Time Tracking: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Toggl Track is an intuitive and easy-to-use service that gives you exactly the tools you need for tracking time spent on tasks. It's a top pick among time-tracking services for freelancers, thanks especially to its generous free tier.

VeriClock excels as time tracking solution for remote workers. Affordable pricing and a reliable mobile app make it a solid choice for SMBs.

Hubstaff excels at both time tracking and employee monitoring. To round out the platform, it also adds project management and task tracking functionality for managers as well as their teams.

Keeping track of employee time, especially in the age of COVID-19, isn't just more complicated, it's also more important to keep employees engaged and generate important data for things like billing and invoicing. We put 10 of the best apps to the test.

BQE is looking to grow its customer base by growing its capabilities. While it began in the accounting realm, the software now has hooks to project management, time tracking, and even human resources.

You might call Time Doctor a jack of many trades as it covers several categories of features, including time tracking, project management, and employee monitoring. A decent price and a nicely designed interface mean it's a good idea to put on your evaluation list.

TSheets is one of the most well-rounded of the purpose-built time tracking apps we tested. An intuitive interface, robust feature set, and an overall competitive price make this a solid Editors' Choice winner.

You'll like FunctionFox's well-organized interface as well as its solid feature set across both time tracking and project management. However, you might not like its price when compared to the competition, though it's not cripplingly high.

If you bill on a detailed per-hour bases, like law professionals might, then TimeSolv Pro does a good job. But if you're looking for a broader feature set and an easy to use interface, you may need to keep looking.

Mavenlink has some maturity as a project management platform, which adds benefits like feature depth and the ability to integrate with a large number of other apps. However, it's not the cheapest solution out there and lacks internal communication tools.

Kickstarter's official iPhone app not only connects crowdsourcing creators and their backers, but also gives them excellent tools for strengthening their relationships.