Chimney sweep time tracking, without the timer.
How a chimney sweep's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A chimney sweep's day is the opposite. You're sweeping flues and inspecting masonry, switching between addresses like Residential homes, Historical estates, Multi-family rentals, and doing tasks like Removing heavy creosote buildup, Inspecting flue liners, Installing chimney caps. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction chimney sweeps tell us about
- Difficulty distinguishing time spent on quick sweeps from time-intensive creosote removals
- Losing track of extra time spent on unexpected masonry repairs between scheduled stops
- The struggle to accurately track mileage for remote, rural chimney service calls
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically detects every chimney visit as a 'stop' so you never miss a billable hour
- Records every mile driven between job sites for an effortless tax-time mileage log
- Captures the duration of every flue cleaning without you ever needing to start or stop a timer
- Provides a clear record of travel distance for those long trips to distant properties
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.