Product Review of Timely

Timely boosts fully automatic time tracking that works seamlessly across all your Apple products (MacBook, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch). It tracks time spent in meetings, browsers, applications, emails, and documents to ensure that all billable hours are accounted for and that you don’t have to spend valuable time trying to manually track hours. The app includes automatically created reports, timesheets, and real-time project dashboards. This app is convenient for anyone that bills by the hour, including tutors and afterschool activity providers.
Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id619462420
What Users Love About the App
“I use this every day to track my hours. I work for a project-based org, so being able to track time under multiple projects is necessary, and I like that it doesn’t force you to use a calendar (with specific times), just the number of hours worked.”
“I like this one the best, and it’s working really well. It’s helping to make sure I have less lost billable time!! I think the thing that has sold me the most is the iPhone app. It’s not glitchy, is easy to use.”
“This is a fantastic time-tracking app, both for business and personal use. It’s attractive, fun and easy to use, and also tracks monetary value. Timely is very intuitive, syncs flawlessly between Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad. I love using my Watch as a controller.”
“Timely has become a daily addiction for me – one of the first apps I launch on startup, and keep open throughout the day. It’s hard to explain the motivation I get by seeing my income climb each hour, and how much I’m planning to earn the rest of the day/week. Timely nails it. It keeps me moving.”
“I really love this app for it’s time planning feature, as well as for letting me log in my hours manually, because it’s easy to forget when I start or stop during stressful deadlines at work. The way I visually shows me how much time I’ve got left or how much I’ve gone overtime is immensely valuable to me.”
What Users Dislike About the App
“Add a week view on the mobile app. I count hours by week and I don’t think the mobile app allows you to see the number of hours you have worked so far that week, either on the calendar view or in reports – only by month.”
“My, saw the price elsewhere. $6/month. On the edge for a single purpose app but…looks like another app that doesn’t need to rent to do little more than collect what is essentially text data. I want to see developers that can stop trying to be millionaires or billionaires by renting software.”
“Nifty app and service. However, the subscription price is down right offensive. To put into perspective, premium productivity software subscription services (e.g., office 365, ms exchange, adobe creative cloud, etc.) cost a fraction of this, and those are need-to-have tools to get the job done (unlike Timely).”
“Terrible customer service and they have sneaky extra steps to putting your subscription payment on hold / canceling. Cost me many months of not using the service. Buyer beware.”
“It looks like it would be a good time tracker, but I can’t justify the cost for my needs. I’m looking to track time for my personal use. I feel it should have disclosed the cost more clearly.”