TimeUno vs Clockify: cheap timer or automatic tracking?

Clockify is the cheap timer. Paid plans start under $4 a seat, it runs on every platform, and it has a free plan. But it is still a timer: you start it, name the work, and stop it. Its auto tracker records your apps, but turning that record into time entries is something you do by hand.

TimeUno has no timer. It runs in the background, records the app or site in front of you, files every stretch into a project and a category, and builds the timesheet from that. Here is how the two compare on tracking, projects, price, privacy and AI, with prices as of October 2026 from each company's own pricing page.

The short answer

Pick Clockify if price per seat is what decides it, if your team already logs time with a timer, or if you need invoicing, approvals, attendance, time off, GPS or a kiosk. It covers a lot of business features for very little money.

Pick TimeUno if the timer is the problem. Nobody on the team has to start, switch or remember anything, the time lands in the right project by itself, and admins see worked time and scores, never which apps and sites people used.

How tracking works

Clockify is built around manual entry: a timer, a weekly timesheet, a calendar view, or a kiosk for clocking in. It has helpers for the forgetting problem:

• Auto tracker (Mac, Windows and Linux desktop apps): records programs, window titles, website URLs and an idle percentage, with a new record each time you switch app, tab or document. It is stored on your computer only and deleted after 45 days. Admins cannot see it unless you turn it into time entries.
• Converting that record is fully manual. You select records and add or merge them into entries. There are no rules and no AI to assign a project.
• Idle detection, reminders and a Pomodoro timer on Mac, Windows and the Chrome extension.

All of these help you fill the timer. None of them fills it for you.

TimeUno records the app or site in front, the window title and idle time, all day. It never records what you type. Every stretch is sorted into a project and a category, and marked productive or unproductive. When it files something wrong, you correct it once and TimeUno remembers the correction. On a Team plan, category corrections are shared, so one fix helps everyone.

In practice: Clockify's auto tracker gives you a list of everything you did. TimeUno gives you that list already filed.

Projects and timesheets

In Clockify you pick a project for each entry. Around that, Clockify has a deep set of business tools: billable rates, approvals, invoicing and recurring invoices from Standard, and labor cost, profit, budgets, scheduling, expenses and GPS tracking on Pro. Since April 2026, billable hours, project estimates, private projects and CSV or Excel export are paid features. If you run payroll, attendance or invoicing from your tracker, Clockify does far more here.

In TimeUno the project is detected from what you were working in: the folder open in your editor, or keywords you set for a client or project. Timesheets are built from the tracked time per project for this week, last week or this month, with a client name. You edit any line, then export as CSV. TimeUno does not do billable rates, invoices or approvals, so keep that part in Clockify or your invoicing tool.

Pricing in October 2026

Clockify is cheaper, plainly. Its Pro plan costs less per seat than TimeUno's Individual plan. Clockify also sells a CAKE.com bundle with its chat and project tools at $12.99 a seat yearly, $15.99 monthly.

The free plan changed in April 2026. It used to allow unlimited users; it is now capped at 5. Kiosk, billable hours, shared reports, project estimates, private projects and CSV or Excel export moved to paid plans, reports only cover one month, and the API is limited to 30 requests an hour. For a solo freelancer who only needs a timer, Clockify Free still costs nothing.

TimeUno charges in USD or EUR. Clockify lists prices in USD.

Privacy: what each one sees

This is the biggest change at Clockify this year.

Clockify keeps the auto tracker private to you. But in September 2026 it launched Activity monitoring on Pro and up, at no extra fee. An agent app on company computers records visited websites and apps, keyboard and mouse activity, and optional screenshots. Only admins see that data, and Clockify says employees cannot access their own monitoring results. A utilization percentage comes from "Productivity rules" the company sets. Pro also adds GPS location tracking. On Pro and Enterprise you can pick where data is stored: the US, the EU (Germany), the UK or Australia.

TimeUno works the other way around. Screenshots and on-screen text are on by default, so TimeUno also takes screenshots. The difference is who sees them: they are private to you, and you can turn them off for each computer. It never records what you type. From AI tools it reads metadata only, never prompts, answers or code. In a team, admins see worked time and scores, never your apps or sites, and the team dashboard shows weekly totals, never anyone's screens. Data is stored in Germany and never sold.

So both tools can take screenshots. In Clockify they are for your employer. In TimeUno they are for you.

AI: none yet vs tracking your AI tools

Clockify lists no shipped AI features. Its MCP server, which would connect Clockify to AI assistants, is marked "coming soon".

TimeUno tracks the AI tools themselves. Claude, Cursor and other coding agents often work while you do something else, and a timer cannot see that work at all. TimeUno gives AI tool time its own timeline, with tokens and cost, and a server agent picks up AI coding sessions on a remote server. On the Team plan, admin connectors for Anthropic and Cursor add this with nothing to install.

When Clockify is the better choice

• Price per seat matters most, or you need a free plan for up to 5 users.
• You invoice from your tracker and want approvals and recurring invoices.
• You need attendance, time off, scheduling, expenses, GPS or a kiosk.
• People track time on their phones or away from a computer.
• You want to pick your data region, in the US, EU, UK or Australia.
• Your company wants activity monitoring with screenshots for admins. TimeUno does not show admins that.

When TimeUno is the better choice

• Your team forgets timers, and timesheets get rebuilt from memory.
• You want time filed into projects without converting records by hand.
• You want a tracker that is not employee monitoring: admins never see apps or sites.
• You work with AI coding tools and want their time, tokens and cost counted.
• You want to see focus and productive time, not only hours.

Can you use both?

Yes. Keep Clockify for invoicing, approvals and payroll, and run TimeUno to see the whole day. After a week, compare TimeUno's project totals with what landed in Clockify. The gap is the time nobody logged.

Questions people ask

Is TimeUno cheaper than Clockify?

No. Clockify's paid plans run from $3.99 to $11.99 a seat billed yearly, and it has a free plan for up to 5 users. TimeUno costs $10.49 a month for one person or $13.99 per seat for a team, billed yearly, after a 14-day trial. You pay more for time that files itself.

Does Clockify track time automatically?

Partly. The auto tracker records apps, window titles and URLs on Mac, Windows and Linux, but you convert those records into time entries by hand, with no rules or AI to pick the project. TimeUno files the time without a timer.

Can my manager see my screen in Clockify or TimeUno?

In Clockify, if your company uses Activity monitoring on Pro or higher, admins see the websites and apps you used, keyboard and mouse activity, and screenshots if they are turned on. In TimeUno, admins see worked time and scores only. Your screenshots stay private to you, and you can turn them off.

Can I import my Clockify history into TimeUno?

Not today. TimeUno starts tracking from the day you install it. Most people keep their Clockify reports and compare a week of each.