Arborist time tracking, without the timer.
How a arborist's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A arborist's day is the opposite. You're pruning, removals, and stump grinding, switching between addresses like Residential yards, Municipal parks, Roadside easements, and doing tasks like Removing deadwood and hazardous limbs, Setting up bucket truck and rigging, Stump grinding and debris clearing. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction arborists tell us about
- Losing track of billable time during gear setup and chainsaw prep at a new site
- Forgetting to log mileage for long drives to remote roadside easements
- Difficulty distinguishing between active pruning time and transit between scattered residential properties
- Missing small increments of work time during complex, multi-stage tree removals
How TradesTimer handles it
- Auto-detects stops so your time starts recording as soon as you arrive at a yard
- Automatic mileage log captures every trip between scattered job sites for tax time
- Eliminates manual tracking of drive time between residential removals
- Provides rounded billable hours for every detected jobsite visit without manual input
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.