Timing Automatic Time Tracker App Reviews

Timing is hands-down the best tracking app out there. I lead digital marketing for a medium-sized agency, and it has saved my life - and my teams’ lives - on multiple occassions. When meetings are scheduled back-to-back-to-back, or tasks are backed up, I’ll forget to log my time. Timing is an absolute life saver. It allows me to go back a few days and see what I was working on. I’ve even created groupings for each client that we work with, so I don’t need to sift through the data - I can just reference the sum-total for any given client. It also helps me when I’m doing side work as a consultant and need to justify a bill to my clients. I can breakdown exactly how much time I spent on each task for them. I could keep going, but suffice to say - GET THIS APP.

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Hi! Im a physics grad student and use omnifocus, vitamin-R, & timing respectively for planning, executing, and accountability when managing my research. Thanks for developing such an awesome app. I use it to analyze my work habits on weekly and monthly time scales. I have a support request into these developers to add stacked colors (task binning) into the timeline view. This is a wonderful app and a bargain for the information you gain about your history!

This useful app does a wonderful job of tracking computer use by web site visited, app used, and files opened and actively being used. Very helpful to help track time on a specific project or just generally monitoring computer use.

I can use timing to categorize much of my work activity automatically, and to help me remember what I did when. It is a huge time saver and really useful! Update: I’ve been using timing for over a year now, and it has been absolutely fantastic. I often completely forget it is there, then when the time comes to report my labor at the end of the month I have accurate information about the whole month in about one minute! All I have to do is update what category the unassigned paths I used belong in. I also needed some help to get iTerm2 to record my time on two occasions due to changes to iTerm2, and Daniel had a response solving the problem within minutes. If I could give 6 stars I would, thanks!

I’ve only been using “Timing” for about 2 days but, so far, it has done very well at tracking time. I would give it 4 stars but the way it tracks iTerm (and Terminal) needs some enhancing. Currently “Timing” suggests changing the shell’s prompt to include the escape-code to set the title bar of the terminal window to include the shell’s current path. “Timing” then uses the path in the title bar to determine the activity spent in that window. This is too specific for tracking (my) development activities and I would like to see an option where the terminal’s profile name can be used instead. I submitted the above request to the developers and they were very quick to respond and acknowledge the request. When tracking documents (PDFs in Preview or Documents in Pages for example), the app can classify the project by the path of the document. This feature seems to work very well as I can track "Project A” vs “Project B” by storing all the relevant documents in their corresponding top-level folders.

So far a great app that does what I hoped it would. Please consider minor improvements: I do not need/want to see the entire pathway under each application, for example all the folders and subfolders of a document I was working on. I just want to see that name. Also, I’d like a better way to prevent timing on selected apps, rather than dragging them to the Blacklist, such as adding a setting to the “Preferences” where I can select apps to never be timed.

I like the layout, the tracking detail and the stability. Until I need do billing, I rarely notice it is there. Can’t ask for much more. Good job.

My boss told me he needed to know how much time I was spending on each project. So I found this little gem to keep track of what I do. it works wonders for my freelance projects too.

I’ve looked at a bunch of timing apps that track how much time one spends on each program. They all had something off in their GUI or were either too simple or too complicated. Having now discovered and installed Timing, I am very happy..and this ends my search in this area. It is at the right level of functionality and does the job wonderfully.

Does what it says and in fairly fine detail. I do monthly billing by the hour, and Timing allows me to be much more accurate about what I was working on (including, in many cases, the exact document) and for how long. More importantly, I no longer even have to keep track of my hours troughout the month — Timing does it for me. Also it is very lightweight and uses minimal resources.

I am an independent software developer and I work from home. This program collects my hours spent, so I can accurately determine how many hours I am actually working, vs. how many hours I am surfing the web or playing Civ V. I like that I can see how I’m doing for the day, the week, and the month.

It seems to be a wealth of “free” time tracking applications with questionable revenue methods. Timing charges a reasonable price upfront. and thats it. The app works great and doeas ecxactly wht you need. Never in the way and generate great statistics. Very useful for both freelancers and procrastinators.

Provides detail info on time usage. I love being able to exclude or include whole groups of apps, seeing what browser tabs I spent time on, which project files I spent most time on, etc. Just what I need without the bloat.

I have literally spent 10x as much to get tracking software that doesnt grab the relevant data and hurts system performance. It’s simple, accurate and easy to use.

Timing doesn’t hog resources as many other background apps can and does a brilliant job of breaking down all your computer usage in such fine grained detail. The ability to drag particular websites, documents or applications to different activities is soooo good. Absolutely blows many of the online competitors out of the water. Do yourself the favour don’t waste any more time and get this app!

I downloaded Timing Lite last year when I started working from home to make sure I was staying on task and see where my time was going to. I can specify which websites/apps are relevant to work, and which ones are not, and get a breakdown on how productive I am by hour, or what percentage of my time gets wasted procrastinating. It has absolutely no impact on my computer’s performance, and I can stash it away up in the menu bar when I’m not looking at it. The lite version gave me all the info I needed to track, but I finally went ahead and bought the full version to support the dev and so I could write a review. This is a fantastic time tracker.

In my job, we typically have flat charges for work, but occasionally there is a special project we need to track hours for. This definitely helps. It is one of the best time tracking apps I’ve used. Where it fails is the lack of a search function to find everything related to specific projects. When we get busy and have multiple jobs occuring at the same time, it makes it difficult to sort through specific clients projects and find everything relating to a job. I love the ability to break down applications into different divisions and create custom projects, but when you forget to set up a custom project beforehand, you may miss specific instances. That is where incorporating a search function would be great. Maybe on a future release? One can only hope.

After a few email exchanges and specific instructions from Daniel Alm (support), Timing is working as it should. Great support from Daniel! I am still getting used to how this application performs, but it shows great promise. I do believe this will meet my need to track time for projects along with applications used during the work. Glad that all issues were resolved in a timely and efficient manner…fred 10/16/2014 Just downloaded and installed the application. It is very similar to one I used a few years ago that is no longer available. in short, BAD FIRST IMPRESSION! After starting the application I receive a message that Timing need API access. I click to correct the preference settings. However, there is no further prompts or instructions on what to change. (strike 1) I then attempt to use help to find out what I am supposed to do. The help pages are not available. WHAT!? (strike 2). I try the Timing web site. So far I have not found a way to resolve my issue. I submitted a support ticket. We will see if this is strike 3! The application is so similar to what I used before. I hope that it works since the previous application is not longer available and does not work with current OS. (I actually wonder if this app is not an off shoot of the one I used before.) Update if something changes…fred

When you buy an app to track your productivity, what you want is something that can tell you from the time you start your work day, and have sat at the computer, just how much time is going into productive activities. For that purpose, the app is deficient. If what you want is an app that tracks how long you spent gaming or surfing the internet, there is nothing better than this. I have not looked at everything out there, but this has a great system where most of the apps, firefox, games etc are already in a category, and once you’ve started, everything is automatic. If however you also want an option to enter custom activities, then it’s not that useful. 6 main problems: 1. No default arrangement of activities into productive and non—MacTimeLog, which no longer works with X.10, allowed you simply to put two asterisks next to a custom activity, and it was immediately categorized as ‘slacking.’ There could be a more high-tech way, but here you have to go manually and drag and drop activities into folders. If we were that organized on a systematic basis, we would not need the app. 2. Accommodating non-computer activities is not intuitive nor consistent. It has a feature that you can opt in that asks you if you want to be asked for an activity after being idle. But I was away for 2 hours and it recorded 20 minutes. Another time it brought up two windows, with two different times (I entered both). 3. There is no access to the log file so that you can go manually and correct some entry that was wrong. 4. It does not give an option to end an activity. If I am reading a webpage, then go to a custom activity like reading, it simply automatically stops tracking the website after 150 seconds of idleness, but then you can’t remember when you switched to reading. So when you try to enter a custom activity, if you don’t remember when you switched, tracking is a guess-game. 5. The above is also not helped by the fact that the app does not record the exact time you start and end an activity. It tells you it was between 1 and 2. 6. It does not track the time you start the day at the computer. So now it tells me it has tracked 2 hours in total, but not since when. If I started this morning, that could be eight hours ago. In fact, I sat down at 1 pm, when it started tracking. So this is really partial, especially since non-computer related activities were not tracked properly. Except in the negative sense that I can look at the whole day and know how long I spent working on a document or some other specific, pre-entered activity. Since the latter is better than not having any record at all, it has its purpose. But I would not recommend you spend $10 unless what you want is simply the question of how much time you spend websurfing or gaming. For anything fuller, this is too high maintenance.