Timely Automatic Time Tracking User Reviews

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App crashes on open every time!

This app is worthless.

Crashes on IOS

Current version crashes as soon as you open on IOS. Used to be a helpful app.

Won’t load on my mobile

I love this app but it no longer works on my phone. It loads for less than a second before glitching and closing.

Crashes immediately

Tried fully reinstalling multiple times but the app crashes instantly

Keeps closing

The app in theory is great but force quits the second it’s used.

Broken app

I am a paying customer of this service, I use it to track my time for my consulting business. Works well on my Mac and my windows machines. But this app is junk. I launch it and it immediately crashes.

Completely Broken

This app is completely broken

App Crashes on iPad

I would love to use this app, have a fully updated iPad Pro and every time I open it it just crashes.

App crashes

The app keeps crashing when i open it. Screen only comes up for a few seconds

Crashes on open

This app worked for a brief period but after 18.2 just crashes. App hasn’t been updated for 2 years so probably not compatible

App crashes on open

Re-installed several times, app keeps crashing immediately upon opening.

Love love love the computer version but mobile crashes

I first stumbled on timely for tracking work done on/through mobile (ie my cell or tablet) and wanting a backup time stamp type tracker of my work captured for billing as a consultant. LOVE the computer/desktop app but so sad the mobile app always crashes and seems to not function

It’s a well deserved 5 star product.

Been using Timely on and off for about eight years now, trying out other apps in between. But lately, I fully recommitted to using Timely. Timely transcends as more than an app—it's a testament to my productivity. Its keeping me on track with work and side gigs like no other tool. I feel balanced in my work. AI on Mac OS does all the data gathering and I just focus on getting things done. Seeing my progress boosts my motivation and by day's end, I know exactly how productive I was and gives me accurate work time easily. So, I'm pretty hooked on Timely, and that’s my shout-out.
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Perfect for freelancers & remote workers

I have used Timely for 4 years and love it. Easy to use and great for logging my time when working for 2 or more businesses at a time.

I got Timely specifically to track my work on my MacBook, it monitors what apps/website I am on so if I forget to set my timer I can still get an accurate account of how much time I spent working on each business. It’s brilliant. And the data stays locally on my laptop so I know it’s secure.

I use this with the app as I can easily set the timer on my phone and start working.

Only update I would love to see is memory tracking on my phone so I can add chats and message times in on my work hours.
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Nice way to track time

I feel the AI could be much better.

That being said the app tracking and time is spot on.

iOS app needs dark mode, generally use it for putting tasks into there categories which is painful, but I guess it’s better then doing it all manually

Best in class

I don’t ever write reviews but Timely needs this one. I don’t believe the negative comments are honest, because this app does something I haven’t found elsewhere.

I’m a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, so I need a timekeeping app that’s better than Time by Quickbooks (formerly known as Tsheets). I’m a pro with that app and also paid to sell it. But Time lacks one very important feature that my clients need, so I auditioned 14 different timekeeping apps in the last 2 months, and found that none were able do exactly what I need except THIS one. Let me try to describe how powerful this integration is.

It’s great to have an app to keep time and then send entries to QBO for invoicing. Lots of apps do that. It’s also wonderful to have a time app that integrates with your Apple or Google calendar to create billable time. Again, not that special.

But, seriously, try to find a single timekeeping app that does both sides of that flow. To draw from my calendar, give me an entry to assign to a client/project/task, allow approval, then instantly sync to QBO as a ready-to-send invoice. Oh wait, the two way sync back that tells Timely not to double-bill my client? I dare you to find an app that smart.

I’ve literally used this one for less than 24 hours and I can promise: it’s much smarter than most. Time by Quickbooks is free to me as a reseller, but I can give that up and gladly pay for this functionality.

Case study: I can get an email from a client and send it to my Google calendar as an event that I’ll schedule time to address (I use Airmail [email client] and Informant [calendar client] because they have these functions). I can turn this event into billable time (via Timely) to create an invoice in QBO, add whatever detail i need for my financial reporting requirements, and then bill my client. Icing on top: QBO sends the message back to Timely that the time has been invoiced. It’s the smoothest flow I’ve ever seen.

Communicate, schedule and creare invoices. <— the more time you spend on that flow, the less you have for billable work.
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Does not automate

In order to automate tracking Memory Ai application is required. But they haven’t created an iOS app. Very misleading. Mediocre

Way cheaper than a human personal assistant!

Timely reminds me precisely how I spent my time allowing me too accurately bill clients as well as keep track of how much time personal projects are getting my attention, even family time. It makes working as a freelance digital nomad much, MUCH easier to keep track of. It integrates with Harvest. If you were working as a US citizen then however much it costs is deductible from your business operational costs. Nothing is free, really. Get over it. This is a great app!
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Way to expensive!!!

Greedy. Non transparent. No way I ever pay that

Limited program especially the ipad version

I have been using the service for a few years now. The desktop version I would give a 3 to 4 stars due to The memory portion where it is able to track what hours you’re working and what program although in most programs it cannot track what file you had open so you have to go by memory but it makes it easier at the end of the day to track what you worked on then manually entering everything in. The desktop version is very limited in what you can track for data on projects compared to other time tracking software.The iPhone app is OK although several features that you would think would be standard or not included such as a widget to quickly enter time. The iPad app though is very faulty and limited and not worth downloading. It is stuck on having the week start on Monday and there’s no way to correct that and you can only see it and week view on the iPad. Which means it will show different stats that counteract the stats on the desktop and the iPad. For how expensive the service is you would expect better quality applications and more data ability. For instance and none of the apps can you track a project that has a fixed about what the final hourly rate ended up being. Instead you have to pull out of Calculator. These are standard features that should be in there,But the biggest issue is the calendar view on the iPad and screw you up if you’re not expecting to it.
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