9 Best Free Time Tracking Software in 2022

• Payroll management: You can automatically process payroll by just inputting your employees’ hourly rate and schedule (weekly, monthly, biweekly). Hubstaff does not support overtime calculations; you’ll have to calculate manually. For the free plan, you export payroll information to send payments manually.
• 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 1,000 reviews on iOS but only a 3.3 out of 5 with about 610 votes on Android—one of the lowest scores for Android of those on our list (Homebase and Timesheet are best for Android).
• 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, like TimeTrack, it can clock employees in automatically within a zone. Its GPS tracking system lets you see workers’ routes as they travel.
• Monitor activity levels: Track how your employees spend their time by monitoring mouse and keyboard usage and by taking screenshots (Limits apply with 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. Unlike Clockify and Timesheet, Hubstaff allows you to set policies for time off requests and paid holidays.
• Client invoicing: With Hubstaff, 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. 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 remove unproductive time through its app, URL tracking, and idle time/inactivity warning. On the other hand, your employees’ work in progress will be monitored by capturing screenshots. Of our list, only TMetric and Clockify offer so much in productivity.
• Project management: You can create project budgets based on hours, bill rates, or pay rates. Hubstaff is unique in that it 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 POS integrations, you need the API—or check Homebase.
• Payroll: With the Pro Plan, you can set payments to go out to employees automatically using PayPal, Payoneer, Wise, Gusto, or Bitwage.

With Hubstaff, a support representative will respond through email, live chats, on-screen shares, or video conferencing when you send a ticket, something other providers in this guide do not offer. It also offers training through videos online. Real-world users rated it 4.52 out of 5, averaged across multiple review sites. This is high for software in general but about average for those on our list.

• Hiring tools: While not related to time tracking, Homebase offers hiring tools like customizable job descriptions, free job posting, and applicant tracking tools—even in the free plan. This is a great asset for companies in a staffing crunch or that have high turnover.
• Time clock: Your employees can clock in with a variety of devices, from computers to mobile. You can even integrate it into your POS system, which most of the time trackers on our list don’t offer. Homebase offers employee-specific PIN codes, can snap photos of the person logging in, and has geofencing. Unlike the other systems we reviewed, Homebase offers alerts for overtime based on work hours; most have alerts that are based on project hours instead.
• Scheduling: Most of the time trackers here have scheduling capability, but offered only in paid packages or in relation to project planning rather than store hours. Homebase’s free plan, however, lets you create templates, consider availability and time off requests, and set open shifts.
• Employee communications: Homebase is the only provider with a free version that includes employee messaging, such as for shift swaps. Employees can also indicate availability.
• Mobile app: The mobile app includes clock-in and communications tools. It rates 4.8 out of 5 with ‎around 36,400 reviews on iOS and 4.4 out of 5 with ‎about 16,000 votes on Android. Note, though, that there are reports of login issues.

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: Many providers in this guide track labor costs in terms of projects in their paid plans. Homebase, too, has labor costing and forecasting in its paid versions—but in terms of sales rather than project budgets. You can tie time sheets to payroll software, but it does not have invoicing. If you want invoicing in a free plan, check out Harvest and AccountSight.
• Advanced employee communications: Among those on our list, Homebase is the only one with a free version that includes employee messaging, such as for shift swaps. The paid subscriptions also include announcements, schedule notes, automated reminders, and alerts, such as when employees clock in late.
• Employee performance: Homebase makes it easy to use its software to conduct employee 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. It provides the most HR features of those on our list.

Homebase offers customer support live via chat, phone, and email and has help guides and video tutorials. Only a few scheduling software have live support, usually via chat. Real-world users praise Homebase’s ease of use, rating it an average of 4.57 out of 5 across multiple user review sites.

• “Hey, Siri”: TimeTrack is the only tool on our list that specifically works with voice commands, allowing you to start your timer with a simple command. This is great not only if you are on the go but also for people with disabilities. You can also give commands to your Apple Watch. How convenient is that? Only Timesheet comes close to this convenience.
• Time tracking: Enjoy automatic GPS time tracking by creating workplaces. TimeTrack will automatically start your timer when you enter the work area and stop it when you exit. Timesheet also does this; most—like Hubstaff, Homebase, and Clockify—only have geofencing. It also has time rounding, overtime, pause timer, and more.
• Billing and invoicing: In addition to tracking time for invoices, you can add expense entries, even by taking photos of receipts. It has over 40 settings to create custom invoices and billing.
• Project management: Like most of the time trackers we evaluated (except Homebase), TimeTrack is focused on projects. As such, the software includes project planning with tasks and budgets, performance at a glance, and reports. Many of the time trackers on our list have these functions, but some may only be in paid plans.
• Employee management: Unlike Homebase and Clockify, the employee management tools are only found in the paid versions. You can manage time sheets and leave and get paid leave reports. TimeTrack was the only time tracking software on our list that lets employees log in via kiosk using NFC/RFID tags like a keycard or fob. It also alerts you if breaks are not being taken.
• Integrations: TimeTrack falls short on integrations compared to the other providers here, although it does integrate with QuickBooks for accounting. For payroll, it integrates only with lexoffice. It has an API for making your own integrations, however. Homebase is the best for integration capability, although Clockify is best for integrating with project management tools.
• Mobile app: TimeTrack’s iOS app is one of the highest-rated, with 4.8 out of 5 with more than 100 reviews on iOS. The Android version is for the Enterprise plan only and has no ratings. We suggest Homebase and Timesheet for Android.

There are few user reviews, but it earned 4.7 out of 5 stars, averaged over multiple user review sites. It has an info center with short how-to articles and basic illustrations. It offers 24/7 support, but only by email.

• 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 (TMetric, by contrast, has 50+ app integrations for its timer). Like with many time trackers on our list, you can access it offline, and it will automatically sync the data to your account once the internet connection has been restored.
• Project management: With Clockify, 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. Its management tools are strong, but if you need more, consider Paymo, which has Gantt charts and Kanban boards.
• 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. You can even compare your labor costs against the amount you charge clients. Unlike others on our list, however, you need to export data to create custom reports.
• Mobile app: The mobile app has a timer and reports and works offline. It rates 4.6 out of 5 with about 1,300 reviews on iOS and 4.0 out of 5 with around 1,000 votes on Android.
• 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. For the best payroll and POS integrations, try Homebase (for QuickBooks integration, you need the Standard Plan).

Has everything in the free option, plus:

• GPS tracking: Clockify’s Pro package includes a clocking and location tracking tool, which is similar to that of Hubstaff, to 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: Clockify 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 auto tracker. Like Hubstaff and TMetric, it’s an extremely feature-rich timekeeping software for productivity.
• Invoicing: Unlike AccountSight’s unlimited invoicing in its free version, Clockify only offers this feature in paid plans. 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: With the paid plans, you can conduct time audits, round time up or down, manually change times for an employee, set up time sheet reminders, schedule reports, and set up budgets and job estimates.

Clockify provides email and phone support in addition to FAQs, video tutorials, and a library of how-to guides. You can connect with the support team through an in-app chat as well. Users on third-party review sites rated Clockify an average of 4.68 out of 5, which was above average for those on our list.

• Invoicing and getting paid: Like many on our list, it generates invoices—but, unlike most of the other providers, it also tracks payments. It especially stands out, however, in that it integrates with Stripe and PayPal, so your clients can easily pay online or from their email. In our guide, only Paymo has more payment integrations. You can copy your payments to QuickBooks or Xero for accounting.
• Time tracking: Harvest itself says it’s a “lightweight” tracking experience. You can track hours with timers on your desktop and mobile or enter them at once. Harvest also has codes for adding a Harvest timer button, which lets you track time when working in a particular software. Meanwhile, TMetric has a button option for 50 apps.
• Project costs and tracking: You can track hours and check expenses and labor against budgets. The team view (with the paid plan) lets you see when an employee is over their allotted time. Reports let you dig into the details of how employee time is spent. You can also edit and approve time sheets.
• Reports: You can create your own reports or use the standard time and contractor reports. Reports can be saved, exported, or shared with clients. Harvest has fewer reports than other time trackers in this guide, like AccountSight, but the reports cover the basics and are customizable.
• Integrations: Harvest 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 4.2 out of 5 with around 522 reviews on iOS and 4.2 out of 5 with about ‎2,260 votes on Android. This is about average, and good especially for Android users. Even better, there were few complaints about glitches in the apps but had requests for more features.

Real-world users rated it 4.36 out of 5, averaged across multiple review sites. This is high for software but just below average for those on our list. The online support section includes how-tos, webinars, and videos, but you need to contact support by email or contact form.

• Time tracking: Like most apps, you can track time with a click using desktop, mobile, or web app. It has 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. With the paid plan, administrators can disable time entry editing, set required fields for time entries, and permit manual and mobile time tracking functions that are unique to the software.
• 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. These reports are customizable and can be exported to PDF and CSV formats for printing or post-processing.
• Mobile app: This app works with multiple projects and lets you categorize time, create reports, and monitor your team. It rates 3.8 out of 5 with around 15 reviews on iOS and 3.2 out of 5 with ‎about 177 votes on Android. These are some of the lowest scores for mobile apps. If mobile is important, consider Homebase, Paymo, and Timesheet.
• Multiple third-party integrations: TMetric works well with more than 50 web apps for timers, more than we’ve seen among the time tracking software in this guide. However, aside from that, it integrates only with a handful of apps unless you use a REST API. Homebase and Clockify offer more variety.

Everything in the free subscription, plus:

• Productivity tools: TMetric stands out with its idle detection. It will alert you during times of zero activity and remind you about break times. It also tracks website and app usage, so you can see where you may be getting distracted. Clockify and Hubstaff also have some of these tools.
• 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. This is similar to several of the software on our list—Harvest has these tools in its free plan.
• Invoicing: There are three ways you can do invoicing with TMetric. You can 1) create an invoice and send it to your client, 2) export a report and send it to your client, and 3) mark the time as invoiced. The solution, which handles recurring billing, can also sync time with QuickBooks Online for creating invoices from there. Like Paymo, it offers multiple currency options for catering to international clients.
• Team management: You can customize workspace member profiles, create user groups, assign team leaders, and even activate/deactivate users. Aside from setting company workdays and holidays, you can monitor time off, take real-time screenshots, and gauge your employees’ activity levels.

Real-world users rated it 4.53 out of 5, averaged across multiple review sites, a great score for software and above average for those on our list. The online help section is basic but includes images. Contact support by email.

• Time sheet management: The free plan allows you to create a time sheet for yourself, but AccountSight’s paid plans let your employees upload time sheets individually or in bulk through Excel. It allows up to five levels of approval. Managers get reminders to approve or reject time sheets individually or in bulk to avoid delays. In either plan, you can add comments and upload expense reports or other files with your time sheet.
• Project planning: AccountSight’s project planning goes beyond most of the platforms we evaluated in that 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.
• Attendance tracking: Similar to Hubstaff, Homebase, Clockify, and TMetric, AccountSight has an easy-to-use leave monitoring system (with the paid plans). 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. AccountSight also works seamlessly with Outlook.
• Expense tracking: Aside from tracking work hours, AccountSight allows users to track and manage all project expenses—just like Hubstaff, TimeTrack, and TMetric. 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 by bulk at a specific time. Project managers can also approve or reject single, multiple, or all pending expenses simultaneously.
• 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. Managers can print or email invoices to clients from the system, while administrators can predefine tax rates, discounts, and price adjustments. They can also set notifications to track payment delays, send reminders to clients, and monitor the billing history of all paid and due payments. Only a few timekeepers in this guide have such permissions in their higher plans.
• 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. Its dashboard provides a pictorial presentation of time, expense, and invoice data and a summary with bar and pie charts. Reports can be printed, saved as a PDF file, or exported to Excel.
• Mobile app: Not many people have rated its mobile app. It scored 3 out of 5 with only 3 reviews on iOS and 2.2 out of 5 with around 20 votes on Android—the lowest score for Android of those on our list. If you need mobile, we suggest Homebase, Harvest, and Timesheet.

Real-world users rated it 4.86 out of 5, averaged across multiple review sites. This was the highest-rated software on our list. It offers training videos, integrates with QuickBooks Payroll for paying employees, and is one of the few with live phone support.

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 Timesheet or TimeTrack for automated clock-ins and Hubstaff or Homebase for standard geofencing tools.
• Job costing and reports: You can estimate costs and track expenses—even adding expenses by snapping receipts like TimeTrack does. 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 others 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 about 53 reviews on iOS and 4.1 out of 5 with around 170 votes on Android. 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 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.

Real-world users rated it 4.64 out of 5, averaged across multiple review sites. This is high for software and above average for the free time tracking software on our list. Its help section has video tutorials and illustrated articles, but for live support, you must contact the team through chat or an online form.

• Time tracking: Like the others on our list, you can run the Timesheet app on your iPhone and Android smartphone and your computer. Its web application is also compatible with major browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. You can add breaks, expenses, and notes to your schedule while recording working hours. For field employees, Timesheet can track employee hours using WLAN and geofencing technology. Like TimeTrack, it can automatically track your hours when you are in the assigned location.
• Project and task management: You can plan, track, collaborate on, and execute projects in real time from one dashboard. It lacks a scheduler like you would find with Homebase, however. Like Clockify, TMetric, and Paymo, it allows unlimited projects in the free plan.
• Feedback and analytics: Like most of the timekeeping software in our guide, Timesheet lets you review the time you spent on a project or task through in-depth reports of your daily, weekly, and monthly hours. However, it stands out in that it can record feedback to track your progress, identify trends, improve time utilization, and weed out inefficiencies. If needed, you can export reports as an Excel or CSV file.
• Integrations: Aside from browsers and QuickBooks, Timesheet has few native integrations, although you can integrate through Zapier. For more integrations, check Homebase and Clockify.
• Mobile app: The mobile app is more popular on Android, but both it and the iOS version have time tracking, project management, location-based tracking, and cloud sync. Like TimeTrack, it can also support smartphones. It rates 4.5 out of 5 with around 17 reviews on iOS and 4.4 out of 5 with about 13,400 votes on Android. However, customers using the free version complained of spam on the app and through email.

Everything in the free package, plus:

• Invoices: Timesheet offers customizable invoices. You can search invoices by title, client, or description and see the status. It’s easy to create new invoices and add billable tasks from your project lists. You can apply custom rates to tasks and add expenses. Unlike Harvest or Paymo, it does not integrate with payment processors.
• Cloud backup and web features: Securely store your data, manage it online, and sync it across all devices. Plus share projects across your team. Many time trackers on our list also charge for cloud backup, but most will sync between mobile and desktop.

Real-world users rated it 4.8 out of 5 on Capterra, and we didn’t find reviews on other sites. The documentation is searchable and illustrated and has a troubleshooting guide. You can only contact support by an online form.