10 Best Free Time Tracking Software of 2026

Clockify gives the most on a free plan for a small group. Its pricing page lists unlimited tracking, a timer, timesheets, an auto tracker, calendar sync, mobile and desktop apps, a Pomodoro timer, idle detection, reminders, a team activity dashboard and time reports, all at $0 for up to 5 users. The auto tracker records the apps and websites you use and keeps that record private to you, which helps freelancers rebuild a day they forgot to time. The paid ladder is low: Basic is $3.99 per seat per month billed annually and adds the ability to log time for others, required fields, a kiosk and billable rates. Standard at $5.49 adds invoicing, timesheet approval, locked timesheets and a QuickBooks integration. The main change to watch is the user cap: teams of six or more need a paid seat for everyone. For freelancers and small teams who mainly need accurate hours and clean reports, the free tier is hard to beat.

Toggl Track is the tracker to pick if ease of use matters most. Its free plan includes manual and real time timers, a focus mode, Google and Outlook calendar integrations, tasks, boards and task estimates, plus reports to follow your own progress. Native apps cover Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, so a freelancer can start a timer on a phone and stop it on a laptop. The gap for teams is reporting: free reports are personal level, while team reports, billable rates and revenue reports start on Starter at $9 per user per month billed annually, or $12 monthly. Premium at $16 adds timesheet approvals, labor cost and profitability reports and Jira and Asana integrations. Toggl's pricing page says only that the free plan is for a limited number of users, so check the current cap when you sign up. For a freelancer who wants the smoothest timer and plans to upgrade once billing matters, it is a strong second choice.

Jibble approaches time tracking from the attendance side. Its homepage says it is free forever for unlimited users and lists a real time timer, pay period timesheets with approvals, an offline mode, a shared kiosk, face recognition, selfie capture, geofencing, GPS stamps, NFC and PIN clock ins, time off, invoicing, project tracking and XLS or CSV exports. That makes it a good fit for a cafe, cleaning firm or construction crew that needs payroll ready hours and wants to stop buddy punching. Freelancers can use it too, with project time and invoicing from tracked hours, but the product's language and defaults are aimed at managers of hourly staff. We could not confirm the current price of Jibble's paid upgrades: its pricing address redirects to the homepage, so this entry is marked as pending. Check which features are on the free plan inside the app before you roll it out to a large team.

TimeCamp is the free option for teams that are larger than the caps on Clockify, My Hours and Everhour. Its free forever plan lists timesheets for unlimited users and unlimited projects, a browser plugin, a time clock kiosk, geofencing, web, desktop and mobile apps, CSV import of users and projects, automatic tracking with keywords, a personal activity timeline and idle time tracking. That covers both office and on site staff without a subscription. The limits show up in reporting and billing: Excel export, invoicing, attendance and overtime tracking start on Starter at $3.99 per user per month billed annually. Billable time, budgets and estimates arrive on Premium at $6.99, and billable rates, expenses and timesheet approvals on Ultimate at $9.99. TimeCamp also sells an AI time tracker billed by token usage on paid plans. For a team of eight that needs honest hours from everyone at no cost, TimeCamp is the practical choice.

My Hours is a straightforward project time tracker that suits small service teams. Its pricing page offers a free plan for up to 5 active users and lists features such as a timer or manual entry, timeline and timesheet views, unlimited projects, tasks and clients, budgets with email alerts, billable rates, labor costs and dashboard, detailed, timesheet and attendance reports. The step up is cheap: Basic is $4 per user per month billed annually for teams that only need core tracking, and Pro at $8 adds rates and budgets calculations, granular permissions and an approval workflow with an audit log. New accounts get a 14 day Pro trial and can drop to the free plan after it, according to the vendor's FAQ. My Hours also says all users get email and live chat support with a typical reply under three hours. It lacks the auto tracking of Clockify or TimeCamp, but it is easy to read and fair on price.

Everhour is built for teams that live in a project management tool. Its main idea is a timer that appears inside Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Trello, Linear, GitHub, Monday and Notion, so people track time on the task they are already looking at. The free plan is absolutely free for up to 5 seats, in Everhour's words, and includes time tracking, projects and tasks, reports and data export, with a 14 day trial of all features. Everything else sits on one paid plan, Team, at $8.50 per seat per month billed yearly with a minimum of 5 seats. Team adds native integrations, billing, budgeting and invoicing, SSO and advanced permissions, and Everhour says it does not gate features behind higher tiers. The catch for a free user is that the deep integrations are the reason to pick Everhour, and they are on Team. Freelancers who only need a timer and reports will get more free features from Clockify.

Harvest is the free option that does the most with billing. Its free plan, built for individual freelancers, includes one seat, two projects, time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and the Mac and iOS apps. That means a freelancer with one retainer and one side project can track hours and send invoices without paying anything. The limits are tight, though: a third project or a second person means moving to Teams, which starts at $9 per seat per month billed annually or $11 monthly. Harvest also says that on Teams, additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed based on usage, so read the plan details before a large rollout. Teams connects to Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Deel, while profitability reporting, timesheet approvals and SAML SSO sit on Enterprise at $14. The apps are simple, the reports are clear, and paid trials run 30 days with no card.

Kimai is the open source choice on this list. You can install it on your own server with Docker or by hand under the AGPL 3 license, keep every record yourself and pay nothing for the software. Kimai's site lists reports by user, customer, project, activity, tag and period, configurable invoice templates in PDF and DOCX, configurable invoice numbers, a JSON API, LDAP and SAML login and optional two factor authentication. A plugin marketplace adds more. If you would rather not run a server, Kimai Cloud is hosted in Germany with automatic updates, backups and a 30 day trial, but its pricing page shows euro prices from this location, so the price is marked as pending. The trade off is effort: self-hosting needs someone comfortable with servers, and help comes from the community forum. For a developer or a privacy minded firm, it delivers invoicing and reporting that most free cloud plans keep behind a paywall.

actiTIME is a long running timesheet tool that offers a free version for 1 to 3 users. Its pricing page describes that free tier as having limited functionality, hosted in the cloud and reached in a browser from any device, with CSV reports. Paid actiTIME Online costs $6 per user per month billed yearly for 1 to 40 users and $5 for 41 to 200, and adds full functionality, unlimited projects, API access and integrations with actiPLANS and QuickBooks. A self-hosted edition is sold as a one-time payment and installs on Windows or Unix servers, which is uncommon among the trackers here. The mobile app and Chrome extension are free. To get the free version, you start a trial and then pick Free Version in the Licenses menu. The free cap of three users is tighter than Clockify or My Hours, and the interface is more traditional, but actiTIME is a solid choice for a tiny office that wants structured timesheets.

Paymo is a project management tool first, with time tracking and invoicing built in. Its free plan includes unlimited time tracking, unlimited invoices, unlimited tasks with a list view, desktop and mobile apps and 1GB of storage, limited to one user, one client and two projects. That suits a freelancer working for a single client who wants tasks, hours and invoices in one place. Growth costs more here than with dedicated trackers. Solo is $9.90 a month after a current offer of $5.90 for three months and lifts limits to three clients and five projects for one user. Timesheet reports, bulk time entries, project profitability and recurring invoices start on Plus at $15.90 per user per month after the offer, and timesheet approvals on Pro. Paid plans have a 15 day trial with no card required. Paymo is a fair free pick for one person, but teams after free timesheets should look higher on this list.