Free time tracking
for trades.
TradesTimer reconstructs your workday from background GPS. No timers to start. No jobsites to set up. No account to sign up for. Install it, grant location access, and go work — the timeline fills in on its own.
The app is free — no account, no per-user fees. It hands you the billable hours, ready to drop into whatever you invoice with. It's not an invoicing or accounting tool, and it doesn't try to be.
Three things happen. That's the whole app.
You drive to a job.
TradesTimer notices the motion and records a trip block in the background.
You stop and work.
After a few minutes of staying put, the app creates a stop block and starts the clock. No tap required.
You tally hours at invoice time.
Open the app at the end of the day or week. Rename stops, flag billable time, and read off your rounded billable hours per job in about a minute — then invoice however you already do.
Built for the way trades actually work.
Automatic day reconstruction
Stops and drives are derived from background location. No timers to start, no geofences to configure.
Automatic mileage log
Because drives are detected too, every trip between jobsites records its distance. Your business mileage adds up on its own into a dated travel log you can export at tax time — no separate mileage app to remember to start.
Free, forever
The whole core app — tracking, review, billable-hours summary — is free. No trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees.
On-device privacy
Your location history never leaves this device, and it stays for as long as you want it. There is no server and no account. The only thing that leaves the phone is the billable-hours text you choose to share.
Built for trades
Designed around how tradespeople actually work — one person, many jobsites a day, billable by hour or by job. It hands you the hours; you do the invoice in whatever you already use.
Free. The whole app.
The whole time-tracking app is free — no trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees. (Encrypted cloud backup is on the roadmap.)
- Automatic day reconstruction from background GPS
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit any block
- Rounded billable-hours summary, shareable as plain text
- Automatic mileage log, exportable for taxes
- 7-day summary view
- All location data stays on your device
Your location history stays on your phone.
There is no TradesTimer server storing your location trails. No account. No sign-up. Your GPS history lives on the device that recorded it — for as long as you want it. The only time anything leaves your phone is when you choose to share your billable-hours summary yourself.
The app does not talk to any third-party service with your location. Nothing about where you've been is uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy for the full detail.