Clockk or Timely

Need an automatic time tracking software but can’t decide between Clockk and Timely? We’ve got you!

Here are some reasons why account managers, project managers, freelancers, creatives, attorneys, consultants, accountants, and software developers all choose Clockk over Timely (and why you should too).

Design that helps you collect “free money”

Uncover activities worth thousands of dollars in unbilled and underbilled time.

Our primary purpose is to solve your billing problem. So is Timely’s, but we do it better.

Timely uses only a desktop app to collect data. While we use a browser extension in addition to our desktop application.

The browser extension collects data on applications and websites used exclusively within your browser, delivering more accurate reports.

It captures how often you visit websites and applications in the browser, how much time you spend there, the clients you work for on these applications, the subject lines of the emails you send, and the title of the files you work on.

Our browser extension allows us to show you little pockets of billable time that turn into huge chunks, which you’d have otherwise ignored.

When you add it to your timesheet, you create a more vivid picture of your workday, increase your billable time, and grow your revenue.

See how Clockk helped Brian increase his yearly revenue by $16,000 ➡️

Easy-to-use interface for the busy professional who hates timesheets (yet needs them)

Clockk’s interface is easy to use.

We understand that the average professional considers timesheets to be a necessary evil, something they’d rather not spend a ton of time on.

So, we designed Clockk's interface for:

  • The account/project manager who needs a time tracking tool that captures time, reveals areas they can cut down costs, and helps them see opportunities to grow revenue and manage their staff better.
  • The scattered creative type who ordinarily won’t be bothered to track their time but needs to for clients’ invoices.
  • The software developer who needs precise systems that run smoothly.
  • The attorney who suspects they could be making much more at the same work rate, yet has no concrete evidence to support the theory.
  • The freelancer who’s tired of losing income for time they did not clock.

Captured activities are placed in the Unassigned column of the Activity Tab.

To assign, you need an average of 3 mouse clicks. And this is only for the times when our deterministic AI doesn’t automatically attribute activities to the correct client or project, pre-filling your timesheets.

Timely’s interface isn’t so straightforward. Captured activities are placed in timeblocks. You need to examine each timeblock before assigning completed tasks.

This is cumbersome and time-consuming. Especially if you worked on different projects within each timeblock.

We believe there's no need to spend extra time on an activity you aren’t a fan of.

Blog Post: Clockk is perfected for the busy professional➡️

Video: How do I use Clockk’s Activity interface➡️

Accurate archival time tracking

Clockk is a reliable virtual assistant for your timesheets.

We know that referring to the timesheet for a particular day may be tedious. That's why we created The Timesheet Cheatsheet so that you can see your day at a glance.

The Timesheet Cheatsheet is a daily summary highlighting the activities you spent the most time on for each day, delivered straight to your inbox.

You can pull up this daily summary at any time to defend your invoice to a client.

Timely doesn’t have this feature or a replica.

Clockk increases your productivity with accurate time tracking ➡️

An AI you can bank on

You don't need to double-check the activities that our AI assigns to individual clients and projects.

This is because we use a deterministic AI that studies how you attribute activities to various clients and projects. It then assigns those activities to the same clients or projects later on.

With Clockk’s deterministic AI, you understand why a particular task was assigned to a client/project, creating trust.

Timely uses a non-deterministic AI. This makes it easy to assign big chunks of time to a particular client or project.

However, because Timely’s AI doesn’t examine every single task in a huge time block, only the most prominent ones, certain activities may be incorrectly assigned for reasons you can't validate.

This puts you at risk of submitting a report that isn’t always accurate if you don’t spend extra time double-checking.

Get started with Clockk

I work with 10-15 clients at a time, and Clockk automatically tracks and assigns tasks to each client. I benchmarked Clockk against my existing workflow, and it finds me around an hour a day of billable time I forgot or underestimated. Given its low price point, there's not much I dislike. It's simple and does what I need.

Clockk helped Brian increase his revenue by $16k

Brian Jeffcock
Design Consultant

I am now able to see exactly how much time I spend on each customer. My wife always said that I work too much, and I insisted it wasn’t that much (I thought about 6 effective hours per day). With Clockk, I noticed it’s more like 10 hours per day, including weekends. You know that feeling when, at the end of the day, you feel like you didn’t accomplish much because of all the little things you forget? Well, be ready for a (positive) change!

Daniel S.
Financial Controller

I've been able to track the websites and bill more accurately, which when working hourly is quite important. Not having to click the start/stop timer and getting all those little pockets of time recorded is huge. Not having to think about it since I have Clockk on my desktop and on all my Chrome (browser) profiles and having everything tracked is so awesome. -

Clockk helped Beth stop losing money

Beth Schendel
Virtual Assistant

I hate time-tracking, and I dread having to enter my time. But worse is the realization that I have no idea what I did when I forget or avoid logging time for days or weeks at a time. Using Clockk, I am able to reconstruct precisely what I did days, weeks, or months later. There is a slight learning curve to using the Clockk time tracker software. Once I understood how to use it, I was blown away. It was much more powerful than I originally thought. It is very intuitive once you are in the groove of using it.

Bradley Leese
Search Engine Optimization Analyst

Clockk is a game-changer when it comes to tracking and billing my time as a consultant. Clockk helps me figure out where I've spent my time, and automatically assigns it to client projects for me. Once it knows which Google ads account, report, spreadsheet, app, website, file, etc., should have its time tracked for each client, it takes care of the rest.

Their new Freshbooks integration is awesome! I no longer use start-stop timers, and don't have to worry about all the 5-minute bits of my day that otherwise wouldn't end up on my invoices.

Customer support is 100% awesome. Highly recommend!

Dan Wood
Media Strategist

I don't write down when I switch applications. I don't write down when I necessarily start work on any given day as a freelancer and when I stop. Having that memory, being able to live outside my brain is just incredible. I can tell a client how much time I've spent without having to stress about it myself and kick myself when I can't remember. So yeah, great tool. Perfect tool for that for me.”

Clockk helped Evie overcome time blindness.

Evie Hartman
Social Media Manager & Graphic Designer

Clockk vs. Timely - Quick side-by-side comparison

Feature

Clockk

Timely

User privacy
Data encryption
Deterministic AI assignment
Email activity report
Manual override
Deeper integrations with various applications
Fast-action customer assistance
Desktop application
Browser extension
QuickBooks integration
FreshBooks integration
Automatic time tracker
Enterprise capacity
Daily activity summary
High quality data
Granular FreshBooks and QuickBooks Integration
User-friendly interface
Lock timesheets
Freelancer friendly time tracking

Time tracking sucks, but Clockk doesn’t.

It delivers everything it promises