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Toggl Track vs. timeBuzzer

Software

Toggl Track is a time tracking software designed to help individuals and teams track work hours with ease, while offering powerful reporting and project visibility.

Best for: Freelancers, agencies and small to medium-sized service businesses that want to track and bill their projects.

Feature highlights:

Timers across web, desktop and mobile, budgets, billable hours, goals, Pomodoro timer and it’s compatible with Toggl Plan and Toggl Hire

Toggl Track offers a desktop app for macOS and Windows. There was a Linux app available in the past but it has been deprecated in April, 2024.

The desktop app provides a simple timer and shows time entries in a list view, or alternatively in a calendar view. Time entries can be edited directly through input fields or via drag and drop features in the calendar view.

The app also comes with further helpful features and options like setting up notifications and reminders, a Pomodoro timer an idle detection feature, which make it easier to adjust time entries if the user forgets to stop a running timer and more.

Additionally, the app can log all computer activities. To enable this feature, users are required to grant Security and Privacy permissions on their operating system, including access to documents and browsers. Users can manually setup rules to get reminded to start a timer. When syncing is turned on that data is also synced with the cloud, but only available to the user itsself, according to Toggl.

For on the go, Toggl Track offers a mobile app for iOS and Android.

Like the desktop app, it provides users with a simple timer that allows them to easily start and stop timers, as well as the ability to manage recorded time entries. It also offers an Pomodoro timer, limited reports and goals — features that not all are available in the desktop app.

timeBuzzer is a time tracking software with optional hardware that focuses on accurate project-based time tracking by making it effortless, intuitive, and hard to forget.

Best for: Freelancers, agencies and small to medium-sized service businesses that want to track and bill their projects.

Feature highlights:

Effortless project time tracking, customizable layer system, clear reports, easy-to-use team & role management & member assignments

timeBuzzer’s desktop app is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. All apps are developed and maintained by timeBuzzer to provide a seamless experience across all popular platforms.

Like Toggl Track, it provides a simple timer and also allows users to easily record time. In addition to Toggl, timeBuzzer also offers a dedicated hardware device, that makes this process even more frictionless. Also it helps remind people to actually track time, which is a problem, many users of software-only time tracking solutions struggle with. Time entries are displayed in an intuitive horizontal timeline, giving users a clear overview of their day. It also allows to easily editing recorded time entries via drag and drop or quickly add new time entries via click and drag.

Similar to Toggl Track, the timeBuzzer desktop app offers notifications and reminders, as well as an idle detection feature to help users easily adjust time entries if they forget to stop the timer.

For on the go, timeBuzzer also offers a mobile app for iOS and Android.

Similar to the desktop app, it provides a simple timer that lets users easily start and stop tracking time, as well as manage recorded time entries. The mobile app also allows to manage clients, projects and tasks as well as to create new ones on the go.

Generally the app is focused on the most essenstial time tracking features, with advanced reporting and management features intentionally kept in the web app to avoid disctractions and maintain focus. Its functionality matches that of the desktop app, ensuring a consistent and seamless user experience across both apps.

Hardware

Toggl Track is entirely software-based and does not support dedicated hardware for time tracking.

Users must manually start and stop timers in the app to log time on specific tasks.

timeBuzzer offers an optional desktop buzzer alongside its software, turning time tracking into something simple and fun — and making it easy to capture even short activities like e‑mails or phone calls that often go untracked.

Learn more about the desktop buzzer

Integrations

Toggl Track offers an open API and various integrations, including automation platforms, making it easy to connect with your existing tools.

timeBuzzer offers an open API and various integrations, including automation platforms, making it easy to connect with your existing tools.

Pricing

Toggl Track’s software subscription plans cost up to $20 per user per month, with a 10% discount available for annual billing.

A 30-day free trial is available without requiring credit card details.

Cancellation: You can cancel your subscription at any time; it will remain active until the end of the billing cycle. According to Toggl, all data is securely stored even after cancellation, and you will regain access if you resubscribe. However, if you are inactive for more than six months, your data will no longer be retained.

timeBuzzer‘s software subscriptions cost up to €10 per user per month, with a 20% discount for annual billing. The optional desktop buzzer costs a one-time fee of €59 per device and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it risk-free. Volume discounts are available when purchasing multiple devices.

A free 15-day trial of all the paid software features iis available without requiring credit card details. If you order at least one desktop buzzer to test, your software trial is automatically extended to 30 days!

Cancellation: You can cancel your subscription at any time. It will remain active until the end of the billing cycle, after which you’ll smoothly transition to our free limited version. Your data remains securely stored and fully accessible again the moment you resubscribe.

Support

Toggl Track, based in Estonia, EU, offers support in English via chat widget with no regular office hours and longer response times during weekends. Toggl promises a response time within 24 hours, often much faster.

A Help Center is available in English, featuring detailed documentation, FAQs, and video tutorials for self-service.

Support level varies by plan, with priority support or enhanced assistance only available for higher tiers.

timeBuzzer, based in Germany, EU, offers support in English and German via email and scheduled calls within 24 hours, during business hours from Monday to Friday, 9 am–6 pm CET you usually can expect much faster response times.

A Help Center is available in English and German, offering detailed documentation, FAQs, and video tutorials for self-service.

All users receive equal, personalized assistance, and user feedback is actively incorporated into product development.

Conclusion

Toggl Track is a great choice if you want a time tracking tool that’s simple to use, and offers powerful project tracking with detailed reporting — all while respecting your team’s privacy.

timeBuzzer is in many aspects similar to Toggl Track but also fixes the common issues with time tracking tools that people are likely to forget it, by offering an optional hardware buzzer for desktop. It not only reminds people to track time, but also helps them to stay focused on tasks and makes task switching fast and intuitive – so even the shortest activities like phone calls or e-mails can be effortlessly recorded. Same as Toggl, timeBuzzer protects your team’s privacy and avoids any intrusive employee monitoring features, because we believe time tracking should be build on trust, not surveillance.

Why people choose timeBuzzer over Toggl Track?

Previously, we used Toggl and tried many other apps (Clockify, TimeCamp, Timely, Memtime, Kimai). We can honestly say that this is the best time tracking application for us. It’s simple and clean. The hardware button is simply ingenious. – Laszlo H.

Previously I tried toggle.com but it didn’t work out. – Michał K.

I’m very excited, I’ve used Toggl and Harvest before, but the hardware button is the game changer for me! – Leonel S.

I like that you have three customizable layers. Clever! For me, this a missing component with Toggl. – Leonel S.

I would like to say that your program is by far one of the best on the market – here clarity, efficiency and other factors are decisive. – Erik S.

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