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Plenty of tools track time. None close the loop.

The private, accurate trackers tend to be Mac-only with no client side. The cross-platform ones tend to be cloud monitors. Horario is the one that's automatic and private and cross-platform — and bills for real. Where a feature isn't live yet, we say so.

Feature
Horario
Others
Truly automatic tracking
Knows the project, not just the app
On-device data, you control what leaves
Transparent, auditable rules engine — no black box
Real invoicing: numbered, VAT-aware, emailed PDFs
macOS and Windows as equals
Built-in Kanban boardbeta
Clients collaborate on your boardcoming soon
AI that reads the work, not the window titlecoming soon
Manual tracking (because some people insist)
Sneaky surveillance / screenshots
vs the usual suspects
/01

Toggl

A clean, friendly manual timer that plenty of freelancers love. Great when you remember to hit start.

  • Toggl waits for you to start and stop a timer. Horario tracks itself — no button, no forgotten hours.
  • Reconstructing a day from memory means rounded, guessed entries. Horario logs the real work as it happens.
  • Horario knows the project, not just that a timer was running, and turns that into an invoice automatically.
/02

Clockify

A generous free tier and solid team reporting. A capable manual time sheet for organisations.

  • Most entries are still typed in by hand or nudged along by reminders. Horario needs neither.
  • Its activity and screenshot add-ons lean into surveillance. Horario keeps raw data on-device — you decide what leaves.
  • Horario maps time to the actual project and bridges gaps between activities with AI, instead of asking you to fill them in.
/03

RescueTime

Genuinely automatic, and good at showing where your attention went across apps and sites.

  • It measures which app or website was open — not which client or project that work belonged to.
  • App-level focus stats don't become billable hours. Horario produces invoices from real, tracked work.
  • Horario keeps raw activity on your device by default, so your clients' data never sits in a third-party cloud.

Where they genuinely win — and we'll say it: Toggl has years of integrations and polish, Clockify has a generous free team plan, RescueTime is a great focus mirror. None of them is trying to be a private, automatic tracker that turns confirmed work into a real invoice. That gap is the one we're building in — and an over-claimed comparison would break the honesty this product is built on.

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