Automatic time tracking for appliance repair techs.
How a appliance repair tech's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A appliance repair tech's day is the opposite. You're diagnosing control boards and replacing heating elements, switching between addresses like Residential kitchens, Apartment complexes, Laundromats, and doing tasks like Testing continuity on heating elements, Replacing faulty drain pumps, Diagnosing error codes on control boards. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction appliance repair techs tell us about
- Losing track of diagnostic time during complex, multi-component repairs
- Forgetting to log mileage when jumping between residential service calls
- Difficulty distinguishing between drive time and active repair time when billing for service calls
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically captures every stop at a customer's home for accurate billable hours
- Captures every mile driven between different repair sites for easy tax logging
- Provides a clear breakdown of stops and trips without needing to manually start timers
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.