Comments on: 6 Useful Desktop Time Tracking Software

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:36:56 +0000

We've been using Psoda for a couple of months now and we are stoked! We are saving about 20 hours per user per month compared to before we started using Psoda, a return of more than 2000%!!!!

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:27:57 +0000

thanks for recommending. I will give it a try

By: dennis hoff

dennis hoff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:22:59 +0000

You also might want to look @ Premember. It's a time tracking tool that allows you to look back into time. It's saves screenshots during the day so you easily fill in your hours at the end of the day or week. It's really intuitive and easy to use. There is a and a version available.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:12:28 +0000

Hi Damien,

You should also check Fanurio: http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com

Fanurio is a desktop application designed to help freelancers manage their work and be paid for it. With Fanurio you can customize invoice templates using your own layouts and export them to HTML or PDF. It also has idle time detection and it can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux.

By: John

John — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:03:54 +0000

Thanks Peter, Psoda is absolutely brilliant!

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:42:04 +0000

It's not a time tracking software. Just a stopwatch and timer but with multiple instances and save/load actions can be used as a simple time tracking tool.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:14:19 +0000

I found a bunch of time tracking tools here: http://www.web-based-software.com/time/

All these tools are web-based (accessible through a browser)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:52:38 +0000

Also have a look at www.psoda.com.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:09:51 +0000

I’m using Paymo Time Tracker . So far so good

By: Amit | Web Design

Amit | Web Design — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:48:11 +0000

Hi
I’m doing lots of outsource work and I’m using ManicTime to record all my actions. For me it’s THE tool for the job.
I rate ManicTime with 5 stars

I recommend to give this software a try!
Amit.

By: sirfes

sirfes — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:53:37 +0000

U need to install Java:

http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

By: torahwriter

torahwriter — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:55:47 +0000

I do not know how to open a .jar file. Can anyone share this info?

By: torahwriter

torahwriter — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:48:19 +0000

I enjoyed this information and tested several of these programs. manictime is great but it prevents gmail from uploading properly.

By: Claw

Claw — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:11:16 +0000

Thanks Damien, I’ll give it a try

By: sirfes

sirfes — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:09:29 +0000

Damien, thanks a lot for your post!

I’ve been underestimating the benefits of time tracking, mainly because of the lack of a powerful and friendly app (or was it the laziness to look for it properly?).

Rachota is a really nice app and I could easily stick to it, even though I’m having a hard time trying to delete a task. The “Remove” button is either hidden or grayed-out. Is it a tricky thing to do or it is just me?

Baralga wouldn’t run on my iMac: “The jar file couldn’t be launched. Check the console for possible error messages”.

After reading all the comments above, now I’m able to summarize what to expect from these time tracking apps (either free or not):

* Intuitive (pleeeease!)
* Reliable (no sudden crashes and losses!)
* Low memory comsumption (no leading roles!)
* Cross-platform (at least Mac/WIN)
* Capable of importing and exporting data, so that you can update your hours between your laptop and your desktop.

This is why the other 4 apps in your list didn’t catch my eye.

And, should you report or keep your tracking collaboratively, online services provide 2 additional features to look for:

* Share data with multiple users
* Access data from anywhere

TIMETREK (free) could also make your list. It isn’t as powerful as some other, but it is the only one which is giving me no trouble at the moment:

http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/timetrek/index.html

Free will always be nice and sweet. I just wonder whether it is worthy to suffer the limitations of a single-platform (and maybe not-so-powerful) free app.

Is there any other one left?

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:52:17 +0000

Yes, TimeLive is a great web app for online collaboration. I used that when I were back in the past too, but no longer have use for that now.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:50:19 +0000

That seems like an interesting feature, though I feel that it might be a little bit annoying. Will you be releasing it to the public?

By: WM

WM — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:16:16 +0000

We are using TimeLive in our organization and it is awasome. One good thing about TimeLive is that it offers free 5 users hosted account. It means, you are not required to setup any application locally.

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By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:56:51 +0000

Thanks for the list.
I was working on a small project to track my time, it shows up every while (you can set the interval of course) and asks you about what you are doing, and at the end of the day you’ll have your report ready for you, so my boss won’t be angry the next day when he opens his email
I’ll try Baralga and Time Tracker, but I don’t think any one of these has this feature of asking you every while

By: Thien Rong

Thien Rong — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:24:16 +0000

Thanks for the list, I never seen any of them besides Klok which I didn’t installed because I didn’t want Adobe AIR.

I tried all and seems to love Rachota for the idle time tracking, that should help stopping proscrination. However, the lack of import/export to other tools can be an issue.

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By: Dnyanesh

Dnyanesh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:19:26 +0000

I use ManicTime from http://www.manictime.com. The application is awesome. Checkout the demos on the website.

By: VirginTech

VirginTech — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:31:31 +0000

Quite a nice list of Apps.. Thanks for sharing Damien:-)

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:03:33 +0000

Personally, I use Rachota. It may not be the best, but it comes with some configuration options that are really useful.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:01:26 +0000

It seems like a great app. I will check it out.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:00:32 +0000

Great tip!

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:59:17 +0000

Interesting app. It takes screenshots of your desktop rather than just record the time. Cool! I wonder how the memory consumption is like?

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:56:52 +0000

I am sure it will definitely increase your productivity. It is like someone keeping a close watch on you now, forcing you to double your workrate.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:14:22 +0000

There is one that I use a bit, it’s called manictime.com.
It will track every program you use, even down to what file your working on in Photoshop.

Thanks
Paul