Is there a good app for track time spent on work?
Lacks Features: 30 apps already serve this, and 10 data points mined from real user reviews across 3 sources show where they fall short. Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track time spent on work, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| forced time on tasks | missing-feature | 4 | You can no longer add a task for a date without assigning a time. |
| task tracking over several months | missing-feature | 1 | Is it possible to add task tracking over several months? |
| work time doubled | bug | 1 | it quite frequently double the work time |
| no tracking of lost time between activities | missing-feature | 1 | an option to calculate the lost time, between activities |
| time consumption complaint | other | 1 | Taken more time off my life than doomscrolling at this point |
| screen time monitor reports time not actually used | bug | 1 | my screen time is already used for the entire day. I have been asleep all night and the apps are not on in the background |
| time spent doubled | bug | 1 | a glitch doubles the time spent |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Now Then Time Tracking Pro | 4.8 | 301 | $2.99 |
| Hours Tracker: Time Tracking | 4.8 | 54,988 | Free |
| Timesheet - Time Tracking Pro | 4.7 | 677 | $36.99 |
| Hours Tracker: Time Calculator | 4.7 | 79,311 | Free |
| Timesheet - Time Tracker | 3.6 | 13,914 | Free |
| Timecard Pro - Hours & Work Schedule Tracking | 3.6 | 82 | $6.99 |
| Xpert-Timer Mobile | 4.6 | 666 | $15.00 |
| QuickBooks Workforce | 4.6 | 191,865 | Free |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 26 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
4 attempts, all stale and none above 33 stars — an abandoned field, likely crowded out by commercial time-trackers.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| seletskiy/jira-agile-worklog-helper | stale | 33 | JavaScript |
| stephensamonte/Flutter_Time_Tracker | stale | 6 | Dart |
| mgrowan/tfs-working-on | stale | 4 | HTML |
| bnchrch/Simple-Work-Tracker | stale | 2 | Python |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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