What are the best time tracking software?

15 of February, 2021

Good time management is crucial to ensure optimal levels of productivity and efficiency. Whether you are a freelancer, a small business or a larger company, using a time tracking app can help you bring your activity to new heights. But with loads of time trackers available nowadays, which one should you choose? We take you around the best time tracking software and describe their distinctive features.

Sesame

With Sesame’s time tracking features, your company can very easily know who is working and who is not. Employees can clock in and out via the Sesame website, the mobile app, or on a tablet located at the office. Sesame provides daily, weekly, monthly and yearly data for each worker. Sesame makes time management simple by automating all the calculations and keeping all the information in one accessible space. But Sesame offers much more than just time tracking:

• The employee mobile app allows them not only to clock in, but also to request vacations, see which ones of their colleagues are working, report on their ongoing tasks and access their statistics;
• Managers can use the mobile app to be instantly notified about important information and reply to employees’ requests;
• The geofencing feature tracks remote employees’ location when they are clocked in;
• The planning tool allows employees to make schedules, coordinate tasks within the team, as well as send and receive alerts regarding shifts;
• Smart reports give you the possibility to download the relevant information in the format you want;

In the end, if you are looking for a complete app that offers time tracking as well as many other features to help you manage your company, then Sesame is the right tool for you.

Time Doctor

Time Doctor’s strength is employee monitoring. Once an employee clocks in and gets started on a task, managers can know exactly what they are working on, and make sure that they actually are  working through screenshot recording and insight on mouse and keyboard activity. However, there is no free plan, and the only plan costs $9.99 per user and per month.

Hubstaff

Hubstaff also provides a lot of tools to bring your workforce management to the next level. Its employee monitoring comprises keystroke recording, screenshot monitoring, mobile GPS tracking. But most of those features that really distinguish from other time tracking software, aren’t included in the free plan.

Toggl Track

Toggl Track emphasises personal accountability through several features such as its idle detector. Its background tracking tool, Timeline, tracks your activity on any app or website that you use for more than ten seconds. This, combined to a free time tracking feature, makes Toggl Track an ideal app for freelancers. If you have many employees, bear in mind that the price increases with the number of users.

Harvest

Harvest offers all the basic features that you might require from a time tracking app, as well as a few more advanced features. Its invoicing system is particularly efficient. However, the free plan only allows for one user and two projects. You will have to upgrade to a subscription to get unlimited projects.

Clockify

Clockify offers time tracking features that are very easy to use. They allow users to add information to their time sheets, for instance various tags to projects. This then enables the app to create reports that can be customised by applying reporting filters. Clockify’s free version allows for unlimited users, projects and reports; but you will have to pay to access the advanced features.