The 8 Best Timesheet Apps for Mac in 2026

For a Mac-only freelancer who bills by the hour, Timing is the best timesheet app because it records time automatically and adds billing status and rounding. Harvest wins if you want invoices and a free plan. Clockify is the cheapest pick when an employer needs team approvals. Toggl suits teams that also plan projects. Dayflow, our app, is a free work journal, not a timesheet.

This ranking is for people on a Mac who owe someone a timesheet. That might be a freelancer billing clients by the hour, a consultant whose firm wants hours logged against each matter, or an employee whose manager approves time every Friday. The job is narrow. The app has to produce hours per client or project that someone else will accept. Ideally it also turns those hours into an invoice or an approval, so you don’t spend Friday afternoon rebuilding the week from memory. If you only want to see where your day went, our broader guide to the best time tracker for Mac covers that.

Dayflow is our product, and it ranks last here on purpose. It records your screen at one frame every 10 seconds and has AI write the day into a timeline. That makes it a journal of what you did, not a timesheet. It does not win on invoicing, because it has none. It does not win on team approvals and reports either, because it has none of those. It is on the list because a good record of the day makes any timesheet easier to fill in.

Quick comparison

Tool	Best for	How it tracks	Price
Timing (vs Dayflow)	Mac-only billers who want hours captured automatically	Records apps, sites and documents in the background, plus manual entries	Professional $9/month billed annually, $11 billed monthly
Harvest	Freelancers and teams who invoice from tracked time	One-click timers, daily and weekly timesheets, calendar	Free (1 seat, 2 projects). Teams $9/seat/month billed annually
Toggl (formerly Toggl Track) (vs Dayflow)	Teams that need billable rates, approvals and planning	Timers, timesheets, calendar. Background tracking in the desktop app	Free up to 3 users. Starter $9/user/month billed annually
Clockify (vs Dayflow)	Employers who want cheap per-seat timesheets and approvals	Timer, timesheet, calendar, kiosk, desktop auto tracker	Free up to 5 users. Basic $3.99/seat/month billed annually

Quick picks by use case

Best for Mac-only billers: Timing. It builds the timesheet from what you actually did on the Mac. Professional costs $9 a month billed annually, or $11 billed monthly.

Best free plan for invoicing: Harvest. The free plan costs $0 for 1 seat and 2 projects and still includes invoicing and expenses. Teams costs $9 per seat a month billed annually.

Best for employers on a budget: Clockify. It is free for up to 5 users. Approvals and invoicing start on Standard, at $5.49 per seat a month billed annually.

Best automatic capture on mixed Mac and Windows teams: Memtime (vs Dayflow). It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and keeps recorded activity on the device. Basic costs $14 per user a month billed annually.

Best low-cost billing for a small team: TMetric (vs Dayflow). Professional adds invoicing, billable rates and budgets for $5.83 per seat a month billed annually.

Best free plan for a large team: TimeCamp. Its free-forever plan has unlimited users. Starter costs $3.99 per user a month billed annually.

Best free work journal: Dayflow. It costs $0 and is MIT licensed, with an optional Pro plan at $20 a month. It is not a timesheet.

How we compared them

• Timesheet output and approvals (25%). Scores high if it produces hours per client or project that a manager can approve or a client can read. Scores low if it leaves you with raw activity to convert yourself.
• Billing and invoicing (20%). Scores high with billable rates plus built-in invoices or an invoicing integration. Scores low with no rates at all.
• Automatic capture on the Mac (20%). Scores high if it records your work without a running timer. Scores low if the record depends on remembering to press start.
• Price for one person or a small team (15%). Scores high with a useful free plan or a low per-seat price. Scores low with no free tier and a high per-seat cost.
• Data location and privacy (10%). Scores high with local storage or a choice of hosting region. Scores low if it is cloud-only and offers screenshot monitoring.
• Platform fit (10%). Scores high with a Mac app plus the platforms a team or client also uses. Scores low with a gap that matters, such as no mobile app for logging time away from the desk.

Each tool was compared from its vendor’s own pricing and product pages on 2026-10-04. No benchmark was run, and the scores and ranking are judgments against these weights.

The 8 best timesheet apps for Mac, ranked

1. Timing

Timing is a Mac-only app that records where your time goes and turns it into billable hours. It captures time automatically across apps, websites and documents, down to specific URLs and Mail threads. It also accepts manual entries, imports iOS activity and tracks calls.

For billing, it offers billing status tracking and customizable reports with rounding. Depending on plan, it adds two-way sync with ClickUp, Linear and Clio, plus a GrandTotal invoicing integration. AI activity summaries, AI-suggested time entries and an MCP integration are included on all plans. The vendor says tracked times stay on your Mac unless you opt into sync.

Price:

• Professional: $9 a month billed annually, or $11 billed monthly
• Expert: $11 billed annually, or $14 billed monthly
• Connect (the team plan with shared projects): $16 per user a month billed annually, or $20 billed monthly

There is a 30-day trial with no credit card required.

The limit: there is no free tier, and the app is Mac only. Professional covers one Mac and has limited web app access.

Pick it if you work alone on a Mac, bill by the hour, and want a timesheet built from what you did rather than what you remembered to time.

2. Harvest

Harvest is a cloud timesheet and invoicing service for freelancers and professional teams. The site footer now names Bending Spoons as the owner. You capture time with one-click timers, daily and weekly timesheets, or a connected calendar. The vendor lists no automatic activity capture.

Where Harvest earns its rank is everything after the hours. It invoices from tracked time and accepts online payments. It also tracks expenses and connects to accounting tools such as QuickBooks and Xero. Enterprise adds profitability reporting and timesheet approvals.

Price:

• Free: $0 forever for 1 seat and 2 projects, including time tracking, invoicing and expenses
• Teams: $9 per seat a month billed annually ($108 per seat a year), or $11 billed monthly
• Enterprise: $14 per seat a month billed annually ($168), or $17.50 billed monthly
• Enterprise Plus: custom pricing

There is a 30-day trial with no credit card required.

The limit: the record is only as good as your timer habits. Two projects on the free plan fill up quickly, and the vendor lists no AI features.

Pick it if sending invoices matters more to you than automatic capture, especially if you are a freelancer starting on the free plan.

3. Toggl (formerly Toggl Track)

Toggl is the renamed Toggl Track, now presented as one product that combines time tracking with planning. Capture is mainly through manual and real-time timers, timesheets and calendar integrations. The vendor also lists automated background tracking and a timeline in the desktop app, and states that Toggl takes no screenshots and records no keystrokes.

For billing and employers, Toggl offers billable rates, team reports, project timelines and capacity management. Premium adds timesheet approvals, profitability reports, and Jira and Asana integrations. Toggl AI answers natural-language questions about workspace data, and there is an MCP server and an AI Task Creator.

Price:

• Free: free forever for up to 3 users
• Starter: $9 per user a month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly
• Premium: $16 billed annually, or $24 billed monthly
• Enterprise: contact the vendor

Paid plans come with a 30-day trial.

The limit: billable rates require a paid plan, and the core of the product is still the timer rather than a full automatic record.

Pick it if you run a small agency or team that wants timesheets, billing rates and capacity planning in the same place.

4. Clockify

Clockify, part of CAKE.com, is a cloud timekeeping service aimed at teams of every size that need attendance, budgeting and payroll data. You can track time with a timer, a timesheet, calendar entries, or a kiosk clock-in. The desktop app also has an auto tracker. Activity monitoring is offered on Pro.

For employers, this is the broadest feature set per dollar on this list. Standard and above add invoicing, time off and approval workflows. Pro adds scheduling, forecasting, expenses and GPS tracking. Enterprise adds SSO and audit logs. Data can be hosted in the EU (Germany), the UK, the USA or Australia.

Price (per seat, per month):

Plan	Billed annually	Billed monthly
Free	$0, up to 5 users	$0
Basic	$3.99	$4.99
Standard	$5.49	$6.99
Pro	$7.99	$9.99
Enterprise	$11.99	$14.99
CAKE.com Bundle	$12.99	$15.99

The trial gives you 7 days of Pro features with no credit card required.

The limit: invoicing and approvals need a paid plan, and the product is built around timers and timesheets.

Pick it if you manage a team that needs approved timesheets and time off at a low per-seat cost.

5. Memtime

Memtime records time automatically in every program, document, email, call, meeting and browser tab, and shows it as a timeline. You then turn that timeline into time entries. The vendor states that recorded activity is stored only on your device and is not uploaded to a server.

That combination suits billers who want an automatic record without putting their activity in the cloud. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, so a mixed team can share it. Connect and above sync time entries to more than 100 project and billing tools. Premium adds call system integrations plus SSO, SAML and SCIM. There is also built-in project management and custom reporting.

Price (per user, per month):

• Basic: $14 billed annually, $18 billed quarterly, or $12 billed every two years
• Connect: $21, $26 or $18 on the same terms
• Premium: $29, $35 or $23 on the same terms
• Enterprise: custom pricing for 50+ seats

There is no monthly billing option. The 14-day trial needs no payment details and does not convert to a subscription.

The limit: there is no free tier and no mobile or Chromebook app. Integrations with project software start at Connect.

Pick it if you want automatic timesheets with local data on a team that is not all on Macs.

6. TMetric

TMetric, developed by Devart, is a cloud tracker built around a start and stop timer and manual entries. It puts a timer button inside more than 50 web apps. The Business plan adds app and site monitoring, activity levels and optional screenshots.

For billing, Professional includes client invoicing, billable rates and project budgets. Business adds a time off module, team timesheets, and integrations with Jira, Redmine and ClickUp. The free plan includes unlimited tracking, clients and projects, exportable reports and API access.

Price (per seat, per month):

• Free: $0 for up to 2 seats
• Professional: $5.83 billed annually, or $7 billed monthly
• Business: $7.50 billed annually, or $9 billed monthly
• Enterprise: custom pricing

The trial lasts 14 days and can be extended by 7.

The limit: the free plan keeps only 7 days of activity data, invoicing needs a paid plan, and capture depends mainly on the timer.

Pick it if you are a freelancer or a two-person shop that wants invoicing for less than most competitors charge.

7. TimeCamp

TimeCamp is a cloud service whose desktop app tracks apps and websites automatically and assigns time to projects by keyword. It also offers manual timers and timesheets. An AI Time Tracker suggests timesheet entries. Screenshots are optional and must be enabled by an admin.

For employers, Starter and above add invoicing, attendance and time off. Premium adds budgets, billable time and resource planning. Ultimate adds screenshots, timesheet approvals and expenses. Enterprise can be self-hosted or run in a private cloud.

Price (per user, per month):

• Free: free forever, with unlimited users
• Starter: $3.99 billed annually, or $5.49 month-to-month
• Premium: $6.99 billed annually, or $9.99 month-to-month
• Ultimate: $9.99 billed annually, or $13.99 month-to-month
• Enterprise: on request

Paid plans have a free trial, but the pages read did not state its length.

The limit: the AI Time Tracker is billed separately by token usage. The vendor estimates about $6 per user a month and includes $10 in trial credits. The pricing page appears to list automatic app and website tracking from Premium, so confirm which plan includes it before you buy for that feature.

Pick it if you need a free plan for a large team, or a self-hosted option later.

8. Dayflow

Dayflow is a free, open-source Mac app that keeps a journal of your workday. It records your screen at one frame every 10 seconds and has AI write the day into a readable timeline. Recordings and the timeline are stored on your Mac.

How analysis works. You choose one of three options:

• Local AI runs a model through Ollama or LM Studio, so analysis stays on the device.
• Your own cloud provider receives selected screenshots.
• Dayflow Pro manages cloud analysis and, under the privacy policy, deletes screenshots after processing.

The details are in local and cloud processing.

What it does for a timesheet. It gives you a record to fill one in from. You can export a date range as Markdown from Settings and paste it into whatever your client or employer uses. That workflow is covered in a Mac timesheet without manual entry.

Price: $0, MIT licensed, with an optional Pro plan at $20 a month. It requires macOS 14 or later.

The limit: there are no billable rates, invoices, payroll approvals, team reports or website blocking. AI summaries can miss or misread work, so check them before sharing.

Pick it if you want to remember your day, not bill it.

Full comparison table

Tool	Price	Automatic capture	AI summaries	Where data lives	Open source	Platforms
Timing	From $9/month billed annually	Yes, apps, sites, documents	Yes, AI activity summaries	Local, optional sync	No	Mac
Harvest	Free (1 seat, 2 projects), Teams $9/seat/month billed annually	None listed	None listed	Cloud	No	Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, browser extensions
Toggl	Free up to 3 users, Starter $9/user/month billed annually	Background tracking in desktop app, mainly timers	Toggl AI answers questions about workspace data	Cloud	No	Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, browser extensions
Clockify	Free up to 5 users, Basic $3.99/seat/month billed annually	Auto tracker in desktop app	None listed	Cloud, EU, UK, US or Australia hosting	No	Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, browser extensions
Memtime	Basic $14/user/month billed annually	Yes, programs, documents, email, calls, tabs	None listed	Local	No	Mac, Windows, Linux
TMetric	Free up to 2 seats, Professional $5.83/seat/month billed annually	App and site monitoring on Business	None listed	Cloud	No	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, browser extensions
TimeCamp	Free, Starter $3.99/user/month billed annually	Yes, desktop app (check plan)	AI Time Tracker suggests entries, token billed	Cloud, self-hosted on Enterprise	No	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android
Dayflow	$0, Pro $20/month	Yes, one screen frame every 10 seconds	Yes, timeline written by AI	On your Mac, cloud analysis optional	Yes, MIT	Mac (macOS 14+)

Do you need a timer to fill in a Mac timesheet?

No, but you do need a step where a person decides what counts. Timer apps like Harvest, TMetric and Clockify ask you to make that decision up front. You press start on a client, and the entry is billable from the first second. The record is clean, but the gaps are real. A forgotten timer or a call taken without one simply disappears.

Automatic apps like Timing and Memtime flip the order. They record everything first, and you assign blocks to clients afterward. Timing’s AI-suggested entries and TimeCamp’s AI Time Tracker try to shorten that assignment step, but both still leave the final call with you. That matters when a client can dispute an invoice.

A journal like Dayflow sits one step further back. It gives you a written account of the day that you check, then turn into entries yourself. If your problem is remembering, not billing, see how to remember what you worked on. To see what your hours are actually worth once they are logged, try the real hourly rate calculator.

What does an employer need from a timesheet app?

An employer usually needs three things that a freelancer can skip. The first is approvals: a manager signs off on the week before it reaches payroll or a client. Clockify offers approvals from Standard, Toggl on Premium, Harvest on Enterprise and TimeCamp on Ultimate. TMetric’s Business plan adds team timesheets.

The second is time off and attendance in the same system. Clockify lists both from Standard, and TimeCamp lists both from Starter. TMetric has a time off module on Business.

The third is a clear policy on monitoring. Some of these tools offer optional screenshots or activity levels. That includes TMetric Business, TimeCamp Ultimate and Clockify’s activity monitoring on Pro. Others state that they avoid screenshots, such as Toggl. If your team is wary of being watched, read time tracking without surveillance before you switch those features on.

Dayflow fits none of these employer needs. It has no team view, approvals or payroll.

Where Dayflow is the wrong pick

• You send invoices. Harvest invoices from tracked time even on its free plan. TMetric adds invoicing from $5.83 per seat a month billed annually. Dayflow has no invoices.
• Your manager approves timesheets. Clockify is the cheapest route to approvals, and Toggl adds planning on top. Dayflow has no approvals or team reports.
• You want automatic billable entries on the Mac. Timing records your work and suggests entries, with billing status and rounding built in. Dayflow writes a timeline, not entries.
• Your team is not all on Macs. Memtime covers Mac, Windows and Linux with local data. Dayflow is Mac only and requires macOS 14 or later.
• You need payroll, time off or attendance. Clockify and TimeCamp handle these. Dayflow does not.
• You want website blocking. Dayflow does not block sites, and no tool on this list is chosen for blocking.

How much do they cost?

Tool	Free plan	Paid plans (billed annually)	Paid plans (billed monthly)
Timing	None, 30-day trial	Professional $9, Expert $11, Connect $16/user	Professional $11, Expert $14, Connect $20/user
Harvest	Free, 1 seat, 2 projects	Teams $9/seat, Enterprise $14/seat, Enterprise Plus custom	Teams $11/seat, Enterprise $17.50/seat
Toggl	Free, up to 3 users	Starter $9/user, Premium $16/user, Enterprise contact vendor	Starter $12/user, Premium $24/user
Clockify	Free, up to 5 users	Basic $3.99, Standard $5.49, Pro $7.99, Enterprise $11.99, CAKE.com Bundle $12.99 (per seat)	Basic $4.99, Standard $6.99, Pro $9.99, Enterprise $14.99, CAKE.com Bundle $15.99 (per seat)
Memtime	None, 14-day trial	Basic $14, Connect $21, Premium $29 (per user), Enterprise custom	No monthly option. Quarterly: Basic $18, Connect $26, Premium $35
TMetric	Free, up to 2 seats	Professional $5.83, Business $7.50 (per seat), Enterprise custom	Professional $7, Business $9 (per seat)
TimeCamp	Free forever, unlimited users	Starter $3.99, Premium $6.99, Ultimate $9.99 (per user), Enterprise on request	Starter $5.49, Premium $9.99, Ultimate $13.99 (per user)
Dayflow	Free, MIT licensed	Not applicable	Pro $20

For a solo freelancer, the cheapest sensible setup is Harvest’s free plan for timers and invoices, with Dayflow running alongside as a free record of the day. For a small team that needs approvals, Clockify Standard at $5.49 per seat a month billed annually is the lowest price on this list that includes them.

The bottom line

If you bill from a Mac and want the hours captured for you, pick Timing. If invoicing is the job, pick Harvest. If you run a team that needs approvals and time off on a budget, pick Clockify, or Toggl if you also plan capacity. If you just want a free, readable account of your workday to fill in whatever timesheet you already use, that is what Dayflow is for. You can see the details on our pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best timesheet app for Mac?

For one person billing from a Mac, Timing is the strongest fit. It records apps, websites and documents automatically, tracks billing status and rounds reports. Plans start at $9 a month billed annually, with a 30-day trial. If you need invoices sent from the same tool, Harvest is the better pick. For a team on a budget that needs approvals, Clockify is the better pick.

Is there a free timesheet app for Mac?

Yes, several. Harvest's free plan covers 1 seat and 2 projects and includes invoicing. Clockify is free for up to 5 users, Toggl for up to 3, TMetric for up to 2 seats, and TimeCamp has a free-forever plan with unlimited users. Dayflow is free and MIT licensed, but it is a work journal and produces no invoices or approvals.

Can a Mac app fill in my timesheet automatically?

Partly. Timing and Memtime record activity in the background, and Timing adds AI suggestions for time entries. TimeCamp's AI Time Tracker suggests timesheet entries, billed separately by token usage. You still review and assign the time before it goes to a client or manager. Clockify's desktop auto tracker and Toggl's background tracking help too, but both are built around timers.

Is Dayflow a timesheet app?

No. Dayflow records your screen at one frame every 10 seconds and has AI write a readable timeline of your day. It has no billable rates, invoices, payroll approvals or team reports. If you need a timesheet a client or employer will accept, Timing or Harvest beats it. Dayflow helps when you want to remember what you did before filling in that timesheet.

Which timesheet app is best for invoicing clients from a Mac?

Harvest is the most direct choice. Even its free plan includes invoicing from tracked time, and paid plans add online payments, expenses and QuickBooks and Xero integrations. TMetric includes client invoicing from its Professional plan at $5.83 per seat a month billed annually. Timing tracks billing status and connects to GrandTotal for invoices, depending on plan.

Which timesheet app keeps my data on my Mac?

Timing states that tracked times stay on your Mac unless you opt into sync. Memtime states that its automatically recorded activity stays on your device and is not uploaded to a server. Dayflow stores recordings and its timeline on your Mac, and analysis stays on-device if you use Local AI. Harvest, Toggl, Clockify, TMetric and TimeCamp are cloud services.

Does Toggl track time automatically on Mac?

Toggl is mainly built around timers, timesheets and calendar integrations, but the vendor also lists automated background tracking and a timeline in the desktop app. It states that it does not take screenshots or record keystrokes. Billable rates need a paid plan. Starter costs $9 per user a month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly.

Which timesheet app do employers use for approvals?

Clockify offers approval workflows from its Standard plan at $5.49 per seat a month billed annually. Toggl puts timesheet approvals on Premium, at $16 per user a month billed annually. Harvest puts them on Enterprise, at $14 per seat a month billed annually. TimeCamp lists approvals on Ultimate, and TMetric adds team timesheets on Business.

Does Clockify work on Mac?

Yes. Clockify has a Mac app alongside web, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and browser extensions. The free plan covers up to 5 users and includes the timer, timesheet, auto tracker, calendar and reports. Invoicing, time off and approvals start on Standard, at $5.49 per seat a month billed annually or $6.99 billed monthly.