Time tracking apps in 2026
6 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Harvest has the most readers, about 503 a month. 30 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. ActivityWatch leads with 19k stars, ahead of Solidtime. 25 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (9), GPL-3.0 (8) and AGPL-3.0 (7).
Commercial time tracking apps
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Harvest Harvest
Time tracking and management software with powerful easy reporting and streamlined online invoicing. Loved by 73,000 businesses. Get started for free.
Complete system Production-ready An agency or consultancy bills by the hour and wants staff to track time easily against project budgets.
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Toggl Track Toggl
The best time tracker and capacity planning software. Track employee time, plan capacity, manage tasks and projects, and calculate profitability. Try for free.
Complete system Production-ready Freelancers or teams want simple time tracking that people will actually use, with clean reports.
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Clockify CAKE.com
Time tracking software used by millions. A simple time tracker and timesheet app that lets you track work hours across projects.
Complete system Production-ready A team wants free time tracking for many users and may add paid features later.
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Everhour Everhour
Time tracking with built-in billing and budgeting. Set project budgets, track billable hours, and get threshold alerts—all inside Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Jira & more. Free trial.
Complete system Production-ready A team runs projects in Asana or a similar tool and wants time tracked inside it.
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Timely Timely
Complete system Production-ready Consultants or agency staff forget to start timers and want timesheets drafted from what they actually did.
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Hubstaff Hubstaff
Track employee time, monitor productivity, and turn approved hours into payments and insights. Hubstaff helps teams manage work, costs, and performance.
Complete system Production-ready A business manages remote contractors or field staff and needs verified hours tied to pay.
Commercial
Open-source time tracking apps
Complete systems you can adopt 8
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ActivityWatch ActivityWatch
The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.
Complete system Production-ready You want private automatic time tracking without a cloud service.
★ 19k MPL-2.0 Python Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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Solidtime solidtime-io
Modern open-source time-tracking app
Complete system Usable An agency wants a modern self-hosted Toggl or Clockify replacement.
★ 9k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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Kimai kimai
Kimai is the #1 open-source time-tracking application. From freelancers to companies and organisations - everyone can manage timesheets, generate reports, create invoices and so much more... Web-based multi-user application, available as On-Premise or SaaS version: https://www.kimai.org
Complete system Production-ready A freelancer or company with many staff needs proven self-hosted time tracking and invoicing.
★ 5.1k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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Invobook Hasnayeen
Self-hosted app for Time Tracking, Invoice Generation, Project & Client Management, built with Laravel & Filament.
Complete system Experimental Hold off; the author says it is undergoing major changes and pivoting.
★ 2.2k MIT Blade Active, pushed 11 days ago -
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Server traggo
self-hosted tag-based time tracking
Complete system Usable You want flexible personal time tracking and like tags over fixed project hierarchies.
★ 1.6k GPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 36 days ago -
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Lotti matthiasn
A private logbook with a staff of personal AI assistants. Agents read what you record and propose what to do next — you approve the changes. End-to-end encrypted sync between your own devices — servers only ever see ciphertext. Local AI optional.
Complete system Usable You want a local-first personal journal and task log with optional local AI.
★ 1.2k GPL-3.0 Dart Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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Time-tracker-4-browser sheepzh
A browser extension that helps you track time, analyze your habits and block addictive sites
Complete system Production-ready You want to see where your browsing time goes and keep the data in your own browser.
★ 1k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday -
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TimeScribe WINBIGFOX
Modern & private time tracking for macOS & Windows. No cloud, no registration, no paywall. Just download and track your work hours 100% offline.
Complete system Usable An employee or freelancer wants to log their own hours privately on their computer.
★ 926 GPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 42 days ago
Building blocks for your own system 1
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Travels mutativejs
A fast, framework-agnostic undo/redo core powered by Mutative JSON Patch
Building block Usable You are adding undo and redo to an editor, drawing tool or form builder in JavaScript.
★ 918 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 15 days ago
Developer tools 1
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Timewarrior GothenburgBitFactory
Timewarrior - Commandline Time Tracking and Reporting
Developer tool Production-ready You track time from the terminal and want strong reporting.
★ 1.7k MIT C++ Active, pushed 17 days ago
Compared head to head
Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 12. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Strong copyleft: 8. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Network copyleft: 7. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Weak copyleft: 3. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
Languages
TypeScript 11, Go 5, Python 3, PHP 3, JavaScript 2, Rust 2, Blade 1, C++ 1, Dart 1 and C# 1.
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