Coordinator vs Toggl Track
Toggl perfected starting a timer. Then the hours sit in reports at $9–$18 a user until you re-enter them somewhere that bills. Coordinator's timer ends in an invoice and a job cost — free.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
Toggl, side by side
The beloved one-click timer — clean, cross-platform, and increasingly expensive for what its own users call its gap: no real invoicing.
| What you're paying for | Coordinator | Toggl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 — everything | Free (≤5); ~$9–$18/user/mo |
| Where hours go | Invoices & job costs, natively | Reports; unlinked invoice generator |
| The timer | One per person, on real work | The category's best-loved UX |
| Job costing & margin | Included — with payroll cost | |
| Cross-device apps | Responsive web | Everywhere — with sync-lag complaints |
Toggl pricing and plan limits are approximate, from their published plans as of August 2026 — check their site for current figures. Coordinator's column doesn't change: $0.
The Toggl line on your P&L
Toggl runs $9 (Starter) to $18 (Premium) per user per month — with a $14 first-year promo that quietly renews at $18 — and its most-cited shortcoming is native invoicing: the built-in generator makes one-way, unlinked documents.
Users: Free to 5 users; per-user beyond.
What you get that Toggl doesn't give you
Toggl's own reviewers name the gap: tracking without billing. Here unbilled hours sweep onto invoices and retainers automatically — no export ceremony.
Toggl's free tier caps at 5 users; ours doesn't count.
Rates frozen at entry, bill-out vs. cost rates, margin per job — the money side Toggl never touches.
What Toggl users complain about — answered
Recurring themes from public reviews and forums (G2, Capterra, Reddit), paired with what changes here. We only list complaints Coordinator actually solves.
“No native invoicing — the hours dead-end in reports”
Hours flow onto invoices and retainers automatically, with rates frozen at entry.
“The $14 promo quietly renewed at $18”
No promos, no renewals, no price.
“Timers fall out of sync between devices”
One live system — the timer state has nowhere to diverge.
What they love about Toggl — kept
Kept: one timer per person, started from the task you're on.
Kept — with revenue and cost in them, not just minutes.
Where Toggl may still fit
No tool wins everything, and we'd rather you pick with open eyes.
One click anywhere, 100+ integrations, offline apps — as a standalone stopwatch experience, Toggl remains the reference.
Its browser extension starts timers inside other apps — a trick our in-system timer doesn't do.
Recreate your clients and projects here, point the team at the in-task timer, and let this month's hours become next month's invoice without a CSV in between.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
The free Toggl Track alternative, summarized
If you're searching for a Toggl Track alternative, the short version: Coordinator is free for unlimited users — no tiers, no usage meters, no renewal-day surprises — and it covers what Toggl does for time tracking alongside the rest of a small business's operations: real accounting, projects with job costing, booking pages and staff scheduling, client records and forms, team chat, and a cross-company network where your invoice lands in your client's books. Toggl still fits some buyers — see the fair print above — but if the complaints on this page sound familiar, switching is usually an afternoon.
Explore the time tracking side of Coordinator on free-time-tracking, see everything it does, or read why it's free.
Keep the Toggl money
Set up free in minutes, import what you have, and put the subscription line to better use.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.