Which project management software has the best time tracking?

Teamwork.com is the PM tool that thinks most like an agency. Time isn't bolted on: every task has a timer, every entry can be flagged billable, and logged hours turn into a client invoice without a spreadsheet in between. That's why it takes first place here, ahead of tools with higher overall scores.

The pricing has three steps. Free, up to 5 users, already lets you log time. Basics, at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly, adds billable time and reports, with a 3-seat minimum, so about $30 a month for a small team. Accelerate, at $24.99 with a 5-seat minimum, is the plan agencies actually need: invoices built from logged time, time budgets and recurring retainers. For five people, that's roughly $125 a month billed yearly. Teamwork says annual billing saves about 29% over monthly but doesn't show the monthly price, so ask before you commit.

On review sites, users single out time tracking plus reporting as hard to find at this price for a small shop. The complaints are about the learning curve and manual time entry feeling clunky day to day. Our tip: set hourly rates by role during the trial, before you invite the team. Otherwise your first weeks of logged time carry no billable value.

ClickUp puts a timer everywhere: on every task, in the browser extension and in the mobile app. You can run a live timer or enter a duration later, set time estimates, and compare estimate to actual. If your team just wants to know where hours go, it's the cheapest way to get projects and tracking in one place.

Read the grid carefully, though. Free includes time tracking, but only as a trial, with a limited number of uses that never resets. Time logged without a task, the meetings and calls, only arrives on Business. Core costs $9 per user per month billed yearly, $12 monthly; Business is $17 yearly, $25 monthly. Five people on Business: $85 a month billed yearly. The old $7 Unlimited plan is gone, so ignore roundups that still quote it.

Reviewers raise three points: tracking that feels a bit rigid, timesheet exports that could be better, and no taskless time on lower plans. The easy workaround: add a "Client meetings" task to every project and log all task-free time there. On Free, save your trial uses for billable time, since that's what matters on invoice day. Before buying, confirm during the trial which plan opens timesheet approvals; public information on that point contradicts itself.

Harvest doesn't pretend to be a PM tool. It tracks time and expenses and turns them into invoices, and it does that well. The Free plan, capped at 1 seat and 2 projects, already includes tracking, invoices, expenses, estimates and 4 custom reports. For a freelancer starting out, that's often enough.

Teams, at $9 per seat per month billed yearly ($11 monthly), adds billable and cost rates, capacity reports, and QuickBooks, Xero and Stripe connections. Enterprise, at $14 yearly ($17.50 monthly), adds what a structured agency needs: timesheet approval, profitability reports, unlimited reports, SSO and required notes on each entry. Annual billing saves 20%, and the 30-day trial needs no card.

Reviews are strong, with two recurring catches. Some find it pricey for a tool that does one thing, especially on top of a PM subscription. And reconciling timesheets with invoices is still partly manual; a few customers also report annual renewals charged without notice. Our tip: on Enterprise, switch on required notes from day one. A "2h" line with no description is the line a client will dispute.

Toggl Track has a quality that matters more than it sounds: people use it. The timer starts in one click from the desktop app, the browser or your phone, and forgotten time is easy to backfill. The biggest problem with time tracking isn't the software; it's people forgetting to start the timer. A tool people enjoy shrinks that gap.

Free covers up to 5 users with unlimited tracking, unlimited projects and basic reports. Starter, at $9 per user per month billed yearly, adds billable rates. Premium, at $18, adds what agencies need: profitability analysis, fixed-fee project tracking, scheduled reports and timesheet approvals. The jump from $9 to $18 is the real price of profitability-focused tracking.

The limit is clear: Toggl Track has no project views, no Kanban board, no timeline. It plugs into your PM tool. If you're weighing it against Hubstaff, which adds screenshots and activity levels, read our Toggl vs Hubstaff comparison: they take very different approaches to tracking.

Clockify is the cheapest tracker in this comparison for the features you get. It handles projects, clients and tasks without pretending to replace a real PM tool, connects to Trello, Asana and Todoist, and runs from a browser extension.

The grid is easy once you know what you need. Basic, $3.99 per user per month billed yearly ($4.99 monthly), adds billable rates. Standard, $5.49 ($6.99 monthly), adds timesheet approval and locking plus invoices: enough for most agencies. Pro, $7.99 ($9.99 monthly), adds project budgets and estimates. Five people on Standard come to about $27.50 a month billed yearly. The pricing page caps Free at 5 users while another Clockify page says unlimited users, so check the limit when you sign up.

Our tip: don't jump to Pro by reflex. If all you need is to approve hours before invoicing, Standard does it for $2.50 less per person. The limits: project views stay basic, and there are fewer native integrations than Everhour.

monday.com offers a Time Tracking column you add to any board. It times an item, sums durations and feeds a dashboard widget. It's simple and good-looking, like the rest of the product. But it exists only on Pro and Enterprise. Basic at $9 and Standard at $12 don't have it. The real entry price is Pro, $19 per seat per month billed yearly ($22 monthly), with a 3-seat minimum: $57 a month at the least, $95 for a team of five.

The monday.com community forum shows the column's limits clearly. It needs a start and an end time, so you can't just enter "1.5 hours". Fixing an entry takes several clicks. Two people can't time the same item at once in one column. Anyone can stop or delete a colleague's time. And the column can't be edited by automations or the API beyond start and stop. monday's own staff have called it "a bit limited".

The common workaround: one subitem per person, each with its own time column. Another catch: the formula that sums durations ignores a running timer. For real billable tracking, many teams connect Everhour to monday.com rather than rely on the native column.

Asana tracks time natively, but only on Advanced. Personal and Starter have no native tracking; Asana points you to integrations like Everhour or Harvest. On Advanced, you log actual time on each task and compare it to the estimate. Timesheets, hourly rates and budgets come from a separate "Timesheets & Budgets" add-on, bought on top of the plan. Asana's public grid doesn't spell out its price, so ask before choosing Asana for time.

The Asana forum describes concrete limits. Time entries don't show as a list, only in charts. One-click tracking was removed, so you pick a project for every entry. Summed estimates display in days or weeks instead of hours. And for a long time, time fields were read-only in the Android app. The result: plenty of teams keep Everhour or Harvest even on Advanced.

Two forum tips: a formula field can show estimates in hours instead of days, and a reporting tool like Screenful can build timesheet-style tables from native fields. If your team is on Starter, adding Everhour is often cheaper than moving everyone to Advanced.

Wrike is the deepest tool on this list for running large project portfolios: workload, approvals, request forms, automation. On time tracking, though, it's the most locked down. Team, at $10 per user per month (2 to 15 users), has no time tracking. Business costs $25 per user, billed yearly in 5-seat bundles, so a team of 12 pays for 15 seats.

Wrike's current official grid lists time tracking and billable hours only on Pinnacle and Apex, sold on quote. Before signing for time tracking, get written confirmation of which plan includes it on your account: the public information has shifted, and it's the difference between $25 and a negotiated price.

Why it's hard to recommend to a small team: onboarding is the slowest here, and users rate support as average. For an agency under 20 people, Teamwork.com or ClickUp give you time tracking for far less. Wrike makes sense for a department already on it that wants everything in one place.