Most Toggl alternatives are the same shape as Toggl Track: a workspace, a login, seats counted per license, and your hours sitting in a database a company runs. TimePrivate is a Mac time tracker that takes the other route. No account, no server, no network requests, and the database is a file on your own machine. If that is the part of Toggl you were trying to get away from, this page is the honest version of the comparison, with Toggl Track's own pricing and export pages quoted and dated below.
TimePrivate is not released. There is no download, no trial and no purchase today. Apple Silicon Macs first, Windows on the roadmap.
A Toggl alternative is whatever you move to when Toggl Track's account model, its per license price or its cloud storage stops fitting the way you work. Most of the tools that come up in that search are the same product with a different logo. TimePrivate is the one that changes the underlying deal: it is a Mac time tracker with no account and no server, so your hours live in a database on your own machine instead of a workspace someone else administers.
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 whatsoever, so if you are the person who reviews other people's timesheets, Toggl Track is the better tool and this page will not change that.
Four reasons come up over and over. TimePrivate answers two of them well, one of them partly, and one of them not at all.
This is the one that surprises people. Toggl Track's own knowledge base says that "on Toggl Track the Free plan only supports PDF exports (CSV/other formats require a paid plan)". A PDF of a year of time entries is not a record you can work with. TimePrivate has no tiers to gate this: CSV export is part of the app, and the database is already a file on your Mac.
Toggl Track's pricing page footnotes Premium as $14 per license per month "for your first year of Premium annual, then renews at $18 per license per month". Per license, per month, every month. TimePrivate is planned at $9 a month or $79 a year for the whole app, with one license covering two Macs, and no separate tier holding your export hostage.
Toggl Track counts seats per license because it is built for teams that share a workspace. If you are one person, that whole layer is overhead you administer for no benefit. TimePrivate has no workspace, no invitations and no admin role, because there is nobody else in it. That is also its biggest limitation, covered below.
Project names, client names, the domains you visited, hours per account. Under an NDA that list is itself the sensitive thing. Any cloud tracker means that list is rows in a company's database under terms that can be revised. The TimePrivate app makes no network requests, so the list has nowhere to go.
Worth naming the reason TimePrivate does not answer: people also leave Toggl Track because they want better mobile tracking or a cheaper way to bill a team. TimePrivate has no mobile app and no team plan, so on those two it is a worse Toggl alternative than the tools in every roundup you will read. What to check before you pick a work hours tracker lays out that shortlist without TimePrivate in the middle of it.
The Toggl Track column is quoted from Toggl's own published pages, checked 30 August 2026, or marked as not verified where TimePrivate has not confirmed it. The third column is what to actually test, so this table stays useful even if you pick neither.
| What you are comparing | TimePrivate | Toggl Track | How to check it yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the record lives | |||
| Where your hours are stored | A local database on your Mac, with CSV export | A workspace on Toggl's servers | Ask where the database file is, and whether you can open it without the app |
| Account needed to use it | None. No login, no workspace, no invitations | Yes. Pricing is per license, and the free plan is "Free for a limited number of users" | See whether the app opens straight into tracking or into a signup screen |
| What the app sends over the network | Nothing. No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting | Not verified for this page | Run it for a day behind a firewall that logs outbound connections |
| Tracking with no connection | Works the same as always. There is no online mode to lose | Not verified for this page | Turn the wifi off for an afternoon and see what survives |
| Getting your data back out | |||
| CSV export on the cheapest tier | Included. There are no tiers | "the Free plan only supports PDF exports (CSV/other formats require a paid plan)" | Drop to the free plan and try to export a full year before you commit |
| How the export reaches you | A file the app writes into your own downloads folder | Workspace exports are compiled and emailed. The link "is valid for 72 hours" | Time one export end to end, including waiting for the email |
| Importing your history from the other tool | Imports Toggl, Clockify and Harvest CSV exports and calendar .ics files, with tags and billable flags | Toggl publishes a CSV import guide | Export one month, import it, and count the rows on both sides |
| What it costs | |||
| Entry paid price | Planned at $9 a month or $79 a year for TimePrivate, subscription only | Starter, "$9 per license per month" | Multiply by the number of people, then by twelve |
| What happens after the first year | No step up is planned beyond the $9 monthly or $79 annual price | Premium is "$14 per license per month" for the first year of annual, "then renews at $18 per license per month" | Read the asterisk on the pricing page before you sign |
| Free tier | None. The free thing TimePrivate publishes is the billable hours calculator on this site | Yes, "Free for a limited number of users" | Ask what happens to your history the day the free tier changes |
| Where TimePrivate is the weaker choice | |||
| Teams and approvals | None at all. No team dashboard, no approval queue, no payroll | Built for teams. Licenses are per user and there is an Enterprise tier | Count how many people need to see the hours, not just log them |
| Mobile app | None. Apple Silicon Macs first, Windows on the roadmap | Not verified for this page | Ask whether you start and stop 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 |
Toggl Track was not tested hands on for this table. Every Toggl Track cell is either a direct quote from a Toggl page listed in the sources table or is marked as not verified, and TimePrivate would rather leave a cell empty than fill it with a guess about another company's product.
Do the export first, before you decide anything. It tells you more about a tracker than any feature list, and the file is worth keeping whichever way you go.
Toggl Track's knowledge base describes exporting from the report view, with workspace exports compiled and emailed as a link that "is valid for 72 hours". Note the catch before you start: on the free plan, Toggl's own docs say only PDF export is available and CSV needs a paid plan. If you are on free, that is the first bill of the migration.
Open the CSV and confirm four things are in it: the start and end timestamps, the client or project, the description you wrote, and the billable flag. Those four are what turns a pile of hours back into an invoice you can defend. Anything missing here is missing forever.
TimePrivate imports Toggl CSV exports directly, along with Clockify and Harvest exports and calendar .ics files, keeping tags and billable flags. Your reporting does not restart at zero, which is the thing that stops most people switching in the middle of a tax year.
Store the Toggl 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. In TimePrivate this habit is the default, because the database is already a file you own.
Every roundup you will read for this search was written by a vendor who ranked themselves first. Here is the version where TimePrivate argues against itself.
TimePrivate is not released. No download, no trial, no purchase, no date. If your Toggl renewal is on Friday, pick something that exists and come back to the waitlist later.
No team dashboard, no approvals, no shared workspace, no manager view in TimePrivate. Toggl Track sells licenses per user for exactly that reason. Once a second person is involved this comparison stops being close.
TimePrivate ships on Apple Silicon Macs first, with Windows on the roadmap and no mobile app planned. If you start timers on a job site or in a car, this is the wrong shape entirely, and no amount of privacy makes up for it.
TimePrivate has no free tier and is planned as a subscription at $9 a month or $79 a year. Toggl Track's free plan is real. The honest trade is that a free plan is funded by an account on someone's servers, and TimePrivate's price is what stands in for that.
One more limit, because it gets blurred in this category: TimePrivate does not stop other software on your Mac from watching you, and it cannot. It simply is not one of those programs. There is no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging and no manager view to switch on, which is the whole of what TimePrivate deliberately leaves out. This website is a separate thing from the app and does run Google Analytics, PostHog and Microsoft Clarity, all named on the TimePrivate privacy page.
None of the Toggl Track figures above come from memory. Each one was read on a live Toggl page on 30 August 2026 and is quoted here so you can check it yourself, because prices and plan limits change.
| Claim | Quoted text | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toggl Track Starter price | "$9 per license per month" | toggl.com/track/pricing | 30 August 2026 |
| Toggl Track Premium price and renewal | "$14 per license per month" and "*$14 per license per month applies to your first year of Premium annual, then renews at $18 per license per month" | toggl.com/track/pricing | 30 August 2026 |
| Toggl Track free plan | "Free for a limited number of users" | toggl.com/track/pricing | 30 August 2026 |
| CSV export needs a paid plan | "on Toggl Track the Free plan only supports PDF exports (CSV/other formats require a paid plan)" | support.toggl.com/exporting-data | 30 August 2026 |
| How workspace exports are delivered | "Compile file and send to my email" and "The link can be accessed while logged into Toggl Track and is valid for 72 hours" | support.toggl.com/exporting-data | 30 August 2026 |
Anything about Toggl Track 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 you find one of these quotes is out of date, the pricing page is the one to trust, not this one.
What people ask when they are shortlisting a Toggl alternative, answered for TimePrivate specifically.
It depends on which part of Toggl Track stopped working for you, and TimePrivate is not going to claim the top slot in a list it wrote itself. If you need team timesheets or a mobile app, TimePrivate is not in the running. 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 it is not released yet.
Not as CSV, according to Toggl's own knowledge base, which says "on Toggl Track the Free plan only supports PDF exports (CSV/other formats require a paid plan)", checked 30 August 2026. Workspace exports are compiled and emailed as a link that "is valid for 72 hours". Plan for that before you migrate: a year of time entries as a PDF is not something you can import anywhere.
Yes. TimePrivate imports Toggl CSV exports, along with Clockify and Harvest exports and calendar .ics files, keeping tags and billable flags. Your reporting does not restart from zero when you switch, which matters most if you move mid year.
For one person the headline numbers are close. TimePrivate is planned at $9 a month or $79 a year, subscription only, with one license covering two Macs. Toggl Track lists Starter at "$9 per license per month" and Premium at "$14 per license per month" renewing at "$18 per license per month" after the first annual year, checked on toggl.com/track/pricing on 30 August 2026. The difference shows up per person: Toggl Track is per license, so it scales with your team, and TimePrivate has no team to scale with.
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.
That is the specific thing TimePrivate is for. There is no login, no workspace, no invitation flow and no password reset, because there is no server to hold an account on. The trade is that everything an account buys you, shared reports, a manager view, syncing through a company's infrastructure, is absent by design.
No, and none are planned. TimePrivate has no team dashboard, no approval queue, no payroll and no way to see anyone else's hours. If you manage other people's timesheets, Toggl Track and the rest of that market are built for the job and TimePrivate is not.
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 the reason you are searching for a Toggl alternative is that you would rather your client hours were not rows in someone else's database, 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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