Cabinet installer time tracking, without the timer.
How a cabinet installer's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A cabinet installer's day is the opposite. You're hanging carcasses and scribing to walls, switching between addresses like Kitchen remodels, Bathroom renovations, Custom built-in installs, and doing tasks like Leveling and shimming base units, Scribing end panels to uneven walls, Installing crown molding and trim. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction cabinet installers tell us about
- Losing track of time spent on unplanned trips to the hardware store for missing hinges or drawer fronts
- Forgetting to log the extra time spent on complex scribe work during long, multi-site days
- Missing mileage for those extra 'quick' trips to pick up custom trim or replacement panels
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically detects every 'stop' at a jobsite, even when you're stuck doing unplanned scribe work
- Captures every trip to the supplier or hardware store as a recorded 'trip' with exact mileage
- Reconstructs your entire day from GPS so you never miss a billable hour spent on site
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.