{"id":26568,"date":"2024-05-31T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/blog\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:06:15","slug":"clockify-most-popular-time-tracker-for-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/blog\/managing-teams\/clockify-most-popular-time-tracker-for-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"How Clockify Transformed Team Time Tracking Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You know that feeling when you\u2019re doing your best to track time, but you\u2019re also wondering:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAm I really doing this right?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs tracking time spent on projects via pen-and-paper or stopwatch the most efficient way to do it?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, no. It\u2019s not.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking time using traditional methods is time-consuming and leaves room for human error. And lots of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the quest for a better, affordable solution, our team developed a tool that revolutionized team time tracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned to learn how we got started \u2014 and what that means for you today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Origin story: How Clockify came to be<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It all started with our small team of developers working on client projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, we needed to track time spent working on those projects in order to accurately bill our clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, we got an email notifying us that we were now expected to pay double for the time tracker we were using for this purpose \u2014 we had to pay a lot of money for something as basic as simple timekeeping for all team members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ouch.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, for practical and pricing reasons, we decided it was time to build our own time tracker. After all, we always wanted to move on to building our own products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We toyed with this idea before, but the market seemed to have no need for another time tracker \u2014 or so it seemed. This shows how one email can change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s when <\/strong>Clockify<\/strong><\/a> was born.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing exactly what we needed from a time tracker, we worked on creating the perfect solution for our needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realizing that it\u2019s always best to share a good thing, we offered Clockify to the world so that everyone could have access to free, basic time tracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clockify enters the market and conquers it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when people realized Clockify\u2019s value and started using it \u2014 more and more users flocked every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the biggest boost for our app happened on one summer day in 2017 when Clockify ended up on Product Hunt<\/a>, totally unplanned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To kill time while waiting for his flight to San Francisco, Nenad Milanovi\u0107<\/a>, the founder of Clockify, put the app on this popular platform \u2014 without any strategy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, nothing was ever the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much to everyone\u2019s surprise, the Clockify user base began to expand at an incredible rate. The simple-to-use tool got over 20,000 new users in fewer than 24 hours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What drew people to this app was the ease with which they could track their work hours across projects \u2014 either via timer<\/a> or by adding time manually<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Tracking time in Clockify<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Proving to be a reliable tool, Clockify began to attract very notable clients \u2014 such as a Fortune 500 company. As you can guess, this was a big moment for Clockify\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the good things kept on coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, Bloomberg<\/a> recognized Clockify as one of the best startups to invest $1 million in. Apart from that, Clockify has been featured in top publications, such as Forbes<\/a>, Entrepreneur<\/a>, The Times<\/a>, and others, always cited as among the best apps in various categories. In fact, a 2024 Forbes article ranked Clockify as the best overall time tracking app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, Clockify has expanded the benefits and options it offers, becoming a powerful app that covers everything, from Kiosk to scheduling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, we had to put in a lot of effort before the app became what it is now \u2014 the most popular time tracker for teams used by millions of users, including brands such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, American Express, Siemens, Nestl\u00e9, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was all worth it. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clockify has definitely transformed time tracking for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udca1 Clockify Pro Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to hear more about Clockify directly from its users? Check out these interesting, eye-opening customer stories: <\/p>\n\n\n\n