Timely (timely-time) is the timeline and team management view of Timely, where automatic timelines record hours minute by minute and team views, budgets, cost rates and an API turn time into accountable business data.
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Timetastic is a UK leave management platform founded in 2015 that simplifies annual/sick/comp time-off requests and approvals with a team calendar and Google Calendar/Outlook/Slack integrations, from about $2-4 per user per month.
OnTheClock is a US employee time clock and attendance platform serving 16,000+ companies. Attendance, scheduling and PTO are combined at $4 per employee per month plus a $5 base fee, with GPS and biometric clock-in and payroll integrations such as QuickBooks.
TimeCamp is a time tracking platform founded in Krakow, Poland in 2010, with an unlimited-user free plan, an AI Agent that fills timesheets automatically, 50+ native integrations and customers in 100+ countries.
Google Keep is a free lightweight note-taking app launched by Google in 2013, supporting text, voice, image, sketch, and checklist capture with 8-color labels and time/location reminders, deeply integrated with the Google ecosystem.
Kimai is an AGPLv3 open-source time tracking system from Germany supporting multi-project, multi-customer accounting and PDF invoice export, self-hostable for data sovereignty and a common choice for privacy- and cost-conscious teams.
Paymo is an integrated work management platform from Romania that combines project management, time tracking, resource scheduling and invoicing. The free plan offers unlimited time tracking and invoicing, Plus costs about $10.9 per user per month, and it suits small service teams managing from quote to payment.
TSheets is the time tracking brand Intuit acquired in 2018 for approximately $340 million and the predecessor of QuickBooks Time. GPS clock-in, geofencing, scheduling, and timesheets combined with seamless QuickBooks integration make it a common choice for US-style attendance and payroll.
InfluxDB is developed and maintained by InfluxData, the world's leading time-series database purpose-built for monitoring, IoT, real-time analytics, and observability. The Rust and Apache Arrow-based 3.0 supports SQL + Flux, ranked
Paymo's time tracking module offers unlimited timing and invoicing on the free plan, with Plus at about $10.9 per user per month. It supports one-click timing, bulk hours and timesheet reports, and links to project management and invoicing, making it a viable timing solution for service teams.
Focusmate is a virtual body-doubling focus platform founded in San Francisco that pairs users in live video sessions to get work done. It has completed 12M+ focus sessions across 150+ countries, with 3 free sessions per week.
Roam Research is a personal knowledge management tool from San Francisco, founded in 2018, that pioneered block references and bidirectional links. Built around Daily Notes, outlining and a graph view, it costs about $15 per month and defines the "Roam-like" PKM paradigm.
RescueTime is a classic automatic time tracking tool from Seattle, USA, founded in 2008. It logs app and website usage without manual timers and helps users review time allocation through a 0-100 Productivity Pulse score and weekly email reports.
Copy.ai is a US AI copywriting and content workflow platform founded in 2020. The free plan offers 2,000 words per month, supporting 25+ languages and 90+ templates for marketing teams' content generation, approval and automation pipelines.
Focus Booster is a Pomodoro technique focus app from a Canadian team, using 25-minute focus cycles, productivity reports, and income tracking to help individuals improve focus, available across all platforms for freelancers and remote workers.
Clockify's free personal time tracking, launched by a Serbian team in 2017, provides one-click timers, daily goals, and hour reports to help freelancers record and optimize their time allocation precisely.
Harvest time tracking is the core of the Harvest platform, founded in New York City in 2006 and serving 70,000+ companies with one-click timers, calendar sync and team utilization views, starting free with 1 seat and 2 projects.
Jibble is a free attendance and time tracking app founded in London, United Kingdom in 2017, with a permanently free plan and unlimited users, GPS, face recognition, kiosk and offline check-ins, a 4.8/5 average rating (20,000+ reviews) and customers including Tesla and Pepsi.
TimeCamp App is the cross-platform client of TimeCamp, covering Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android with offline tracking, a Pomodoro timer and automatic tracking, unlimited users on the free plan.
TMetric is a US time tracking tool founded in 2014 that focuses on billable hours, project budgets and invoicing, integrates with 60+ tools, and serves 10000+ companies worldwide from about $4-5 per user per month.
Buddy Punch is an employee time clock and scheduling software for U.S. hourly-workforce businesses, serving 10,000+ companies with a 4.8/5 G2/Capterra rating, offering GPS, geofencing, and photo-on-punch anti-fraud plus QuickBooks, Gusto, and ADP payroll integrations.
Akiflow is an AI-powered time blocking and calendar aggregation tool for high performers, unifying tasks, calendar, and AI scheduling from about $19/month to enable deep work.
Deputy is an employee scheduling and time & attendance platform founded in 2008 in Sydney, Australia, serving 100+ countries and 300,000+ workplaces with smart scheduling, multi-method clock-in and award compliance for shift-based industries.
Created by Paul Falstad in 1990 at Princeton University, Zsh (Z Shell) is a powerful open-source Unix shell and the default shell of macOS.
Everhour is a team time tracking and project budget tool founded in the United States in 2014, offering inline timing inside Asana, Trello, and Jira, with a free plan for 5 members, suited to teams that control hours and costs by project.
When I Work was founded in 2010 in the United States as an employee scheduling and attendance tool for hourly and shift-based teams. Scheduling, Web/mobile/kiosk clock-in, hours and overtime calculation, and team messaging combine so the free plan already supports basic management for small shift teams.
Forest is a gamified focus app developed by Korea's SEEKRTECH that plants a tree as you stay focused and kills it if you leave the app. With 60M+ downloads, a 4.8 App Store rating, and 2.1M+ real trees planted, it is one of the most popular focus apps across platforms.
Anytype is a local-first, offline-capable open-source knowledge management platform featuring end-to-end encryption and an object-relationship model, currently free, ideal for privacy- and data-sovereignty-focused users.
Capacities is an object-based personal knowledge management tool from a German team, launched in 2019, organizing notes, people, projects, and ideas as objects; the free plan offers unlimited objects, and Pro unlocks calendar and backlink views for about €10/month.
Dendron is an open-source hierarchical note-taking tool built on VS Code, with local-first Markdown storage and 100+ commands for managing knowledge bases of tens of thousands of notes. Free and suited to developers and heavy knowledge users.
Foam is a free, open-source personal knowledge management tool built on VS Code, using local Markdown files and bidirectional links to build a knowledge graph, completely free under the MIT license, suited to technical users familiar with VS Code and Git.
Habitica is a gamified habit and to-do management platform from the United States with over 4 million users, turning habits, dailies and to-dos into an RPG leveling game that is free to use with an open-source core.
Reeder is a classic Apple-ecosystem RSS reader from German indie developer Silvio Rizzi, known for minimalist elegant reading, iCloud three-device sync, and a one-time purchase model, supporting Feedbin, Feedly, and more.
Reflect is an AI-powered, end-to-end encrypted notes app combining Daily Notes, bidirectional links, and built-in AI summaries and Q&A at about $10/month, an Obsidian-style choice for privacy-conscious users.
RemNote is a notes-plus-memory tool for students that deeply combines note-taking with spaced-repetition flashcards, supporting PDF annotation, bidirectional links, and multi-platform sync, free tier available and Pro about $8/month.
Simplenote is a minimal notes app from Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, born in 2008. It is completely free with no ads, syncs across iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and Web in real time, and offers version history and collaborative notes.