People start looking for a Clockify alternative for two reasons. The free plan got narrower, and the paid plans got a monitoring layer. This page lists eight options with the price each vendor publishes, sorted by where your hours end up living. One of them is TimePrivate, a Mac time tracker built the other way around: no workspace, no seats, no admin, no screenshot feature to switch on, and a database that is a file on your own machine. Every Clockify and competitor figure is quoted from the vendor's own page, read on 28 September 2026, so you can check each number before you move anything.
TimePrivate is not released. There is no download, no trial and no purchase today. Apple Silicon Macs first, Windows on the roadmap.
The best Clockify alternative depends on where you want your hours stored. If you want the same hosted model at a different price, look at Toggl Track, Harvest or My Hours. If you want to run the server yourself, Kimai and solidtime are open source and self hostable. If you want the record on your own Mac, Memtime keeps its automatic activity data on the machine and Timing is a Mac app you can download today, while TimePrivate goes further with no account and no server at all, but is not released yet. The Clockify alternatives shortlist on this page quotes each price from the vendor's own site.
Two things to be straight about before you read further. TimePrivate is not released, so there is nothing to download or buy today and no launch date is being promised. And TimePrivate has no team features at all, so if you run a workspace where staff submit hours and a manager approves them, Clockify is the better tool and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Most Clockify alternative roundups rank tools by features. This Clockify alternatives list, written by TimePrivate, sorts them by the question the rest skip: whose computer holds the record. Every price below was read on that vendor's own pricing page on 28 September 2026 and is quoted word for word. Where a vendor's page showed no figure, the row says so instead of guessing. TimePrivate is listed honestly: it is the only option here you cannot use today.
| Clockify alternative | Where your hours live | What its own page says, 28 September 2026 | Pick it over Clockify when |
|---|---|---|---|
| On your own Mac or PC | |||
| TimePrivate | A local database on your Mac. No account, no server, and the app makes no network requests. Optional sync writes end to end encrypted files to a folder you choose | Planned at $9 a month or $79 a year for TimePrivate, subscription only. Not released: no download, no trial, no purchase today | You track only your own hours on a Mac, you want nobody able to switch on monitoring, and you can wait for a release that has no date |
| Memtime | "From day 1 of installing Memtime, your automatic activity data is stored offline on your machine." The trade off it states: "there’s no sync across devices" for that data | Basic "€15" per user/month on quarterly billing, "€12" on annual billing | You want automatic tracking with the activity log kept on your machine, and you need it today, on Windows, macOS or Linux |
| Timing | A Mac app. Every plan lists "Sync & Cloud Backup", so where your data sits depends on how you set it up. Not verified further for this page | No price verified. Timing's pricing page lists Professional for "1 Mac for one person", Expert for "2 Macs for one person" and Connect with "3 Macs per user", but showed no figure TimePrivate could quote | You want automatic Mac time tracking you can download this afternoon. On availability alone Timing beats TimePrivate |
| On a server you run | |||
| Kimai | "self-hosted or SaaS". Self hosting reads "Deploy on your own server with Docker or manually. 100% open source (AGPL 3)" | Kimai Cloud Standard "€ 2.99" per user and month billed annually, "€ 3.99" monthly | You want a team tracker with invoicing on hardware you control, and someone on the team is happy to run and update a server |
| solidtime | "We host it on secure, managed infrastructure, or self-host on your own servers." Licensed "Open source AGPL-3.0" | Cloud Solo "Free" for "1 user". Professional "€8 / user / month" billed annually or "€9" billed monthly, excluding VAT | You want an open source Clockify alternative with a free solo cloud tier now and the option to move it onto your own server later |
| On the vendor's servers, like Clockify | |||
| Clockify (for reference) | A hosted workspace under your account | FREE "$ 0 For up to 5 users". BASIC "$ 3.99 per seat /month billed annually" or "4.99 if billed monthly" | This is the baseline. If only the price bothers you, compare the three rows below |
| Toggl Track | A hosted account, with "Time tracking on web, desktop, and mobile" listed on the free plan | Free "$0", "Free for a limited number of users." Starter "$9 per user per month" with annual billing selected, "$12 per user per month" with monthly | You want the same hosted model with a different app, and timesheet approvals, which Toggl lists on Premium |
| Harvest | A hosted account with "Web, desktop, and mobile apps" | Free "$0 forever" with "1 seat" and "2 projects". Teams "$9 seat/month", "$108 per seat, billed annually", or "$11 seat/month" monthly | Invoicing is the main job and you are one person on two projects or fewer, or a team happy to pay per seat |
| My Hours | A hosted service with a sign in and per user plans | Free "$0 USD", "Limited to 5 active users." Basic "$4 USD PER USER PER MONTH (BILLED ANNUALLY)" or "$5" billed monthly | You want a free plan with the same five user ceiling as Clockify's and a cheap paid step above it |
Sources for this Clockify alternatives table, all read on 28 September 2026: memtime.com/pricing, timingapp.com/pricing, kimai.org/en and kimai.org/en/pricing, solidtime.io and solidtime.io/pricing, clockify.me/pricing, toggl.com/track/pricing, getharvest.com/pricing and myhours.com/pricing. TimePrivate has not used any of these tools hands on for this page, so anything beyond the quoted text is left unverified. The trade TimePrivate makes against a solo workflow is shown on the TimePrivate timesheet app for Mac, which covers the daily draft you approve instead of a manager.
This is the question behind most Clockify alternative searches, so here are the current limits with the wording Clockify uses, read on 28 September 2026.
The Clockify pricing page lists the FREE plan at "$0 For up to 5 users". Clockify's own help note on free plan updates describes the limit as 5 active users. If you are one freelancer, that cap is not your problem, and that one person case is the one TimePrivate's time tracking app for freelancers is built around. If you invited three subcontractors and a bookkeeper, it is. TimePrivate has no free plan at all, which is the honest counterpoint: planned pricing is $9 a month or $79 a year.
Clockify's free plan update note lists the "Report and dashboard date range filter: 1 month (31 days) at a time". A year end summary becomes twelve separate pulls. TimePrivate has no date range tier: the local database holds the whole history, and reports and CSV export run across all of it.
Clockify's export help page says "You can export data and download reports in PDF (Free plan) or CSV/Excel (Basic plan or higher)", adds that "A PDF file can contain up to 3000 rows", and notes that on a Free plan "you can only export up to a maximum of 31 days or 1 month per report". Clockify's free plan help also says workspace owners can export the current year's time entries as CSV from Workspace settings. TimePrivate ships CSV export with no tier gating it, and the database is already a file you hold.
The billing note on Clockify's pricing page reads "Every active or invited user listed on your Team page occupies one paid seat. This includes the Owner, Admins, Managers, and Members. Deactivated users do not occupy a seat." That is normal for per seat software and worth knowing before you invite someone. TimePrivate is one person on up to two Macs, with no invitations to account for.
None of this makes Clockify a bad product. A hosted workspace with five free seats is a real offer and plenty of people should take it. The point of this page is that TimePrivate is trading those five seats away on purpose, in exchange for a tracker with no account, and you should only want that trade if the second half is the part you care about.
This is the part that sends salaried people looking for a Clockify alternative, and it is worth describing accurately rather than dramatically. The Clockify facts here come from its pages read on 28 September 2026.
What Clockify publishes. Clockify's current Activity Monitoring screenshots are included with Pro, Enterprise and Bundle subscriptions. A desktop agent must be installed and screenshot capture enabled. The capture interval is configurable from 30 to 1800 seconds, screenshots are not taken while a user is idle, and the images are automatically deleted after 60 days. Clockify identifies this as the replacement for its legacy screenshot system, which remains available to existing workspaces until January 1, 2027. Its older desktop app article describes five-minute intervals and one-year retention for that legacy system. Clockify's employee monitoring page describes GPS this way: "Enable GPS tracking and see all visited client job sites throughout the day by your remote field crew when they clock in via the mobile app".
What TimePrivate does instead. TimePrivate records the frontmost app and the browser domain, offers idle time back to you, and writes a daily draft timesheet that you approve, adjust or throw away before any of it counts. There is no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging, no activity percentage, no GPS and no manager view, and there is no plan you could upgrade to that adds them. The capture stays on your Mac because the app makes no network requests.
The limit worth stating plainly. TimePrivate cannot stop other software on your machine from watching you, and it does not claim to. If an employer installs a monitoring agent, that agent runs whether or not TimePrivate is there. All TimePrivate can honestly say is that it is not one of those programs and has no feature that could be turned into one. What it leaves out on purpose is listed under why TimePrivate is private.
Worth knowing before you work through the search results, because it explains why the lists all feel the same and why TimePrivate is not on any of them.
The pages ranking for "clockify alternative" are mostly vendor blogs, and each one puts itself at number one in its own list. That is not dishonest, it is marketing, but it does mean the ranking order tells you nothing. TimePrivate is doing the same thing on this page, which is why every Clockify figure above is quoted and dated rather than summarised.
On Toggl's roundup of Clockify alternatives, read on toggl.com/blog/clockify-alternatives on 28 September 2026, four of the seven entries are introduced in their own headings as alternatives "with employee monitoring", "with surveillance features" or "with employee surveillance". If you left Clockify because of the Pro tier's screenshots, several of the tools recommended to you next make that the headline feature.
The other big theme is a bigger free plan: pages titled around free Clockify alternatives compete on seat counts rather than on where the data goes. A free tier is funded somehow, and the usual funding is an account on a company's servers. TimePrivate's planned $9 a month or $79 a year is what stands in place of that, and it is a fair thing to hold against it.
One of the top results for this search is a Reddit thread in r/selfhosted asking for simple time tracking apps like Clockify, which is the same instinct TimePrivate is built on: keep the record on hardware you control. The difference is that TimePrivate asks you to run nothing. There is no server to host, because the app never talks to one. TimePrivate weighs Kimai, solidtime, TimeTagger and the other self hosted trackers against that on a separate page.
The Clockify column uses Clockify's own published pages, read on 28 September 2026, or is marked as not verified where TimePrivate has not confirmed it. The third column is what to test yourself, so the table stays useful even if you pick neither.
| What you are comparing | TimePrivate | Clockify | How to check it yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the record lives | |||
| Where your hours are stored | A local database on your Mac, with CSV export | On Clockify's servers, under your account and workspace | Ask where the database file is, and whether you can open it without the app |
| Account needed to track | None. No sign up, no workspace, no invitations | Yes. Tracking is tied to an account in a workspace | See whether the app opens into a timer or into a signup screen |
| What the app sends over the network | Nothing. No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting | Entries sync to Clockify's servers. Telemetry specifics not verified for this page | Run it for a day behind a firewall that logs outbound connections |
| Tracking with no connection | Identical to normal. There is no online mode to lose | Not verified for this page | Turn the wifi off for an afternoon and see what survives |
| Watching and being watched | |||
| Screenshot capture | No such feature, on any tier. There are no tiers | Activity Monitoring screenshots are included with Pro, Enterprise and Bundle subscriptions. Existing workspaces can still use legacy screenshots until January 1, 2027 | Read the Pro feature list before you agree to be in someone's workspace |
| How often screenshots are taken | Never. Nothing captures your screen | Current Activity Monitoring: a configurable 30 to 1800 second interval while the user is active. Screenshots are deleted after 60 days | Check the configured interval, who can view captures, and the retention period |
| Location tracking | None. No GPS, and no mobile app to carry one | "Enable GPS tracking and see all visited client job sites throughout the day" | Check which permissions the mobile app asks for on install |
| Who can switch monitoring on | Nobody. There is no admin role and no workspace to administer | A workspace owner or admin enables Activity Monitoring in workspace settings; a team manager can have access if an admin grants it | Find out who owns the workspace your hours are in |
| Getting your data back out | |||
| CSV export on the cheapest tier | Included. There is no cheaper tier to be gated by | CSV reports need Basic or higher. On Free, workspace owners can export the current year's time entries as CSV from Workspace settings | Try to export a full year from the free plan before you commit |
| How far back a report reaches | The whole local history, in one report | Free plan filter is "1 month (31 days) at a time" | Pull last January's numbers today and count the steps |
| Row limits on an export | None published. CSV is written straight to your disk | "A PDF file can contain up to 3000 rows" | Count your entries per year, then compare against that ceiling |
| Importing history from the other tool | Imports Clockify, Toggl and Harvest CSV exports and calendar .ics files, with tags and billable flags | Import is listed as a Basic plan feature and above | Export one month, import it, and count the rows on both sides |
| What it costs | |||
| Free tier | None. The free thing TimePrivate publishes is the hours calculator on this site | "$0 For up to 5 users" | Ask what happens to your history the day the free tier changes again |
| Entry paid price | Planned at $9 a month or $79 a year for TimePrivate, subscription only | BASIC, "$3.99 per seat /month billed annually" or "$4.99 if billed monthly" | Multiply by the number of seats, then by twelve |
| Price of the tier with monitoring | No such tier exists or is planned | PRO, "$7.99 per seat /month billed annually" or "$9.99 if billed monthly" | Decide whether you are buying the timer or the oversight |
| How seats are counted | Not counted. One planned license covers two of your own Macs | "Every active or invited user listed on your Team page occupies one paid seat" | Audit your Team page for invited people who never showed up |
| Where TimePrivate is the weaker choice | |||
| Teams, approvals and attendance | None at all. No team dashboard, no approval queue, no kiosk, no payroll | Built for exactly that, with approvals and attendance on paid tiers | Count how many people need to see the hours, not just log them |
| Mobile app | None. Apple Silicon Macs first, Windows on the roadmap | Yes, mobile and desktop apps | Ask whether you start timers away from a desk |
| Can you use it today | No. TimePrivate is not released. The waitlist is the whole offer | Yes | Check your own deadline before you wait on anything |
Clockify was not used hands on for this table. Clockify claims are sourced in the sources table or are marked as not verified, and TimePrivate would rather leave a cell empty than guess about another company's product. If you want the same treatment applied to a different tool, there is the TimePrivate comparison with Toggl Track, a head to head of Toggl Track vs Clockify with costs for 1, 5 and 10 people if you are choosing between those two, and for automatic trackers there is the RescueTime comparison sorted by where your activity log lives.
Do the export first, before you decide anything. On Clockify the export is also the step that tells you which plan you are really on, and the file is worth keeping whichever way you go.
This is the catch that trips people up mid migration. Clockify's export help page says you can export "PDF (Free plan) or CSV/Excel (Basic plan or higher)", and that on a Free plan "you can only export up to a maximum of 31 days or 1 month per report". Those are report limits. Clockify's free plan help says workspace owners can separately export the current year's time entries as CSV from Workspace settings. Check that export first; older years and CSV reports may need a paid plan.
If you own a Free workspace, try the current year time entry CSV in Workspace settings. Check its columns before importing. If you need a detailed report CSV, Clockify lists that export on Basic or higher. Its help page notes a PDF holds up to 3000 rows, so split a PDF report if you need one and the range is larger.
Open the CSV and confirm it carries the start and end timestamps, the client or project, the description you wrote, and the billable flag. Those four turn a pile of hours back into an invoice you can defend. TimePrivate imports Clockify CSV exports directly, along with Toggl and Harvest exports and calendar .ics files, keeping tags and billable flags, so your reporting does not restart at zero.
Store the Clockify export next to your invoices, not just inside the new app. That file is your evidence if a client queries an invoice in eighteen months, and it does not care whether either subscription is still active. With TimePrivate this is close to the default state, because the database is already a file on your Mac.
Every roundup you will read for this search was written by a vendor who ranked itself first. Here is the version where TimePrivate argues against itself.
TimePrivate is not released. No download, no trial, no purchase, no date. If your workspace hits the five user cap on Monday, pick something that exists now and come back to the waitlist later.
Clockify is a workspace product: staff submit, managers approve, attendance and time off sit on the paid tiers. TimePrivate has none of that and none of it is planned. Once a second person needs to see the hours, this comparison stops being close.
TimePrivate ships on Apple Silicon Macs first, with Windows on the roadmap and no mobile app planned. Clockify has mobile apps and a kiosk mode for exactly this. If your hours start in a van, no amount of local storage makes up for the missing app.
Then the fair comparison is $0 against a planned $9 a month or $79 a year, and Clockify wins it. TimePrivate has no free tier and none is planned. The argument for paying is that the free five seats come with a 31 day report window, PDF only report export and a company that can revise the terms, and some people would rather pay to be out of that arrangement.
One boundary that gets blurred in this category: TimePrivate does not protect you from anything else running on your Mac and never claims to. It simply has no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging and no manager view to enable. Note too that this website is a separate thing from the app and does run Google Analytics, PostHog and Microsoft Clarity, all named in TimePrivate's website privacy disclosures.
None of the Clockify figures TimePrivate quotes above come from memory. Each was read on a live Clockify page on 28 September 2026 and is sourced here so you can check it yourself, because prices and plan limits change and this one changed recently.
| Claim | Quote or summary | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clockify free plan user cap | "$ 0 For up to 5 users" | clockify.me/pricing | 28 September 2026 |
| Clockify paid prices | BASIC "$ 3.99 per seat /month billed annually" or "$4.99 if billed monthly", STANDARD "$ 5.49", PRO "$ 7.99", ENTERPRISE "$ 11.99" on the same annual basis | clockify.me/pricing | 28 September 2026 |
| How seats are counted | "Every active or invited user listed on your Team page occupies one paid seat. This includes the Owner, Admins, Managers, and Members. Deactivated users do not occupy a seat." | clockify.me/pricing | 28 September 2026 |
| Free plan report window | "Report and dashboard date range filter: 1 month (31 days) at a time" | Clockify free plan help | 28 September 2026 |
| Free plan time entry CSV | Workspace owners can export all time entries for the current year as CSV from Workspace settings | Clockify free plan help | 30 September 2026 |
| Report export formats by plan | "You can export data and download reports in PDF (Free plan) or CSV/Excel (Basic plan or higher)" and "A PDF file can contain up to 3000 rows" and "If you are on a Free plan, you can only export up to a maximum of 31 days or 1 month per report" | clockify.me/help/reports/exporting-reports | 28 September 2026 |
| Current screenshots, plan and frequency | Activity Monitoring screenshots are included with Pro, Enterprise and Bundle. With the desktop agent running, captures follow a configurable 30 to 1800 second interval while the user is active | Clockify Activity Monitoring screenshots | 28 September 2026 |
| Current screenshot retention | Activity Monitoring screenshots are automatically deleted after 60 days. The older five-minute interval and one-year retention describe legacy screenshots, available to existing workspaces until January 1, 2027 | Clockify Activity Monitoring screenshots; legacy desktop screenshots | 28 September 2026 |
| Who can enable monitoring | Workspace owners and admins can enable Activity Monitoring. Team managers can use it if an admin grants access in workspace permissions | Clockify setup guide | 28 September 2026 |
| GPS tracking | "Enable GPS tracking and see all visited client job sites throughout the day by your remote field crew when they clock in via the mobile app" | clockify.me/employee-monitoring-software | 28 September 2026 |
| Monitoring wording in a competitor roundup | Four of seven entries are introduced as Clockify alternatives "with employee monitoring", "with surveillance features" or "with employee surveillance" in their own headings | toggl.com/blog/clockify-alternatives | 28 September 2026 |
Anything about Clockify not in this table is marked "not verified for this page" in the comparison above, and TimePrivate has left it that way on purpose. If one of these quotes is out of date by the time you read it, Clockify's own page is the one to trust, not this one.
What people ask while shortlisting a Clockify alternative, answered for TimePrivate specifically.
Yes. Clockify's pricing page lists the FREE plan at "$0 For up to 5 users", read on 28 September 2026. The limits that surprise people are elsewhere: Clockify's free plan update note lists a "Report and dashboard date range filter: 1 month (31 days) at a time", and its export help page says report exports are "PDF (Free plan) or CSV/Excel (Basic plan or higher)". Workspace owners can export the current year's time entries as CSV from Workspace settings on Free. TimePrivate has no free tier at all and is planned at $9 a month or $79 a year.
It is free, but narrower than the version people remember. As read on clockify.me on 28 September 2026, the free plan is capped at 5 users, reports are filtered one month at a time, and CSV or Excel report export needs Basic or higher. Workspace owners can still export the current year's time entries as CSV from Workspace settings on Free. Nothing there stops a solo freelancer tracking hours for nothing. It does mean your archive lives inside someone else's plan tiers, which is the specific thing TimePrivate is built to avoid by keeping the database on your Mac.
It depends which part of Clockify stopped fitting, and TimePrivate is not going to award itself first place in a list it wrote. If you need team timesheets, attendance, a kiosk or a mobile app, TimePrivate is not in the running and Clockify is already good at those. If what you want is your hours out of a workspace and onto your own machine, TimePrivate is a Mac time tracker with no account and no server, planned at $9 a month or $79 a year, and not released yet.
Yes, two on the TimePrivate shortlist. Kimai describes itself as "self-hosted or SaaS" and its self hosting option as "100% open source (AGPL 3)", deployed "on your own server with Docker or manually". solidtime says "We host it on secure, managed infrastructure, or self-host on your own servers" and is licensed "Open source AGPL-3.0". Both were read on their own sites on 28 September 2026. Self hosting keeps the record off a vendor's servers, but you then run the server. TimePrivate removes the server instead: the Mac app makes no network requests.
For a Mac you can use today, Timing is an automatic time tracker for Mac with a download on its site, and Memtime runs on macOS as well as Windows and Linux with activity data "stored offline on your machine", per its pricing page read on 28 September 2026. TimePrivate is built for Apple Silicon Macs first, with no account and a local database, and is planned at $9 a month or $79 a year, but it is not released, so it cannot be your Clockify replacement this week.
They are the same shape of product, so the answer turns on price and team size rather than on anything deep. Clockify lists FREE at "$0 For up to 5 users" and BASIC at "$3.99 per seat /month billed annually". Toggl Track lists Starter at "$9 per user per month" with annual billing selected. Both keep your entries on their servers under an account, both sell team features, and TimePrivate has tested neither hands on. If the question behind yours is where the record physically sits, neither wins it, and TimePrivate keeps a separate Toggl alternative comparison page for that question.
Yes, if your workspace has Pro, Enterprise or Bundle and Activity Monitoring screenshots are enabled with a desktop agent installed. Clockify says the capture interval is configurable from 30 to 1800 seconds while the user is active, and screenshots are deleted after 60 days. Its older five-minute and one-year rules apply to legacy screenshots, which existing workspaces can use until January 1, 2027. TimePrivate has no screenshot feature on any tier, so there is nothing to enable.
Yes. TimePrivate imports Clockify CSV exports, along with Toggl and Harvest exports and calendar .ics files, keeping tags and billable flags. On Clockify Free, workspace owners can export the current year's time entries as CSV from Workspace settings. Check its columns before importing. A detailed report CSV needs Basic or higher, and Free reports are capped at 31 days per report.
TimePrivate is not the answer to this one and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise: there is no free TimePrivate tier, and planned pricing is $9 a month or $79 a year. Clockify's own free plan at "$0 For up to 5 users" is a genuine offer for a small team. The thing to check before you settle on any free timecard app is what happens to the history: whether you can pull a full year in one export, in a format you can reuse, on the plan you are actually on.
The TimePrivate Mac app makes no network requests at all, so there is no online mode to lose. Tracking on a plane behaves exactly like tracking at your desk, and nothing queues up waiting to sync. Optional TimePrivate sync is the one part that touches a folder, and it writes end to end encrypted files into a folder you choose, so your cloud provider holds ciphertext only.
No, and none is planned. TimePrivate has no team dashboard, no approval queue, no attendance, no kiosk, no payroll and no way to see anyone else's hours. If you manage other people's timesheets, Clockify is built for the job and TimePrivate is not. The TimePrivate timesheet app page walks through what a solo Mac timesheet looks like instead.
The app locks and your data stays on your machine, exportable. That is the practical difference between a local database and a hosted workspace: a lapsed subscription does not close an archive that was already a file on your own Mac.
No. TimePrivate is not released, so there is nothing to download and nothing to pay for today, and no launch date is being promised. The waitlist is the whole offer: one email the day it opens. Planned pricing is $9 a month or $79 a year, subscription only, on Apple Silicon Macs first with Windows on the roadmap.
If you are searching for a Clockify alternative because you would rather your own hours were not rows in a workspace someone else administers, TimePrivate is being built for exactly that. It is not ready. The waitlist is one email the day it opens, and nothing else.
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