Standard Notes is a privacy-first notes app from the USA, founded in 2012, built around end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and auditable open source. It syncs across iOS, Android, desktop and Web, supports extension editors and 2FA, and costs about $10 per month for paid plans.
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WorkFlowy is an infinite-level outliner released in 2010 by a US team, known for Zoom focus and minimalist text. The free plan offers limited nodes and Pro costs about $4.99-9.99 per month, making it a pioneer of outline-based thinking.
Tick is an online time tracking tool launched in the United States in 2012, supporting timers, manual entry, project and client classification, time reports and a RESTful API, with subscriptions around $10-20/month for freelancers and small teams.
Active Collab is a project management, time tracking, and invoicing platform for freelancers and small to mid-sized teams, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment starting around $6.5/user/month.
Connecteam is an all-in-one employee management app founded in 2017 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The free plan supports 10 users and combines scheduling, time clock, tasks and internal communication, with a G2 rating of 4.6+ for deskless and frontline teams.
Time Doctor was founded in 2012 by Liam Martin and Rob Rawson and serves 200,000+ business users with employee time tracking, Web/App monitoring and optional screenshots, integrating 60+ tools for around $5.9-20/user/month.
BigTime is a professional services automation (PSA) platform founded in 2003 in Chicago, serving 3,000+ professional services firms and 80K+ daily users, with native QuickBooks integration and unified time tracking, project management, resource scheduling, and smart billing.
TrackingTime was founded in 2012, headquartered in the United States with an Argentine operations team, as an all-in-one time tracking and project management SaaS. Real-time timing, calendar views, and team performance analysis combine so the free plan already supports basic hour management for small teams.
HourStack is a time scheduling and time management tool founded in the United States in 2015, using drag-and-drop time blocks on Google/Outlook calendars and comparing them with actual tracked time; now part of ClickUp, its free plan supports teams of up to 3 users.
Hubstaff Time Tracking is the Hubstaff platform (founded in the United States in 2012) viewed from the timesheet and project-costing angle, with one-click timers, project budgets and timesheet approvals, serving 140,000+ global users, with Starter at $4.99/seat/month.
Timeneye is a time tracking tool founded in 2006 in Slovenia that simplifies timesheets and project/client reporting, integrates with 20+ B2B tools, and starts around $5-9 per user per month.
ClickTime is an established enterprise time management platform founded in San Francisco in 2005, focusing on timesheets, expenses, and resource utilization for mid-to-large businesses and professional service teams that need project profitability and compliance reporting.
Pomotodo (Tomato Potato) is a Chinese Pomodoro Technique and to-do list app built around 25-minute focus and 5-minute breaks, syncing across iOS, Android, and Web with WeChat reminders for individual users.
Workpuls is an employee productivity monitoring and time tracking platform founded in Israel in 2016 by Rom R., automatically recording work hours, activity levels and website/app usage. Paid plans cost about $4-8 per user per month with a free trial, a common choice for remote team efficiency management.
TickSpot is a US time tracking and timesheet tool built around the Weekly Timesheet, project and client hours and an Approve workflow, with PDF/CSV export, subscriptions around $3-7/user/month and a free tier.
Minute7 is a professional services time and expense tracking tool based in Mountain View, California, priced at a flat $8 per user per month, deeply integrated with QuickBooks and covering timesheets, expenses, and mileage for accountants and service teams.
Clockodo is a German time tracking and attendance management tool. The free plan supports 3 users, data is hosted in Germany under GDPR, and it combines project timing, budget comparison, leave management and automated reports.
DeskTime is an automatic time tracking and employee productivity analysis platform founded in Riga, Latvia, recording work hours without manual start or stop and auto-classifying activities, with the official site reporting over 1 million users for remote and hybrid teams.
Bento is an open-source link-in-bio page builder founded in 2022 in San Francisco, a Linktree alternative that supports self-hosting, custom domains, and built-in analytics for building a personal brand page.
Slite is a team knowledge base and document collaboration tool founded in Paris, France in 2015, known for its simple editor and AI Q&A, positioned as a "lightweight Notion". A free plan is available, Pro costs about $8 per member per month, and it suits small and mid-size teams consolidating knowledge.
Billo is a creator marketing and UGC video ads platform headquartered in San Francisco, serving 22,000+ brands and 5,000+ creators, with data from 326k+ ads driving script generation and creator matching, cutting CAC by up to 66%.
Dropbox Paper is the real-time collaborative document tool from Dropbox, launched in 2015, offering rich media embedding, task assignment, and version history, usable from the free Basic tier ($0) for lightweight document collaboration and knowledge capture.
DeskTrack is an employee time tracking and productivity monitoring platform founded in 2016, offering app and website tracking, activity levels, random screenshots and project time, with a free plan for up to 3 users suited to remote and outsourcing teams.
Founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington in Washington State, USA, Valve is the developer and operator of Steam, the world's largest PC game distribution platform, owning famous game IPs such as Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Dota 2, plus hardware like Steam Deck.
TimeClock is a US time and attendance tool supporting web, mobile and kiosk clock-in, with GPS location, biometrics, scheduling and payroll integration, priced from about $3-10 per user per month.
Hours is a minimal iOS/Web time tracking app featuring color-coded visual time allocation, with project and tag management, suited to individuals and small teams logging hours by project.
Freelancer Time is a lightweight time-tracking tool for freelancers with one-click timing, project-based hour tracking, and PDF/Excel reports. As a web app that runs instantly in the browser, it suits budget-conscious individuals and small teams.