoice roles are set.
• Reporting: AccountSight has more premade reports than others on our list. In addition to reviewing and analyzing all weekly timesheet data, you can view and compare all invoiced and uninvoiced project expense data.
• Mobile app: Not many people have rated its mobile app. It scored 3 out of 5 with only three reviews on the App Store and is no longer available on Google Play.

• Free: $0 per user; comes with five clients, 10 projects, unlimited tasks, and unlimited time entries

Paid plans Up to 40% off if paid annually. 15-day free trial for plan of your choice.

• Starter: $9.90 per user monthly
• Small Office: $15.90 per user monthly
• Business: $23.90 per user monthly

The free option has some limits to tasks, project templates, and invoices.

• Billing and invoicing: While Harvest is our top choice for invoicing, Paymo is the best for international billing. With over 85 currencies, invoicing in 15 languages, and integrations with multiple payment providers, it’s easy to create an invoice that gets you paid, no matter where your client resides. Plus, it can track partial payments.
• Time tracking: Like most of the timekeeping software we evaluated, you can track time on desktop, via mobile, and with a widget on your browser. It does not have geofencing, however. We suggest Hubstaff or Homebase for standard geofencing tools.
• Job costing and reports: You can estimate costs and track expenses—even adding expenses by snapping receipts. You can set up live reports that automatically update when someone reviews them so you don’t have to manually create them each time. No other provider on our list mentioned this capability. You can share reports with clients as well.
• Integrations: Paymo integrates with calendar apps, Slack, QuickBooks, and a few other productivity apps. It does not integrate with payroll or POS apps, although it does integrate with Square as a payment processor. Look to Homebase for integrating with payroll and POS.
• Mobile app: Paymo’s mobile app handles project management, time tracking, and invoicing. It has excellent rates, though not many reviews. It has a 4.5 out of 5 with 50+ reviews on the App Store and 4.2 out of 5 with 180+ reviews on Google Play. It has very few complaints of glitches or errors.

Has everything in the free option, plus:

• Active timers: Managers can track all employee timers in parallel to see who is on the job and when.
• Project management: Paymo excels in project management tools, especially in its paid plans. While most have calendars, Paymo also includes Gantt charts and Kanban boards. It lets you create projects, plan milestones, split tasks and assign them to team members, attach files and notes, and more.
• Advanced support: Paid plans include in-app tech support and online remote assistance.