Best Self-Hosted Time tracking Tools

Self-hosted time trackers replace services such as Toggl and Clockify with a database you own. The four picks here follow two models. Traggo and TimeTagger are tag-based: there are no tasks or projects, you record time spans and tag them, then slice the totals by tag. Traggo is a single Go container with dashboards, a list and a calendar; TimeTagger is a Python server with an interactive timeline and PDF and CSV reports, aimed at individuals and freelancers. Kimai and solidtime are project-based: Kimai tracks time against customers, projects and activities with rates, budgets and invoices, and solidtime has projects, tasks, clients, billable rates and several organizations with roles, on a Laravel and PostgreSQL stack. Decide whether you are alone or a team, whether you think in tags or projects, and whether you need to bill from the tool, then size the server to match: the tag-based pair run in well under 100 MB.

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Kimai

Time tracking for freelancers and teams: timesheets against customers, projects and activities, per-user and per-project rates, time and money budgets, reports, exports and invoices, with a JSON API, SAML/LDAP login and TOTP two-factor authentication.

PHPSymfonyMySQL

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solidtime

A modern open-source time tracker for freelancers and agencies: track time against projects, tasks and clients, set billable rates per project, project member or organization, work in several organizations with roles and permissions, and import from Toggl and Clockify. A Laravel application with PostgreSQL; the self-hosting examples run an app, scheduler and queue worker plus Gotenberg.

PHPLaravelVuePostgreSQL

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TimeTagger

An interactive time tracker with a timeline you drag to record and edit entries, tags, a report view and PDF export, aimed at freelancers and individuals. Python server with a single-file data store; credentials are set with a bcrypt hash in an environment variable.

PythonSQLite

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Traggo

A self-hosted time tracker built around tags instead of tasks and projects: you record tagged time spans, then slice them in dashboards by any tag. One Go binary with a built-in web UI and SQLite, shipped as a single container.

GoSQLite

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