Best Free Time Trackers: 5 Plans and Their Limits

The limit that ends a free plan’s usefulness may arrive well after signup. A third project, a sixth colleague, or the need to export last quarter’s work can change a tool from free to paid even though the timer still runs. Choosing well means identifying which of those requirements belongs to your normal work.

Clockify and My Hours allow small teams, Harvest includes invoicing within a small project allowance, Toggl combines recording with basic planning, and Teetrack provides individual tracking across five projects. The permanent plan limits determine whether those uses remain possible after a trial of paid features.

This guide is published by Teetrack, which is included in the comparison. We checked the linked vendor documentation on September 18, 2026. The recommendations are based on that research; we have not tested these products side by side.

Clockify Free includes timers, timesheets, and reports for up to five users. A small team can therefore collect project hours without purchasing a seat for each person. That gives it a different role from Harvest’s single-user Free plan: it can cover the group’s recording needs even when the team handles billing elsewhere.

The format of that reporting matters. Free allows PDF exports, while CSV and Excel exports require a paid tier. A PDF may be sufficient for a client summary, but a spreadsheet-based billing process needs the underlying rows. Project budgets and client currencies also require an upgrade.

Toggl’s continuing Free plan combines manual and real-time recording with calendar connections and basic planning. It suits someone whose first requirement is to account for a day split between tasks and meetings. Those records can explain where time went without assigning a financial value to every activity.

Billable rates and budget features are paid. If you need to turn the same hours into a client amount, Free leaves that calculation to another process. The plan also limits users, so its current allowance matters when extending personal tracking to colleagues.

Harvest Free includes time tracking, expenses, and invoicing for one user and two projects. For a freelancer with a small active workload, the invoice is a substantial part of the offer: recorded work can feed the bill without moving the hours to a separate application.

The two-project allowance counts projects, not clients. Two assignments for one client can therefore use the capacity before a second client arrives. Harvest also documents an explicit switch from the trial to Free for eligible accounts. The trial’s larger capacity should not become the basis of a workload that needs to remain free.

My Hours offers a Free plan for up to five active users, alongside Basic and Pro. Its project-and-task structure gives a small team a common way to organize timesheets. That is useful when several people contribute to the same work and the weekly review needs to separate their hours by assignment.

The free user allowance does not include every management feature. My Hours puts budget calculations and approval workflows in Pro, so a team that must formally approve submitted hours needs to allow for a paid subscription. The initial Pro trial can otherwise obscure that distinction.

Teetrack Free covers one user and five projects, with basic summaries and no card requirement. It offers more project capacity than Harvest Free, but serves a different purpose: reviewing recent personal or client work rather than generating invoices. An internal administration project also uses one of those five slots.

History access is limited to 90 days, and billing, budgets, and CSV/PDF exports are paid features. Someone who needs to revisit a client’s earlier quarter or provide an exported report therefore needs a paid plan. For a recent personal overview, those requirements may never arise.

Clockify or My Hours can cover a small team’s basic recording, while Harvest’s appeal is invoicing for one person with few projects. Toggl and Teetrack suit personal tracking, with different limits on what follows from those recorded hours.

The decisive check is the work you already know is coming: another project, another colleague, or a report for a past quarter. If it requires a paid feature, include that cost now. A trial can postpone the decision, but it does not remove the requirement.