Best Free Time Tracking Software (2026)
Two of the big free trackers capped their free tiers in 2026. Here's what's left, ranked by what free actually includes — and where the hours end up.
Coordinator
OUR PICK — obviously, it's ours. Judge the reasoning:Coordinator is free with unlimited users and no usage caps — not a free tier, the whole product — and the time tracking features sit inside one system with real accounting, projects, scheduling, client records and a cross-company network. Payments run on your own Stripe, PayPal or Wise with zero platform cut. The honest limitations: it's web-only today (no native mobile apps yet), and it won't match every specialist's deepest niche feature — each entry below notes where the specialist still wins.
- Free — every feature, every seat, forever
- No usage meters: unlimited invoices, submissions, contacts, hours
- One system: the money, the work and the client connect
- Your own payment rails; we never touch funds
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
Toggl Track
Free (≤5 users); ~$9–$18/user/moThe beloved one-click timer — clean, cross-platform, and increasingly expensive for what its own users call its gap: no real invoicing.
One click anywhere, 100+ integrations, offline apps — as a standalone stopwatch experience, Toggl remains the reference.
No native invoicing — the hours dead-end in reports
Harvest
~$9–$17.50/seat/mo + unpublished usage feesThe time-and-invoice classic — acquired by Bending Spoons in 2025, now with unpublished usage fees and Bloomberg-documented 12x renewal shocks.
Fifteen years of time-and-invoice refinement show: Harvest's core flow is smooth, and its integrations are mature — the product isn't the problem; the pricing model is.
Our $211 renewal came back as $2,547
Clockify
Free (now ≤5 users, features stripped); ~$4–$15/user/moThe 'free forever' timer that made unlimited-users its brand — until April 2026 capped free at 5 users and stripped billable tracking with no warning.
If you're buying a standalone tracker, Clockify's $4–7 tiers still undercut everyone — functionality-per-dollar remains real.
They gutted the free plan with zero warning — no email, nothing
TimeCamp
Free (unlimited users); ~$4–$14/user/moThe value tracker with keyword-based automatic tracking — still genuinely free for unlimited users, with billing features scattered across three paid tiers.
Keyword-based background tracking that fills your timesheet from app usage is TimeCamp's genuine differentiator — our timer is deliberate, not automatic.
Support replies with doc links, not help
Rankings reflect what's available free and each product's recurring user feedback from public reviews. Competitor pricing approximate, from published plans as of August 2026. Yes, we ranked ourselves first — the reasoning is on the card, and every competitor link above includes the case against us too.
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Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.