Insulation installer time tracking, without the timer.
How a insulation installer's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A insulation installer's day is the opposite. You're blowing cellulose, installing batts, and air sealing, switching between addresses like Attics, Crawlspaces, Residential new builds, and doing tasks like Blowing in loose-fill cellulose, Fitting fiberglass batts in wall cavities, Sealing rim joists and air gaps. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction insulation installers tell us about
- Difficulty separating active labor time from time spent navigating cramped, dark crawlspaces
- Losing track of mileage on long drives between scattered residential retrofit sites
- Inability to accurately justify billable hours when moving rapidly between multiple small attic stops
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically detects when you finish a crawlspace and start driving to the next site
- Captures every mile driven between jobs for a seamless, exportable tax log
- Provides rounded billable hours without you ever needing to touch your phone with dusty hands
- Logs every individual stop at different residential properties automatically
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.