Hubstaff alternatives are sought by teams that wanted a timesheet and found they had bought a monitoring suite, and by buyers who compared the per-seat tiers and want fewer features at a lower price. They move to plain time trackers with a free tier, to attendance tools, or to open-source software they can host themselves.
Sebastiaan SmitsFounderShort answer: The closest replacements for Hubstaff in our time tracking ranking are Toggl Track, Clockify and TimeCamp. Choose Toggl Track if you want a plain timer and reports without screenshot capture. All 12 alternatives below are ranked products from Best Time Tracking Software in 2026, and each says where it differs from Hubstaff.
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Hubstaff describes itself in terms of productivity monitoring: screenshots, activity levels, idle time and app and URL usage sit beside the timer in its product menu. For a company that only needs hours for invoicing or payroll, that is a lot of data to collect, explain to staff and secure. Several of the tools below track time and nothing else.
Hubstaff lists five plans on its pricing page, from a free entry through Starter, Grow and Team to Enterprise. The lower tiers carry limited screenshots, limited app and URL tracking and limited reports, while the higher tiers list the unlimited versions, and project budgets, payments and payroll features are spread across the ladder. A team that starts on Starter and finds the feature it bought the tool for one tier up tends to reprice the whole decision.
Every plan is priced per seat. That suits a small team in which everyone tracks daily. It suits an agency less well when many seats belong to occasional contributors, and several alternatives here offer a free plan, a free tier with unlimited users, or a flat self-hosted licence instead.
| Alternative | Headquarters | Free option | Pricing | Key difference | Switch if | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toggl Track | Estonia | Yes | Free tier; paid per user per month, published | One-click timers that people keep using after week three | you want a plain timer and reports without screenshot capture | #1 |
| Clockify | United States | Yes | Free plan for up to 5 users; paid per user per month, published | Free for up to five users, with the paid features clearly fenced | a free plan for a small team matters and you may add monitoring later | #3 |
| TimeCamp | Poland | Yes | Free tier; paid per user per month, published | Timesheets, billing rates and automatic app tracking together | you want automatic tracking and invoicing at a lower seat price than Hubstaff | #2 |
| Jibble | United Kingdom | Yes | Free core product; paid per user per month, published | Free attendance clock with kiosk mode and face recognition | you need clock-in, kiosk and location checks for hourly staff | #10 |
| Clockodo | Germany | No free tier | Per user per month, published | German timesheet tool built around working-time law and break rules | you are a German-speaking company that wants working-time records and a German supplier | #4 |
| Kimai | Austria | Yes | Free self-hosted; hosted plan per user per month, published | Open source timesheets you can host on your own server | you want to run time tracking on your own infrastructure and keep the data there | #6 |
| My Hours | Slovenia | Yes | Free tier; paid per user per month, published | Project time and client billing without the extra modules | you are a small team that needs billable rates and approvals but no monitoring | #8 |
| Timely | Norway | No free tier | Per user per month, published | Records your activity first, then turns it into timesheets | people forget to start timers and you want a draft timesheet built for them | #5 |
| ClickTime | United States | No free tier | Per user per month by plan, published | Timesheets that turn hours into cost data for grants and projects | you bill clients by the hour and need budgets and approvals with a finance focus | #9 |
| Buddy Punch | United States | No free tier | Per user per month plus a base fee, published | Online time clock with GPS, photo punches and payroll exports | your staff clock in and out at set locations and you pay them by the hour | #11 |
| EARLY (now TimeTac) | Austria | No free tier | Per user per month; new sign-ups go to TimeTac; hardware tracker sold separately | Time tracking app with a physical tracking cube, now part of TimeTac | you want time and absence records and are content to sign up with TimeTac | #16 |
| Replicon | United States | No free tier | Quoted per organisation | Project time and attendance with country compliance rules, now part of Deltek | you are a professional services firm with compliance needs and a procurement process | #14 |
Estonia · Free tier; paid per user per month, published
Toggl Track publishes an anti-surveillance position and offers a free plan with a limited number of users, then Starter at $9 and Premium at $16 per user per month. It is based in Estonia and lists SOC 2 Type 1 and ISO 27001. Time off and capacity forecasting are paid add-ons rather than core features.
Switch from Hubstaff if you want a plain timer and reports without screenshot capture.
United States · Free plan for up to 5 users; paid per user per month, published
Clockify gives unlimited time tracking free for up to 5 users, then charges per seat from $3.99 a month on annual billing, rising to $7.99 for Pro and $11.99 for Enterprise. Activity monitoring and GPS sit on Pro, so the monitoring Hubstaff sells is available, but a tier higher than the basics.
Switch from Hubstaff if a free plan for a small team matters and you may add monitoring later.
Poland · Free tier; paid per user per month, published
TimeCamp is priced per user with unlimited users and projects on every plan, including a free tier. Starter is $3.99 a month on annual billing, screenshots arrive on Ultimate at $9.99, and self-hosted deployment is reserved for Enterprise. Its AI time tracker is billed separately by token usage.
Switch from Hubstaff if you want automatic tracking and invoicing at a lower seat price than Hubstaff.
United Kingdom · Free core product; paid per user per month, published
Jibble is built around attendance rather than productivity scoring. The product is free forever with unlimited users, and its feature list covers face recognition, geofencing, GPS stamps, kiosks, time off and invoicing. Its focus is attendance records, where Hubstaff's product menu leads with productivity monitoring.
Switch from Hubstaff if you need clock-in, kiosk and location checks for hourly staff.
Germany · Per user per month, published
Clockodo is operated by Clockodo GmbH in Unna, Germany. It charges per user, €4 for Basic, €10 for Pro and €12 for Pro Plus, with a free plan restricted to one self-employed user. It concentrates on work time, absences and project controlling.
Switch from Hubstaff if you are a German-speaking company that wants working-time records and a German supplier.
Austria · Free self-hosted; hosted plan per user per month, published
Kimai is open source under AGPL-3.0 and can be installed on your own server, or used as a hosted service. The core handles timesheets, invoicing, rates and a JSON API, while extras such as expenses or task planning are sold as plugins. Hubstaff is offered as a hosted service.
Switch from Hubstaff if you want to run time tracking on your own infrastructure and keep the data there.
Slovenia · Free tier; paid per user per month, published
My Hours has a free plan limited to 5 active users, a Basic plan at $4 per user per month billed annually and a Pro plan at $8 with approval workflows and budget calculations. It is a timesheet and project cost tool and is aimed at billable hours rather than monitoring.
Switch from Hubstaff if you are a small team that needs billable rates and approvals but no monitoring.
Norway · Per user per month, published
Timely lists automatic time tracking across thousands of apps and websites. Starter is $9 per user a month billed yearly but is capped at 5 users and 20 projects; Premium is $16 up to 50 users.
Switch from Hubstaff if people forget to start timers and you want a draft timesheet built for them.
United States · Per user per month by plan, published
ClickTime sells to finance teams and professional services firms. Starter is $15 per user per month (up to 25 users), Team adds approvals, billing rates and time off at $19, and Premier at $31 adds project budgeting and resource management. Its plans are priced above Hubstaff's lower tiers and are demo-led.
Switch from Hubstaff if you bill clients by the hour and need budgets and approvals with a finance focus.
United States · Per user per month plus a base fee, published
Buddy Punch is a time clock for hourly staff. It charges a base fee of $19 a month plus $4.99 per user on Starter, $6.99 on Pro and $12.99 on Advanced. GPS on punches comes from Starter, and webcam photos at punch, kiosk mode and break compliance arrive on Pro.
Switch from Hubstaff if your staff clock in and out at set locations and you pay them by the hour.
Austria · Per user per month; new sign-ups go to TimeTac; hardware tracker sold separately
EARLY has become part of TimeTac, and TimeTac's own site now says people looking for EARLY are in the right place. New sign-ups go to TimeTac as the product to sign up for. We have not verified its current pricing or features.
Switch from Hubstaff if you want time and absence records and are content to sign up with TimeTac.
EARLY (now TimeTac), #16 of 16 in our time tracking ranking →
United States · Quoted per organisation
Replicon is now Deltek Replicon, an AI-assisted time tracking application aimed at professional services firms that manage labour cost, billing and compliance across a global workforce. Its page leads with a demo request and shows no price list, so budget on a quote.
Switch from Hubstaff if you are a professional services firm with compliance needs and a procurement process.
Hubstaff remains the right choice when the monitoring is the reason you bought it. If you manage remote or outsourced staff and want screenshots, activity levels, app and URL usage and an audit trail in the same tool as the timesheet and the payment run, few alternatives here offer that combination at published prices. The same holds if you already run it on a higher tier and your staff accept the monitoring.
Screenshots and activity data are personal data and do not transfer to another tool in a usable form. Decide with your data protection officer how long to keep an export, and tell staff what happens to the old records before the switch.
Projects, clients and rates can usually be recreated from a CSV export of the tracked time. Payroll and payment settings, budgets and integrations are specific to each product, so rebuild them by hand and run one pay period in parallel before you cut over.
Its pricing page data includes a free entry plan alongside Starter, Grow, Team and Enterprise, and the company advertises a 14-day free trial without a credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans.
Check the live page for the current limits before relying on the free entry.
The pricing data lists Starter at $4.99 a seat a month billed annually ($7 monthly), Grow at $7.50 ($9), Team at $10 ($12) and Enterprise at $25.
These are the figures at the time of our check and the page is rendered dynamically, so confirm them before you budget.
Toggl Track and My Hours list timers, rates and reports without screenshots on the pages we read; Clockify puts activity monitoring on its Pro tier.
Jibble verifies attendance with face recognition and location rather than screen capture. If you want to avoid monitoring altogether, choose from these rather than from the tiers that add activity tracking.
Kimai is open source under AGPL-3.0 and can be installed on your own server. TimeCamp lists self-hosted deployment on its Enterprise plan.
Jibble and Buddy Punch are built for clocking in and out, with kiosks, geofencing or GPS stamps. Buddy Punch charges a $19 base fee plus a per-user rate; Jibble's core product is free with unlimited users.
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Written, edited and fact-checked by Sebastiaan Smits. Last reviewed 8 October 2026. How we review.
