Top 5 macOS Time Tracking Apps For Freelancers

Either you are managing remote teams or you frequently work with freelancers, time tracking apps help you in monitoring your team’s performance and maintain transparency between the payment and the work done.

Previously, we did a post on time tracking apps that work right off the browser. In this post, we are featuring a list of some of the best time tracking apps for macOS. Each item offers a different set of features so read on to know about these features in detail.

15 Best Time Tracking Apps

15 Best Time Tracking Apps

When you're working with remote teams, one of the tools that become almost inevitable is the time tracking... Read more

Tyme

Tyme is ideal for people looking for simplified time tracking, like Harvest and Tick. Its intuitive interface and intelligent import options are the features that support its popularity. It helps you improve time management by keeping your tracked times and work insights synchronized across iOS and macOS.

Tyme requires a subscriptionbarsimilar to paid plans in above apps. Its Individual plan costs $3.99 per month and Team plan costs $3.99 per user per month.

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Billings Pro Time Track

Billings Pro is an easy-to-use estimating, time tracking, and invoicing app for freelancers and small businesses. The app catches all your billable time across devices including Apple Watch as well as iOS and macOS devices. Also, it avails simple account management and reporting for getting insights.

Billing Pro gives you the Free plan with limitations. There is also a 30-day free trial. After that, you have to opt for one of its plans: its Freelancer plan for $5 per user per month or its Professional plan for $10 per user per month.

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Caato Time Tracker

Caato Time Tracker provides an easy interface for keeping track of logged-in hours on Mac. It is targeted towards professionals seeking to monitor their work hours and calculating their billable hours inside macOS.

An important feature of the application is monitoring multiple projects. Also, it allows exporting the tracked time entries to CSV and XLSX. It is a free platform with more features enabled through in-app purchases in the Pro plan.

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Timeline

Timelime is one of the powerful time-tracking apps, like apps such as Harvest and FreshBooks. One of its most interesting features is a customizable charts interface that lets your hand-pick the metrics and insights.

Another important feature is its support for different time zones. It lets you add time entries and prepare reports across time zones, which may seem beneficial if your clients and/or team members live in different time zones.

It offers a 14-day trial of its macOS application, but it offers no such trial offer for its iOS app. And you can buy it for $19.99 for macOS and $5.99 for iOS.

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Timing

Timing automates your time tracking and frees you from the hassle of starting or stopping the timer manually, unlike many tools here. It auto-tracks your time spent with apps, documents, and websites during work hours. It helps you get expert insights on your time spent on tasks, helping to boost productivity. Also, you see an overview of your time in its dashboard including calendar events.

Timing offers three plans: Professional plan costing A$11.5, Expert plan costing A$16.5, and Teams plan costing A$12.5 per user per month for 2-20 members.

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