Best Clockify alternatives in 2026, compared

Clockify grew big on one promise: a free time tracker for unlimited users. In April 2026 that changed: the free plan now stops at 5 users, and exports, billable hours and the kiosk moved to paid plans. In September 2026 Clockify added employee Activity monitoring. This page shows what each alternative costs your team, which one fits your situation, and how to move your data.

The short answer: TimeCamp or Jibble for a free plan with no user limit, My Hours for a cheap project timer, Toggl Track for no monitoring, Harvest for invoicing, ActivityWatch for free and open source, and TimeUno for time filed into projects without a timer, AI tools included. Prices are as of October 2026, from each company's own pricing page.

Why people leave Clockify

• The free plan got smaller. Clockify's April 2026 announcement capped the free plan at 5 users, where it used to be unlimited. Reports can be filtered for one month (31 days) at a time, and exports are PDF only. Billable hours, shared reports, project time estimates, private projects, the kiosk and CSV and Excel export moved to paid plans. The API is limited to 30 requests an hour. If a workspace has more than 5 active users when its trial ends, Clockify deactivates the extra users.
• The features you lost are spread over three tiers. Basic ($3.99 per seat a month billed yearly) brings back CSV and Excel export, billable rates, the kiosk and import. Standard ($5.49) adds invoicing, approvals and time off. Pro ($7.99) adds Activity monitoring, scheduling, expenses, budgets, GPS and a choice of data region.
• Activity monitoring. Since September 2026, Pro and up include an Agent app that admins install on company devices. It records visited websites and apps, keyboard and mouse activity and optional periodic screenshots. Only admins see the results; employees can't access their own.
• The auto tracker is manual. It records apps and sites locally for 45 days, but turning them into time entries is click by click, with no rules or AI to assign projects.
• No AI yet. Clockify lists its MCP server as coming soon.

Clockify is still the right pick if price per seat is all that matters: Basic at $3.99 is the cheapest plan on this list with both billable rates and CSV and Excel export. It also runs on Linux, and Pro lets you keep data in the USA, EU (Germany), UK or Australia.

Toggl Track

Toggl Track is Clockify's closest rival: a timer, timesheets, calendar integrations and apps on desktop, web and mobile. Since September 2026 the new combined Toggl app is the flagship; Track stays supported, with no announced end date.

Better than Clockify: no screenshots and no activity monitoring, by design. Its desktop Timeline records apps and sites you use for more than 10 seconds, and admins cannot see it. Autotracker keyword rules can start an entry when a matching window is in front. CSV import of clients, projects, tasks and time entries is on every plan, including Free. Toggl has an MCP server today, so AI assistants such as Claude can read and log your time.

Where it falls short: it costs more than twice as much per seat as Clockify Basic. The free plan is for up to 3 users and leaves out billable rates and tags. Toggl does not create invoices: it exports billable hours by client and project as CSV or PDF, and you send the invoice from another tool. Toggl's own Linux page lists only Windows and Mac apps.

Price: Starter $9 per user a month billed yearly ($12 monthly), Premium $16 ($24 monthly). 30-day trial.

Harvest

Harvest is a timer built around invoices. Time, expenses and invoices sit in one app, and paid plans connect to Stripe, QuickBooks Online and Xero.

Better than Clockify: invoicing and expense tracking are on every plan, including the free one, so you do not climb to a $5.49 tier to bill a client.

Where it falls short: the free plan is 1 seat and 2 projects. Teams costs more than twice Clockify Basic per seat, and on Teams and Enterprise extra invoices, projects, clients and tasks beyond the base rate are billed by usage. Timesheet approvals need Enterprise. It is a manual timer with no automatic tracking, and there is no native Linux app.

Price: Teams from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($11 monthly), Enterprise from $14 ($17.50 monthly). 30-day trial.

TimeCamp

TimeCamp is a project time tracker with a free plan for unlimited users, like Clockify before April 2026.

Better than Clockify: unlimited users and projects for free, with automatic tracking, keyword rules and a personal activity timeline included. A free add-on imports your Clockify data directly. Starter at $3.99 adds invoicing and Excel export.

Where it falls short: it has the same tier problem. Billable time and apps and websites tracking need Premium ($6.99), and billable rates, timesheet approvals and screenshots need Ultimate ($9.99). A team that bills hourly pays $9.99 per seat, against $3.99 on Clockify Basic. Its AI Time Tracker is billed by token usage on top of the plan; TimeCamp estimates about $6 per user a month.

Price: Starter $3.99 per user a month billed yearly ($5.49 monthly), Premium $6.99 ($9.99), Ultimate $9.99 ($13.99).

My Hours

My Hours is a project timer for small agencies: projects, tasks and clients, a timer or manual entry, and reports.

Better than Clockify: the free plan covers up to 5 users, like Clockify's, but keeps a billable rate per project and unlimited projects, tasks and clients. Importing timesheets, projects and clients works on every plan, including Free. Basic adds API access and an MCP connector for Claude.

Where it falls short: Excel export, invoicing and timesheet approvals need Pro at $8. There is no native desktop app (it runs on the web, as an installable web app, on mobile and as a browser extension), and no automatic tracking.

Price: Basic $4 per user a month billed yearly ($5 monthly), Pro $8 ($9 monthly). 14-day trial.

Jibble

Jibble is a clock-in and attendance app for teams that used Clockify's kiosk and attendance side.

Better than Clockify: Jibble's pricing page says it is free forever for unlimited users, where Clockify Free stops at 5. Its feature list covers clock-in from phones, desktop or a shared kiosk, face recognition, geofencing and GPS, time off, approvals and XLS or CSV exports.

Where it falls short: it is built for attendance, not project and client time, so agencies get thinner project reports. Admins can switch on periodic screenshots in its desktop app. Paid prices are not listed; larger companies are pointed to an Enterprise offer.

Price: free for unlimited users. Enterprise on request.

ActivityWatch

ActivityWatch is free and open source (MPL-2.0). It records the active app and window title, the browser tab through an extension, and whether you are away from the keyboard.

Better than Clockify: it costs nothing, tracks without a timer, and keeps all data on your own machine, so no admin can see it.

Where it falls short: it is a toolkit for one person, not a team timesheet. Categories come from regular expressions you write, there are no projects, clients, timesheets or invoices, and sync between devices is still a work in progress.

Price: free.

TimeUno

TimeUno is our product, so read this section with that in mind. It is an automatic time tracker with no timer: it records the app or site in front of you, the window title and idle time, and sorts every stretch into a project and a category. It never records what you type.

Better than Clockify: where Clockify's auto tracker leaves you to convert every block, TimeUno files the time for you, by the folder open in your editor or keywords you set for a client. Correct a wrong entry once and it remembers. Timesheets per project, with a client name, export as CSV. It tracks AI tools too, including background agents like Claude and Cursor, with tokens and cost, from metadata only. Team admins see worked time and scores, never your apps, sites or screens. Data is stored in Germany.

Where it falls short: no free plan, no mobile app, no kiosk or GPS, no billable rates and no invoices. A Team seat costs more than three times Clockify Basic. Screenshots and on-screen text are on by default (you can turn them off per computer). Windows and Linux are in beta, and there is no import of your Clockify history. It is not a legal time clock.

Price: Individual $10.49 a month billed yearly ($14.99 monthly), Team $13.99 per seat a month billed yearly ($19.99 monthly). 14-day trial.

What it costs a real team

Yearly cost for a team of 1, 5 and 15 people, on the cheapest plan that fits, billed yearly.

Basis: yearly-billed price per seat a month x 12 x seats, from the prices above. $0 means the free plan covers that size, with its limits. Enterprise: on request. Harvest Teams can cost more past its included usage.

How to choose

• A 20-person site crew that clocked in on Clockify's free kiosk. Pick Jibble. It is free for unlimited users and built around kiosk, GPS and face-checked clock-in. Clockify Basic, needed for the kiosk, would cost this crew $957.60 a year.
• A 12-person office team that tracks project hours and will not pay. Pick TimeCamp Free. It has no user cap, tracks automatically, and its free Clockify add-on brings your old time entries with you.
• A 4-person design studio that bills by the hour and missed billable rates on Clockify Free. Pick My Hours Free. It keeps a billable rate per project for up to 5 users at $0. Move to Pro at $8 when you need invoices or Excel export.
• A 10-person agency that sends invoices every month. Pick Harvest Teams, at $1,080 a year: invoices, expenses and QuickBooks, Xero and Stripe connections sit in one app. If the budget wins, Clockify Standard does invoicing for $658.80 a year.
• A remote team of 6 that does not want the new Activity monitoring anywhere near it. Pick Toggl Track Starter, at $648 a year. It has no screenshots or monitoring, and its desktop Timeline is hidden from admins.
• A solo developer who forgets timers and runs Claude or Cursor all day. Pick TimeUno Individual, at $125.88 a year. It files desk time into projects from your editor folder and counts AI agent time with tokens and cost. Skip it if you need invoices or a phone app.

Switching from Clockify

1. Export before you cancel. Clockify Free exports reports as PDF only, up to 31 days each, which no tracker imports. CSV export needs Basic: a Detailed report over your full date range gives you every time entry. One month of Basic billed monthly costs $4.99 per active user.
2. TimeCamp: a free Clockify add-on connects with your Clockify API key and imports clients, projects, tasks and time entries, so you do not need a CSV export. Add your team in TimeCamp first: hours for people it cannot match by email or username are skipped.
3. Toggl Track: import clients, projects, tasks, tags, members and time entries from a CSV on any plan, including Free. Toggl's guide uses Clockify's CSV exports of time entries and projects.
4. Harvest: an Administrator imports time from a CSV under Settings, Import/Export. The file needs 8 columns in Harvest's order (date, client, project, task, notes, hours, first name, last name), so you will rearrange the Clockify export. Harvest creates missing clients, projects and tasks, but not people, and it imports durations only, not start and end times.
5. My Hours: importing timesheets, projects and clients is available on every plan, including Free.
6. TimeUno has no import. It starts tracking from the day you install it, so keep your Clockify export as your archive.

Questions people ask

Is there a free Clockify alternative?

Yes. TimeCamp (project time) and Jibble (clock-in) are free for unlimited users. My Hours is free for up to 5 users, Toggl Track for up to 3.

Why did Clockify's free plan change?

Clockify said the cost of running its infrastructure for an unlimited number of free users was growing, and that it wants to focus on paid customers. The April 2026 change applies to current and future Free users; existing paid users were not affected.

Which Clockify alternative does not monitor employees?

Toggl Track, by design. ActivityWatch keeps data on your own computer, and TimeUno shows admins worked time and scores only. TimeCamp Ultimate and Jibble's desktop app both offer screenshots.