Timely

Avantages

It seamlessly automates the process of recording work hours. Easy to integrate it with third-party PM apps like Asana and Basecamp and GSuite like Gmail and G Calendar. The 'Starter' paid plan is affordable.

Inconvénients

Does not provide an option of a free plan. It does have a 14-day free trial, but then eventually has to shift to a paid plan.

Avantages

Timely provides customers with a variety of strong features that aid in time management optimization. With no need for human entry, the software's automatic time tracking correctly records the time spent on various tasks and projects. Users may detect productivity bottlenecks and take well-informed decisions thanks to Timely's user-friendly interface and visually appealing reports, which offer useful insights into productivity patterns. By taking into account their current obligations and workload, the intelligent scheduling feature assists users in making smart time management decisions. Timely's connection with well-known productivity programs like Google Calendar and Trello guarantees smooth platform coordination. In general, Timely makes time management simpler, increases productivity, and offers useful information for analysis and improvement.

Inconvénients

Timely has a pricing issue that may be costly for solo individuals or small teams on a tight budget. Although the automatic time monitoring option is useful, some users might find their privacy at risk. To fully exploit Timely's capabilities and tailor settings to individual preferences, some initial adjusting may be necessary due to the learning curve. Despite the fact that the software offers insightful data, some customers could yearn for more sophisticated analytics capabilities for in-depth reporting and data analysis.

Avantages

Great software allowing everything to run more effectively, timely and smoothly.

Inconvénients

I found the system was effective and efficient. Timely Software enables systems processing to be faster, more effective and overall more productivity because people are able to run their appointments, schedules remotely and they are also able to send reminders to themselves. Timely allows customers to book thier tickets online in a secure manner. Excellent overall.

Avantages

It’s quick to get up and running with Timely, entering clients and projects is a breeze. Being able to add a time or money budget is handy for those fixed-price projects – and Timely will send you notifications when you’ve reached a budget milestone (50 %, 80% and 100% of the allocated budget).

An essential feature for me is being able to track my timings across different devices – if I need to work on a project at home, all my timings from work are synced. I can also log in to my timesheets via a web browser, should I need to.

Creating reports at the end of the month when I need to do my invoicing is also a pleasure. Timely can export to Excel or PDF.

I don’t use the “Memory” feature of Timely much, but it’s been very useful on those occasions that I’ve forgotten to start a timer and need to refer back to what I was doing during that period.

Inconvénients

No significant cons spring to mind. Being able to save more project colours as defaults would be handy, as I use a single colour for each client (based on their brand colours) which means opening a previous project to copy the colour, and then pasting that in for the new project.

Avantages

I use Timely across 3 platforms - iPhone, iPad, Mac - and all work seamlessly to keep track of my billable (and unbillable) hours. The interfaces are simple to understand and to use, and I'm much more confident in my recorded time than with other methods I've used.

I appreciate how hard the Timely team works to add features to the product, and the company is responsive to my questions.

Inconvénients

I pay a monthly subscription fee for unlimited project/client time tracking, which is great for Timely and would be fine for a consultant / lawyer / business owner who has multiple clients or projects to bill to. Most times I only have 1 or 2 projects on the go at once, and I'd like to see a "light" monthly fee added.

If you have billable and non-billable hours for a project/client, you have to set up 2 different projects in order to properly tabulate the hours and invoice amounts. Timely's "tag" feature doesn't really work to keep billable and non-billable hours distinct when it comes time to determine how much to bill the client.

Avantages

I like planning my time toward multiple freelance by day and project, but love I can adjust time if things change. It really helps me keep track in all of the time and resources I put toward a project. I like the ability to pull reports, seeing how much time/money was planned vs. actually accrued.

Inconvénients

There isn't anything that I least liked. I have used customer service once in my three years of using the service and it was pretty decent,

Avantages

Working as a freelance translator, I needed a tool to plan my daily schedule and I came across Timely. It's the best planning tool I've found so far. At a single glance, I can know if my schedule for the week/day is already full or if I can keep accepting new assignments. I also started tracking the time I spent on each of my projects, which allowed me to realise just how little time I spent actually working because ultimately my day was full of distractions. Timely has allowed me not only to keep track of my ongoing and future projects, but also to optimize my work time and it does so beautifully: it is very easy to use and visually appealing. There are tons of extra features that I don't use, such as automatic time tracking and project budgeting, but it's still perfect for what I need. Couldn't work without it!

Inconvénients

Maybe, just maybe, it's a little "too large" for my needs, so to keep things minimal, a plan with just the basic features would be welcome.

Avantages

I cannot describe how incredible it is. I am ADD and very creative. I have multiple clients and multiple contractors. The unique thing about timely is the memory tracker, which tracks my open windows, times, and even suggests clients. I never have to start and stop a clock anymore. At the end of the day, I pour a glass of wine and open the memory tracker, simply select the client, click save, and it takes me 3 minutes to MONETIZE my day! It's amazing. There are tons of other cool features, but this is my favorite one.

Inconvénients

There is nothing not to like. I like it all.

Avantages

Timely combines a simple, intuitive interface with smart back-end features to deliver the best time tracking solution, hands down. Having used a number of different time tracking apps I was incredibly happy to find Timely - it's user interface is beautiful, the tracking and reporting tools are simple and easy to use and the product team is continuously evolving the platform, adding new features and improving the system.

Inconvénients

Minor glitches when saving changes, which rarely ever happen.

Avantages

Timely tracks product inventory, package purchases, has a scheduling module, reports for sales and many other things, a place to write notes associated with each visit, and is simply easy to use.

Inconvénients

The ONLY thing I'd say is that I wish if I entered a client twice, it would warn me before creating the client a second time. The good thing is that there is an option to merge customers if you realize you did create someone more than once.

Avantages

As a freelancer, I rely on solid time-tracking to monitor my performance and give estimates for work, so naturally, I've used more apps than I can count. So far, Timely is my favorite. The UI, features, and glorious reports give it an extra edge over most apps I've used.

You can plan out your weeks of work in advance and it displays as nicely colored blocks that you can drag and drop if you need to shuffle tasks around. (You can also choose a custom color for each block!)

You can set an hourly rate for tasks or set a budget for a project and it'll tell you how much your hourly fee should be. I love how it integrates with my Google Calendar so I'm not going back and forth to see which calendar has what.

Inconvénients

While I love the custom color feature, it would be great if Timely could automatically assign that color for future blocks with the same name.

Another useful addition would be to move a future task to the current week without having to type it out all over again.

Avantages

The visual, colorful, easy to use interface. The integration with Rescue Time, which helps me remember what I did.

Inconvénients

None. I work in UI/UX and I have no constructive crtiticism for Timely. Well done.

Avantages

Timely is a great tool to manage time and increase profitability on a project, it is a well recommended tool for project managers. We are using this tool to manage our various offshore projects. The feature set is so good that we are really happy as we get all the needy features like time tracking, profit/loss tracking, task assigning etc. Timely is a great platform to manage a project in all aspects. We are really happy with their service too.

Inconvénients

The only problem that I see is with the pricing plans, please try to make it more advanced so as to keep with the new trends.

Avantages

Very simple interface that is easy to learn and use.
Manual time tracking is awful, but Timely automates almost the entire project-based time tracking aspect.
Very affordable

Inconvénients

Some of the integrations to 3rd party applications don't function properly.
Customer support was hard to get ahold of when we had questions.

Avantages

Although not perfect, the automatic time tracker allows you to work and not worry about tracking your every move - helping you piece together your day.

Inconvénients

I struggle to come up with areas this solution lacks. The developer has squashed the early bugs this app displayed. It's not cheap for some teams, but I believe Timely's accuracy of tracking time could pay for itself.

Avantages

Most apps that try to measure time spent on a project via time spent in certain apps end up being cumbersome because of the amount of manual entries still required. Timely irons out some of these issues with their interface and by providing apps for web, desktop and mobile.

Inconvénients

For my use, Timely wasn't the right fit. I think for software like this, it is very important to try it in your workflow and make sure that it does what you need. In my case Rescuetime plus the Tyme2 desktop and mobile app were a better solution. This comes down to partially how your team feels using the app. We could accomplish a similar result and reporting with Timely, but don't have as much of a need for billing for exact hours from specific employees. If our needs change in the future, we might give Timely another shot.

Avantages

Ease of user and interface. Anyone can set this up in minutes!

Inconvénients

Nothing. Everything is customizable and functions without issues. The interface is awesome

Avantages

We mostly use Timely for scheduling onboarding calls with clients. It's easy to pass them a link and from there they can choose which employee they would like to speak with, and they can then schedule the call based on the employee's availability. The integration with Google Calendar is really helpful too.

Inconvénients

It would be helpful if each user was able to choose their timezone as it doesn't take into account that users may be in different countries.

Avantages

Great interface and ease of use, it has become a really key tool for us for time tracking and scheduling work from start to finish.

Inconvénients

Not many, all I would say now and again updates are released I would just like to see more quicker!

Avantages

I love the ability to review the memories of work I have completed, I have easily increased my billable hours by 20% because I'm not guessing or estimating the time I spent on certain tasks. My clients love the timesheet reports, and I love how easy it is to use!

Inconvénients

That I didn't find it sooner! The only problem I have had is that my timesheet details when shared do not share the worked to-from times, but that is easily corrected by exporting to a pdf instead, it just doesn't look as pretty.

Avantages

I like the software, it is easy to use and reliable. It keeps track of billable and unbillable hours, and is available for all platforms, which is very suitable, because I use different devices sometimes.

Inconvénients

None encountered until now, the software is reliable as I said.

Avantages

It is very useful and easy to use. Help to organize yourself in your tasks and meet your objectives and can be used both at work and personally

Inconvénients

Its price and the errors that it sometimes emits during its use, is one of its greatest difficulties. The rest is very useful for what I recommend

Avantages

One of the best software I have ever used. It is extremely easy to use once it’s set up.

Inconvénients

Initial set up, takes some time for accuracy and precision. But still worth doing.

Avantages

The AI memory feature of Timely is the most awesomest time tracking feature for any consultant who hates timesheeting. It tracks what you do on your computer, your appointments in Google Calendar and your location, so you can fill out your timesheets in a heartbeat. Also the customer service is great! Overall great value for your money.

Inconvénients

It's very hard to come up with something.

Avantages

This software allowed our office to manage multiple practitioners schedules, and for some, allowed patients the option of online booking.

Inconvénients

Unfortunately, Timely was unable to integrate with our practice management software. We chose to stay with Timely for scheduling, even though it wasn't integrated as it was so much better than the scheduler in our software package.

Avantages

- Easy to use
- Spend less time tracking hours
- Good reports that's used both for invoicing clients and track projects

Inconvénients

- Time tracking simply isn't fun.
- Would've been good with a recurring budget for projects

Avantages

Timely has a nice and modern interface with all the bells and whistles one has come to expect from high end services. This service is what all the others should have been. Hopeful, more integrations will be implemented so that mass adoption can start.

* Planning is a very useful feature that I have not seen in other similar services.
* The ability to easily create projects; set budgets, hourly rates and so on is nice.

Inconvénients

Windows(desktop Memory) and Android(App) does not seem to be prioritized as much as their OSX and iOS counterparts. This causes some frustration for me as I can see features arrive for the Apple products, but I have to wait 6 months until the Windows/Android equivalent.

Avantages

Extremely easy to use across different devices. Customer support is great on the few times I've needed it.

Inconvénients

I don't dislike anything. The company is good about bringing out new features, which I appreciate. Keep evolving the product!

Avantages

One of the problems with time tracking apps is that they are cumbersome to get data into accurately. Timely has an approach of fixing this, and for businesses that need to track time to bill clients hourly, timely helps to organize time spent.

Inconvénients

Our particular needs for tracking time are less for checking billable hours and more for analyzing where our time is going, so that we can ensure it is being spent in the right places. Timely wasn't flexible enough for our needs unfortunately, but it could still be for yours.

Avantages

We are using Timely for billing our clients based on the hours we spend for them, Timely helps us to get the correct hours we spend on their works. The AI mechanism we what we love the most, it suggests us the most effective way to handle our employees by making them more efficient. The AI mechanism they use is really unique and amazing. We rely in them more and more due to this amazing feature !

Inconvénients

The pricing models are not extensively flexible as it needs to have modules based pricing such that the needy ones buy only what they need !

Avantages

My favorite feature of this software is the Memory app that works with it. This app tracks the software, websites, and programs that I use throughout the workday. If I forget to set the "timer" I can always go back and click on each tracked usage and add it to a project. This also tracks time on your phone, which would also be lost time and lost money otherwise. I have captured so much additional work time that would have been lost otherwise.

Inconvénients

The only thing that I wish, is that I could apply payments to the bills that I run. Also, on the shared weblink of reports, if we could also show individual line items for each project, that would be great. I can only do that through an exported report at this point.

Avantages

It is a combination time tracker and planner tool. The service is all online so you can access it from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.

I was able to create a new project category easily and added my content task for the day. Tracking my time was a little less intuitive but I did manage to get it to track for a bit. It's easy to forget to turn it off though.

Inconvénients

It really didn't meet the needs I had for time tracking software. If I was part of a larger company where I needed to organize my team and have them track time, I feel it would work better. However, as a sole-operator it didn't help. I needed a time tracker that was a little more intuitive and helped me stay on track without having to keep a window in my browser open.

The cost was a bit much for my needs as well. I'm willing to pay for something I'll use for projects that are not paid hourly, but the cost was a bit too high as it didn't really meet my needs.

Avantages

Ease of use. Powerful reports. Great support.

Inconvénients

No complaints whatsoever. Can't think of any drawbacks.

Avantages

The colors (I wish I could set my own standard palette, tho!); the balance up top, the flexibility

Inconvénients

Sometimes it glitches and doesn't save my changes. I wish I could set a budget for a project and when it runs out, no more is added to my balance (because that's how my flat rate projects work in real life -- even though it is useful to know how long I have worked over my budget)

Avantages

Timely makes easy to track your hours and deliver a guarantee that your client is paying what you have worked

Inconvénients

I really enjoy it, but the design can be more intuitive

Avantages

Organizing hours by client, contract; exporting to excel; ease of use; able to use across ALL my devices; accessible from anywhere.

Inconvénients

Filtering for specific contracts in the reporting environment is a little clunky - not easy to select just one contract as the window disappears and you have to reselect it to get in and pick the e-contract of interest.

Avantages

I first was turned on to Timely by a client using it, and it seemed easy and very functional. Now i use it every day to track my time, send it to my billing program, and track others who work for me. Very simple program that does exactly what you need it to do.

Inconvénients

Customer support is not always as fast or on the ball as they should be. they are sometimes hard to get through to. There are some customer fields and more customer information I would like to capture, more like a very simple CRM.

Avantages

The best part of this platform which I like is it is easy to access and use across devices. Being able to easily access time sheets from my mobile started on my PC is great and extremely convenient. It was easy to learn how to use and great for its purpose.

Inconvénients

It is a good platform but sometimes there is a bug in the iOS, but it doesn't break any process and even though it is a paid tool and the pricing is not accessible for everyone, unless you're a company owner.

Avantages

- The Memory Tracker. I liked the fact that it automatically tracked how long I was on specific websites and desktop applications. As a contractor, this made it easy for me to know how long I worked on a specific task.
- It was easy to update work periods with the associated details, like the associated project and other information.
- The reporting functionality was great. I could easily use the generated info for invoices and etc.

Inconvénients

- I wish it offered the ability to create an invoice. It would have saved me a lot of time.

Avantages

Timely has good features for time tracking , time sheets and attendance.

Inconvénients

timely needs improvement on mobile and web channel experience.

Avantages

Timely is a fantastic service to use. I love their way of management with their system and how they want their users to do the same with their personal lives. You can give yourself set limits on what yo do, such as a task for your home or even school work. You can keep track of the time that you spent on your task as well. I think services like this is especially great for parents of children should use, because not only will they benefit from it, but it will help manage time as well.

Inconvénients

I used this as a trial, I didn't have any complains. Timely is very simple and good to use because it will keep everyone on time and guide everyone in the right direction on getting tasks finished.

Avantages

The concept is terrific. I have peace of mind knowing that my work is being logged, and I'll therefore be able to bill accordingly.
Customer support is unparalleled! They're unfailingly quick, friendly, and always helpful. I hope that continues as this company grows.

Inconvénients

It's still in the developing stages, but it's actually a benefit - I get to tell the developers what I want!

Avantages

The integration across multiple tools (laptop, iPhone and iPad) is hugely helpful. The Memory AI feature is intuitive and helpful.

Inconvénients

Took me a while to figure out how to make changes/updates to past information, so wasn't completely intuitive to me.

Avantages

Timely is a really useful tool for my job. It tracks all the sites and apps I use on a daily basis (Facebook Business Manager, Google Ads, Sketch, Photoshop etc) and helps me keep track of my work.

Inconvénients

The developers are still working on a definitive version, which can actually be a good thing as they are open to feature requests.

Avantages

There is free trial version of the software that helps the buyer make an informed decision before buying the product
The software is supported by the leading platforms in the market such as Android, Windows among others

Inconvénients

The pricing plan is a bit expensive taking into considerations that they are other similar applications that dispense the same job at a lower price

Avantages

After using many scheduling software for my makeup business, I found that Timely is great for managing and sending reminders in emails and texts, which other software do not include.

Inconvénients

I have had some issues with appointment confirmations and check-ins before but nothing that negatively impacted my time using it drastically.

Avantages

Design, functionality, speed with which new features are released

Inconvénients

In the past I've had some issues with reliability (lost hours) but this seems to have been fixed over the last few months

Avantages

Easy to use and always available.

Inconvénients

None so far.

Avantages

Being able to customize projects (which I used as task).

Inconvénients

There is no way to calculate the amount spent on a particular project/task per week. I had to count the hours myself. That would be extremely beneficial for individuals who do grant work and use this app for one project with many different task (ex. 1. Meeting time with Partners = 4 hours this week, 2. Preparation time = 2 hours this week, 3. Developing Materials = 10 hours this week), etc.).

Avantages

Timely's automated time tracking is really neat and helpful once it has learned your patterns.

Inconvénients

It can take a while for Timely's automated suggestions to be correct, especially if you have complex scheduling needs.