Kimai vs Toggl Track
Kimai and Toggl Track are both time tracking software. Kimai is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 5.1k GitHub stars. Toggl Track is a commercial product from Toggl.
Which to pick
- Pick Kimai when
- A freelancer or company with many staff needs proven self-hosted time tracking and invoicing.
- Pick Toggl Track when
- Freelancers or teams want simple time tracking that people will actually use, with clean reports.
Side by side
A multi-user time tracking application with timesheets, reports, invoicing, budgets and approval workflows.
Time tracker with one-click timers, calendar view, projects, billable rates, reports and capacity planning.
Several useful plugins are paid.
Invoicing is basic and advanced features need paid tiers.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service, desktop app, mobile app and browser extension
PHP, Symfony and MySQL
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Toggl
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
5.1k GitHub stars
53 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release 2.71.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
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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.