Time tracking for mobile mechanics
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include swapping brake pads, diagnosing OBD-II codes, recharging A/C systems. You might visit customer driveways, corporate parking lots, roadside breakdown sites in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Losing track of time spent stuck in heavy traffic between calls
- Difficulty proving exactly how long a roadside repair took when the customer is watching
- Missing mileage deductions for those long, unplanned detours to pick up parts
- The headache of tallying up service call fees versus actual wrench time at the end of a busy day
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically captures every roadside stop as a jobsite without you ever touching the phone
- Logs every mile driven between customers, ensuring you don't miss tax-deductible transit
- Reconstructs your entire day of repairs and travel, even when your hands are under a hood
- Provides rounded billable hours so you can quickly quote the next client
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.