Concrete finisher time tracking, without the timer.
How a concrete finisher's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A concrete finisher's day is the opposite. You're pouring slabs and finishing trowelwork, switching between addresses like residential driveways, commercial foundations, sidewalk pours, and doing tasks like screeding the mud, running the bull float, edging the perimeter. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction concrete finishers tell us about
- Difficulty distinguishing billable time spent on prep work versus active pouring
- Missing mileage on long-distance hauls to remote foundation sites
- Losing track of total hours when jumping between multiple small pours in a single day
How TradesTimer handles it
- Auto-detects stops to separate prep time from active pouring
- Automatically logs every mile driven between job sites for tax time
- Provides rounded billable hours without needing to touch a timer mid-pour
Tracking hours as a concrete finisher: notes from the tools
I've done concrete the hard way — foundations and footings, forming, pouring, stripping. Concrete time is odd-shaped: a 6 a.m. start waiting on the truck, a two-hour pour that runs long because the pump was late, a strip-and-clean visit two days later that somehow never makes the invoice.
Those short return visits are the money leak. The pour day is memorable; the 90 minutes of stripping forms on Thursday isn't. Track your days on paper and it's exactly the Thursday visits that vanish.
With the day reconstructed from GPS, the strip day shows up whether you remember it or not. That's the difference between what you did and what you billed being the same number.
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.