The TrackTime blog.
Product updates, time-tracking tips, and billing best practices for professionals who bill by the hour.
Time Tracking for Accountants and Bookkeepers
Accountants juggle dozens of small clients and a brutal seasonal crunch, and the quick questions in between rarely get billed. This guide shows how to capture that time and price your work with real data.
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Tracking Time Spent Texting Clients (SMS and RCS)
Text messages have quietly become real client work, and almost none of that time reaches an invoice. Here is why texting evades every manual timer, and how automatic capture of SMS and incoming RCS in Google Messages changes the math.
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Six-Minute Billing Increments Explained
Six-minute increments are the standard unit of legal billing, but the convention confuses new attorneys and clients alike. Here is what 0.1 hours means, how rounding works, and why the system exists.
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The Best Time Tracking Apps with Invoicing Built In
We ranked five time tracking apps that can also send the invoice, judged on how smoothly tracked hours become a bill a client will pay. Each entry includes an honest note on where it falls short.
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Metadata-Only Time Capture: Automatic Tracking Without Reading Your Messages
Automatic time tracking only works if you can trust what it stores. Here is how metadata-only capture records who, when, and how long without ever storing message contents or email subject lines.
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Time Tracking for Freelancers Who Bill Hourly
Freelancers who bill by the hour lose money to context switching, quick client calls, and email that never reaches an invoice. Here is a practical system for capturing all of it and billing without extra tools.
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How to Invoice Clients for Hourly Work
A practical, step-by-step workflow for turning tracked hours into invoices that clients pay without pushback. We cover capture, review, rounding, descriptions, itemizing, sending, and follow-up.
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Why iPhones Cannot Automatically Track Your Calls (and What iOS Users Can Do)
iOS does not allow any third-party app to observe your calls, read notifications across apps, or see which app is in the foreground. We explain why that makes automatic call tracking impossible on iPhone, and what iOS users can realistically do instead.
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Contemporaneous Time Tracking vs. Reconstructing Your Week
Recording time as the work happens and rebuilding a timesheet from memory on Friday produce very different invoices. We explain why memory fails in one predictable direction, and how to make contemporaneous capture your default instead of your aspiration.
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TrackTime vs. Harvest
Harvest offers some of the most polished invoicing in time tracking, while TrackTime automatically captures the calls, texts, and email that never reach a timer. We compare both honestly, including Harvest's 2026 pricing changes.
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Six-Minute Billing Increments Explained
Six-minute increments are the standard unit of legal billing, but the convention confuses new attorneys and clients alike. Here is what 0.1 hours means, how rounding works, and why the system exists.
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Time Tracking for Consultants: Billing Every Client Interaction
Consultants lose billable time to advice calls, email reviews, and quiet scope creep. This guide shows how to capture every client interaction and how detailed hours make your fees easier to defend.
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How to Track Time Spent on Email in Gmail and Outlook
Email time arrives in dozens of small sessions that no manual timer survives. Here is how automatic email time tracking works for Gmail and Outlook on Android, and why it stores metadata only.
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The Best Android Time Tracking Apps in 2026
We ranked five time tracking apps purely as Android apps: widgets, background behavior, offline reliability, and automatic capture. We also explain honestly where each one falls short.
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How to Bill for Phone Calls as an Attorney
Phone calls are the most commonly unbilled work in legal practice. Here is how to round them, describe them, set client expectations for them, and actually capture them in the first place.
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How to Automatically Track Time Spent on Phone Calls (Android)
Phone calls are the billable time a manual timer never catches. Here is how automatic call capture works on Android, from permissions to client matching to the review step before anything reaches an invoice.
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The Complete Guide to Capturing Every Billable Hour
Most professionals do not lose billable hours to laziness; they lose them to a capture problem. This guide explains where billable time leaks, why contemporaneous capture beats reconstruction, and how to build a workflow that gets every hour onto an invoice.
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What Is Automatic Time Tracking (and What Can Actually Be Captured)?
Automatic time tracking is a category with three very different technologies inside it, and vendors rarely explain which one they are selling. Here is what desktop watchers, calendar inference, and OS-level mobile capture can each actually see.
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TrackTime vs. Clockify for Hourly Billing
Clockify gives unlimited users a genuinely free timer, and TrackTime automatically captures the calls, texts, and email your timesheet misses. Here is an honest comparison for hourly billers.
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Time Tracking for Lawyers: The Complete Guide
Everything a lawyer needs to know about tracking billable time: six-minute increments, contemporaneous records, billing descriptions clients accept, utilization, ethics, and how to choose the right tool.
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How Much Revenue Do You Lose to Unbilled Phone Calls?
Short client calls almost never make it onto invoices, and the arithmetic of that leak is worse than most professionals expect. We walk through worked examples at typical hourly rates and show how to measure your own number.
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TrackTime vs. Toggl Track: Which Captures More Billable Time?
Toggl Track is the best manual timer on the market, and TrackTime never asks you to press start. We compare them honestly and tell you which one fits your work.
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Best Time Tracking Apps for Lawyers in 2026
We compared seven time tracking apps on the things that actually matter to attorneys: capture accuracy, billing increments, invoicing, and price. We also explain where each one falls short.
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Why you're losing billable hours: how to capture every one
The work that never makes it onto the invoice: calls, texts, email, drive time, and quick tasks. Here are the five ways billable time leaks out of a practice, and how to capture every one.
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