Alternatives to Kimai
An open-source time tracker for freelancers and teams, self-hosted or used as a hosted cloud service. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Kimai
An open-source time tracker for freelancers and teams, self-hosted or used as a hosted cloud service.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Kimai.
Clockify
A time tracker and timesheet app for teams, with reports, billable rates and invoicing.
Clockify is a closed-source hosted time tracker with timesheets, billable rates, kiosk mode and iOS and Android apps, with many team features on paid plans and no self-hosting.
Harvest
Time tracking and invoicing software for teams and freelancers who bill clients by the hour.
Harvest tracks time and turns it into invoices with profitability reports and integrations with Asana, Slack and Stripe, as a paid, closed-source hosted service.
Timing
A Mac time tracker that automatically logs the apps, websites and documents you use.
Timing is a paid macOS app that tracks apps, websites and documents automatically and assigns them to projects with rules, instead of relying on a self-hosted server.
Timewarrior
A free, open-source command-line tool for tracking the time you spend on tasks.
Timewarrior is a free, open-source command-line time tracker, with no graphical interface, invoicing or team features compared with Kimai.
Super Productivity
Plan tasks while tracking time and focused work sessions.
Super Productivity is an MIT-licensed desktop and Android app that combines task planning with time tracking and timeboxing, rather than a server for team billing.
RescueTime
Automatic time tracking service that records time spent in apps and websites and blocks distractions.
RescueTime passively tracks time in apps and websites and produces timesheets and client reports, but it is a proprietary hosted service storing detailed activity data.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Akaunting
Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, available online or self-hosted.
Manager.io
Accounting software for small businesses and personal bookkeeping, with a free desktop edition and a Cloud Edition.
Redmine
Self-hosted open-source project management and issue tracking web application built on Ruby on Rails.
Flowkeeper
Organize focused work with a desktop Pomodoro timer.
Odoo Community
The open-source edition of Odoo, a suite of business apps covering CRM, sales, inventory and projects.
Pomofocus
A customizable online Pomodoro timer with a task list that runs in any browser.
