10 Best Time Tracking Software of 2026

Toggl Track is the tool most likely to get an entire team logging time, which is the hardest part of any billable hours program. Staff can start a timer from the web app, desktop app, phone or browser extension, or fill time in calendar, list and board views, and idle detection catches forgotten timers. The free plan covers a small team with timers and calendar sync. Starter, at $9 per user per month on annual billing, adds billable rates, team reports, tags and timeline views, which is enough for many agencies. Premium at $16 adds what finance teams ask for: labor costs, profitability reports, fixed fee projects, project dashboards with actuals against estimates, timesheet approvals and single sign-on. Toggl does not send invoices, so you export hours to your accounting tool. It also states that it does not take screenshots of staff screens, which suits firms that want accurate time without monitoring.

Clockify packs a lot of billing features into very low per-seat prices. The free plan covers up to five users with unlimited tracking, a timer, timesheet, auto tracker, calendar view, idle detection, Pomodoro timer and reports. Basic, at $3.99 per seat per month on annual billing, adds billable rates, adding time for other people, bulk edits, required fields, a kiosk and time audit. Standard at $5.49 is where most agencies land, with invoicing and recurring invoices, approvals, time locking, attendance and overtime, a manager role and a QuickBooks integration. Pro at $7.99 adds expenses, budgets and estimates, labor cost and profit, scheduling, forecasting, GPS tracking and optional activity monitoring. The trade-off is complexity: five tiers and a long feature grid mean you have to read carefully to find which plan holds approvals or rounding. The interface is plainer than Toggl's, but the price per seat is hard to beat.

Harvest is the tool for firms where tracked time has one destination: the client invoice. Every plan includes time tracking, expense tracking, invoicing and project estimates, and projects can be time and materials or fixed fee. The free plan gives one seat and two projects, which fits a freelancer testing the workflow. Teams starts at $9 per seat per month on annual billing, $108 per seat per year, and adds unlimited seats, team reporting and accounting and payment integrations. Enterprise at $14 adds profitability reporting, timesheet approvals, an activity log, required notes and SAML single sign-on. Read the pricing note closely: the base rate covers core features, and extra invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed by usage as you grow. That can make costs harder to forecast for a busy agency. For a consultancy that sends a few dozen invoices a month, Harvest removes a step that most trackers leave to other software.

Everhour is built around a simple idea: staff should track time in the tool where the work already lives. It adds a timer to tasks in Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Monday, Notion, Trello, Basecamp, Wrike and GitHub, so a designer logs hours on the same card the account manager assigned. The free plan covers up to five seats with time tracking, projects and tasks, reports and export. The single Team plan costs $8.50 per seat per month on yearly billing with a minimum of five seats, and includes every feature: native integrations, billing, budgeting and invoicing, budget alerts, time off, resource planning, expenses and SSO with advanced permissions. Everhour states that it does not gate features behind higher tiers, which makes pricing easy to forecast. The five-seat minimum means a solo consultant pays for seats they do not use, and the value drops if your team plans work in a tool Everhour does not support.

TimeCamp has the most generous free plan here: unlimited users and unlimited projects with timesheets, web, desktop and mobile apps and two-factor authentication. That makes it easy to roll out to a whole company before anyone pays. Starter, at $3.99 per user per month on annual billing, adds invoicing, attendance, time off, overtime tracking, bulk edits and project templates. Agencies that bill by the hour will want Premium at $6.99, which adds billable time, budgets and estimates, app and website tracking, private time, time rounding and one integration. Ultimate at $9.99 brings timesheet approvals, billing rates, expenses, labor costs, fixed fee projects, screenshots, SSO and unlimited integrations. So the features many agencies need are spread across three tiers, and the real price is often $6.99 or $9.99 rather than $3.99. The interface is busier than Toggl or Harvest, but the price per seat stays low at every step.

Hubstaff is built for teams where the people tracking time are spread across countries and often paid as contractors. Starter, at $4.99 per seat per month on annual billing with a two-seat minimum, covers time tracking and activity levels. Grow at $7.50 adds time off, invoices and payments, and Team at $10 adds scheduling, expenses and daily limits. Across the product, Hubstaff offers optional screenshots, app and URL usage, idle time tracking, GPS job sites that clock people in and out, overtime rules and project cost budgets, plus integrations with Jira, Asana, QuickBooks, Gusto, Deel, Wise and PayPal. That mix is strong for a virtual assistant agency or BPO that bills clients for monitored hours and then pays workers from the same data. It is a harder sell for creative agencies, where screenshots and activity scores can hurt trust. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Timely takes a different route from timer-based tools. Its desktop and mobile apps record time spent in apps and websites in the background, then AI drafts a timesheet that the user reviews and confirms. For lawyers, accountants and consultants who forget to start timers, that can recover hours that would otherwise go unbilled. Starter costs $9 per user per month on yearly billing and is capped at five users and 20 projects, with automatic tracking, AI categorization, project health, billable hour reports and API access. Premium at $16 lifts limits to unlimited projects and 50 users and adds project management and accounting integrations, team management, budgets, costs and planning. Unlimited at $22 adds capacity management, overtime and undertime and 50+ currencies. There is no free plan, and monthly billing costs more at $11, $20 and $28. The price per seat is high, but for a small firm it can pay for itself in recovered hours.

Paymo is a project management app where time tracking is a core feature rather than an add-on, which suits small agencies that do not want separate tools for tasks, hours and invoices. The free plan is limited to one user but includes unlimited time tracking and invoices for one client and two projects. Solo costs $9.9 per month after an introductory $5.9 for three months, still for one user, and adds flat rate and retainer projects, calendar and kanban views and guest access. Teams need Plus, listed at $15.9 per user per month after the intro period, which adds active timers, bulk time entries, timesheet reports, project templates, project profitability, recurring invoices, estimates and expenses, and API access. Pro at $23.9 adds Gantt charts, timesheet approvals, employee scheduling and workload, and leave management. The price per seat is higher than pure trackers, but it replaces a project tool and an invoicing tool too.

Time Doctor sits closer to workforce analytics than to agency billing. Basic, at $6.67 per user per month on annual billing or $8 month-to-month, includes automatic tracking, projects and tasks, a timeline report, screenshots, online and offline tracking and team groups. Standard at $11.67 is the plan most teams will need, adding schedules, attendance, time approvals, activity summaries, web and app usage reporting, productivity ratings, leave and break tracking, payroll and 60+ integrations. Premium at $16.70 adds AI benchmarks, unusual activity detection such as mouse jiggler checks, video screen recording, an executive dashboard, an open API, single sign-on and client login access, which lets outsourcing firms show customers the work behind an invoice. For a BPO or support center, that depth of reporting is the point. For a design studio or law firm billing by the hour, most of it is overhead, and the monitoring tone may not suit staff who bill senior rates.

QuickBooks Time makes the most sense when your books already run in QuickBooks Online, which Intuit requires for the product. Time Premium covers the Workforce app for tracking, submitting and approving time, sync to QuickBooks payroll and invoicing, time off, alerts and notifications, photo attachments, a time kiosk and unlimited support. Time Elite adds mileage tracking, project tracking, estimates against actual hours, a project activity feed and timesheet signatures for sign-offs, which helps consultancies and contractors that bill by project. Pricing combines a monthly base fee that includes one admin with a per-user fee, and Intuit often runs introductory discounts, so check the current figure before you compare. We could not confirm the US price from our location, so the price check is pending. For a firm on QuickBooks, removing the export step between timesheets, payroll and invoices is the main benefit. For anyone else, the base fee and account requirement make it a weak choice.