# Page 2 | Timely Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Timely the right Time Clock solution for you? Explore 217 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/131584/Timely/reviews --- Timely 4.7 (217) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/131584/Timely/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Timely ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 217 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use MH Moe H. Administrative assistant Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Timely is a fairly good software to track time and work productivity." June 3, 2025 4.0 My experience with Timely so far in terms of time tracking is not bad, it helps me streamline my workflow. Pros What I like most about Timely is that it is efficient for planning time to increase work productivity and reduce time wasted Cons What I like least about Timely is that the manual override is limited and the AI sometimes misclassifies tasks. Review Source OI Olaoluwa I. Chief Operating Officer Management Consulting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for Consultants" October 2, 2024 5.0 Overall using Timely has given us a much better understanding of where our time is spent on projects and between projects. Pros Super easy to set up and use,it helps me track the work I do for our different clients much more easily. Cons I have not encountered any shortcomings for the period we have been using this software. Review Source Regina L F. Manager Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Timely is helpful for tracking time." September 23, 2024 5.0 I only used this briefy. I had a client that wanted my time tracked and seemed to not trust me to log time using a spreadsheet. I did not want to download another app, and I wasnt sure if business would validate upgrading to paid subscription. Pros Made it very easy to monitor and record time spent on a project Cons I didn't like that I had to download a tracking app. Switched from [Google Sheets](https://www.capterra.com/p/169718/Google-Sheets/) I wanted the integrity of this app to validate the time I was reporting. Review Source Ava H. Senior Staff Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Automated Time Tracking Made Easy" October 8, 2024 5.0 Timely simplifies time tracking and is a huge time-saver, but you’ll need to check occasionally to ensure all your tasks are being tracked accurately. Pros I worked on a project for hours, and Timely automatically tracked my time, saving me from having to enter everything manually. Cons Sometimes, it didn’t capture smaller tasks like quick meetings, so I had to add those manually. Review Source HC Hannah C. Administrative Assistant Accounting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "College student with timely success" February 10, 2025 5.0 Timely was beneficial in my time as a college student. Pros I liked the ease of use and accessibility. Cons It took a while to sign up and figure out how to use initially. Review Source AB Angelica B. University Intern Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Enhance Productivity and Efficiency with Timely" June 8, 2023 5.0 Timely helped me efficiently manage my time as an intern in the pharmaceutical product development and research department. I was able to precisely track the time spent on various jobs and projects thanks to the software's automatic time tracking feature. I was able to study my productivity trends as a result and better manage my time. I was able to spot areas for improvement and properly prioritize chores thanks to Timely's graphic reports, which gave me insightful information about my workflow. Overall, Timely dramatically improved my ability to manage my time, allowing me to concentrate on important research and development tasks. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Secretary Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Timely Review" June 12, 2022 4.0 Timely is helpful software and I like it, it is functional and I highly recommend it. Pros I have been using Timely for a while, It is good software with many essential functions. You can schedule your job easily and track the workflow and time-consuming. Cons I don't have many complaints about Timely, but I would appreciate it if the software saved more project colors as defaults. Review Source TM Tommasina M. Business Administrator Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Save time and boost your productivity with Timely Software" June 21, 2021 5.0 I enjoy using Timely Software because it is effective, efficient and secure. Pros Great software allowing everything to run more effectively, timely and smoothly. Cons 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. Review Source AG Andy G. Web Developer Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Ideal time tracking software for my business" March 25, 2019 5.0 I can’t imagine finding a better fit for me and the way I work. Timely makes time-tracking painless and effortless. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source RR Rick R. Director Computer Hardware Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Revolutionary for Time capture" December 23, 2019 5.0 As a business owner, it is fantastic to get accurate and 'timely' submitted time sheets from staff each and every week. For the user, once you find your preferred method of capture, it is a breeze from there in. Pros The best thing about Timely is that it lets you focus on your work first, time capture second. Traditionally within an organisation with time sheets you need to constantly keep on top of your time entries or it will snowball into a big mess by the end of the week. Timely allows you to just get on with things and perhaps at the end of the week, you just approve the timesheet pre-filled for you. Cons When I sign up my staff to the software it can be a little overwhelming to get your head around things, and some have had minor teething issues with the memory app tracking. Once they get going its full steam ahead. Switched from [Google Sheets](https://www.capterra.com/p/169718/Google-Sheets/) The company was using FROM: / TO: time entries on a spreadsheet. Constantly falling behind, staff were struggling with their workloads to keep up with time entry as well. Timely promised to alleviate that, and it certainly did. Review Source Brian R. Consultant Management Consulting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Timely is my go-to app to record my consulting and board hours" December 30, 2017 5.0 Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source Brianna D. R. Project Manager Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Timely helps organize my freelance time" March 31, 2019 4.0 Being in a full-time position where I track my time, I needed something different for my freelance projects. Timely solves that for me and gives me a solution where I can keep my day job and freelance separate. Pros 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. Cons 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, Review Source JP Jennyffer P. Freelance Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Timely is an essential tool for my translation business" March 27, 2019 5.0 Pros 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! Cons 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. Review Source LA Lauren A. Business Manager Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Timely is the best thing to happen to our business!" November 19, 2018 5.0 As a medical office, we use medical documentation software so we can appropriately document and bill for services. However, when we started selling retail wellness products and offering other wellness services, using our EMR was much too cumbersome to keep track of these things - we didn't want to have to set up a whole case for someone who just came in to buy a set of weights, and most of the things that Timely does fell on me - keeping track of inventory, tracking used visits against packages, etc. When I found Timely, it almost seemed too good to be true. Other software would track inventory, but not packages. Timely not only did everything I wanted and more, but it's a user-friendly software. Very intuitive. It was easy to train my staff on the system and has taken a lot off my plate. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source GC Gauthier C. CFO Design Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great Tool but the AI add on is a gadget" February 21, 2024 4.0 Pros Easy to use, friendly UI and a lot of report available (and possibility to share with external partners). Cons The AI add on doesn't really work and my laptop froze all the time after setting it up. I add to remove it and I can't use this functionality. Alternatives considered [Pipefy](https://www.capterra.com/p/144848/Pipefy/) Review Source KP Kate P. UI/UX Designer Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Things I Didn't Know When I Started Freelancing" March 31, 2017 5.0 I started freelancing and had been tracking my hours on scratch paper and Notes files on my phone (it sounds so obviously stupid that I did that, but I hated time trackers from my agency days. I tended to forget to use them and then had to mentally reconstruct my days). It was making my life hectic. I put off invoicing until the last second because it was stressful and I felt guilty - like I had made my hours up. Even if I knew what client I did work for, I almost never remembered to write down what I did. Timely has tools built in to help me remember to track hours, to remember what I worked on, even days later. I also volunteer and hadn't been tracking my non-billable time until Timely. Now I can see how I'm splitting my days. It's made me a better estimator for future work; I never see my own estimates and think "wow, that's way too high a number. I should lower that," because now I have it documented, including the stuff I forget to factor in, like meetings and emails. I recommend this to everyone, especially visual people. It looks just like a calendar interface so there's very little learning curve. Timely is beautiful, easy, and --dare I say it -- rewarding to use. Pros The visual, colorful, easy to use interface. The integration with Rescue Time, which helps me remember what I did. Cons None. I work in UI/UX and I have no constructive crtiticism for Timely. Well done. Review Source Marcio L. self employed Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "awesome features but.." January 16, 2017 5.0 I love the app, it helps me to keep track of my projects and to be able to set different rates for each one is really handy. Here are a few options I'd like to see implemented: - Whenever I want to delete an entry, I'd like to have either a small X on the top right corner or an option to click it once and hit the delete key. its way faster than clicking on it then looking for the Delete link. - Please please add a"keywords" option. not tags, keywords! That is so when the app receives a new entry from my google calendar it reads the text, look for specific words and automatically set the project based on these words. i.e: if the appointment has "ACME"in it, it will set the project to the ACME one. That way I can set the projects straight from my Google Calendar ;) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Ad Writer/Writing Department Manager Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Used Timely to record time worked and tasks completed" June 26, 2018 3.0 Timely organizes time info visually very well. Pros I liked the way that Timely visually assembled information to be seen en mass. It made the ability to see quickly and easily where time opportunities were for our business. Cons Timely was not quite what we were looking for. It's a good program but ultimately we were unable to use it in tandem with other programs we were more committed to. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior UX Designer Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Beautiful, flexible and smart time tracker" April 1, 2019 5.0 Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source SS Siger S. Multimedia Designer Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Lifesaver" May 8, 2019 4.0 It saves me a lot of money because I track time I missed otherwise. And in that way it is more fun to do! Pros I really like the memory function. Some days you are so busy you forget about tracking time (and thus missing income). But with memory I can easily see what I have done, when I have done it and how much time I spend on it. Clear overview of spend budget within projects. Cons The reporting function could use a little more branding, now it's just a standard template. Alternatives considered [Timely](https://www.capterra.com/p/142756/Timely/)[Toggl Track](https://www.capterra.com/p/247745/Toggl/) Reason for choosing Timely Memory function! Better project (and budget) insights. Review Source Bryan M. Product Director Design Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A Good Time Tracking Solution, but not a Fit for Our Workflow" March 26, 2019 4.0 While the timely product is a great solution for some kinds of businesses, it didn't fit our particular time tracking needs. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Project Manager - Retail Quality Engineering @ Apple Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simply the best interface to look / search and analyze logs" December 10, 2018 5.0 Pros Creating Dashboards Setting up Automatic Alerts Creatign Automatic tickets based on treshold Cons Actually nothing that i dont like about Splunk Review Source ON Olli N. DIRECTOR Graphic Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Timely app" March 4, 2019 5.0 Timely has helped track timing of projects which has helped quote for new projects. From scheduling and pricing jobs it has be a pleasure using it and has become a key tool for us to use each and every day. Great interface that works great on mobile - on the go and always easy to reference any data or information you require. Pros 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. Cons Not many, all I would say now and again updates are released I would just like to see more quicker! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DIgital Designer Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great option for small enterprises and independent workers" April 1, 2019 5.0 Super satisfied with it. As a freelancer this my preferred software for time / budget tracking. Pros The simplest of its features is one I love the most: the fact that your timer can count money and not just hours/minutes/seconds. As you start a new project you define a budget and an hourly rate and that's it. The reports you can export are cool. And obviously it's new intelligent features are awesome. With a few tweaks, you connect your timely account to the software you work on usually, so it automatically tracks time by software / project. Cons Honestly, just the fact it became a paid software. It was free in the old days and it was great! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Executive Producer Media Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Must have system " August 6, 2019 5.0 Pros One of the best software I have ever used. It is extremely easy to use once it’s set up. Cons Initial set up, takes some time for accuracy and precision. But still worth doing. Review Source Similar Products Featured