Best Toggl Track alternatives in 2026, compared

Toggl Track is a timer: you press start, name the work, press stop, and Toggl turns the entries into reports and billable hours. People leave for four reasons. The timer only records what you remember to start. The free plan stops at 3 users and has no billable rates or CSV export. Paid seats cost $9 or $16 per user a month billed yearly. And since September 2026 Toggl sells a new combined app, simply called Toggl.

The short answer: pick Clockify for the lowest price per seat and a Linux app, Harvest if you send invoices from your tracker, TimeCamp for a free plan with no user limit, Timely if you want timesheets drafted from recorded activity, ActivityWatch if you want it free and open source, and TimeUno if you want projects and timesheets filed for you, including the time your AI tools work. Prices are as of October 2026, from each company's own pricing page.

Why people leave Toggl Track

• The timer. Toggl's Windows and Mac apps can record every app and site you use for more than 10 seconds to a private timeline, and keyword rules can prompt you to track a project. Your timesheet still comes from entries you start or confirm.
• The free plan. Free is for up to 3 users, with timers, calendar integrations, personal reports and PDF export. Billable rates, team reports and CSV or Excel export start on Starter.
• The price. Starter costs $9 per user a month billed yearly ($12 monthly), Premium $16 ($24 monthly). Timesheet approvals, fixed-fee projects and profitability reports are on Premium.
• The new Toggl. In September 2026 the new combined Toggl became the flagship, and the pricing page now sells its plans. Toggl Track stays supported for existing users with no announced sunset date.

Toggl Track is still a strong pick if you bill by the hour, want desktop and mobile apps, and want a tool that takes no screenshots and records nothing for your manager. Its trial is 30 days.

What it costs a real team

Yearly cost for a team of 1, 5 and 15, as of October 2026.

How we got these numbers: per-seat price billed yearly x 12 x seats; "Free" where the free plan allows that many users. Harvest adds usage fees on Teams for extra invoices, projects, clients and tasks beyond the base rate. Enterprise: on request for Toggl, Harvest Enterprise Plus, TimeCamp, Timely and My Hours.

Clockify

Clockify, made by CAKE.com, is the closest like-for-like alternative: a timer, timesheets and apps on every platform, for less per seat.

Better than Toggl Track: a Linux desktop app, which Toggl's own Linux page does not list. Standard, at $5.49 per seat billed yearly, includes invoicing, recurring invoices and timesheet approvals, which Toggl puts on Premium at $16. Pro lets you host data in the EU (Germany), UK, USA or Australia.

Where it falls short: since April 2026 the free plan stops at 5 users, report date ranges are limited to a month, and CSV and Excel export, billable hours and the kiosk need a paid plan. The desktop auto tracker records apps and sites locally for 45 days, but you convert every block to a time entry by hand. Since September 2026, Pro also includes Activity monitoring: an agent on company devices records websites, apps, keyboard and mouse activity and screenshots for admins. Clockify's MCP server for AI assistants is listed as coming soon; Toggl already has one.

Price: Basic $3.99 per seat a month billed yearly ($4.99 monthly), Standard $5.49 ($6.99), Pro $7.99 ($9.99), Enterprise $11.99 ($14.99). 7-day trial with Pro features.

Harvest

Harvest is a timer with invoicing built in: time, expenses and invoices in one app, with Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Deel.

Better than Toggl Track: invoicing and expense tracking are on every plan, including the free one. Desktop apps for Mac and Windows, mobile apps for iOS and Android, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

Where it falls short: it is still a timer, with no automatic tracking. The free plan is 1 seat and 2 projects. On Teams and Enterprise, extra invoices, projects, clients and tasks beyond the base rate are billed by usage, so a long client list costs more than the seat price. Timesheet approvals and profitability reports need Enterprise at $14. Harvest's apps page lists no Linux app.

Price: Teams from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($11 monthly), Enterprise from $14 ($17.50 monthly). 30-day trial, no card needed.

TimeCamp

TimeCamp is a project tracker that can record time on its own from the apps and documents you use.

Better than Toggl Track: automatic tracking with keywords, a personal activity timeline and idle tracking on the free plan, with unlimited users and projects. A Linux desktop app. Invoicing starts on Starter at $3.99, less than half of Toggl Starter.

Where it falls short: features are spread over many tiers. Billable time and the apps and websites report need Premium. Billing rates, timesheet approvals and screenshots need Ultimate, so the tool also serves employers who want to watch activity. 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). Enterprise on request.

Timely

Timely records your work with its Memory app and drafts timesheets from it.

Better than Toggl Track: automatic tracking and AI-drafted timesheets on every plan, so nobody starts a timer. The Memory timeline is private to each person. iOS and Android apps add a manual timer and GPS location tracking.

Where it falls short: no free plan. Starter caps you at 5 users and 20 projects, so a team of 6 pays Premium at $16, the same as Toggl Premium. Memory runs on Mac (macOS 14 or later) and Windows; Timely's downloads page lists no Linux app. You still review the drafted entries.

Price: Starter $9 per user a month billed yearly ($11 monthly), Premium $16 ($20), Unlimited $22 ($28). 14-day trial.

My Hours

My Hours is a plain project timer for small agencies.

Better than Toggl Track: the free plan covers up to 5 users with unlimited projects. Basic adds a basic billable rate, an API and an MCP server for Claude at $4 per user a month billed yearly, less than half of Toggl Starter. Pro adds approvals, rates per user and task, Excel export, a two-way Jira sync and invoicing.

Where it falls short: it is a timer too, so it does not fix forgotten timers. No native desktop app: it runs on the web, as a desktop web app, on iOS and Android and as a browser extension.

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

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 time away from the keyboard.

Better than Toggl Track: it costs nothing, records time without a timer, keeps the data on your own machine, and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

Where it falls short: it is a toolkit, not a timesheet tool. Category rules are regular expressions you write, there are no projects, clients or timesheets, and sync between devices is listed as work in progress. No team features and no support beyond the community.

Price: free.

TimeUno

TimeUno is our product, so judge this section with that in mind. It records the app or site in front of you, the window title, idle time and your project, and sorts every stretch into a project and a category. It never records what you type.

Better than Toggl Track: nothing to start, stop or forget. Projects are detected from the folder open in your editor or from keywords you set for a client, and when TimeUno files something wrong, you correct it once and it remembers. Timesheets are built per project for this week, last week or this month, with a client name, and export as CSV. It tracks AI tools, including agents that run in the background like Claude and Cursor, on their own timeline with tokens and cost, and it reads metadata only, never prompts or code. It runs on Linux (beta). Data is stored in Germany and never sold.

Where it falls short: no free plan and no mobile app. No billable rates or invoices, so if you bill from Toggl, keep that part in Toggl or your invoicing tool. Screenshots and on-screen text are on by default (you can turn them off per computer), while Toggl takes none. Windows and Linux are in beta, the browser extension is Firefox only for now, and there is no import of your Toggl history. For a team of 15 it costs $2,518.20 a year, more than Toggl Starter at $1,620.

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.

Switching from Toggl Track

1. Export your history first. On Toggl Track's Free plan, reports export only as PDF; CSV needs a paid plan. Admins can export everyone's entries, and workspace data (projects, clients and more) as JSON from Settings, Data Export.
2. Pick a tool that can read it.
- Clockify imports a Toggl Detailed report CSV. Time entries need a paid plan or the trial; Free imports only projects, clients, tasks and tags. Invite your team first, or their entries are skipped.
- Timely imports projects, clients and users with your Toggl API token, on any plan, if you are the Toggl workspace owner.
- My Hours imports timesheets, projects and clients from a file on every plan.
- Harvest imports projects and people from CSV on Teams and Enterprise.
- TimeCamp imports users and projects from CSV, including on Free.
- TimeUno has no import. It starts tracking the day you install it.
3. Staying with Toggl? The new Toggl copies a whole Track workspace, time entries included, at no charge.
4. Run both for a week and compare totals before you cancel.

How to choose

• A 4-person design studio that bills hourly and finds Toggl Starter too expensive: Clockify. Free covers all 4 people, and Standard adds invoicing and approvals for $263.52 a year for 4 seats, against $768 for Toggl Premium.
• A 2-person consultancy that sends 10 invoices a month and hates copying hours into an invoicing app: Harvest. Invoices and expenses are built in, and Teams costs $216 a year for 2 seats.
• A 15-person team that wants something free: TimeCamp. Its free plan has no user limit and includes automatic tracking with keywords.
• A 10-person agency whose people forget the timer and fill timesheets on Friday from memory: Timely. Memory records the week and AI drafts the entries. At 10 people you need Premium, $1,920 a year.
• A solo developer on Linux who never wants to press start and works with Claude or Cursor: TimeUno, $125.88 a year (Linux is in beta). It files time into projects from your editor folder and counts your AI agents' time next to yours. If you also need invoices, keep an invoicing tool.
• A privacy-minded freelancer who wants automatic data for free and does not need timesheets: ActivityWatch. You build the categories yourself.

Questions people ask

What is the best free Toggl alternative?

TimeCamp, for a team: its free plan has unlimited users and automatic tracking. Clockify and My Hours are free for up to 5 users, Toggl for 3. ActivityWatch is free, open source and automatic, with data on your computer.

Is there an open source Toggl alternative?

Yes, ActivityWatch (MPL-2.0). It tracks apps, window titles and browser tabs automatically, but has no projects, timesheets or team features.

Is Toggl Track being shut down?

No. Toggl says Track remains supported for existing users with no announced sunset date, and paid Track organizations get the equivalent tier of the new Toggl at no extra charge.

Can I import my Toggl history into TimeUno?

Not today. TimeUno starts tracking the day you install it. Keep your Toggl exports for the old data.