Time tracking is essential for contractors to bill customers and pay themselves or their teams. Fortunately, great time-tracking apps help manage contractor schedules so you can accurately collect payments. To help you find the best tools, we’ve put together a list of the 5 best time-tracking apps so you can take your business to new heights.
Toggl Track
Features
Running your business efficiently is tough, and managing mobile teams is challenging. Understanding how your team is using their time and having the ability to track their activity will enable you to extend trust to your employees and empower them to make quicker decisions. The question is, what’s the best way to do that?
Enter Toggl Track.
Toggl Track is an easy tracking and project management app used by tens of thousands of businesses and millions of users worldwide.
Your team will not be frustrated by any annoying process or learning curve you add to their day, and managers will seamlessly be able to run reports. They’ve built in multiple features to track projects, create client lists, track billable hours, and on and on we go. And day-to-day users, All of it is jammed into a simple-to-use app.
Pricing
Toggl Track is free for up to 5 users and gives teams access to unlimited time tracking on their web, mobile, and desktop apps and other core tools.
Starter and Premium plans cost $9 – $18 per user per month, respectively, and up the amount of features, integrations, and analytics available to decision makers.
Website – App Store – Google Play
Hours TimeLord
Features
Hours TimeLord is a powerful time-tracking tool that helps its users not only track their time but also visualize how it’s spent. With colorcoded entries, you can see how much of your time is spent doing every task it is that you do. You can also add your gross time in if timers aren’t your thing.
TimeLord’s slick reporting makes it easy for teams to see who’s tracking what daily, monthly, and weekly and simple for individuals to export and send their timesheet to make sure they’re getting paid for their work. Notes, tags, and customizable labels ensure that everyone knows not just how much time was spent, but what was specifically worked on during that time.
Like Toggl, Hours TimeLord is incredibly easy to use, and its app is simple and enables managers to run all of the backend management that is necessary to ensure you are getting all you can out of your teams.
Pricing
Hours TimeLord offers a free 14-day trial and boasts a Forever Free plan that offers just enough for a basic user to track their time.
Its Personal ($9/year), Pro ($49/year), and Teams ($199/year for 5 users) plans unlock more functionality and features to meet the needs of solo contributors to growing teams.
Links
Website – App Store – Google Play
Timely
Features
Timely uses the power of AI to automatically track time so that employees can focus less on punching in and out and more time focusing on the work that matters more (sorry, project managers).
Timely can track time spent in every web and desktop app your team uses so that you can get an accurate look at how much time is spent on video calls, in meetings, or corresponding via email, for example.
What sets Timely apart is that it can be used not only as a tracker but as a planner. Timely can shift from time tacking (it does that well) to workflow planning seamlessly — allowing you to treat it as a one-stop-shop for both forecasting and tracking. Managers who use this tool well have been able to drastically reduce overhead.
Pricing
Timely offers a free 14-day trial. After the trial, users have three options to choose from Starter ($9 per user per month); Premium ($16); and Unlimited ($22). With a range of pricing options and features, you’re sure to find something that fits your team’s workflow needs.
Links
Website – App Store – Google Play
ConstructionClock
Features
This app was built with construction pros specifically in mind. ConstructionClock delivers a powerful, automated time-tracking platform that automatically clocks crews in and out.
The app uses GPS to clock crews in and out and even automatically calculates things like the drive time it takes for them to run to the store or shop to grab additional materials. On average, their app reduces time theft by 3 hours a week per employee.
Crews like it because they often forget to clock in and out. Project managers and planners love it because they don’t need to hassle their crews for their timesheets and have all the data they need when preparing payroll.
Pricing
After a 14-day free trial, the app runs $10/user per month or $100/user if you pay yearly (saving you two months).
Links
Website – App Store – Google Play
Harvest
Features
Harvest is one of the biggest names in the time-tracking world — for good reason.
Harvest’s design is simple and easy to use on the front end and offers robust reporting and integrations on the back end to fit your workflow. You can create projects, add tasks, and pull in team members in Harvest or import details from another CRM or project management tool.
Users can either track time in the Harvest app or log it against a Google Calendar event — which is perfect for keeping meetings on track or empowering employees who do on-site visits, walkthroughs, or meetings. After all the work is done and tracked, you can easily export your hours, calculate the payment amount, and send an itemized report to your clients, along with a thank you email.
Pricing
You can try Harvest, along with all of its bells and whistles, for free for 30 days. After the trial, you can choose from their free forever Harvest plan (1 user and 2 projects) or Harvest Pro, which offers unlimited users and projects for $10.80 per user per month.
Links
Website – App Store – Google Play
