Irrigation technician time tracking, without the timer.
How a irrigation technician's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A irrigation technician's day is the opposite. You're installing sprinkler heads and troubleshooting zone valves, switching between addresses like Residential properties, Commercial landscapes, Golf courses, and doing tasks like Replacing broken lateral lines, Testing solenoid functionality, Adjusting spray patterns. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction irrigation technicians tell us about
- Losing track of time spent on deep excavations versus quick valve swaps
- Forgetting to log mileage for remote commercial properties at the end of a long day
- Difficulty justifying billable hours when jumping between multiple small residential stops
- The 'dead time' gap between finishing one zone and arriving at the next site
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically detects every stop from head replacements to controller installs
- Captures every mile driven between job sites for easy tax-time exports
- Eliminates the need to touch your phone with dirty hands to start a timer
- Reconstructs your full day of repairs and travel without manual input
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.