Comparison

Toggl vs Time Journal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Toggl

This app combines time tracking and task management to help you focus on what's important. Plan your day with clear visibility of tasks, calendar events, and tracked time, all in one place. Make confident decisions based on real data.

Highlights
  • Effortless one-tap time tracking
  • Quick task creation on the fly
  • Unified view of tasks, calendar, and time
  • Organize tasks by priority or due date
  • Plan based on real time data
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Toggl brings time tracking and planning into one place. Track your hours, manage your tasks, and build work plans based on real data, not guesswork. Work with confidence and clarity. Anyone who wants to easily track time and plan work better can benefit from Toggl — whether you’re a team manager, individual contributor, or freelancer. START A TIMER IN ONE TAP The timer is always within reach, from any screen. Toggl shows you how long your work really takes, so you can plan realistic personal and team schedules, make confident decisions, and maximize productivity. MANAGE TASKS AND PROJECTS, ALONGSIDE TRACKED HOURS Add a task from anywhere with one button. Connect with projects, priorities, dates, and estimates. Sort based on your needs and star what matters. SEE YOUR WHOLE DAY AT A GLANCE, IN ONE PLACE Tasks, projects, calendar events, and tracked time in a single view. No switching apps to work out what's next. KNOW WHERE YOUR TIME WENT Reports turn your tracked hours into something you can act on, whether that's a fairer estimate, a cleaner invoice or a shorter week. CONNECT TIME TO PROFITABILITY Easily capture billable hours and compare them against non-billable time. Add labor costs to understand project or client profitability. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Your data syncs with Toggl on web, macOS and Windows, so the timer you start on your phone is waiting for you at your desk. MANAGE YOUR TEAM OR WORK SOLO Toggl can be used by both teams and individual users. The seamless time tracking, flexible task management, and powerful reporting remain the same regardless. BUILT FOR REAL WORK, NOT SURVEILLANCE No screenshots, no activity monitoring, no nagging. Toggl is a tool you use, not one that watches you. Already using Toggl Track? You can keep using it — it’s supported and updated, with no sunset date. Toggl is a separate app, built around planning as well as tracking, so you can do much more with your time data. Built by the team behind Toggl Track. Download Toggl and get your time back. Terms of Service - https://toggl.com/legal/focus/terms/ Privacy Policy - https://toggl.com/legal/focus/privacy/ Need Help? Go to https://community.toggl.com/c/focus-faq/27 Any Feedback? Share it at https://toggl.typeform.com/to/Z0xZVf74#rid=xxxxx

About

Time Journal

Features
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Where did today actually go? Most of us can't say. Time Journal keeps an honest record of how you spend your hours, so instead of guessing, you know. Start a timer when you begin something and stop it when you're done. Or skip the timer and fill the day in later. Then look at the breakdown and decide for yourself what it means. That's the whole app. No advice, no scores, nobody looking over your shoulder. Two ways to log • Live timer: one tap on an activity starts tracking. Switch to a different activity without stopping first. A running timer appears as a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never lose track of what's counting. • Quick log: add an entry after the fact with a start time, an end time, and an activity. Suggestions from your recent entries make it quick. Missed a few days? Fill them in whenever you like. The app won't mention it. See your time • Day view: every logged hour as a color-coded timeline. One glance shows what the day was actually made of, and where the gaps are. • Breakdown chart: your time by activity, filtered to today, this week, last month, or any range you pick. • Trends: how each activity moves week over week, so you can watch a change take hold instead of guessing at it. Set a budget, if you want one Pick an activity and a weekly hour target. Five hours of exercise. Three hours of reading. A ceiling on social media. Progress updates as you log, and each week starts fresh. Goals are entirely optional. Ignore them and the app works exactly the same. Make it yours Nine activities are ready to go: Work, Projects, Cooking, House Chores, Entertainment, Learning, Social Media, Exercise, and Sleep. Turn off the ones that don't fit, add your own, give each one a color, and reorder them so what you use most sits at the top. Light and dark themes included. Notifications you control Two of them, and you can switch either off: • A nudge when a timer has been running longer than you'd expect, in case you forgot to stop it. • A periodic check-in asking what you're doing right now, only during the hours you choose. That's all. No streak reminders, no "we miss you," no marketing. Your data stays on your phone • Works completely offline. No connection needed for anything. • No account, no sign-up, no email address. • Nothing is uploaded, synced, or sold. Your entries stay on your device. • No ads. Built to be usable Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type handled throughout, and contrast that holds up. Activities are never identified by color alone. What it won't do It won't tell you you're spending too long on anything. It won't break a streak or dock you points for a day you didn't log. It won't turn your life into a leaderboard. It keeps the record. What you do with it is yours to decide.

Screenshots

Toggl4 screens
Time Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Toggl and Time Journal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Toggl versus Time Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTogglTime Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperToggl OÜDaniel Linares Saab

In-app purchases

None

Toggl

No in-app purchases

None

Time Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Toggl free?
Toggl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Journal free?
Time Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Toggl or Time Journal have ads?
Neither Toggl nor Time Journal shows ads.

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