What Time-Tracking App Do You Use?

What Time-Tracking App Do You Use?

May 11 2009 by Jacob Gube | 267 Comments

Time-tracking App

There’s always a need to keep track of the time you spend on projects to bill clients accordingly, as well as to establish benchmarks on common tasks.

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Marketcircle, developers of award-winning business applications such as Daylite and Billings for Mac OS X and the iPhone, and Six Revisions would like to know what your favorite time-tracking application is.

To encourage participation, we’ll be giving away five Billings 3 licenses, which retail for $39.99 USD a piece.

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About Marketcircle Inc.

Marketcircle Inc. develops award-winning business applications for Mac OS X and the iPhone, including Daylite business productivity management software, and Billings, a practical time-billing and invoicing application. Incorporated in 1999, Marketcircle Inc. is located in Toronto, Canada, with partners worldwide.

267 Comments

Matt B.

vote: Billings 3

Gary Stuart Wicks

vote: Pencil and notebook (sadly)

joggink

vote: billings3

Steve Robillard

vote: tick

Edvinas

vote: Clocking IT

Shawn

vote: Harvest

Mat Packer

vote: Billings 3

I love Billings, it is freakin awesome! One of my favourite apps, not only does it work how it should, it makes me money.

Michael Napoleon

vote : Billings

KPeirce

vote: iBiz

Sverrir Asmundsson

vote: Allnetic working time tracker

Danielle

vote: Billings 3

I haven’t actually seen any other application that seems to fit my needs.

Krest

vote: PunchClock

Phil Palmieri

vote: on the job

Brian McDaniel

vote: blueservice.com

HFernandes

I am currently using eclipse Mylin plugin.

Erik Jung

vote: Harvest

HFernandes

vote: Mylin eclipse plugin

Maurice Calhoun

vote: Billings

nifty

vote: The Hit List

Jamie

vote: On the Job 3

Third blog post I’ve seen about Billings today I’m getting tempted to give it a go!

Scott Gemmell

atm I use a clock and my memory.

Matthew Bibby

Hi,

I have been looking for the perfect time tracking app for a long time . . . with only marginal success.

Having only recently switched to using a Mac I haven’t come across Billings before, however I am going to download the trial now!

My overall favorite time tracking application is BubbleTimer. A web application and an iphone application in one . . . The thing that I like about BubbleTimer is it’s ease of use, very non-intrusive way of tracking time. The only reason why I am considering switching is because I am not a fan of manual invoices!

Details of BubbleTimer here: http://bubbletimer.com/ – the developer is awesome and keeps making the program better and better.

Also, just today I came across an Air application called Klok. Once again just for tracking time but it may be worth a look once it is out of beta.

Details here: http://klok.mcgraphix.com/

Anyway . . . off to download Billings!!!

gerard

vote: Factura Baarasoft

Oliver

vote: iTimeSheet

Mike H

vote: OfficeTime

Ender

vote: Billings 3

Francisco

vote: Harvest (www.getharvest.com)

Klaus De Buysser

vote: Harvest

Stefaan Lesage

Been using Billings for a while now, and loving it. Version 3 really had some nice improvements in it.

Linda

vote: TimeTracker

DiveArtist

vote: OfficeTime

Randy

Vote: TimeTable

http://www.timetableapp.com/

Gary McCafferty

vote: Harvest

Hans

vote: activeCollab

Bert Timmermans

vote: paper and pencil :(

ronw

vote: slimtimer

Barry

vote: Harvest

Quiff Boy

vote: On The Job

Bene

vote: our own developed time tracking app

Andy

Vote: Billings 3

Brian Coult

vote: Invoice Machines built in time tracking

curtismchale

vote: cashboard

James

Wow, a time-tracking application “contest” sponsored by a time-tracking application–that’s really kosher. Expected higher-quality content from Six Revisions…

Sam Oltz

vote: TimeLog

Holly

vote: Billings

I have used Project Calculator but would like something that could work better with iCal and Address Book.

nico

vote: mite
http://mite.yo.lk/en/

Adrian

vote: Billings 3

Jamie

vote: OfficeTime – http://www.officetime.net for Mac & Win

Patrice

vote : Dukt

Charlie Nielsen

Vote: ClockingIT (Awesome)

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

vote: slimtimer.com

Peter V

vote: getharvest.com

Cole Thorsen

I am trying out Billings 3 and Daylight. for project management and time tracking.

Billings is quite nice, and straightforward. Daylight seems to be quite deep, I’ve just started testing out this one. But it integrates with billings and allows you to have multiple users.

Lukes

vote: Billings 3

Nick M.

vote: tick

Rogier

Moleskin and pencil at the moment but looking into any easy digital way of tracking my hours…

Koodoz Design

I currently use an Excel time sheet and manually enter hours and a description of the job/task.

Would love an app to streamline this task. I hear Billings 3 is nice… :)

Rogier

vote: Moleskin and pencil at the moment but looking into any easy digital way of tracking my hours…

Anthony Main

vote: toggl

Garth Braithwaite

vote: ididwork.com

Paul

vote: TimeLoc

Afro

vote: clocking IT

PeterV

vote: Billings 3 trial (localised in Dutch)

…and loving it (altough there are still a lot of spelling mistakes but @StefaanLesage is taking care of it)

Will

vote: Timepost

Steven

vote: harvest app

Paul Sveda

We use the journal element of OutLook as time trackers. It lets us track a task, record notes, attach a client contact, files and outgoing / incoming e-mails while assigning categories, companies and descriptions. It provides a great amount of detail.

Tricia

vote: “on the job”

Max

I’m using Paymo. +1

Josh

vote: Daylight

Matt

vote: PunchClock

Chris

vote: Notepad2

Twice

vote: excel :\

KevinBrown

vote: Billings 3

Stephen Metcalfe

vote: Klok

SpinX

vote: Klok

shana

vote: OfficeTime (at the moment, I love it…)

Troy Peterson

vote: freshbooks

Juliana

vote: Klok

stefano

vote: clockingit

Isaak Kwok

vote: Billings 3

sfmitch

vote: Billings 2.5

Owen

vote: InvoiceMachine

Zac

vote: Freshbooks

jorde

Klok

jorde

vote: Klok

Brad

vote: Google Docs

paul

vote: Harvest

Wim

Vote: Billings 3

Ezra Sandoval

vote: Billings

Jeff

vote: OfficeTime

Lenny Terenzi

vote: Billings 3

Marcin Grochowina

vote: Slimtimer

Chris

vote: Klok

Kenneth

vote: The Hit List

John Fredrickson

vote: Invotrak

jono

vote: Harvest

James Wong

vote: Billings 3

Fadia

vote: Chronograph for Mac

Just need to track time without all the bells and whistles.

Oliver

Add me to the list of “pencil & paper” users.

I’d love to see what difference an app like Billings would make…

Cindy

Vote: Toggl

W

vote: Freshbooks

detruk

vote : Klok

sharpski

Vote; iBiz

Pieter de Jong

vote: Billings 3

JMW

vote: Jira

Darren

vote: Billings

raynor

vote: billings

Herman

vote: Billings 3

Celine

vote: Billings

himynameiskevin

vote: handsoft

Mhaddy

vote: Billings 3

Mark

vote: TimeLog

Marc

vote: mite.

Dan

vote: HourGuard Time Sheet

Steve

vote: iBiz

I used harvest for a while, but it doesn’t work when I’m offline (that I know of). And, on an annual basis iBiz is less expensive. I haven’t checked out billings.

JT

vote: TimeTable

Michael Martin

vote: Freshbooks

Damien Goubeau

vote: Collabtive

Angie Bowen

vote: Fanurio

z

vote: Incredibly simple homemade interface

Martin

vote: TimeLog & GrandTotal

Bradley Jensen

vote: iClockr

Kevin Lloyd

vote: Billings 3.

Tixz

vote: Harvest

Guawg

iTimesheet.

Guawg

vote: iTimesheet

Jonathan

vote: Billings 3

aleternum

vote: Kronos

Ed

vote: workamajig

hmann

Vote: http://www.clicktime.com – ClickTime

Krystian

vote: Timepost

Piero

vote: Rescue Time

Ben

Excel

Brian Rowdy

Am I the only one using FreshBooks.com?
Time, projects and billing.
http://www.freshbooks.com

Seth

vote: Billings 3, although I haven’t gotten very good customer service from Marketcircle :/

Peter Dedene

vote: Billings

Manuel

vote: Paymo Timetracker

Pat Arlt

vote: Ora Time and Expense

Tinu Cleatus

vote: iClockr

JC Morales

vote: quickbooks for MAC

Martin Wilson

vote: Billings 3

Manop

vote: TimeSlice

Nicola Albertini

vote: The Hit List

Nouman Saleem

vote: iPhone stopwatch with lap.

Carl

vote: Sohnar’s Traffic

W Hunt

vote: Freshbooks

Andy Feliciotti

Vote: Manic Time – http://www.manictime.com/

Daniel

slimtimer.com

Chris S

Timeslips. Love it and hate it at the same time.

Kris

vote: Harvest

Frank

vote: basecamp

Japh

vote: Tick

http://tickspot.com/

The iPhone app is really what makes this one perfect for me. I have the timer running as I work, then I can just submit a time, and start a new one for the next task/project.

Very interested in testing out Billings 3 though after reading John O’Nolan’s review: http://john.onolan.org/essential-freelance-software-billings/

Craig

my brain

Michael Gerard

vote: Studiometry

isabelle

vote: Billings 3.

thirteen82

vote: on the job 3

Kate

vote: Basecamp

CodeJoust

vote: Freshbooks!

snowman

vote: Klok

Raul Tabares

vote: Billings 3

cosmin

vote: Tick Spot
http://www.tickspot.com

Kriselle

Vote: quickbooks for Mac (it’s all I’ve tried)

Dan

vote: PC-TimeClock

Moises G

dotProject (http://www.dotproject.net) but looking for something more powerful.

Ruben

vote: CreativePro Office
(still waiting on the new version)

Mathan Vibranarayanan

vote: Billings 3

Ofcourse, it is the business audit i was looking for.

Good day

Matti

Only pencil and notebook !

George Serradinho

vote: Billings 3

Chris

Vote: Billings 3

Martin

Vote: TimeLog Project

Hyaena

vote: TimeLog

Will Sherwood

iBiz

Felicity

vote: diary and a pen

Jan

vote: klok

Sean

vote: iBiz

Vitor Neves

Klok, actiTIME and Timesheet Xpress

Oriol

vote: clock, paper & pencil

brossiekoppie

vote: paper

Jim

vote: Billable

Mike

vote: Klok

Reuben Gallow

I’m recently entered into freelance and I use Toggl.com It’s free and easy to use. You can also view your time spent and other data in many ways.

Julie

vote: billings2

Jana

vote: Paymo Time Tracker

Aurelio

vote: Paymo

Janine

vote: http://www.paymo.biz

Mike

vote: Google Docs

Alt Design

vote: Toggl

Josh

Billings 3

Coleman

vote: Function Fox : TimeFox

Donovan

vote: Paymo

anthoula

vote: Billings 2

Webvids

i am using paymo timetracking for all my online administration even online billing. check http://www.paymo.biz

Michael Magruder

vote: Paymo.biz Time Tracking

MAdams

vote: Paymo.biz

markusk

vote: paymo

Eric

vote: ClickTime http://www.clicktime.com

Cornfedewey

Vote: http://www.ClickTime.com

stasome

vote: ClickTime

EDS

vote: http://www.clicktime.com

Dave

vote: ClickTime

David Ferguson

vote: Klok

Bondea

Billings 3

Art Binaire

vote: Billings

Brenda

vote: Paymo

John

vote: Intervals

Philip Downer

vote: OfficeTime

Alex

vote: http://xpenser.com/

I use their gtalk bot and timer, easiest thing I’ve used yet.

Maarten

vote: Billings

Raphael Caixeta

vote: MacFreelance

Matt

I use notebook 3 and a clock right now hopefully soon I’ll have enough work to justify a purchase.

Tapan Shah

I use Word, I am looking for a solution(s)

Angelica

vote: excel :(

Nick

vote: On The Job

Dizzu333

vote: Paymo

dev4fun

vote: billings3

Trip

vote: Paymo

Rocket No. 9

vote: Cashboard.com

Claudio

vote: revolver (http://www.revolver.info)

WEBBOgrafico

vote: no application

I’m currently not using any time tracking application, looking forward to win a billings3 license to start using it

Michael

vote: billings

PG

excel for invoicing
time edition for tracking

Brett

vote: FreshBooks

Johnny

Klok

Johnny

vote: Klok

Tristan

vote: paymo.biz

Zsolt Hegedus

vote: Basecamp

Bryce

vote: billings

Elizabeth

vote: toggle

I’ll have to check out Billings – I just started using toggle about a month ago

Diana

vote: freshbooks

Big Buddy

vote: Creative Pro Office

Joe Hoyle

vote: Freshbooks

Jordan

vote: Billings

Mark Aplet

vote: klock
I also use The Daily Grind on occasion: http://microcore.dk/TheDailyGrind

Karl

vote: Billings 3

Frank McClung

YaTimer

Fred

MapleXP Express

Lippe

vote: mite

Jayant Bharosa

MS Office Word

Martin

vote: iTimeSheet

John Holtgrew

vote: Pen and Paper

William Barrera

vote: Billings 3

Chris Thielen

vote: On The Job

Bogdan Günther

vote: iBiz

Josh

vote: Google Docs Spreadsheet

pog

vote: Billings 3

LenaLuna

vote: timEdition

Valerie Babin

vote: timefox

Johannes

vote: Intervals

Benji

vote: Klok

Proxy List

I like timefox, it’s an amazing ap, but I hope to try billings3 too! But my vote goes to Timefox atm.

vote: timefox

Vu Tran

vote: Excel

Grzegorz

vote: billings 3

Jonatan Castro

vote: billings 3

betmakz

vote: klok

Ken

vote: Billable

Sze

vote: rescuetime

whochrisporter

vote: harvest

BrightBold

vote: Easy Time Tracking

It’s for Windows (yeah, I know.) Has many good features but a few quirks. I am currently testing Freshbooks, which has an iPhone app.

Justin

vote: Jobs (iPhone)

dmmontana

vote: freshbooks

chet

Paymo.biz

Tanc

vote: streamline

brool

vote: iBiz (version 2, not 3)

P Gunderson

harvest

doubleA

vote: On The Job

Billing 3 seems to be a lot more complete.

Dries

vote : Billings

Astrid

We use TimeLog Project