Employee time tracking app with one-tap clock-in
Your employees clock in and out on their own iPhone or Android phone. You see the whole team's hours and breaks in the web app and export them for payroll.
No credit card required. The mobile app stays free afterwards.
- iPhone, Android and web
- Works offline
- Export to Excel, CSV or PDF
In short
How does employee time tracking work in Timesheet?
Each employee installs the free app and clocks in with one tap, an NFC tag or a geofence around the workplace. The hours reach the web app, where managers see who is working, review entries and export them. Team features need Pro at $10 per user per month, free for the first 30 days.
What your employees do
Clocking in takes one tap: Start in the morning, Pause for lunch, Stop at the end of the day. The clock can also start by itself when someone arrives at a geofenced workplace or taps an NFC tag by the door. On Android, joining the work Wi-Fi can start it too.
Forgot to clock in? Employees add the entry afterwards or correct it. The app works offline, and Apple Watch or Wear OS can start, pause and stop the clock, paired with the phone. The time card app page shows the employee side in detail.
What you see as the employer
The web app is where the team comes together. Give each person a role (member, manager or owner) and decide who sees what:
Team hours in one place
Managers see and edit all entries on their projects. Employees see only their own.
Live view
See who is working right now. If an employee turned on location stamps, a map shows where their running shift started.
Reports and exports
Filter by person, project and date range, then export to Excel, CSV or PDF.
Clock in from the browser
People who work at a desk can track their time in the web app instead of on the phone.
Try it with your team for 30 days
Invite your employees, let them clock in for a full pay period, and decide afterwards.
No credit card required. The mobile app stays free afterwards.
Breaks, overtime and time off
Breaks are tracked apart from working time with the pause button. On Android, a break can also be added automatically after a set working time.
The Business plan adds the HR side: overtime and flextime balances against each contract, leave balances, time-off requests that employees send from the app and managers approve in the web app, and overtime approval at the end of a period. Days with a missing break or a short rest period are flagged for review. Nothing is blocked, so a manager decides what happens.
Templates with the working-time rules of 49 countries give you a starting point, which you then adjust to your contracts.
From hours to payroll
At the end of the month, export the team's hours to Excel, CSV or PDF in the web app, or turn them into PDF timesheets. Employees can export their own hours from the phone to Excel or CSV on any plan.
With Pro, Timesheet can also send hours to QuickBooks Online as time activities, and Zapier and the REST API connect other tools. To check a week by hand, use the time card calculator; the PTO accrual calculator estimates earned time off.
Fair to your employees
Employee time tracking works when people trust it. Timesheet records working time, not movements: location is saved only at the start and end of a shift, and only if the employee turns it on.
Synced data is stored on Google Cloud servers in the EU (Belgium), and a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is available.
What to know before you roll it out
The limits that matter to most employers:
- Each employee uses their own phone
- There is no kiosk, tablet terminal, PIN pad or badge reader, and no photo check at clock-in.
- Every team member needs a Pro license
- The app is free for one person. Everyone on your team needs Pro at $10 per user per month. Pro and Business suit teams of up to 50, Enterprise up to 200.
- No timesheet sign-off
- Managers review and correct entries in the web app, but there is no approval step for time entries. Approvals cover time off and overtime (Business).
- Approvals happen on the web
- Employees request time off in the app; managers approve it, and overtime, in the web app.
Pricing for teams
One price per person. No setup fee and no hardware.
Basic
One person on one phone, no team
Free
- Unlimited time tracking
- Geofence and NFC clock-in
- Excel and CSV export
- Works offline
Pro
Employee time tracking for teams
$10per user / month
- The team's hours in the web app
- Roles, live view and reports
- Excel, CSV and PDF exports
- QuickBooks Online, Zapier and API
Business
Adds HR and working-time rules
$20per user / month
- Time-off requests and approvals
- Leave, overtime and flextime balances
- Checks for missed breaks and rest periods
- Overtime approval
In euros: Pro €8, Business €16 per user per month. Save at least 10% with annual billing. The 30-day trial includes the paid features; if you do not pay afterwards, the account switches to the free Basic plan and keeps its data.
Compare all plansEmployee time tracking questions
What employers ask before they start.
The Timesheet app is free for one person on iPhone and Android, with unlimited tracking and Excel or CSV export. Keeping a whole team's hours in one place needs Pro at $10 per user per month. You can try it free for 30 days without a credit card.
Only if the employee turns it on, and only at the start and end of a shift. There is no continuous GPS tracking.
Not as a sign-off step. Managers can review and edit entries in the web app. Approvals exist for time-off requests and overtime on the Business plan.
Pro costs $10 per user per month (€8 in euros), Business $20 (€16). Annual billing saves at least 10%. There is no setup fee and no hardware to buy.
Give your team a time clock they already carry
Start your free trial, invite your employees and see the first week of hours in the web app.
No credit card required. The mobile app stays free afterwards.