Sign installer time tracking, without the timer.
How a sign installer's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A sign installer's day is the opposite. You're mounting channel letters and wiring illuminated displays, switching between addresses like Retail storefronts, Shopping malls, Construction sites, and doing tasks like Wiring LED modules, Mounting pylon signs, Installing vinyl graphics. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction sign installers tell us about
- Difficulty distinguishing between active installation time and transit between multiple retail storefronts
- Losing track of drive-time mileage when moving between far-flung job sites throughout the day
- Struggling to provide clients with an accurate breakdown of on-site labor versus travel for service calls
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically identifies jobsite stops to separate labor from driving
- Creates an automatic mileage log of every trip between installations for tax season
- Provides rounded billable hours without requiring any manual start/stop inputs
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.