Timing Automatic Time Tracker App Reviews

I use Timing a lot for my side gigs to track the apps I use as a measure of what I should charge. It’s very handy and works exactly as I need it to. One thing that would just be icing on the cake would be if I could leave apps in their default buckets, but move bits of time into other projects. I really love the app though and I think it’s really well done and well supported.

If you are a consultant who bills for her his/her time, you know that sometimes you can get into the zone and forget to mark your start and end times. Timing solves that problem by showing you exactly how much time you spent in your work applications so you can bill correctly without ever needing to worry about marking your times. Moreover, Timing helps you determine how long it takes you to complete certain tasks (by the application you use to complete it) so that you can figure out whether you are charging enough for those tasks or not. This helps immensely with the proper pricing of your services and, therefore, the proper maintenance of your profit margins. Love this app.

this is by far the easiest and simplest means of tracking time on a daily basis. As a producer who works on multiple projects throughout the week, I often found myself struggling to remember accurately what time was spent where. This app is a godsend. Responsive developer too! Highly recommended.

The Best Timing App Ever Made! I never liked having to remember to start the timer or add up all the time I have spent on a project. This app automatically times everything. - Worth the price. - You can color code your activities (programs) - You can hide activities you don’t wan’t tracked - Custom charting - Private Mode available - Create Custom Activities (Show certain program activities within) Overall, it’s an amazing timing utility and every business or freelancer who needs to time their activity this is a must!

This app has saved me many times. It runs in the background and keeps track of what I do. Then when I need to create time records for clients or projects and I can’t remember what I did, Timing provides a very helpful record of what was opened, which files I worked on and for how long. This app has paid for itself many times by reminding me to log hours I had forgotten. If you need to keep hourly records for clients and projects this is really helpful. The interface takes a little while to understand but believe me all your time recording is there.

Finally a time tracking app that does not make me tell it when I am going to start working on something. It allows me to sort it all out later. I am a new user, but alreday I can tell this is so different from all the other ones I have tried. Even though it does not track every app I use, it still records them in a way that I can Identify them and get my time int the correct job. - Ive been working so hard lately - nice to know now I can prove it. Worth every penny! Thank You!

I was hoping I could track time spent on different projects but what this app does is just track categories. So want to track how much time you spend using Illustrator on a couple of projects it doesn’t let you separate between the projects and will end up putting all the time you spend using Illustrator in each of the projects. If you want to know how much time you spend on activities, like using Photoshop, or browsing the web, or watching movies it does that just fine.

This is a useful took only if you are tracking your activities through visiting a specific directory path or a speciifc Application… other than that it is useless.

This app is great! I’ve been looking into time tracking apps to organize my day (but that work by tracking the actual activity on the computer, because I’ll always forget launching and stopping a manual timer) – and this one is by far the cheapest. As far as I can tell, it works amazingly! I especially like the ability to track computer idle time (and assign it to a project upon return), because these usually coincide with moments when mommy duties keep me from my Phd. I might actually graduate on time now! Thanks!! As far as improvements – one great addition would be the ability to sort entries by calendar time, as I think that would make sorting more simple. I’m hopeful that this will be added in a future update.

freelancer.. absolutely wonderful for tracking hours when it comes to billing time. one thing…. please please please please get FCPX functionality. i would purchase it all over again.

Great App! Both simple and powerful. Gives you everything you need for tracking your time in a very efficient way. And developer is very responsive and quickly came with help when I emailed. Thanks Daniel. Waiting for further versions.

So, lots of high ratings here, so maybe it’s not the right app for what I want to do and that’s why. Thought though that this might be helpful for people who are looking for an app to do what I had in mind. I wanted an app that would track my activity (doc, chrome, filemaker, etc) and then let me assign that activity to my projects. This app will do that, but it won’t let you divide that activity (example: work on chrome) into different projects (clients). So, for example, I do a lot of work on Chrome—web browsing, e-mail, google docs, etc. I wanted to take the time on that activity (Chrome) and divide it into four different projects so I could track the amount of time on a project….can’t do that. You can only take the whole time on Chrome and assign it to ONE project. You can e.g. add facebook.com to one project and google.com to another by clicking the triangle next to the row for Chrome, but still, I wanted to be able to split up my time on google mail to multiple projects, so that doesn’t work for me.

Best $0.99 ever spent.

This app works exactly as advertised and does so with a great, intuitive interface. It’s the best and easiest way to track time spent on projects. Furthermore, the developer really wants to make this app the best it can be, and responds quickly to feedback and requests.

This is an amazing tool to control and backtrack the usage of the programs you use. Goodbye procrastination!! This app is so well programmed too! Little details that other programmers leave behind is absolutely not a concern here. This app turns out to actually work better than expected. Let’s say you want to know how much time do you spend in a webpage. The app will tell you how long you spend with your browser open AND also which page you were visiting. This is a full report of how you spend your time in your computer. If you want to improve your time spending in front of your machine, this app is definitely what you should have. Works for me!

It’s awesome to see how much work you actually put in on your computer. Very useful for anyone - whether it’s for business or just someone who spends a lot of time on the computer. Very easy to use! Great job to the Timing team!

Timing is a great unobtrusive and customizable activity tracking app that I have been using for the past two years. Most importantly it never takes up significant system resources while doing its job. It allows me to look back in time and get a better understanding of where my time was spent and make better estimates for the future as well as understand where I am spending too much time. I also appreciate the level of cusomization it allows for apps like browsers, where I can specify which level of recording I would like (e.g. only recording the top-level domain) of sites I visit. It also has the ability to collect the document paths in a wide variety of other apps (including Terminal!). The best part of this app is I installed it once and it stays out of my way, doing its job, until I’m ready to look at the results it has collected.

I am a freelance web and graphic designer. I spend the day hopping back and forth between projects and my projects are scattered throughout several different files, folders and applications. I’m often under-charging clients because I don’t want to charge them for more time than I’ve actually spent on a project, and I’m only going on my own estimates. I’ve never been able to use apps with a start and stop timer, and I’ve had minimal happiness with other timing apps…. Enter Timing…. Wow! I can’t get over much time this saves me. I don’t have to set anything up before I begin working on a project. I can FINISH a project and take less than 1 minute (after it’s completed) to drag all the specified folder and files and websites into the Timing project and Wham! I have an accurate total number of hours spent actively working on the project. I can also set up the Timing project before I begin and track my time really easily as I go along. Other apps required me to add time from different apps accross several different days. With Timing, It’s as simple as clicking my project, setting a date range and viewing my total time! I can also select a project and date range and see how much time I spent each day or each week. Suffice it to say that this will be my favorite app for quite some time! I look forward to some updates and feature additions that will make it an even more excellent app. There is nothing that compares to Timing as far as I’ve found. The developers definitely care to keep updating the app and keeping it awesome. Since I’ve owned it, there have been at least two major improvements that have made it even more wonderfull. LOVE THIS APP!

Timing...Where have you been all my life? I absolutely love this app. No longer am I writing my time down. No longer am I guessing what I’ve been doing all day. I can actually just work and recover my time, even many days later. I’ve always wanted an app like this and it works like a charm. Some apps even allow me to see the exact file I was working on. PSDs, AIs, Safari pages, and more. As a designer/photographer it’s worth every penny and more for the great piece of software time tracking work.

If you want to automatically track your time based on time spent in each App, Website, URL, Folder or specific Files… this is the app for you. I’ve been running it for almost 3 years now. I love that I can go back in time and analyze my productivity with ease. I love the new date-range picker. It’s nice to see such an important update. My one request would be for the “Date Range:” pick-list to be broken out into a set of shortcut icons. When a shortcut icon is clicked, immediately apply the range and close the dialog. I review yesterday’s productivity every day. It would be great if I could pick “yesterday” in just two clicks (instead of four). (UPDATE: It remembers that you picked “yesterday” each day, so I don’t have to re-pick it. However, I’d still like the dialog to be faster for common time-ranges.) Keep up the good work!