Time management is a term that gets thrown around a lot lately. Let's face it successful time management is difficult. As a result, we usually fail to organize our work effectively.
The biggest reason for failing - using a time management app that doesn't fit our needs.
We compiled a list of 42 best time management apps for the year 2024, so you can inform yourself and pick the best tool for you. The list includes time trackers, to-do list apps, habit trackers, note-taking apps, calendar apps and much more. We're sure you'll find an app that fits you perfectly.
*Updated: April 2024*
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: Free, $9/user per month
Unlimited projects, and unlimited tasks! My Hours allows you to track how you spend your workday. You can also set custom billing rates (team member, task and project-based rate). My Hours offers insightful reports and invoicing features. The app is ideal for freelancers and small teams.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge)
Price: Free, $5, $7
TMetric offers you time tracking and reporting features that can become automate with browser extensions. You can also generate invoices and send them to clients. There is also the option for employee monitoring that comes in handy when working with a remote team.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: Free, $6/user per month, $12.50/user per month
Trello is an extremely popular time management app, that helps you with project planning. It allows you to create boards with lists and cards that keep track of your tasks. Trello allows you to collaborate with your colleagues easily. The app is famous for its simplicity and flexibility.
Available on: Mobile (iOS, Android), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox)
Price: Free, $1.99 /month
Forrest is one of the most ingenious time management apps on the list. You plant a virtual tree every time you start a task and stay focused until it’s fully grown. If you diligently stay focused you will grow your virtual forest. Websites that cause the most disruption can be blacklisted with Forest.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows), Browser Extensions
Price: Free, $4/month, $6/month
Todoist is a feature-packed to-do list. You can add tasks quickly, prioritize them, divide them into sub-tasks, add them to favorites or make them recurrent. Share your workload and monitor your progress with a visual report of your time at work. Todoist is in our opinion the best to-do app on the list.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox)
Price: Starting from $6.50/month
RescueTime records your time spent online. In the process, it shows you how much time has been wasted. This helps you to eliminate time sinks and be more productive. One a week you will receive a report of your tracked time, that will offer a bird-eye-view of your work.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry), Desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), Other (Fire, Apple Watch)
Price: Free,$3.33/month per user (billed yearly)
Remember The Milk is a simple to-do list app, that allows you to create and categorize tasks. You can even beak the tasks down into sub-tasks and add tags to them for more clarity. Remember the milk works across all devices so you can receive reminders for your tasks with a due date.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: $6.99/user per month
Beebole is a project time tracking tool ideal for medium companies, departments, and teams. With its easy-to-use real-time timer, 11 languages, multiple currencies, more than 30+ custom reports and KPIs, and a mobile app that works offline. Beebole also offers live support to ensure users are making the most of the tool. Beebole can be used to help with budgeting, as well as to track billable hours, tasks, and projects. Approval workflows and user permissions help make monitoring overtime and PTO a breeze. Beebole can be easily integrated with other tools, and it’s GDPR compliant, uses data encryption, and offers SSO.
Available on: Web, Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: Free, $2.99/month, $4.99/month
Focus booster helps you to stay productive with a mix of breaks and work sessions. It is most helpful when you feel that don’t have enough hours in your workday. It is based on the famous Pomodoro Technique, which helps you pace your work. The app is getting some major updates (new features and a new look) at the start of 2020, so keep an eye on it.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: Free, $14.99/user per month $17.99/user per month
Evernote is a note-taking app that allows you to write down your ideas, tasks, save images and more. It also has the option to record and save sound. Everything you save on Evernote can be shared with your teammates. Save your time by organizing and planning your work hours with ease.
Available on: Web
Price: Free in beta, $5/month per user (full version)
Scrumie is a completely new teamwork overview tool that makes team management much easier thanks to a transparent teamwork overview, virtual daily stand-ups, team’s availability (inc. time zones), Slack integration, and more. It’s an ideal tool for any remote team.
Available on: Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Windows)
Price: $49.95, $59.95 (one-time payment)
MyLifeOrganized is a robust to-do list app with the option to hierarchically arrange tasks. You can also set location-based reminders for your tasks or add your tasks via email. Although the app doesn’t have a web version it will sync your data in the cloud.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Browser extension (Chrome)
Price: Free, $10.99/month, $24.99/month
Todoist is a feature-packed to-do list. You can add tasks quickly, prioritize them, divide them into sub-tasks, add them to favorites or make them recurrent. Share your workload and monitor your progress with a visual report of your time at work. Todoist is in our opinion the best to-do app on the list.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: $8 - $18/user per month
Flow is a simple time management app that focuses on tracking projects and tasks (can be broken down into sub-tasks). You will have a great overview of your project with the timeline view. Flow also offers you the option to connect tasks to deadlines and track your progress.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: Free, $4.49
TimeTree helps you and your team to be up-to-date with events you added to your calendar. This time management app organizes your work by merging all of your teammate’s calendars into one. Every event you book in your calendar is also a chat room for your team. Very useful!
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox)
Price: Free, $8 - $199/month
Taskade is a simple to-do list and task manager with additional collaboration features. Create projects, edit them and chat in the same place in real-time. You can also create a team calendar and a roadmap for your projects in no time.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows) Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox), Other (Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Watch)
Price: Free, $3 - $5/month (billed annually)
Any.do offers you a calendar app with a basic to-do list. It helps you organize your time at work and it proves to be helpful in your private task management. It is compatible with almost every device imaginable (including Alexa, Google Assistant). Plus, it has a beautiful design.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: Free, $4/user per month
Chanty is a team chat app that connects your team in a user friendly way. Besides the real-time chat feature with unlimited message history, Chanty also offers task management features like to-do lists and Kanban boards. Deadlines will soon be added to the app, so you can organize your work even further.
Available on: Mobile (iOS)
Price: Free, $2.99, $4.99
Be Focused Timer is a mobile time management app that breaks up your tasks into manageable bits and separates them with short brakes. It’s useful for people who like the Pomodoro technique. The app also allows you to track your progress throughout your work hours. The downside is the availability – iOS exclusive.
Available on: Mobile (Android)
Price: Free
Loop Habit Tracker is an android mobile app that allows you to pick a habit and helps you to sustain it. Just set some goals and the app will remind you to complete them. It will track your progress and present it in a neat graph. This way you will see if a habit is becoming stronger or weaker.
Available on: Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: Free
Microsoft To Do is a successor to Wunderlist. It is an advanced to-do list that is used for daily planning and for making complicated tasks simpler with a step by step approach. Every task or list can be shared with your team. You can also set reminders and due-dates.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows), Browser extensions (Chrome)
Price: Free, $2.42/month (billed yearly), $129 (one-time payment)
Freedom blocks any website or application that causes you to lose your focus and breaks your concentration. It is one of the simplest time management apps on the list, you just pick a time and the device you want to block the app/site from and you are good to go.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS), Desktop (Mac)
Price: $9,99/month
OmniFocus is an app made for Apple products. In its core, Omnifocus is a to-do app, that let you create project and tasks. You can also set reminders to specific tasks you stay on top of your work. It is a simple app with a great track record.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Windows), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox)
Price: $9/month per user (billed annually), $18/month per user (billed annually)
Toggl is one of the most popular time trackers out there. It allows you to track time on projects and later generate reports from your tracked data. Toggl helps you raise your productivity levels and keeps your work hours in check. Its funky design is always fun to work with.
Available on: Web, Mobile (Android), Desktop (Windows), Browser extension (Chrome, Firefox)
Price: Free, $4.99/month
Pushbullet may not seem like an obvious choice for the best time management app list, but how many times have you picked up your phone and lost concentration? You can send texts, receive notifications, chat and many more on any device you choose. Pushbullet connects them all and saves you time.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox), Other (Apple Watch, Outlook extension)
Price: Free, $2.8/month
TickTick is a basic to do list app, that helps you manage your time across all your devices. There is a flexible calendar view available, plus you can chat with your team via their chat feature. The Premium version offers more customizing options, task dividing, and reminders.
Available on: Web, Mobile (Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: $7.95/month
FocusMe is an app and website blocker that is best suited for lowering the number of distractions in the office. Besides the blocking feature, it offers productivity-boosting features like Pomodoro timers, time tracking and reports about how you spend your work hours.
Available on: Mobile (iOS), Desktop (Mac)
Price: Free, $4.99/month
Fantastical is considered the best iOS calendar app out there. You can import your events or meetings from the calendar to a neatly organized list. It offers a daily, weekly or monthly user-friendly view. The only downside is that it is iOS and Mac exclusive.
Available on: Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac)
Price: Free, $5.99
HabitMinder is a beautifully designed habit tracking app. Set goals and then simply start or stop the timer when you are working on your habit. The app will log the progression of your habits. More than 50 predefined habits will surely help you stay on track.
Available on: Mobile (iOS)
Price: Free
Workflow is an app that puts different actions from all your apps in one place. You can customize your screen so you have your most used actions like posting on Facebook, pulling up directions from Google Maps, etc. This will make your life much simpler and you will save time.
Available on: Mobile (iOS)
Price: $4.99
Clear Todos is a simple and straightforward to-do list app that gives you the pleasure of crossing off items on your list. If you are looking for a simple app that will upgrade the basic pen and paper to-do list Clear Todos would be a great fit.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: Free, $12/user per month
Harvest is the standard time tracking and billing app that offers visual reports about how you spend your time and money. It is best suited for larger teams and businesses because it's robust and one of the most expensive apps on the list.
Available on: Web
Price: $12/month, $15/member per month
HoursStack is a calendar app that tracks your time on tasks, generates reports and runs across a large number of apps. It has 10 direct integrations with popular apps like Asana, Trello, Slack. Todoist, Google Calendar, plus 1,500 integrations via Zapier. You can simply drag and drop tasks from them to your calendar. It helps you organize your work in a really effective way.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: Free, $7/user per month
Timeneye is a time tracking app that offers all the standard plethora of functionalities like time tracking, reporting, and team monitoring. It allows you to set reminders for tasks, have weekly email summaries and manage your calendar.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: $11- $28/user per month
Timely is a time tracking app that is supported by AI. It automatically fills out timesheets and keeps tabs on your project. You will always know where you stand with specific projects or tasks, plus you will be able to organize your work with the data provided by Timely.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: $5/month, $49 (one-time payment)
Nirvana is a time management app that helps you to focus on the tasks that matter most and pushes you to finish them on time. You can create lists and set due-dates on tasks so you stay on schedule. The app has a visually pleasing and a user friendly design.
Available on: Web
Price: Starting from $12.50/user per month
I Done This is a productivity app that logs tasks that were done by specific users. The app offers a list where you can see what has been and what still needs to be done on that day. The list is sorted by your team members so everyone knows what to do and can be edited by everyone.
Available on: Mobile (iOS), Desktop (Mac)
Price: $3.99/user per month
Tyme is a time management app that is exclusive to Apple products. It offers time tracking features ranging from reports (calendar view available) to reminders and other project management reports. The app is easy to use and simple.
Available on: Mobile (iOS), Desktop (Mac), Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)
Price: Free, $2.99/month
Bear is a beautifully designed app, that is great for writing down simple notes and creating to-do lists. You can link notes to each other and be more organized. Bear also allows hashtags to label and organize tasks and notes even further.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry), Desktop (Mac, Windows) Other (Amazon apps, Kobo)
Price: Free, $4.99/month
Pocket allows you to save images, text or videos from any site on the web. The app works great when you spot something interesting and just don’t have the time to address it. Save it for later and never forget a thing.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Mac, Windows)
Price: Free, $10/user per month, $18/user per month
Notion allows you to take notes, create a knowledge base, set up projects and tasks and finally create spreadsheets. Notion combines 4 apps into one and saves you time and helps you to organize your team and their workload easily.
Available on: Web, Mobile (iOS, Android)
Price: Starting from $17.50/month (for up to 5 employees)
All Hours is a fantastic clocking app for tracking employee time and attendance. You can create automated timesheets, optimize your payroll and set up geofencing. Your employees can punch in or out with their mobile devices. At the end of the month, you can generate visually pleasing reports.
If you think that we should add any other time management apps and tools to the list let us know. If you are interested in time tracking, in particular, you should give My Hours a try (30-day free trial). See you on the smart side of time tracking!