Timing review

Timing automatically records app, document and website activity on your Mac, so you do not have to start a timer every time you switch tasks. It can detect idle time, then lets you organize tracked activity into projects and timesheets. Drag activities into a project or set rules to sort matching activity automatically.

The Mac app is paired with a web app for team reporting and starting or stopping timers. Timing can mark hours billable, billed or paid, and reports can round time to billing increments. Its AI features summarize tracked work, highlight patterns and help create time entries. You can also connect an AI agent such as Claude or ChatGPT through MCP to query and sort activities.

The practical pitch is automatic capture followed by cleanup: Timing gathers activity in the background, but you still organize it into useful project records.

Timing’s main advantage is that it does not depend on remembering to start and stop timers. It records activity across apps, documents and websites on a Mac, then gives you project rules to reduce repeat sorting. That should suit people whose workday is split across several clients or tasks and who need timesheets after the fact.

The billing and reporting tools make the records more useful than a raw activity log. You can mark time billable, billed or paid, and round report hours to billing increments. For teams, members can report time to shared projects while admins see aggregate project time through the web app.

AI adds another way to review the activity: summaries and pattern highlights can help turn a busy log into time entries, and MCP connections let supported AI agents query or sort activity. These are practical additions to the tracking workflow, not a reason to assume every entry will be categorized correctly without review.

There is a 30-day free trial on the listed plans. Annual billing starts at $9 per month for one person on one Mac, according to the published pricing information.

The main constraint is platform and device coverage: the automatic tracker is for Mac users, and the listed plans cap how many Macs each person can use. Professional is for one person on one Mac; Expert covers one person on two Macs; Connect supports multiple seats and lists three Macs per user. The published information does not list a Windows plan or a free plan.

Price rises if you need more than one Mac or a team setup. According to the published pricing page information, Professional is $9 per month billed annually or $11 monthly. Expert is $11 annually or $14 monthly, while Connect is $16 per user per month annually or $20 monthly. Annual prices are billed yearly, so the lower monthly figure is not the amount paid each month. Pricing confidence is medium.

Timing also depends on turning captured activity into usable projects and timesheets. Rules can sort matching activity, and AI can help summarize or create entries, but the published details do not promise that categorization is always correct. The 30-day trial gives a way to assess that workflow, but there is no free tier listed for keeping the service afterward.

Timing has no free plan; the pricing details list a 30-day free trial. Professional costs $11 per month with monthly billing or $9 per month when billed annually, for one person using one Mac. Expert is $14 monthly or $11 per month billed annually, and covers one person on two Macs. That is a $3 monthly-billing jump, or $2 per month on the annual rate, for the extra Mac.

Connect costs $20 per user per month, or $16 per user per month billed annually. It supports multiple seats and includes three Macs per user. Compared with Expert, that is $6 more per user monthly or $5 more per user per month on the annual rate. Annual prices are billed yearly, so the displayed monthly equivalent is not the amount paid each month. No add-ons are listed in the published pricing details. Check the current pricing page before buying: these prices were checked on November 7, 2026, and the source confidence is medium.

Moving to Timing means shifting from manual timers to activity captured on a Mac, then sorting that activity into projects and timesheets. Project rules can automate matching activity, but the published material does not say whether existing time entries can be imported, or which export formats are available. Treat migration and data portability as questions to confirm before switching; export details are not published here.

Timing is Mac-focused: the published description says it records app, document and website activity on a Mac, while the web app supports team reporting and timers. The verdict flags Windows-first tracking and tracking many Macs cheaply as poor fits. Those constraints could be reasons to choose another tool, but no Reddit posts or comments were supplied, so we cannot attribute common reasons for leaving Timing to Reddit users. If you rely on an AI agent, the published feature list says Timing can connect Claude, ChatGPT or another agent through MCP; it does not establish that this makes switching data easier.