aTimeLogger - Time Tracker reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 4.7
A flexible time tracker with custom categories and a widget for people who want to see where their hours go — simple on the surface, but with a growing tension between feature richness and data reliability.
What users love
The balance of simplicity and flexibility is the core reason people love it
Over and over users hit the same note: it stays simple to use yet powerful and customizable. Not bloated, but it has everything you need — categories, colors, icons, groups, reports. That sweet spot is what keeps people for years.
Great app. It is the perfect balance between simple and complex. Not too bloated, but has everything I need.
Simple and easy to use but very customizable. It's been really helpful.
This app is fluid, it's beautiful, simple and powerful.
People use it for years and don't leave — rare loyalty
Dozens mention 7, 8, 10, even 14 years of use. For a time tracker that's unusual: the app becomes part of the routine and just works, day after day, across phone changes and life changes.
I've been using this time tracker for almost 10 years now. Great app.
I have used this off and on for about 14 years. I think I have the premium edition.
I've used this for years to keep track of clients for billing hours.
Shows you where your time really goes — and changes behavior
Users describe not just logging but a shift in awareness: the pie chart and statistics force you to face the truth about your day and nudge you toward productivity. People with ADHD and 'time blindness' value it especially.
Отличная программа чтобы увидеть чем же ты на самом деле занимаешься 👍
I have executive function problems, ADHD and time blindness and it has honestly organized my life. I was able to see how much I really do every day and where my time goes.
This is a habit changing app. When we start tracking our habits, also may feel disappointed in seeing the statistics, there grows the internal drive to gradually change it.
Easy to fix entries after the fact — forgiving of forgetfulness
A big plus for real-world use: if you forget to start or stop a timer, you can edit the time manually. Multiple activities can run at once, and you can pause and resume the same entry.
Easy to use, easy to edit times if you forget to stop or start a timer, easy to set and stick to goals.
Very easy to go back and fix any mistakes or missed time entries. No ads.
the data can be edited in real time if I forget to stop the clock
Reports and CSV export deliver real work value
For freelancers, contractors and business owners the weekly and monthly reports and CSV export are a key reason to use it: they quickly show how time was distributed and help bill hours more accurately.
This app does more than I needed. I just wanted to push a button and log the date and time. Reporting as CSV is a big plus.
The reports are super simple and quickly show me how time was spent.
Excellent app. No issues whatsoever and no annoying ads. Performs exactly as I need it to. The report generating feature is particularly useful.
What users hate
The home-screen widget is loved — but it often glitches
The widget is one of the favorite features for quick start/stop, which makes it more frustrating when it fails: it freezes, icons and names break until you restart the phone, the timer stalls until you open another app. People have to open the app itself to make the widget 'wake up'.
The activity shortcut widgets icons and names break until I restart my phone. Other than that I like it.
When I start the timer, it starts in backend but the timer on widget is freezed. But as soon as I open another app and return to home screen, the timer on widget is running.
Widget is not working properly. Sometimes it becomes unresponsive. I have to open app to use widget.
Updates destroy data — the most painful fear
The most desperate reviews are about losing accumulated data. An update 'destroyed memory', logged activities vanish the next day, hours disappear over weeks. For an app trusted to track billable work, this undermines its entire purpose.
Update completely destroyed memory. I relied on this app to track my time worked. Do not do this, this app is not reliable.
UI/UX horrível. Atividades logadas desapareceram no dia seguinte. Infelizmente o app não é confiável
I have lost many recorded hours in various activities over the past couple of weeks.
Sync and sign-in are a weak, unreliable spot
Sync is a recurring pain: it stopped working after the paid version launched, throws 'Bad credentials' on sign-in, the backup option exists but doesn't fire. When you switch phones data won't migrate, and re-syncing asks you to pay again.
They have downgraded the app after lunch of paid version . Sync doesn't work anymore
I can't sign in to app and said "Bad credentials"
I just faced one problem. that is I couldn't keep back app and sync the information. the option is available but don't work..
Paywalls on basic things irritate
Some users hit the monetization: adding your own icon requires paying first, the bar chart is premium-only, a subscription appeared for basic functions. Against the many who praise the honest 'pay what you can' model, these paywalls feel like greed.
Great app. Works as advertised. Great help for time recording. BUT MISSING: ICON FOR PRAYER. TO ADD MY OWN ICON I NEED TO PAY FIRST.
Bar chart is premium only.
there's a subscription cost just for the basic functions of this app. The developer(s) clearly got greedy.
People want a Wear OS / watch version — and it's missing
A recurring gap users feel: a smartwatch version (Wear OS, Galaxy Watch). People explicitly note that competitors offer both a phone and a watch app, and that makes them consider switching.
Is there going to be a Watch version for this app? Other time logger apps have both a mobile and Wear OS app version.
Great! So many useful features and it just works. Would be great to have a Wear OS app someday.
Great app. Just what I needed. Is this available for Galaxy Watch too?
Weekly goals with the widget motivate — but goals get buggy
The goals feature is liked and keeps people on track via the widget, but it has a persistent bug: after setting 2-3 weekly goals they get 'garbled', the last 10 weeks display incorrectly, and editing the hours afterward is hard.
Good but has bug with goal setting. After setting 2-3 goals for the week, the goals get garbled. Once it gets garbled up, it's difficult to change the number of hours
recently there are many problems in weekly goals (it doesn't show last 10 weeks properly)
Goals are buggy when editing.
A confusing, dated UI scares off newcomers
The dark side of flexibility: for some people the interface is a jumble of features where it's unclear whether recording is on, and it's far too easy to delete a whole day instead of one event. Even loyal users admit the UI looks dated and the timer confuses at first.
this is truly awful UI/UX, jumbled and confusing. am I recording time now? how are these entries organized? why is it so easy to delete a whole day's hours when you wanted to just delete one event?
Terribly built app. The UI is not user friendly, making it difficult to use
Functionality wise the app is good. But UI feels outdated.