Timesheet - Time Tracker reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 3.7
A long-beloved work-hours tracker for freelancers and contractors whose generous free tier and loyal fanbase collided with a catastrophic 2024 update that turned a snappy tool into something slow and prone to losing data.
What users love
One-tap start-pause-stop plus a widget make tracking thoughtless
What users love most: open it, hit start, and you're tracking — no login, no fuss. The home-screen widget lets you clock in even with dirty hands, and tracking becomes a habit you don't think about.
Start the app enter a name for a project and press start. No log in necessary.
Makes tracking my work time & projects so easy I don't think about it anymore.
even with dirty hands thanks to the widget!
Excel export turns hours into ready-to-send client invoices
For freelancers and contractors this is the decisive feature: a clear, customizable Excel export handles invoicing and reporting, and some users replaced both QuickBooks and a punch clock with it.
It makes billing and reporting on work so much easier than any other method I've ever used!
I've been using 2 apps for years (a work clock and QuickBooks) and this does both jobs much better (and cheaper).
I can get all the reports i need, by exporting to excel.
A generous free tier that doesn't cripple the app and earns "buy a coffee" donations
A rare honest freemium: the free tier is fully functional, ad-free and pop-up-free, so people use it for free for years and then donate a "coffee" out of sheer gratitude.
The free tier does NOT cripple the app and the premium tier actually brings something to the table.
NO ADS ! NO RANSOME DEMANDS ! NO POP-UPS. Meet the unicorn in 2020.
have been using it on and off for a number of years. the free version is enough for me. bought the creators a few coffees
Project, tag and rate flexibility handles many clients and roles
The app's strength is in slicing time: projects, tags, colors and rates let you split hours across clients, roles and tasks, while the interface still isn't cluttered for those who only want start-stop.
it allows me to allocate my hours to both the position (librarian, technical, academic coordination, etc) and the task
Simple, effective and powerful enough for small teams and accounting, with tags, task times, accountability and good spreadsheet export
A straightforward timelogging app that has a ton of customisation options if you care to dig into them.
What users hate
The 2024 update turned an instant tool into a slow, laggy one
The single most common complaint: after the major update, every action — start, stop, switching project, changing screens — comes with seconds of waiting and a spinning circle, where everything used to be instant.
Useful app but since last year update it is sloooow. Everything has to load while before it was instant.
The timer takes 30+seconds to load, every click on the app takes a long time to load or respond.
whenever I switch screens I just get the circle spinning around and around for 15 seconds or more.
The update wiped years of records, and backup restore didn't work
For a tool people bill clients from, this is fatal: users lost projects, tasks and months or years of logs with no warning, and backup files would say "restore complete" yet show nothing.
After the most recent update, all recorded data is gone - projects as well as any past recordings.
lost all data due to update. can't restore projects from backup file.
LOVE this app, tho seriously need a way to restore backups...what's the point of backing up here if you can't restore? I found out too late and lost data
Relentless email spam even after uninstalling and unsubscribing
Installing the app signs you up for emails you can't escape: people uninstall, hit unsubscribe, mark as spam — and the messages keep arriving weekly, sometimes for years.
I uninstalled this app months ago, and they are still annoying me with emails even after I unsubscribed and blocked them! they are spammers
I get an email everyday from this app. Ridiculous, I do not recommend.
Mails mind 2 Mal die Woche, deabonieren geht nicht.
A $100+/year subscription hidden behind a "free" trial
Nowhere in the store does it say this is a subscription: people install it as free, then get locked out after a trial and asked for roughly $100–120 a year, forced to a separate website to even find the price.
Dishonest pricing. There is no indication until after the free trial that this isn't a free app.
its a 110 dollar subscription and they make you sign up for a free trial and send you to their website to even find that information.
They don't tell you, but this is only free during the trial period. After that it costs $100 per year for a subscription.
Text fields jump the cursor to the end, and dates land a day early
Two specific post-update bugs enrage daily users: editing notes or names forces the cursor to the end of the line, and the calendar picks the previous day — making entries nearly impossible to edit.
when editing addresses, names, etc, anything in a text field, it forces the curser to the end of the text which is extremely annoying
In task NOTES the edit is unusable as curser continually flicks fwd to sentence end.
the calendar always selects the previous day
Every update resets your settings, including backup frequency
A small annoyance that hits the most sensitive spot: after each update settings and preferences reset and the backup schedule flips itself back to "daily" — which users only notice once they've already lost something.
Why do the preferences get reset every update? Specifically backup frequency.
After every recent update all my settings and preferences are erased making the next day or two an absolute mess
The update lost all my logs and settings, and there was no warning of an update or that data loss was a risk
Cross-device sync — the main paid feature — disagrees on the numbers
People pay the subscription specifically for sync, yet get different totals on two phones and find hours, locations and billing material don't transfer — the paid feature failing at the one job it's bought for.
Timesheet Sync across mobile devices is broken. On one phone it says 7 hours completed on the other it says 25.
Although the project names and client names transfer, the hours, location, and supplemental material needed for billing, etc. does not transfer.
Can not use between multiple platforms if you start the task on your phone then want to close it out on a tablet/ web-based only shows whatever last task started on that device.
On Galaxy Watch the app crashes and won't sync
Wear OS is an advertised draw that pulls buyers in, but in practice on the Galaxy Watch 4 the app crashes instantly, clock in/out won't sync, and you can't scroll the project list with the bezel.
Comlletly broken on Galaxy Watch 4 now, the app worked for a long time but now when you open it immediately crashes on Galaxy Watch 4
using it with android wear on the Galaxy Watch 4 is extremely buggy, clocking in and out doesn't sync or work properly 99% of the time.
Currently the ring on my galaxy watch can not be used to scroll the list of projects to choose from.