Time Tracking

Why Self-Host Your Time Tracking?

Clockify, Harvest, and Toggl track how you and your team spend every working hour — data that reveals productivity patterns, project costs, and client billing rates. This information is commercially sensitive, and storing it on a third party’s servers means trusting them not to mine aggregate productivity data or expose your billing rates in a breach. Self-hosted time tracking keeps this operational data within your infrastructure.

Solidtime provides a modern time tracking interface with project-based tracking, reporting, and team management as a self-hosted Toggl alternative. Kimai is the most established self-hosted time tracker, offering detailed timesheet management with customer and project hierarchies, invoicing, and extensive reporting — it has been actively developed for over a decade. Wakapi is a self-hosted WakaTime alternative that automatically tracks coding time by editor and language through IDE plugins, giving developers precise metrics on where their programming hours go.

TimeTagger takes a minimalist approach with a timeline-based interface where you tag time blocks as they happen rather than starting and stopping timers. Eigenfocus combines time tracking with task management and focus sessions — it tracks not just hours but your deep work patterns. Ziit provides lightweight time tracking focused on simplicity and speed. The cost comparison is straightforward: Toggl charges $9-16 per user per month, Harvest charges $10.80 per user, and even Clockify’s free tier pushes you toward paid plans for reporting features. Self-hosted alternatives provide all these features at zero per-user cost.