Best and simplest tracker for freelancers or remote employees
April 28, 2021

Best and simplest tracker for freelancers or remote employees

Alexey Grinko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Toggl

I use [Toggl] individually to track my own time spent on different activities within the company, and also to calculate the overall working time per week. This helps me understand when I overtime or "undertime", which is especially actual with remote work and flexible schedule. I do it simply for myself, to improve my productivity and work/life balance. I don't report the results to anybody - that would be a different story, with less motivation to track all activities honestly. I found it to be the simplest app for this purpose.
  • Very easy to use
  • Automatically notices inactivity when I forget to stop the tracker
  • Allows to flexibly label different activities with tags, projects, customers
  • Properly categorizes all activities in weekly reports
  • Activity detection based on active window could work better
  • Automatic inactivity detection
  • Automatic reminder to track activity based on the activated window
  • Weekly reports
  • Simple design
  • Minimum destruction: one click to start tracking, one click to stop
  • Free for individuals (with optional Pro features)
  • Helped me realize how much I overtime
  • Helped me realize that I spend half of my time on unproductive activities
  • Allowed me to calculate how much time I spend on meetings & communications vs. software development
  • Clockify
One year ago I compared it to several tools, trying to use them in parallel. Now I don't remember the exact names of those tools, but Toggl was the best for its simplicity. It is easier to use, with fewer clicks and hence less destruction

Do you think Toggl Track delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Toggl Track's feature set?

Yes

Did Toggl Track live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Toggl Track go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Toggl Track again?

Yes

[Toggl] is best suited for tracking working time based on trust. It doesn't enforce anything, doesn't track keystrokes, active windows etc. - only what you log to it. It shouldn't be used as enforcement for employees to work 8 hours every day - it's rather an analytics tool that can help understand how the time is distributed across the activities to get some insights and improve productivity.