TrackTimer is an AI-powered time tracking and billing platform for freelancers, consultants, and agencies that prices every tracked second at your billing rate and your team's pay rate, so project profit appears while the work happens instead of at month-end.
What is TrackTimer?
TrackTimer is a time tracker and billing tool that runs in the browser, on iPhone, on Mac, inside Raycast, and inside AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude. You start a timer against a client and project; TrackTimer multiplies elapsed time by the client's billing rate and each person's pay rate, then outputs billable value, labor cost, and gross profit for the day, week, month, or project. It also generates client-facing dashboards and ready-to-send invoice lines. Inputs are clients, projects, billing rates, pay rates, and time entries; outputs are profit figures, shareable client dashboards, and invoices created through Mercury.
What makes TrackTimer stand out?
- AI Auto Track for Mac — keeps a private timeline of your day on macOS 14 or later, noting the app and window in use and reading on-screen text; a short excerpt goes to TrackTimer's AI to title, summarize, and categorize each block, and any block becomes a time entry with a description.
- Profit per project, not just hours — supports hourly, fixed-fee, and non-billable work; a sample project shows 124h 0m tracked, an hourly value of $18,000.00, labor cost of $7,440.00, and value less cost of $10,560.00, with a daily profit chart.
- Free client dashboards — invite clients to their own dashboard where they see their own hours and billable amounts by project, week, and day; pay rates, costs, and margins are never shown to them.
- Mercury invoicing — choose the client and date range, review hours and rates (each project becomes one invoice line), then create and send the invoice from Mercury.
- AI assistant integration — connect TrackTimer to ChatGPT or Claude to ask what got done, where hours went, and what was earned, or to start, switch, and stop timers by request through the MCP connection.
- iPhone app with Live Activity — a Lock Screen Live Activity shows running time and earnings; stopping a timer on the phone stops it on the web too.
- Raycast extension — start, stop, or switch timers from a keyboard shortcut (Option + J) without leaving the current window.
- REST API — endpoints such as POST /api/v1/timers/start with a bearer token and an idempotency key let you drive timers from your own tools.
Who should use TrackTimer?
- Design, marketing, development, video, and AI agencies: bill multiple clients and projects at different rates while tracking the gross profit each engagement produces.
- Freelancers, freelance developers, and freelance designers: price every hour at a personal rate and see daily earnings without building a spreadsheet.
- Consultants and fractional executives: log meetings, strategy work, and admin separately, then hand clients a dashboard instead of answering status emails.
- Agencies working with contractors: assign each person a pay rate so labor cost and margin stay visible while contractors track their own time.
What can you do with TrackTimer?
- Agencies billing hourly or fixed-fee: set a client billing rate and a per-person pay rate, then compare billable value against labor cost day by day.
- Client-facing teams: share a free dashboard showing 120h 0m of billable hours and an $18,000.00 billable amount broken out by week, with pay rates hidden.
- Anyone who forgets to start a timer: use the Mac activity timeline to turn a past block, such as a 9:05 AM kickoff call, into a billable entry after the fact.
- Month-end billing: pull a period's entries (38 entries and 108h 0m in the example) into a single Mercury invoice of $16,800.00.
How does TrackTimer work?
Set up a client and project with a billing rate, create the people who will track time with their pay rates, and start a timer from the web, iPhone, Raycast, or an API call. TrackTimer then computes earnings in real time and, at billing time, groups each project's tracked hours into one invoice line inside Mercury that you review and send. Toggl Track import copies your clients, active projects, and team, though past time entries stay in Toggl.
Pricing
TrackTimer is free during early access, with every feature included and no extra charges for clients, projects, or reports. Planned pricing after launch is $8 per seat per month billed yearly, or $10 month to month, with no five-seat minimum. A limited lifetime offer at launch is priced at $200 in one payment. No paid-plan launch date has been announced.
Alternatives
Other time trackers in this category include Harvest, Everhour, Timely, and Toggl Track, all of which are referenced for plan differences on TrackTimer's comparison pages.
FAQ
Is TrackTimer free?
Yes. Every feature is free during early access, including client seats, projects, and reports. Planned pricing after launch is $8 per seat per month billed yearly, or $10 month to month, and a $200 lifetime option is planned as a limited launch offer.
Do I need a Mac to use TrackTimer?
Only for AI Auto Track, which requires macOS 14 or later. Timers also run on the web, on iPhone, in Raycast, and inside AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, so the rest of the product works without a Mac.
Can my clients or teammates see my activity?
No. The AI Auto Track activity timeline is visible only to you. Clients and teammates see time entries and billable amounts only; client access is free and never displays pay rates, costs, or margins.
What does AI Auto Track capture?
On Mac it notes the app and window in use and reads on-screen text; a short excerpt goes to TrackTimer's AI to title, summarize, and categorize the work. Your account stores the title, summary, time, category, project, and app names, while screenshots stay on your Mac.
Can I switch from Toggl Track?
Yes. The importer copies your Toggl Track clients, active projects, and team into TrackTimer. Past time entries are not moved and remain in Toggl Track.
