The Best Time Tracking Apps That Work Right Off Browser

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Time tracking apps work like a boon when you’re working with a remote team or managing freelancers for your projects. There are thousands of time tracking apps for macOS as well as Windows offering different features.

However, in this post, we are featuring a list of time tracking apps that work right in your browser – meaning you don’t need to download or install them in your computer. Let’s take a look at the following list to see which one works for you the best.

Zoho Projects Time Tracking

Zoho Projects’s Time Tracking offers a cloud-based time-tracking platform, generally targeted towards small and medium-scale companies. It includes various features for enabling project managers to assign tasks, accept or dismiss timesheet entries and manage team members. One significant feature is its dashboards and reporting modules help you prepare business summaries.

Zoho offers a free plan allowing two projects and three users. Its paid plans include the Premium plan costing 350 INR per user per month for up to 50 users and the Enterprise plan costing 700 INR per user per month for unlimited users.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is Zoho Projects Time Tracking free? Yes
  • Does Zoho Projects Time Tracking has paid plan? Yes, Starts at $5/user/month.
Pros
  • Features cloud storage, subtasks, and more in paid plans.
  • Supports gantt charts and workflow automation, unlike many.
Cons
  • Interface is complex and not user-friendly for beginners.
  • Not very workable as it offers a limited number of templates.

Time Tracking by Freshbooks

The Time Tracking feature in FreshBooks helps you to focus on work without worrying about the clock. It can record your working time down to every billable second and change the timesheet to an invoice seamlessly. The most handy feature of this all-in-one online accounting service is that it can record time spent by an entire team on a project, for a specific client, and more.

FreshBooks plans start with a Lite plan ($15 per month for five clients), Plus plan ($25 per month for 50 clients), Premium plan ($50 per month for unlimited clients), and ends with a Custom Pricing plan with specialized features.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is Time Tracking by Freshbooks free? Yes
  • Does Time Tracking by Freshbooks has paid plan? Yes, Starts from $4.50/month.
Pros
  • Keeps accurate track of billable hours, like Harvest.
  • Easy to use pop-up timer for mobile and desktop platforms.
  • Offers other features for managing projects, teams, and more.
Cons
  • Proves to be unaffordable if you do not have to use all the features.
  • Ideal for small to medium enterprises only; not large organizations.

TimeSolv

One of the prominent features of TimeSolv is its ability to run multiple timers and track various tasks simultaneously. It is most suited for accountants, consultants, law firms, and similar businesses. It supports unlimited clients and projects with different hourly rates and recurring expenses features.

It also provides a desktop app, namely TimeSync, to track time offline without the need to open your browser. TimeSolv offers a free trial of its software. Then, you must opt for its subscription plans starting at $39.95 per user per month for 1-4 users, $34.95 per user per month for 5-14 users, and $29.95 per user per month for 15+ users. That is, it provides volume discounts like actiTIME.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is TimeSolv free? Yes, free trial
  • Does TimeSolv has paid plan? Yes, Starts at $24.95/user/month.
Pros
  • Expense reporting and invoicing prove to be handy features.
  • Provides multi-factor authentication options and data security.
  • Supports integration with accounting tools, like MinuteDock.
Cons
  • Supports Android and Web only, unlike many others.
  • Not suitable for large enterprises, unlike Timely or actiTime.

Trigger

Trigger provides a platform catering to project managers and small teams responsible for managing several projects simultaneously. One of its powerful features is it provides you with a centralized location to keep track of all the projects for various clients. This facilitates keeping track of the billed hours without the hassle of managing different projects on different platforms.

Trigger offers multiple plans starting with its free Start Up plan, allowing up to three team members. With more features, it offers two paid plans: Standard plan for $11 per user per month and Premium plan for $15 per user per month.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is Trigger free? Yes
  • Does Trigger has paid plan? Yes, Starts at $11/user/month.
Pros
  • One-click automatic time tracking across clients and projects.
  • Auto-generation of timesheets, which saves tons of hours a week.
  • Supports integrations with accounting and team tools like Slack.
Cons
  • Does not track websites, which can be needed for remote teams.
  • Expensive if compared to its competitors like TimeSolv and Bonsai.

Timenotes

Timenotes allows managing projects, billed hours, and track absence in a single dashboard. It provides an efficient way to track all users’ tasks in a simple, user-friendly interface, allowing the team to focus on projects rather than tracking billed hours. What I find unique about Timenotes is it allows a handy feature to manage and track absence, providing a robust tracking system.

Timenotes offers two flat-fee plans: the Small Team plan costs $6.99 per month for up to 10 users and Unlimited plan costs $69 per month for unlimited users.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is Timenotes free? Yes
  • Does Timenotes has paid plan? Yes, 14-days trial, or plan starts at $6.99/month.
Pros
  • Features multiple types of timesheet reports and export options.
  • Supports popular integrations like GitHub, Todoist, and Trello.
Cons
  • An affordable flat-fee alternative compared to its competitors.
  • No support for billing invoices and sending them to the clients.

Kimai Time-tracker

Kimai is an open-source time tracking platform with a web interface. It lets you utilize timesheets facilitating time tracking and managing expenses across multiple projects and numerous users. It supports role-based permissions to ensure access to authorized persons only and manage multiple clients.

Kimai is best recommended for small-scale businesses who need to track progress and print invoices. Also, it lets you export data into many popular formats like CSV, XLSX, etc. Kimai is a free, open-source platform, unlike others. However, you require your own web server to install and run it self-hosted.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser (Open source)
  • Is Kimai Time-tracker free? Yes
  • Does Kimai Time-tracker has paid plan? No
Pros
  • Supports unlimited customers, projects, users, teams, etc.
  • Its self-hosted infrastructure ensures data integrity and safety.
Cons
  • The interface is a bit laggy if compared to tools like timeEdition.
  • Requires your web server for installing and using it, unlike others.

Timely

Timely is an automatic time tracking software for both freelancers and small to medium sized businesses who need to track their time expenditure. It provides detailed timesheets auto-created by tracking apps, documents, and websites used by you. It also offers user-level privacy by architecture, like Timing. Also, it helps you monitor budgets for projects and track teams’ performance.

Timely provides a 14-days trial, after which, you have to opt for one of its subscription plans. Its plans start with the Starter plan costing $10, Premium costing $18, and Unlimited costing $26 per user per month. It also offers a custom pricing plan named Unlimited+ for tailed experience with Timely. Its Starter plan features 50 projects and three teams while unlimited for others.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is Timely free? Yes
  • Does Timely has paid plan? Yes, 14-days trial, or plan starts at $8/user/month.
Pros
  • Real-time dashboards and reports help boost projects’ critical activities.
  • Respects members’ privacy by letting them control publicly shared data.
  • Supports 10+ integrations including GitHub, Trello, Zapier, and Zoom.
Cons
  • Does not provide a lot of useful insights, unlike tools like Timing.
  • Suitable for companies that are more inclined towards desk work.

Time Doctor

Time Doctor lets you track all the activity on your PC and take customizable screenshots of activity. Specifically made for teams, it can keep track of employee activity and avoid distractions by prompting them to get back to work if they stray away. Furthermore, it also allows you to make payments to employees based on the work recorded without any fee.

It also has GPS tracking feature in its smartphone app to track location of the users and only track work time when they are in the work environment. You will need to upgrade to the pro version for client login and billing features.

  • Supported Platforms: Browser
  • Is Time Doctor free? Yes
  • Does Time Doctor has paid plan? Yes, 14-days trial, or plan starts at $7/user/month.
Pros
  • Take screenshots of activity.
  • Built-in tool to avoid distractions.
  • Billing system.
  • GPS tracking.
Cons
  • Complicating interface for beginners.

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