Toggl Track is a good product — if you bill clients, run projects, and want integrations everywhere, it earns its place. Hourcraft is for the other case: one person who wants to know where the hours went, without running a time-tracking platform to find out.
Add to Chrome — it’s freeIt lives in Chrome's side panel. Not a popup you open and dismiss — a panel docked beside the page you're working on, with a toolbar badge counting the minutes even when it's closed.
It asks for almost nothing. Hourcraft can talk to hourcraft.app and nothing else. It cannot read your tabs, your browsing history, or the content of any page. Trackers that inject timer buttons into dozens of other web apps need far broader access to do it — that's the trade behind a big integrations list.
You can buy it once. $59 for lifetime access, instead of a per-seat subscription that runs as long as you track time. There's also $4/month or $29/year if you'd rather not commit.
| Hourcraft | Toggl Track | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives in Chrome | Side panel, beside your work | Popup + buttons inside other apps |
| Site access it needs | hourcraft.app only | The sites it integrates with |
| Integrations | None | Many — a core strength |
| Teams & shared reporting | — | Yes |
| Billable rates, budgets, invoicing | — | Yes, on paid plans |
| Free tier | 3 categories, 7 days of history | More generous than ours |
| Pricing model | $4/mo · $29/yr · $59 once | Per user, per month |
| One-time purchase | Yes — $59 lifetime | Not offered |
Competitor details reflect Toggl's publicly documented plans and may change — check toggl.com for current pricing.
Plenty of cases, and it's worth being straight about them. Stay with Toggl Track if you bill clients and want rates and budgets tracked for you; if anyone else needs visibility into the same numbers; if you rely on starting timers from inside other tools; or if you already have years of history there — Hourcraft has no importer, so switching means starting fresh.
Hourcraft makes sense when the tool has become heavier than the job: when you open a time tracker, tap start, tap stop, and never touch the other 90% of it.
It depends how you buy. Toggl sells a per-user monthly subscription and has a genuinely generous free plan. Hourcraft is $4/month, $29/year, or $59 once — the one-time option is the real difference, because a subscription never stops.
Not today. Hourcraft exports CSV but has no importer yet, so switching means starting fresh. If years of history matter, that's a fair reason to stay put.
No. It's single-user by design — no team features, no rates, no invoicing. It exports clean CSV so you can bill from your own system. If you need those built in, Toggl is the better tool.
It lives in the side panel beside your work, it asks for access to hourcraft.app and nothing else, and you can buy it once. If you want a timer rather than a platform, that combination is hard to find.
Free plan, no credit card — just your email. If it isn't lighter than what you're using now, you've lost a minute.
Add to Chrome — it’s free