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5 Best Time & Productivity Tracking Tools

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Ashok Pandey
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Best Time & Productivity Tracking Tools

Work from home, this has become a new normal, employees are working from home and reporting to their mangers. But the biggest challenge is tracking productivity of each employee.

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Productivity is a tough aspect to monitor, so what do you do?

Thankfully there are lots of productivity tools enabling you and your employees to create timelines, for tasks and meet your deadlines every time.

DeskTime

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DeskTime is the perfect app for companies and teams who are interested in not only tracking also detailed analysis of the URLs and programs their employees use. The tool let you set the productivity target, then monitor to meet the target.

It is a simple-to-use time app with three crucial features including - employee monitoring, project management and productivity analysis. You can see the change in the employee productivity boost by 30% as it helps to identify and eliminate inefficient habits.

DeskTime is perfect tool to stay organized and in control. Its time tracker starts and stops working when you do, from the minute you turn on the computer, to the minute you turn it off. No manual data entries - DeskTime tracks and calculates productivity automatically for you.

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DeskTime collects accurate data about the time spent away from the work computer. Specify the reasons for absence and put them down as productive, unproductive, or neutral. Mangers can track time of individual projects and tasks.

Features:

Boost productivity by 30%

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Stay organized and in control

Manage your team and track projects in one place.

Save time and manual work

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Automatic time tracking

URL and app tracking

Document title tracking

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Offline time tracking

Project time tracking

Pomodoro timer

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Private time option

Employee absence calendar

Team's contacts

Work Schedules

Custom reports

Platform

Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

Price

Free trial, pro starts at $95

Time Doctor

It is a powerful employee time tracking app with mix of three - time tracking, employees monitoring and project management. Time Doctor gives you detailed information about your employees. It records web pages and apps used by each employee. Managers can also take screenshots of employees’ desktop to see what their employees are working on.

Time Doctor let you sync all your project management, communications, and accounting software. It comes with pop-up alerts employees when they go off task. Time tracking instantly improves employee's focus and productivity.

Features:

See time spent working and on breaks

Automated screenshots help track activity

Track time to clients and projects

Detailed reports, time sheets and more

See which websites and apps are being used

Process payroll and billing automatically

Integrates with all leading project management tools

Alerts remind you to stay off Facebook or other time wasters

Platforms

Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

Price

Free trial, starts at $7

Toggl

Toggl makes time tracking so simple, it only takes one click to start a new time entry or to continue tracking a previous task. It comes with timelines and budget planning feature making Toggl a great solution for collaborative freelancers, startups, and small businesses working on complex, limited-budget projects.

Toggl let you integrate 100+ apps, allowing you to start tracking immediately. The tool turns your calendar events into time entries with just one tap on Toggl’s mobile apps.

Toggl lets you easily filter your time tracking data, showing you the information you need when you need it. All reports can be exported into Excel, CSV or PDF’s. You can compare project progress to estimated time with the Project Dashboard. Spot problems early and fight off scope creep with easy-to-read visual data.

Features:

One-click Timers

Tracking Reminders

Over 100+ App Integrations

Togglman Thinking

Manual Time Entries

Calendar Integration

Pink Report Chart

Project Dashboard

Billable Rates

Platforms

Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

Price

Starts at $9

Harvest

Harvest combines work time tracker as well as provides expense tracking. Track time and expense, then collects the data and creates intuitive, visual reports. Additionally, it let you raise invoice once the project is dome to your clients straight from the app with Stripe or PayPal, making it perfect tool for freelancers.

Harvest comes with features like timesheets that provides a wealth of information that can help you manage your team more intelligently. The tool collates this raw timesheet data into a visual summary of where your team’s time is going.

Harvest’s sister app Forecast lets you schedule your team’s time into the future. Pull that data into Harvest to catch a project before it runs off the rails.

Features:

Track time your way.

Daily timesheet view.

Track time as you work.

Track with precision.

Daily Timers Weekly Timesheet

Work time tracking into your workflow.

See who’s tracking time.

Keep track of billable hours.

Spot burnout before it happens

Know where your team’s time is going.

Weekly time summary.

Daily time summary.

Time breakdown by project.

Easy Editing

Timesheet Approval

Automatic Reminders

Add comments and notes to tasks for the team.

Visual reports.

Platforms

Web, Mac, iOS, Android

Price

Free for one user with two projects

Plan starts at $12/monthly

Hours

Hours is a simple time tracker with basic report-sending functionality. Hours makes real-time tracking easy by keeping a running list of timers that you can switch between with one tap. You can manage your tasks and projects by color-coding them. Also, the timeline in the app lets you quickly make adjustments in your recorded timestamps at any time.

Hours Invoicing makes it easy to get paid. Quickly customize your invoice, add your hours, and even include timer notes from our friendly interface.

Features:

Task and project color-coding.

Frictionless time tracking

Flexible and easy invoicing

Slice and dice your team’s data

Hours for teams

A bigger and better timeline

Reminders to start time tracking timers.

Can be used with Apple Watch.

Platforms

Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android

Price

Starts at $6.67

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