Stintt vs Paymo
- No timer to start or stop
- Nothing installed on the laptop
- Timesheet drafted from calendar events
Paymo bundles project management, a timer and invoicing. Stintt does the time-to-invoice half automatically, from the calendar, with nothing installed.
PaymoStart-and-stop timers
- Someone has to press start
- Right only if they remember
Calendar events, read-only
- The week is already written down
- Chat covers what never got booked
- No agent on anyone’s laptop
Accurate only for as long as somebody remembers to press the button.
The web app needs nothing; Paymo Track, the automatic tracker, is a desktop application.
Stintt vs Paymo, row by row
The same twelve rows every comparison on this site uses, so nothing is cherry-picked for Paymo. Where a capability is optional or plan-gated, it is marked partly rather than rounded either way.
Paymo is a genuine all-in-one: tasks, planning, timers, invoices, resource scheduling. Teams that want one subscription instead of four have a real reason to buy it. Its automatic tracking, though, works the way most automatic tracking works — Paymo Track is a desktop application that records the activity on your computer, then suggests entries from the trail. That trade (accuracy in exchange for a recorder on the machine) is the one Stintt refuses to make. Calendar events are already a record of what was agreed to happen, kept by the person themselves, and they need no software watching anybody.
Compared August 2026 from each vendor's public documentation and pricing pages. Products change — check with the vendor before you decide.
Three steps, and none of them is a migration.
There is no import from Paymo, and pretending otherwise would be the first promise we broke. There does not need to be — a connected calendar arrives carrying the history a new tracker would spend months collecting.
Connect a calendar
Read-only access, granted once. It cannot create, edit or delete an event, and there is nothing to install on anyone's machine.
The history is already there
Existing calendar events become a draft timesheet immediately, so the first week is a review rather than an empty grid waiting for data to accrue.
Review, approve, bill
Correct the draft, log anything off-calendar from chat, and approve. Only approved entries reach a client invoice, and discarded time stays on the record.
What Paymo leaves on the table
Three specific things, not a feature count.
Automatic without a recorder
Both tools want to stop you typing timesheets. Paymo watches the desktop to do it; Stintt reads the calendar server-side, so there is no agent and no per-machine rollout.
A review step people trust
Entries derived from calendar events are legible — everyone can see exactly which meeting produced which hour, and correct it before it is billed.
Meeting load as a first-class number
Stintt ranks recurring meetings by the hours they consume, which is the number an over-booked team most needs and a task tracker rarely shows.
When Paymo is the better choice
If you want task management, planning and invoicing in the same tool as the timer, Paymo covers more of that surface than Stintt does. We are a time and billing product, not a project manager.
If none of that describes your team, the rest of this page is the case for switching. If some of it does, Paymo is a reasonable buy and we would rather you knew that here than after a trial.
What people ask about Paymo and Stintt
No. Stintt tracks time, approves it and bills it. If you need task boards, Gantt planning and file proofing in the same product, Paymo covers more ground.
From calendar events, synced server-side, plus one-line chat messages for anything that never got booked. Nothing is installed on the laptop, so nothing records what you open.
Clients, rates, approved hours as line items, a tax engine with Modern and India GST templates, and PDF output. Paymo goes further on estimates, expenses and online payments.
