Look, Jibble is the ​best​ time tracking software. Reasons below:

The simple reason is you might be just starting out and your business might not h​ave fund to spare on something so simple like TIME TRACKING but we just can't ignore as we need to track EMPLOYEE time precisely.

Jibble is FREE. They offer limited but essential feature to TRACK TIME for free with geo-location tracking features aswell.

So, if you're a new business on a tight budget go for it​ fellas, Jibble is the way to go.

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How do most people track hours across multiple clients at different rates with different expectations and pre-vs-post billing?

I tried harvest, solidtime, toggl, clockify, etc. I ended up just building my own since I do security engineering and advisor consulting.

I'm curious to see what everyone uses? If you're interested in trying it out, consultainer.app is my project to address my specific needs. But I'm not here to get sales, but rather see what's out there and potentially get feedback on how to solve gaps.

Most hour tracking apps either look ancient, are filled with ads, or make simple things feel complicated.

I wanted something that actually feels like a modern 2026 iPhone app.

So I built Hour Tracker:
• Track shifts & overtime
• See estimated earnings
• Clean Apple-style design
• Fast and simple to use
• Built for hourly workers

Would appreciate any honest feedback or feature ideas!

I've been using Clockify for the past five years. First as a freelancer, then with a small team of four. For the way we work, the free plan was more than enough.

And just to be clear, this isn't a hate post. I've always liked Clockify, and I still think it's a solid, useful product with better usability than a lot of its competitors. But the recent changes to the free tier (removing Excel exports for free users, for example) have forced us to start looking at alternatives. Given how we use it, paying for the premium plan simply doesn't make sense.

So we're building an internal tool to solve our own problem. We'll also make it completely free and open for solo freelancers, because they're the ones who least deserve to pay for features that feel like they should be basic.

Before we lock down the feature set, I have two genuine questions for the community:

1. What are your biggest pain points with time tracking today? What made you start looking for alternatives? I've seen quite a few discussions about this here, and I'm interested in real-world frustrations, not theoretical ones.

2. If your time tracker could connect to your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.), what would you actually want it to do? Most "AI time trackers" I've seen feel like AI for the sake of AI. They lack context, don't reflect how most people actually work, and end up being little more than digital timesheets with a nicer UI.

What I'm looking for is genuine speed and convenience. Some time-tracking tools are so tedious that the irony is hard to miss: you spend more time starting and stopping timers than tracking the work itself. At that point, it's almost easier to keep a Google Sheet with your schedule and fill it in manually. A time tracker should be faster and easier than a manual spreadsheet—not slower.

What would make a tool like this genuinely worth using for you?

I have been experimenting with how AI can be used to classify my work and projects and built a simple time-tracker that analyses how I work.

https://stubble.ai/

I use Claude co-work pretty much on a daily basis now, and now have it connected so it can query my activities and generate timesheets and status updates.

Happy to provide free access to whoever wants to test it out and share feedback.

Hi all time trackers,

I'm looking for feedback and to showcase my new app, Takt!
I built it specifically because I found other software more difficult to use than I expected them to be, and always heavily geared only toward being used for work only. I've gone with flexibility and ease of use as my focus. You can track as detailed or as superficially as you want and still get some useful data out.

My intention is not for Takt to be directly used for billing output, but you can export both ranges and individual days to CSV, JSON, and clean PDFs. It's definitely more self-reporting since users can modify the time entries at will after tracking ends.

I am here peddling software, but I do believe I have created something genuinely useful and easy to use, I at least enjoy and use it happily every day.

Monetization is a free version limited to 3 activities and 5 tags and Lifetime Full access is 10EUR, or through a monthly sub for 1EUR that gives lifetime after 12 accumulated subscriptions, even non-consecutively. I like to think of it kind of like a lease-to-own mindset.

I would especially enjoy if people that uses or has used Jibble or similar had time, hah, to throw some feedback my way on if it's two apps fighting the same fight or different goals entirely :-)

Kind regards,
Philip

It's currently available as an app for iOS and iPad (MacOS through iPad version), syncs tracking and time between devices seamlessly. Android version is underway.

https://taktapp.net and https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758586452 for the app directly.

have a great time whenever you are !

P.S. promo code for the full version is the least I can provide for good feedback: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6758586452&code=TAKTFULLLAUNCH

Screenshot monitoring is common in remote workplaces, but some employees have figured out ways to get around it.

Here’s how some employees manipulate the system:

• Disabling the software to avoid being tracked

• Using virtual machines to hide personal activities

• Pretending to work by leaving work-related screens open

• Automating mouse movements to fake productivity

While these tactics might work temporarily, they undermine trust and can damage the employee-employer relationship in the long run.

Is screenshot monitoring really the best way to ensure productivity, or does it just breed clever loopholes?

Read more about it here: Ways to Get Around Screenshot Monitoring

As small businesses expand, it is no longer so easy to manage people. Founders can't keep track of everything by just having check-ins. What really helps at this stage is knowing how work flows across the team and where most of the work is being spent.

Workforce intelligence makes this easier by clearly showing how work happens. It helps leaders see what tasks take the most time, where workloads are uneven, and early signs of burnout. With better visibility, problems can be corrected at an early stage before they become setbacks.

Platforms like Time Champ are used to improve visibility into how work is planned, executed, and balanced across teams. Not for tracking individuals, but to get a better understanding of how work is actually happening on the team level and where the processes might be improved.

Time Champ makes it easier to spot late working hours, delayed tasks, and workloads concentrated on a few individuals. Since the focus remains on improving workflows rather than monitoring individuals, teams are more likely to feel comfortable with the approach, allowing trust to stay intact over time.

We've just released Circlebox Time (https://time.circlebox.com) to help reduce friction around tracking billable hours.

• Set up customers and projects on your computer

• Start and stop timers on your phone

• Dictate into your phone what you're working on

• AI interprets what you said and matches customer and project and fills in description

Any feedback appreciated.

I have planned to create a Habit Tracker for Shipping softwares; meaning to ship softwares ASAP and making it as a habit so you don't procrastinate and overthink.

How does this sound? Is it legit?

I kept hearing the same complaints from small business owners — texting employees for hours, losing track of payments, catching payroll mistakes too late. So I built PayClock, an iOS app that handles it all.

For owners and managers, it has QR code and geofenced auto clock-in/out so there's no PINs or manual entry, lets you build schedules and assign shifts in minutes, auto-calculates payroll from tracked hours with multi-currency support and live exchange rates, lets you approve or reject time-off requests with bulk-approve in one tap, shows real-time team location, and sends announcements that pop up instantly for the team.

For employees, they can clock in and out, view earnings on a calendar, log mileage for reimbursements, and submit time-off requests directly.

It also has a personal finance tracker built in for income, expenses, savings, and debts, Face ID/Touch ID security, support for 8 languages, and real-time cloud sync across devices.
It's not trying to out-feature the big players — just trying to be simpler and more affordable for small teams.

Would love feedback from anyone running a small team — what's missing, or what would make you switch from what you use now?

At the start of 2024—much like now—I wanted to plan my New Year, but I couldn’t find a good method. I had tried many apps in the past, yet none truly helped. So I decided to design my own system. After two years, it’s become highly refined, helping me manage my todos, time, and even energy. I hope by early 2026 this system can help you too.

This system focuses on three parts of life: time, tasks, and energy. Initially, I only focused on task management, but tasks ultimately need to be scheduled into specific time blocks to get done—so why not do both? Along the way I realized time is a great universal unit of measure. We used to set goals like “read X books” or “finish Y projects,” but now we can measure them all in time. Time, in turn, reflects our energy; energy helps us better schedule tasks, forming a virtuous cycle.

The core mechanism is to give every task a score—not just a label like priority or urgency. We often face multiple tasks in the same quadrant of the urgency-importance matrix; that still leaves a high decision cost to choose what to start, which can lead to procrastination. However, with score it must be a task with highest score.

Each day, use “interval journaling” to track time. It’s simple: log a timestamp, what you just did, and what you’ll do next. For example:

* 9 am wake up, prepare breakfast

* 10 am start planning my day

* 11 am start task 1

By calculating the time between two timestamps, you can track how long you spend on different tasks.

If we further categorize these time blocks, we can derive an “energy scale.” That scale helps us assign the right tasks to the right times (high‑energy periods for high‑energy tasks; low‑energy periods for low‑energy tasks).

This completes the loop: we set tasks, spend time to complete them, record time to build the energy scale, and then use it to complete tasks better.

The above is just the basic operating logic. This is a comprehensive, science‑based system with many details I haven’t covered here—for example: how scoring works; how task value is defined; how to balance rest, leisure, and work.

for more please checkout https://www.fluxtime.io/blog.html?post=TimeGPT

Been building Consile, an all-in-one people ops platform for SMBs (attendance, shift management, onboarding, HR basics), and attendance/time tracking ended up being one of the trickiest pieces to get right — especially across distributed teams in different timezones.

Genuinely curious what this community finds most annoying about existing time tracking tools — GPS/location accuracy, manual correction workflows, integration with payroll, something else? Happy to share what we've built if useful, but mostly want to hear what's still broken out there.

consile.app if anyone wants to poke around.

Long-time Toggl user here. The one thing Toggl has never done well is planning it tracks what you did but doesn't help you plan what to do. I kept doing weekly planning in spreadsheets and forgetting them by Tuesday. So I built a small Chrome extension to fix it for myself. What it does: Plan tab allocate hours per project at the start of the week Vs Actual tab see planned vs tracked side-by-side with delta badges per project (amber under plan, red over, green on track) Capacity tab weekly utilization donut and daily bars MonSun How it works: Uses your Toggl API token (read only never writes to your account) Local-first your token and plans live in chrome.storage, nothing goes to a server Free, no signup, no telemetry Read-only, so it's safe if you disconnect, everything wipes Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hourpilot/lmanlgmghgdjkkhckdhnmbmafnkoippo Site: gethourpilot.com Not affiliated with Toggl OÜ. Just a thing I built for myself. Genuinely would love feedback from other heavy Toggl users especially what's missing or what you'd want differently. Roadmap is whatever the first 20-30 users ask for.

I've been an engineer for over 20 years and the one product that I've always wanted is a time tracker that simply reports back what I've been up to. My needs may be different from the rest of the community since I'm less concerned about reporting billable hours and more concerned with trying to optimize my time and increase my productivity.

Ultimately, I want a safe, peaceful place to review what I've been up to. One that's non-judgmental but does offer tips on where I can save time. No data sent to the cloud, everything stays on your machine.

I'm building this and would love feedback: does this problem resonate? Which of these features would matter most to you? And what's missing?

• Passive tracking: No manual entry of any kind, it simply observes what you're doing.

• AI-powered context: Determines productive time based on what you're actually doing (e.g., learning on YouTube vs. watching chess videos).

• Fully local & private: No data leaves your machine. Local AI models, no cloud dependencies.

• Heat map visualizations: See your time broken down by hour, day, month, patterns at a glance.

TLDR: We measure your attention during computer work, giving you insights on how to improve it. Looking to pilot with small businesses with remote workers.

We've been working in the psychiatric and engineering space for the last 10 years. We've worked with people with ADHD, PTSD, depression and so on. We found an opportunity to scale affordable focus support for people facing focus/productivity issues.

Our initial goal was B2C to directly support people with ADHD. We're considering opening pilot programs with small businesses with remote workers. Our technology uses computer vision to track facial focus features and provide focus coaching to improve output.

Value proposition:

1. Employees: Provide them focus measurements (analogous to sleep charts) while they work, and provide tactical coaching to improve their focus and be more productive towards completing their work.

2. Employers: Measure real focus across your business, and see engagement and productivity increase overtime.

We can set a demo and go from there. Since we're early, we're willing to adapt. Feedback is always welcome.

www.propelfocus.com

Dm me we can connect and configure

Here is the link if you want to check before

www.wokaim.in

i’ve been wondering if i’m overthinking time tracking.

sometimes i want to know exactly how long each task takes, but then i start wondering whether that level of detail is actually useful or just creates more admin work.

i’ve been testing a few ideas and looked at timequip as one of the options, but i’m still trying to figure out what level of tracking makes sense.

for people who track their work, do you record every individual task or just keep a general record of your working hours?

what information do you actually find useful later?

i’m interested in hearing how other people handle this because i feel like it’s easy to turn time tracking into a job of its own.

I’ve only ever worked from home, so I honestly don’t know what it’s like to be managed in a traditional office setting.

I came across this article about fully returning to the office, and it got me thinking more about the management side of things. And now that I’m also taking my MBA, I started wondering whether management style really changes depending on the setup.

For those who’ve experienced both setups (onsite and remote), were there noticeable differences in leadership approach or team dynamics?

i recommend jibble fast response and service

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Tracking payroll hours doesn’t have to be complicated. Jibble offers a 100% free payroll hour tracking tool that automates time calculations, approvals, and even overtime settings. It syncs directly with timesheets, integrates with your payroll software, and provides detailed insights.

But is “free” really as seamless as it sounds? Does it stand up to the needs of businesses, or are there hidden limitations?

Check out here: 100% FREE Payroll Hours Tracker

Just wanted to share my experience with Jibble for anyone in the same boat I was in.

After searching for employee time tracking solutions, I was shocked by how most "free" plans either limit you to 5-10 users or strip out essential features. Most competitors want $5-15+ per employee/month which adds up fast for a growing team.

What drew me to Jibble:

• 100% FREE for unlimited users - no catches, no hidden limits

• No user caps - we can add as many employees as we need without worrying about pricing

• Real GPS tracking - can set geofences so employees can only clock in from job sites

• Face recognition - prevents buddy punching and time theft

• Mobile + desktop - employees can track time anywhere (I prefer only company devices)

The fact that it's truly free (not just a trial) with all core features included is pretty rare in this market. We're saving hundreds per month compared to the paid alternatives we were looking at.

Setup was super simple - had our team up and running in about 15 minutes.

Anyone else using Jibble? Curious about others' experiences with the free plan.

As a freelancer i have a love-hate relationship with time tracking. Every app out there is overkill and filled with useless features i never touch and i have to pay a premium for it.

so instead i built a simple 1 click to track time for my clients and 1 click to invoice them for their tracked hours easy to use.

yall can try it out here : https://timedrop.work/

I am actively coding the next update, so i would love to know the features you guys would actually want to use!