Automatic time tracking for hvac technicians.
How a hvac technician's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A hvac technician's day is the opposite. You're recharging refrigerant lines and troubleshooting electrical components, switching between addresses like Residential basements, Commercial rooftops, Multi-family apartment complexes, and doing tasks like Checking refrigerant levels, Replacing faulty capacitors, Cleaning condenser coils. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction hvac technicians tell us about
- Difficulty distinguishing between active diagnostic time and transit time when billing for service calls
- Losing track of exact mileage for remote commercial rooftop jobs during tax season
- The 'drift' between finishing a repair and manually recording the end of a job site visit
- Inability to justify labor duration on complex, multi-hour compressor replacements
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatic stop detection captures every time you pull up to a unit or job site
- Automatic mileage logging for every trip between residential and commercial locations
- Rounded billable hours that reflect actual time spent on-site without manual input
- Eliminates the need to pre-configure job sites or manage complex timers while handling tools
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.