Free DeskTime alternative

Features built for business, not employee screens

Flexible time tracking

Clockify gives your team a 1-click Timer, manual entry, timesheet view, and calendar view. The desktop auto tracker logs apps and URLs in the background — but only the employees see that data and decide what becomes a time entry.

DeskTime automates everything by default. That sounds efficient until a developer spends an hour on a technical forum and gets flagged as unproductive. Forced automation captures activity. Flexible tracking captures work.

Project and client structure

DeskTime centers on the individual — their apps, productivity score, and screen. Clockify centers on the business — clients, projects, tasks, and budgets.

Billing and profitability

While DeskTime doesn’t have native invoicing, Clockify lets you set billable rates by user, project, or task. Generate client-ready invoices directly from tracked time.

Reports beyond productivity percentage

Clockify’s reports are built for business analysis — project summaries, billable hour breakdowns, attendance logs, audit trails, and custom exports.

Timesheet approvals

Managers review, approve, and lock timesheets before payroll runs or invoices go out. The risk of revenue loss and billing disputes is considerably reduced.