Track billable hours and stay on top of client time
Log time accurately across projects and clients, generate reports, and make sure no billable hour goes unrecorded
Categories: freelance, productivity, clients, reporting, solo
Tools that power the Track billable hours and stay on top of client time stack
Toggl Track — One-click time tracking
Start a timer in one click, tag it to a project and client, and review weekly totals
Clockify — Free alternative with reports
Free time tracking for up to five users, with report date-range limits
Notion — Weekly time review
Paste weekly totals into a Notion dashboard to review capacity and billing
Zapier — Automatic log automation
Connect supported time-entry events to a tested Notion summary workflow
Setup guide
- Toggl Track: Choose Toggl for time tracking if its current plan fits. Create projects matching your work, record a few timed and manual entries, and review a report by project and date. Distinguish current Toggl plans from any legacy Track plan before relying on paid features. (Read official instructions)
- Clockify: Use Clockify as an alternative. Free supports up to five users and unlimited time tracking, but its reports are limited to a 31-day date range. Create a project, record timed and manual entries, then compare Reports totals for the selected dates. Check paid-plan requirements before relying on longer report ranges. (Read official instructions)
- Notion: Keep a Notion weekly review with links to the authoritative time reports and a short reflection on estimates versus actual work. Import only the summary you need rather than manually duplicating every entry. (Open Notion instructions)
- Zapier: If you automate time-entry summaries with Zapier, choose an available trigger for the selected provider and verify that it excludes running/incomplete entries. Map a stable entry ID to prevent duplicates, test edited entries and timezone boundaries, and compare the result with the source report before enabling it. (Open Zapier instructions)
Check: Timed and manual entries reconcile with the source report; any automation handles edits, running entries and timezone boundaries without duplicates.