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Clockify vs Solidtime

Clockify and Solidtime are both time tracking software. Clockify is a commercial product from CAKE.com. Solidtime is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9k GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick Clockify when
A team wants free time tracking for many users and may add paid features later.
Pick Solidtime when
An agency wants a modern self-hosted Toggl or Clockify replacement.

Side by side

What it does

Time tracker and timesheet app with a free unlimited-user plan, plus paid scheduling, approvals and invoicing.

A time tracking app for freelancers and agencies with projects, clients, billable rates and reports.

Watch out

Many useful features such as approvals and audit logs are on paid tiers.

Still pre-1.0, and some features are in the paid cloud.

Ready for

Production-ready

Usable

Runs as

Cloud service, desktop app, mobile app and browser extension

Self-hosted server, cloud service and desktop app

Built with

Not published

PHP, Laravel, Vue, TypeScript and PostgreSQL

Source code

Closed source, sold by CAKE.com

Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.

How widely known

No Wikipedia article of its own

9k GitHub stars

How established

Not known

Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.22.1.

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.