Where did Tuesday go? Now you'll know.
Time tracking for small teams, built into your tasks. Start a timer on the task you're doing, mark what the client pays for, and see the week for you or the whole team, with the billable value worked out at your project rate.
Start with the one thing you need. The rest is there when you're ready. Free plan, no card needed. Or book a demo.
Press Start. Do the work. Press Stop.
Pick a task and press Start timer. When you stop, the time lands on the task and in your week. One timer runs at a time, so starting another task's timer offers to switch. A timer left running overnight stops counting at 24 hours.
- Start timer from the Time page or from inside any task
- Billable time and its value for the week, at each project's hourly rate
- Previous week, This week and Next
Work → Time: Start timer, My time and Team time, and the week as a grid of tasks by day, with totals.
Forgot the timer again? Type it in.
Pick the task, type the time ("1:30", "1h 30m" and "90m" all work), the date and a note about what you did, and tick Billable if the client pays for it. It takes about as long as reading this sentence.
- Time in whatever format your fingers prefer
- A note on every entry
- Billable or not, entry by entry
Spot the burnout before it books a holiday.
Owners, admins and managers get Team time for everyone's hours, and Workload: four weeks of each person's estimated hours against their capacity. Capacity starts at 40 hours, you can change it per person, and approved leave and public holidays come off it.
- Estimates are spread across working days from start to due date
- Drag a task onto someone with room, or pick Reassign
- Tasks with no estimate or no date are counted separately, never guessed
Work → Workload: each teammate's hours per week and how full each week is against their capacity, four weeks at a time.
See the overrun coming, not in the post-mortem.
Give a project an hours budget and an hourly rate on its Budget tab. The time your team logs turns into time logged, spent so far, still to do and cost to complete, with an hours burn-down chart.
- Hours budget and hourly rate on each project
- Time logged, Spent so far, Still to do and Cost to complete
- The same rate values billable time on the Time page
Timers you may already pay for.
Most project tools now have a timer. The catch is usually which plan it lives on.
| startbuddi | Asana | ClickUp | monday.com | Trello | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native timer on tasks | Every plan, including Free | Advanced | Unlimited and up (trial on Free) | Pro | Not listed (Power-Ups) |
| Workload against capacity | Every plan (managers and up see it) | Advanced | Not checked | Enterprise | Not listed |
| Billable value at a project rate | Yes | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Not listed |
| Invoices in the same app | Yes, sent from Money Manager | No | No | No | No |
Where they're better
- AsanaCompares estimated and actual time, with resource management to balance a bigger team.
- ClickUpNative time tracking from Unlimited, inside a very configurable workspace.
- monday.comTime tracking and advanced columns on Pro, plus resource management on Enterprise.
- TrelloPlenty of time-tracking Power-Ups to choose from, on every plan.
startbuddi is our product. Facts about other tools come from their own pages, checked on 6 October 2026, and plans change, so check before you buy: Asana pricing · ClickUp pricing · monday.com pricing · Trello pricing.
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Which plans include time tracking?
Time tracking, workload and project budgets are on every plan, including Free. Team time and Workload need teammates to be useful: Starter has 2 seats, Growth 5 and Scale 15.
- FreeIncluded, free forever
- StarterIncluded, 30-day trial
- GrowthIncluded, 30-day trial
- ScaleIncluded, 30-day trial
Questions about time tracking
Can I track billable hours per project?
Is there a timer linked to tasks?
Can I see how many hours my team logged this week?
Does it work as a freelancer time tracker?
Can I turn my hours into an invoice?
Do these hours show up in People timesheets?
Stop guessing where the week went.
A timer on every task, billable hours with a value, and a workload grid that shows who has room. Free to start.
No need to set everything up on day one.
Or click around a sample account first, or book a demo and we'll set it up with you.