Toggl Track Reviews in 2023: Alternatives, Pricing, Reviews - SSR

Toggl Track has the most integrations as compared to other time tracking solutions in the market, along with a simple UI and productivity-centered features; some of which you get for free.

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Formerly Toggl, Toggl Track is one of the most popular time tracking softwares in the market. They earned their spot as a top choice for freelancers and small businesses due to the application's simplistic UI and productivity-centered features, some of which you get for free.

An example of a productivity tool Toggl Track offers is their pomodoro timer. With the pomodoro timer, you can set Toggl Track to send break reminders at intervals depending on how frequently you want the reminders. This tool takes advantage of the pomodoro technique which has been shown to be an effective time management tool.

Toggl Track also gives you the flexibility to sort, filter and create your reports based on number of billable and non-billable hours, projects worked on, clients worked for, tasks completed, and teams that participated in individual projects and tasks. These reports can be exported via CSV or PDF and sent to your clients or boss. You can also schedule your reports to regularly send to anyone you want, at any interval you like i.e daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

The idea behind Toggl Track is that what’s good for the team members should be good for the administrator or project manager and vice versa. With its project management features, Toggl Track gives managers the assigned billable rates— either by workspace, team member, or project— to see tasks and activities that are generating revenue. In addition, managers can set project time estimates. That being said, these features are only available from the Starter Plan.

You can see our pricing section for a more detailed breakdown, but here’s a quick summary of how Toggl is priced:

Toggl Track's free plan encompasses most of their productivity features, report features, and time tracking features. But if you want a little more than that (especially project tracking and team scheduling features) then you will have to pay for the other three paid pricing plans - Starter, which costs $9 per user per month, Premium, which costs $18 per user per month, and Enterprise, which is a custom pricing plan.

One thing you should be aware of with Toggl Track is that it does not have an invoicing or payroll feature. You can only export your time tracking data to a third-party accounting software of your choice. Third-party integration might not be a problem with their 100+ supported apps. h

However, you will definitely incur additional costs if you want to process your payroll.

Lastly, Toggl offers two additional products besides its time tracking software. Their resource planning and project management solution - Toggl Plan - helps managers build visual roadmaps and project schedules, allocate resources to tasks/projects, assign work, and collaborate on tasks. The second software is a recruitment and talent management software called Toggl Hire.

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• Offline tracking mode: Toggl Track records time even when you go offline probably due to a disruption in internet connection. When you come back online, the software syncs the recorded data to your time log sheet.‍
• Auto tracker: Toggl Track gives you the option to set time entry suggestions on software in case you forget to start the timer.

Toggl Track also offers:

• Idle time detection 
• Reports and insights
• Project and revenue tracking 
• Team scheduling and management

It integrates seamlessly with over 100 popular tools including Github, Jira, Notion, and Salesforce. Also, Toggl Track automatically integrates with your Outlook or Google Calendar.

Toggl Track offers four pricing plans;

• Free: This plan is free for up to 5 Users. With this plan, you get unlimited time tracking, exportable reports, and CSV imports. You also get tools that improve productivity like Pomodoro timer, auto tracker and idle time detection. 
• Starter: This plan costs $10 per user per month (or $9 when billed annually). You get everything in the free plan plus some added perks like time rounding, billable rates, and the ability to import time entries onto external calendars like Google Calendar. 
• Premium: The premium plan goes for $20 per user per month (or $18 when billed annually). In addition to everything you get in the free and starter plans, you also get time tracking audits, reminders, project analysis and forecasts, and single sign-on (SSO) service. ‍
• Enterprise: Toggl's Enterprise price plan gives you everything in premium plus tailored solutions that fits the needs of large and complex organizations. You will have to request a quote on this package.

Toggl Track is an excellent choice for small to medium-sized teams and freelancers looking for a decent time tracking solution that tracks time, gives detailed reports, tracks project progress, and manages schedules in a clean, easy to navigate interface.

Toggl was founded by Alari Aho and Krister Haav in Estonia on June 16, 2006. Alari, a software engineer, started Toggl as a side business to his consultancy agency he founded earlier in the decade with his brother.

According to Alari, Toggl was not deliberately planned. They built the software (which was just an in-house widget at the time) to bill their clients from the consultancy business. The global success of the Estonian company, Skype, prompted the founders to do more with the time tracking widget and so they got to work. Three months later in August of 2006, they officially launched the software.

Toggl continued as a side gig for the brothers until 2008 when they decided to focus all their energy and resources on the product. Interestingly, Toggl never raised money from investors in its early days. It was fully bootstrapped by the savings from their consultancy job.

In 2020, Toggl rebranded to Toggl Track when it merged with Teamweek (a team planning tool) and Hundred5 (a hiring tool). These tools were initially released by Toggl as separate products in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Since the merger, Teamweek is now referred to as Toggl Plan, and Hundred5 and Toggl Hire.

Toggl has grown from a simple time tracking software that serviced 3,500 signees in 2006 to over 6 million users across 120 countries as of Summer 2022.