Time Tracker
Track billable time per task.
Time Tracker at a glance
Time Tracker is a free online freelance tool you can use right now to track billable time per task โ no account, no install and no usage limit. It runs entirely inside your browser, so whatever you enter stays on your own device.
- Price
- Free โ no trial, no paid tier, no watermark
- Sign-up
- Not required
- Where it runs
- In your browser โ nothing is uploaded to a server
- Works on
- Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge โ desktop, tablet and phone
- Category
- Freelancing
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About Time Tracker
Start and stop a timer against a project, and see hours accumulate per project over a period.
Track as you work rather than reconstructing at the end of the week. Retrospective estimates are consistently wrong and almost always low โ the ten minutes here and twenty minutes there disappear entirely, and those fragments are precisely the time freelancers most often fail to bill. Over a month the gap between tracked and remembered time is routinely substantial.
Tracked time is also the best defence in a scope disagreement. When a client feels a project took longer than expected, a record showing where the hours went converts an argument about impressions into a conversation about facts โ and it usually reveals the specific rounds of revisions or added requests that caused the overrun.
The data is useful beyond billing. Tracking consistently for a few months reveals which kinds of work take far longer than you estimate, which is the information that makes fixed-price quotes profitable rather than a gamble. Most freelancers discover they systematically underestimate one particular category of work.
Everything is stored in your browser, so client and project names are never uploaded.
How to use Time Tracker
- Create a project and start the timer when you begin work.
- Stop it when you switch tasks โ track as you go rather than reconstructing later.
- Review totals per project when invoicing.
Frequently asked questions
Why track as I go instead of estimating later?
Because retrospective estimates are consistently low. Short fragments of work vanish from memory entirely, and those are exactly the hours freelancers most often fail to bill.
How does tracking help with scope disputes?
It converts an argument about impressions into a discussion of facts. A record of where hours went usually identifies the specific revision rounds or added requests that caused an overrun.
How does this help with fixed-price quotes?
Tracking consistently for a few months shows which work reliably takes longer than you estimate. Most freelancers systematically underestimate one category, and knowing which makes fixed pricing profitable rather than a gamble.
Is my project data private?
Yes. Everything is stored in your browser on this device and never uploaded, so client and project names stay local.