Time tracking for drywallers
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include Hanging drywall sheets, Taping and mudding joints, Sanding and smoothing surfaces. You might visit Residential basement finishes, New construction framing sites, Kitchen and bath remodels in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Losing track of time spent on quick patch jobs versus long-duration hanging sessions
- Forgetting to log the drive time between a residential repair and a supply house run
- Difficulty justifying billable hours for sanding and cleanup on multi-day projects
- Missing mileage deductions for trips between scattered renovation sites
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatic detection of every mudding stop without needing to touch your phone
- Hands-free mileage logging that captures every trip to the lumber yard or supply house
- Accurate, rounded billable hours for every jobsite visit
- A complete, exportable mileage log for tax season without manual entry
The founder’s experience with drywaller work
I hung board and taped for years as part of reno and extension work. Drywall is the classic split-day trade: coats have to dry, so you're taping at one house in the morning, boarding another after lunch, and swinging back to sand where the mud is ready. Three addresses, one day, every hour billable to someone different.
That's brutal to reconstruct from memory on Friday. My notebooks from those years are full of question marks — was the second visit to the Miller job 90 minutes or two hours? A question mark on paper becomes a discount on the invoice.
An app that logs each stop automatically matches how mud actually dries. Every visit to every address gets its own start and end time, and the per-job totals are ready when you are.
Five days to try it. Pro to keep tracking.
The upcoming paid release includes five days of tracking without payment details or automatic charges. Continue with Pro, including encrypted backup. Exports remain available after the trial.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Canada: CA$9.99/month or CA$69.99/year. Both plans include the same features.
- Continued automatic tracking and timeline review
- End-to-end encrypted cloud backup
- Restore your full history on a new phone
- A backup stored separately from your phone
US prices are shown in USD; Canadian prices are shown in CAD. Your local App Store or Google Play price may differ. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled through the store where you purchased.
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
If you enable Pro backup, TradesTimer encrypts your history before uploading it. Your recovery code unlocks the backup. See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.