Saturday, January 21, 2012

7 Best Free Linux Time Tracking Software


Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.
The deployment of this software offers a new level of productivity to organisations, as it provides management with information on what time is spent by employees on different activities such as projects and tasks. This can help to measure productivity over time. This software is commonly used by professionals that charge clients by the hour such as accountants, solicitors, and freelancers. The generation of automatic invoices with minimal or no data entry removes the inconvenience of billing and invoicing clients, and improves efficiency.
There is a fairly limited selection of free Linux time tracking tools available. This article identifies our favourite tools. We have not included Charm in the list below. Whilst this project shows considerable promise, it is in a very early stage of development.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 7 impressive free Linux time tracking applications. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to keep track of time spent on tasks.
Now, let's explore the 7 time tracking applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
Time Tracking
Project Hamster Time tracking applet for the GNOME desktop environment
Kimai Web based software that tracks work time, and classifies it
Task Coach Designed to deal with composite tasks
Rachota Designed for personal timetracking of projects
dotProject Web-based, multi-user, multi-language project management application
Kontact
PIM and groupware suite which includes a time tracker component
TimeSlotTracker Java based time tracking tool

6 comments:

  1. Hi friends,

    The time-tracking software is fairly self explanatory. It refers to methods of tracking the amount of time employees spend on the job. With modern software and the right strategy this software can be calibrated so that it tracks time nearly right down to the second. Thanks!

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  2. There are number of time tracking software available but I think we must go for the ones which is user friendly and offers good features.

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  3. There are several other tools that do time tracking too, such as Replicon time clock software, which is one of the leading and best time tracking tools available.

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  4. Thanks for sharing such useful information. I have also tried a free trial of employee time clock software, and it was very beneficial for me.

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  5. I personally use www.timecamp.com and I highly reccomend it. I think it's great time and work saving.

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