Toggl Track review

Toggl Track combines time tracking with tools for planning and reviewing team work. You can log hours with a timer, track in the background, or switch between connected devices. Reports break time down by project, client, or team; project views compare estimates with actual hours to help monitor budgets and resources.

It also includes task planning with boards, timelines, and a calendar, plus capacity views for workload, availability, time off, and overbooked schedules. The product information describes an AI assistant that can answer questions about time data, log time through chat, and create projects.

The Free plan is for individuals and includes timers, tasks, boards, estimates, calendar integrations, and personal-level reports. Starter and Premium add team and project features; Enterprise pricing is custom. Toggl lists a 30-day free trial, but the published pricing details do not specify which plan it covers.

Toggl Track makes more sense when a team needs time data to inform planning, not just a running tally of hours. Reports can organize time by client, project, or team, while project views compare estimated and actual time. That gives managers a way to spot budget or resourcing gaps without treating the timer as the whole product.

The plan ladder is fairly clear about what costs extra. Starter is $12 per user/month with monthly billing or $9 per user/month annually. It adds billable rates, team reports, timeline views, tags, milestones, and flexible-hours and holiday settings. Premium is $24 per user/month monthly or $16 annually, and adds labor-cost and profitability reports, fixed-fee projects, project dashboards, timesheet approvals, Jira and Asana integrations, and SSO. The pricing page says annual billing saves up to 33%.

For an individual, Free includes tasks and task estimates as well as timers and personal reports. A Reddit post says a user found that the free version no longer allowed tasks, which conflicts with the published plan listing. Check the current plan details before moving a task-based workflow onto Free.

The main price catch is that the stronger team-planning and profitability features sit behind paid plans, and some capacity features cost extra. Time Off Management is listed at $2 per user/month; Capacity Management is $6 per user/month billed monthly or $5 annually. The pricing details do not say whether those add-ons are bundled with particular plans, so confirm the total before comparing per-seat costs. Enterprise pricing is custom, not published.

There is also mixed user feedback about reliability. In one Reddit thread, users report mobile-to-desktop syncing problems, including a commenter who says a full day of tracked data was lost. That is anecdotal, not a documented product limit, but time data is the core of the service; test your team’s device mix and recovery process before switching.

If you need self-hosting, Toggl may not fit: a Reddit discussion points people toward Kimai and Traggo as self-hosted alternatives. And if you only need a basic timer, paying $12 or $24 per user/month may be hard to justify. Compare the reports and integrations you actually need before upgrading.

Toggl Track has a free plan for individuals, but team reporting starts at Starter: $12 per user/month with monthly billing or $9 with annual billing. That is the first cost to check if you’re replacing a team tracker. Starter includes billable rates, team reports, timeline views, and PTO features.

Premium costs $24 per user/month monthly or $16 annually. That doubles the monthly-billed Starter price, or adds $7 per user/month on annual billing. Premium adds labor-cost and profitability reports, timesheet approvals, project dashboards, Jira and Asana integrations, and SSO. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Add-ons can raise the bill: Time Off Management is $2 per user/month, while Capacity Management is $6 monthly or $5 per user/month with annual billing. The pricing details list annual billing as saving up to 33%; they don’t state a separate annual rate for Time Off Management. A 30-day free trial is listed, alongside the free plan.

The available pricing details don’t say how to import historical time entries, projects, or users, or which export formats are available. Before switching, confirm those points with Toggl and test a small export or import with your own data. If your workflow depends on Jira or Asana, note that those integrations are listed for Premium; Google and Outlook calendar integrations are included on Free.

The listed plans don’t establish a specific lock-in mechanism, but moving tools can still mean rebuilding projects, task structures, and reporting workflows. Toggl Track’s plans include reports and project estimates, so check whether you can retain the history and fields your team needs before cancelling another service. Support terms for lower tiers are not published on the vendor's site.

We don’t have sourced Reddit posts or comments here to support a claim about why users leave Toggl Track. Treat sync complaints or other user-reported issues as unverified until you check the relevant threads. The practical switching decision is whether your required integrations and historical data can move cleanly—not just whether the timer works.