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TrackingTime alternativeTrackingTime: Manual timer with a calendar-style timeline

Stintt vs TrackingTime

  • No timer to start or stop
  • Nothing installed on the laptop
  • Timesheet drafted from calendar events

TrackingTime makes manual tracking pleasant to look at. Stintt removes the manual part — the week is drafted from calendar events before anyone opens it.

How each one gets the hoursCompared August 2026
TrackingTime

Start-and-stop timers

  • Someone has to press start
  • Right only if they remember
Stintt

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.

Runs in a browser; the desktop and browser-extension apps are optional conveniences.

Software features

Stintt vs TrackingTime, row by row

The same twelve rows every comparison on this site uses, so nothing is cherry-picked for TrackingTime. Where a capability is optional or plan-gated, it is marked partly rather than rounded either way.

TrackingTime does the timesheet-as-timeline idea well: the day is a horizontal track, entries are blocks, and it is genuinely nicer to review than a list of rows. But the blocks still get there because a person put them there, which means the same Friday reconstruction with better typography. Stintt starts from the other end. The calendar already holds a timeline of what was booked; the timesheet is derived from it, and review is the only manual step.

Capture
No timer to start or stop
Whether the day depends on someone remembering to press a button.
StinttYes — No timer to start or stop
TrackingTimeNo — No timer to start or stop
Nothing installed on the laptop
Whether capture needs an agent running on every machine.
StinttYes — Nothing installed on the laptop
TrackingTimePartly — Nothing installed on the laptopRuns in a browser; the desktop and browser-extension apps are optional conveniences.
Timesheet drafted from calendar events
Whether the week arrives already filled in from what was booked.
StinttYes — Timesheet drafted from calendar events
TrackingTimePartly — Timesheet drafted from calendar eventsA calendar view sits beside the timeline, but entries are still started and stopped by a person.
Log off-calendar work from a chat message
Whether "fixed login bug 2h" is enough to record an hour.
StinttYes — Log off-calendar work from a chat message
TrackingTimeNo — Log off-calendar work from a chat message
Privacy
No screenshots, ever
Whether the tool can photograph a person's screen.
StinttYes — No screenshots, ever
TrackingTimeYes — No screenshots, ever
No activity or productivity scoring
Whether people get a percentage attached to their name.
StinttYes — No activity or productivity scoring
TrackingTimeYes — No activity or productivity scoring
No app or website logging
Whether the apps and pages someone opens are recorded.
StinttYes — No app or website logging
TrackingTimeYes — No app or website logging
Billing
Approval step before hours are billed
Whether a human signs off before time reaches an invoice.
StinttYes — Approval step before hours are billed
TrackingTimePartly — Approval step before hours are billedTime cards and timesheet audits on the paid tiers; a formal approve-or-return workflow is not advertised.
Invoices built from tracked hours
Whether hours become a client invoice without leaving the tool.
StinttYes — Invoices built from tracked hours
TrackingTimeYes — Invoices built from tracked hours
Excel, CSV and PDF export templates
Whether the timesheet leaves in the shape a client asked for.
StinttYes — Excel, CSV and PDF export templates
TrackingTimeYes — Excel, CSV and PDF export templatesCSV on the free plan; PDF and Excel on the paid tiers.
Insight
AI categorizes the week automatically
Whether meetings, focus and admin sort themselves.
StinttYes — AI categorizes the week automatically
TrackingTimeNo — AI categorizes the week automatically
Utilization, capacity and meeting-load reporting
Whether you can see who is over-booked before they burn out.
StinttYes — Utilization, capacity and meeting-load reporting
TrackingTimePartly — Utilization, capacity and meeting-load reportingWorkload reporting on tracked hours, rather than forward capacity or meeting-load analysis.
YesPartly, or optionalNot offered

Compared August 2026 from each vendor's public documentation and pricing pages. Products change — check with the vendor before you decide.

Switching made simple

Three steps, and none of them is a migration.

There is no import from TrackingTime, 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Why teams move

What TrackingTime leaves on the table

Three specific things, not a feature count.

The timeline fills itself

TrackingTime gives you a timeline to fill. Stintt gives you a timeline already filled from calendar events, and asks you to correct it.

Off-calendar work has a one-line escape hatch

Send "client call 25m" to a chat bot the moment it ends. No app to open, no syntax to learn.

Approved hours are the only billable ones

A review step sits between logged time and a client invoice, and discarded entries are kept as a record rather than deleted.

The honest version

When TrackingTime is the better choice

If a lot of your work has no calendar footprint at all — heads-down production, shift work, ad-hoc tasks — a fast manual tracker with a clean interface is a reasonable answer, and TrackingTime is one of the better ones.

If none of that describes your team, the rest of this page is the case for switching. If some of it does, TrackingTime is a reasonable buy and we would rather you knew that here than after a trial.

Questions

What people ask about TrackingTime and Stintt

A calendar view shows the entries you created. Stintt goes the other way: your calendar events are the source, and the entries are generated from them — including the eighteen months of history that already exist in the calendar when you connect.

Time is categorized (meetings, focus, admin, break, out-of-office) and attributed to clients for billing. Jira and ClickUp connect for personal timesheets so entries can sit against real issues. Deep project hierarchies are TrackingTime's strength, not ours.

Yes. Pending entries collect in one inbox with who, when and what. Approve, edit-and-approve, or send back with a note — and only approved entries reach an invoice.

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