Roofer time tracking, without the timer.
How a roofer's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A roofer's day is the opposite. You're stripping old shingles and installing new underlayment, switching between addresses like Residential repair sites, Commercial flat roof projects, New construction rooftops, and doing tasks like Tearing off old shingles, Installing drip edge, Tacking down felt paper. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction roofers tell us about
- Losing track of time spent on unexpected repairs discovered during a tear-off
- Difficulty documenting drive time between small, scattered service calls in different neighborhoods
- Unaccounted-for minutes spent prepping the site and moving materials before the actual work begins
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically logs every stop so no repair session goes unrecorded
- Tracks every trip between jobsites for an effortless mileage log at tax time
- Captures the full duration of your work sessions without needing to manually start or stop anything
Tracking hours as a roofer: notes from the tools
I worked roofing and siding crews, plus my own roof jobs during reno and extension builds. Roofing hours are hostage to weather — you tear off when the sky lets you, tarp and leave when it doesn't, and come back for a half-day to finish flashing. Two site visits, three days apart, one invoice.
Rain-split days are exactly where paper tracking fails. The full tear-off day, you remember. The two hours of flashing and cleanup on the return trip is the entry that never gets written down — and at roofing rates that's real money left on the table.
Automatic stop detection doesn't care that the job got split by weather. Both visits are logged with times, and the job total is just the sum of what actually happened.
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.