Drywaller time tracking, without the timer.
How a drywaller's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A drywaller's day is the opposite. You're hanging, taping, and mudding, switching between addresses like Residential basement finishes, New construction framing sites, Kitchen and bath remodels, and doing tasks like Hanging drywall sheets, Taping and mudding joints, Sanding and smoothing surfaces. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction drywallers tell us about
- 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
Tracking hours as a drywaller: notes from the tools
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.
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.