The State of Free Time Tracking in 2026

My Hours is a focused, lightweight free time tracker that helps teams track hours accurately and bill for them without extra clutter.

Up to five people can log hours against unlimited clients, projects, and tasks, using a timer or manual timesheet entries in daily or full timesheet views. You can add descriptions and attachments to entries, and log expenses alongside your hours.

You can also set a billable rate per project and mark time as billable or non-billable. Mobile app tracking reminders are free, while timesheet validation, available on paid plans, helps catch errors and missing entries early.

You can also use the Dashboard, Detailed, and Timesheet reports to get useful insights into your operations. Attendance reports are available on the Basic plan.

The free plan is ideal for freelancers and small teams. You'll want to upgrade once you grow past five users and need to turn tracked time into invoices, keep projects on budget, or approve timesheets.

Jibble is built around attendance. If the main thing you need to know is who clocked in and from where, that's exactly what it's designed for.

On the free plan, you can add as many employees as you like. They clock in and out from their phones, computers, or a shared kiosk, and if the signal drops, offline mode saves the entry and syncs it once they’re back online.

Jibble's standout feature is its identity checks: Geofence-based time entries, GPS tracking, selfie capture, facial recognition, PIN verification, and NFC or RFID are available, but the free plan only allows two locations.

The free plan’s limitation is that you get a tracked time report, which covers the basics but stops short of full attendance reporting.

The free plan suits businesses with on-site, remote, or field employees that need to track attendance. You’ll need to upgrade to access features like clock-in reminders, group activity assignments, timesheet approvals, and full attendance reports.

TimeCamp gives you several ways to track time with AI, including an AI time tracker that runs in the background, an AI time tracking agent, and AI timesheets.

There’s also an official MCP server, so you can log hours, start timers, or pull reports from tools like Claude and ChatGPT just by prompting. The server is free for every TimeCamp user.

On the free plan, there’s no cap on users or projects. You get weekly timesheets, idle time tracking, GPS location tracking, and 10+ time tracking reports you can export as PDFs.

The free plan suits teams of any size that want AI to handle most of the logging. You’ll want to upgrade once you need billable time and invoicing, attendance and time off tracking, resource planning, or more tasks than the free plan allows, though.

Clockify's free plan covers the basics well, and you can use it in English, German, Spanish, French, or Portuguese, which helps teams that don’t all work in the same language.

Up to five people can use a timer or enter hours, then review them in timesheets and reports. You can also use the "Team Activity" feature to see exactly where staff spend their time and what they’re busy working on.

The free plan also includes unlimited projects, tasks, and clients, plus idle detection and reminders to catch forgotten timers. 

Free got leaner in April 2026, though. Billable rates, project time estimates, and CSV and Excel exports moved to paid plans, so reports now export as PDFs only.

Clockify is a good option for multilingual teams who want basic timekeeping. You'll want to upgrade once you add a sixth user or need to bill clients for your time, approve timesheets, track time off, or let staff clock in from a shared kiosk.

TrackingTime's free plan has no user cap, so no matter how large your team is, everyone can track time.

Also, there’s no limit on the number of tasks, clients, or projects that you can add.

The platform pairs time tracking with task and project management, so you can see how long each task and project takes. Reports export to PDF at no cost.

You can track hours in real time, add entries manually, or start a timer inside 50+ supported apps through the browser extension.

The free plan suits teams of any size that mainly need to see where project time goes. Need CSV or Excel exports, billable rates and invoicing, or timesheet approvals? Then you’ve hit the free plan’s limit and need to move to a paid plan.

actiTIME keeps time tracking and leave planning in one place.

The free plan connects to actiPLANS and includes invoicing, billing, project and leave management. You can also minimize risks with automatic alerts without switching tools.

The Online version’s free plan gives you up to three users and unlimited projects, mobile app access, and CSV exports.

It's best to stick with the online version, since the self-hosted option doesn’t have a free plan.

Overall, actiTIME’s free tier is a good fit for freelancers and small teams. Moving to a paid plan is key once you add a fourth user or need the Chrome extension, QuickBooks integration, or API access.

Everhour keeps its free plan simple. Up to five people can track time against projects and tasks, then pull it into reports and export the data to use elsewhere.

That’s enough for a small team that wants a clear record of its hours without much setup.

What you miss on the free plan includes native integrations, budgeting, billing, and invoicing. Those come with the Team plan at $8.50 per seat per month, billed yearly. The plan has a five-seat minimum, though, so even a team of two pays for five seats.

Toggl’s free plan does a lot of the logging for you.

The platform can create time entries from your Google and Outlook calendar events, track selected pages through the browser extension, match activity to projects using keywords, and flag idle time.

Up to three users get unlimited projects, plus task and board views, recurring tasks, and personal and summary reports you can export as PDFs. A Pomodoro timer and personal tracking goals help if you like keeping yourself on pace.

Billable rates and timesheet approvals are paid features, so you'll have to upgrade to access them, among others.

Harvest lets you bill clients for free. You can track hours and expenses, turn them into invoices, and monitor which ones have been paid, all on the free plan.

One major downside is that the free plan covers only one seat and two projects, plus basic reports. So, it's only ideal for freelancers with a small client list.

Moving to Teams adds unlimited seats, team reporting, QuickBooks and Xero sync, and online payments through Stripe and PayPal.

Besides the base fee, Harvest also charges usage-based fees for extra projects, clients, tasks, and invoices. So keep that in mind as you budget for the upgrade, since a busy month can cost more than the per-seat price.

Paymo combines task management, time tracking, and invoicing, so you can plan work, track it, and bill for it without switching apps.

On the free plan, you get unlimited tasks, time entries, and invoices, with a task list view to keep your work organized. The hours you log against a task can go straight onto that client’s invoice.

The main downside with the free plan is that it covers one user, one client, and two projects. So, it’ll only be useful for a freelancer with one main client.

Once you outgrow it, paid plans add more clients and projects, retainer and flat-rate projects, expense tracking, a leave planner, reports, timesheet approvals, and bulk time entries.

Kimai is open source, so you can run it on your own server for free.

The self-hosted version supports unlimited users, so you don't have to worry about getting subscriptions for different users. The trade-off is that your team is responsible for the server, updates, and maintenance.

Kimai can track hours by customer, project, and activity, separate billable from non-billable time, and generate reports. The platform also includes invoicing, and you can export timesheet data in XLSX, PDF, CSV, or HTML format.

Not everything is free, though. Expense tracking is a paid plugin on the self-hosted version.

If you'd rather not deal with servers, Kimai Cloud handles hosting for you, but it's paid only, with a 30-day trial.

On TMetric’s free plan, browser extensions add a timer to more than 50 web apps, so you can start tracking from whatever tool you’re already working in.

The plan gives you two seats with unlimited time tracking, clients, and projects. You can export reports as PDFs or CSV files, which is handy if you want to work with your data in a spreadsheet.

It’s a good fit for a freelancer or a two-person team. 

Other features like billable rates, project budgets, expenses, invoicing, and timesheet locking are only available by upgrading to paid plans.