Toggl Track vs Clockify (2026): which timer to pick

Toggl Track and Clockify are the two timers most people compare first. Both let you start and stop a timer, fill a timesheet, tag work by project and client, and track from desktop, browser and phone. The differences are in price, in what the free plan still includes, in invoicing, and in whether the tool can monitor your team.

The short answer: Clockify costs less per seat at every plan, runs on Linux, sends invoices from its Standard plan and can monitor employees on Pro. Toggl Track costs more, but has no monitoring features at all, a 30-day trial, Toggl AI and an MCP server you can use today. Prices below are as of October 2026, from each company's own pricing page. TimeUno is our product; it appears only as a third option for people who want no timer at all.

Price

Clockify also sells a CAKE.com bundle with its chat app Pumble and project tool Plaky for $12.99 per seat billed yearly.

Toggl sells two add-ons: Time Off Pro at $2 per user a month, and Capacity Management at $5 per user a month billed yearly ($6 monthly).

What it costs a real team

Yearly cost for a team of 1, 5 and 15, billed yearly, as of October 2026:

How we calculated: the per-seat price billed yearly x 12 months x the number of people. Free means the free plan allows that many users. TimeUno's Individual plan is $10.49 a month, its Team plan $13.99 per seat. Add-ons and taxes are not included.

For 15 people, Toggl Starter ($1,620) costs more than Clockify Pro ($1,438.20), and Toggl Premium ($2,880) more than Clockify Enterprise ($2,158.20). For one person, the cheapest paid plans differ by $60.12 a year, so fit matters more than price.

Free plan

Both free plans have no end date.

Clockify changed its free plan on April 21, 2026. It used to have unlimited users. Now it stops at 5 users, report filters cover up to one month, and these moved to paid plans: billable hours, the kiosk, shared reports, project time estimates, private projects, and CSV and Excel export. The API is limited to 30 requests an hour and webhooks to 3. Paid users were not affected.

Toggl Track Free covers up to 3 users, with manual and real-time timers, calendar integrations, simple planning with tasks and boards, and reports on your own progress. Exports are PDF only. Billable rates, tags, team reports, Toggl AI and CSV and Excel export start on Starter.

For a solo freelancer who does not bill hourly, both free plans work. For a team of 4 or 5, only Clockify Free still applies, and it will not track billable hours or export a CSV.

Features and tracking

Both are timers first: you start a timer or fill a timesheet by hand. Both have idle detection and a Pomodoro timer on every plan.

The automatic parts differ:

• Toggl Track has a desktop Timeline on Windows and Mac that records every program and website you view for more than 10 seconds, shown in 15-minute blocks. Autotracker keyword rules notify you or start an entry when a matching window is in front.
• Clockify has an auto tracker on its Windows, Mac and Linux apps (not the Mac App Store version). It records programs, window titles and website URLs and keeps them on your computer for 45 days. Turning them into time entries is manual: you select records and add them. There are no rules.

In both, the timesheet still comes from entries you start or confirm.

Clockify adds tools for running a staffed team: kiosk clock-in and breaks on Basic, time off and attendance on Standard, scheduling, expenses, GPS tracking and budgets on Pro. Toggl adds planning instead: task boards on Free, project estimates and milestones on Starter, fixed-fee projects and project dashboards on Premium.

Reports, billable rates and invoicing

Toggl Track puts billable rates, team reports, scheduled report emails and CSV and Excel export on Starter. Premium adds labor cost and profitability reports, fixed-fee projects, project dashboards and timesheet approvals with locking. Toggl does not send invoices: its invoicing page says you export billable hours as CSV or Excel and use the invoicing tool you already have.

Clockify puts billable rates and CSV and Excel export on Basic. Standard adds invoices, recurring invoices and approvals. Pro adds labor cost and profit, and budgets.

To send invoices from your tracker, Clockify Standard does it for $5.49 a seat billed yearly. With Toggl you need a second tool.

Integrations and apps

Toggl Track puts its Jira and Asana integrations on Premium. Its Salesforce integration is marked as legacy and not supported in the new Toggl. Apps: web, Windows and Mac desktop, iOS and Android, and Chrome and Firefox extensions. Toggl's own Linux page lists only Windows and Mac apps, so on Linux you use the web app.

Clockify says it has 100+ integrations, including a two-way Jira integration. Apps: Windows, Mac and Linux desktop, iOS and Android, web, Chrome, Firefox and Edge extensions, and a kiosk that runs on a tablet, phone or computer.

If anyone on the team works on Linux, Clockify is the one with a native app.

Privacy

Toggl Track has no monitoring features. Its pricing page says it does not take screenshots or record keystrokes, browsing history or location. The desktop Timeline is tied to your account, and other users, including admins, cannot see it.

Clockify keeps its auto tracker local too: admins cannot see it unless you turn records into time entries. But its Pro plan and up include Activity monitoring, at no extra fee. Employees install an Agent app on work devices, and it records visited websites and apps, keyboard and mouse activity, and screenshots. Only admins see the results; Clockify says employees cannot access their own monitoring results. Pro also adds GPS tracking.

Clockify lets Pro and Enterprise workspaces keep data in the USA, the EU (Germany), the UK or Australia. Toggl's pricing page offers no data region choice, so if your contract requires one, check with Toggl sales before you buy.

If your team wants a tool that cannot watch them, pick Toggl Track. If your company wants monitoring, Clockify Pro includes it.

AI

Toggl has Toggl AI, a chat in the app, still labeled beta, that answers questions about your time data and can log time and create projects, tasks and tags. It is on Starter and up, and admins can turn it off. Toggl also has an MCP server and a CLI, listed on every plan, so assistants like Claude and Cursor can read and edit your Toggl data.

Clockify lists its MCP server as "coming soon". We found no shipped AI features on its site in October 2026.

The new Toggl and Toggl Track

In September 2026 Toggl made its new combined app, called simply Toggl, its flagship. Toggl's pricing page now sells the new Toggl plans, and says Toggl Track remains available and supported for existing users, with no announced sunset date. A paid Track organization gets the same tier in the new Toggl at no extra charge while its Track subscription stays active, and can copy its data over with Toggl's importer.

Switching between Toggl and Clockify

Both tools move data through CSV files. On either side, a free plan cannot export CSV, and your people must exist in the new workspace first.

From Toggl Track to Clockify:

1. In Toggl, open the Detailed report, pick the full date range and export it as CSV. CSV export needs a paid Toggl plan; Free exports PDF only.
2. Invite your team to Clockify first. Time entries for an email address that is not an active member are skipped.
3. In Clockify, go to Workspace settings, Import, and upload the CSV. Clockify's Toggl importer page says it brings over projects, clients, tasks, tags and time entries.
4. Importing time entries needs a paid Clockify plan or the 7-day trial. Projects, clients, tasks and tags import on any plan. The file can be up to 10 MB and 200,000 rows, and dates must match the date format in your Clockify profile.
5. Billable rates are not on the importer's list, so set them again in Clockify.

From Clockify to Toggl Track:

1. In Clockify, open the Detailed report and export it as CSV or Excel. That needs Basic or higher; Free exports PDF only, and only one month per report.
2. Invite your team to Toggl. Members imported as active users count toward your subscription.
3. As an admin, use Toggl's CSV importer. Its time entry template uses the columns Email, Description, Project, Task, Client, Tags, Start Date, Start Time, Duration and Billable, so rename or remove Clockify's columns to match. Tasks import only on paid plans.
4. Toggl treats "Acme" and "acme" as two clients, so clean up names first.

How to choose

• A solo designer who bills by the hour and sends 4 invoices a month. Pick Clockify Standard, $65.88 a year. It holds your rates and sends the invoices. Toggl Starter costs $108 a year and still needs a separate invoicing tool.
• A 5-person agency that sells fixed-fee projects and wants to see margin per client. Pick Toggl Premium, $960 a year. Its profitability reports show revenue, cost and margin by project, client and member against a target margin, and project dashboards forecast when a fixed-fee job runs over. If the budget decides, Clockify Pro ($479.40) also tracks labor cost, profit and fixed fees.
• A 15-person cleaning or field service company with phones, shifts and a kiosk at the office. Pick Clockify Pro, $1,438.20 a year. Kiosk, breaks, attendance, scheduling, time off and GPS are all on one plan. Toggl lists no kiosk and does not record location.
• A 12-person software team that left its last tool because it took screenshots. Pick Toggl Track. It has no monitoring features to switch on later. Clockify can do the job without monitoring, but Activity monitoring is one admin decision away on Pro.
• A 4-person dev shop where two people run Linux and nobody bills by the hour. Pick Clockify Free. It covers 5 users and has a native Linux app with the auto tracker. Upgrade to Basic ($239.40 a year for 5) when you need CSV export.
• A team that wants to ask an AI assistant about its hours today. Pick Toggl Track. Toggl AI is on Starter and up, and its MCP server works with Claude and Cursor now. Clockify's MCP server is still "coming soon".

A third option: if you don't want a timer at all

Both tools are timers, and both leave the same problem: the timesheet is only as good as your memory. If that is the problem, TimeUno (our product) works differently. It runs in the background, 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. Projects come from the folder open in your editor or from keywords you set, and when it files something wrong you correct it once and it remembers. It also tracks the time your AI tools spend working, such as Claude and Cursor, with tokens and cost.

It is the wrong pick if you need a free plan, a mobile app, billable rates, invoices, GPS or a kiosk, or if you want to move your Toggl or Clockify history over: TimeUno has no import. Screenshots are on by default (you can turn them off per computer). Timesheets export as CSV. It costs $10.49 a month billed yearly ($14.99 monthly), or $13.99 per seat for teams ($19.99 monthly), with a 14-day trial.

Questions people ask

Is Clockify still free?

Yes, for up to 5 users, with no end date, as of October 2026. Since April 2026 the free plan limits reports to a one-month range and moves CSV and Excel export, billable hours and the kiosk to paid plans.

Is Toggl Track free?

Yes, for up to 3 users. The free plan has manual and real-time timers, calendar integrations, simple planning with tasks and boards, and personal reports. Billable rates, tags, team reports and CSV export start on Starter at $9 per user a month billed yearly.

Is Toggl Track cheaper than Clockify?

No. For 15 people, Toggl Starter is $1,620 a year and Clockify Basic is $718.20, billed yearly.

Does Clockify take screenshots?

Only if your workspace is on Pro or higher and an admin sets up Activity monitoring, which also records apps, websites and keyboard and mouse activity. Toggl Track has no screenshot or monitoring features.

Which one has a Linux app?

Clockify has a Linux desktop app. Toggl's own Linux page lists only its Windows and Mac apps, so on Linux you would use Toggl in the browser.