TopTracker

If you know exactly how much time you spend with specific tasks, you could find ways to improve your productivity. This is what TopTracker is designed for. It's an excellent solution for both freelancers who charge by the hour or managers who wish to boost the productivity of their teams. Thanks to the application's simple design and intuitive controls, you can start tracking your activity right away and access the information you need, without any kind of complications or delays.

TopTracker is offered as a freeware application, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and you can also get it for mobile devices. Downloading and installing the application is a simple procedure, which shouldn't take more than a minute to complete. There are no special requirements you have to meet and you don't need powerful hardware to run the application.

While some time tracking applications come with complex interfaces, with slightly confusing controls, TopTracker is the exact opposite. Once you have it up and running, you can start tracking your work right away. You may create one or more projects, which show up in a list, on the software's compact user interface. At this point, you only need to select a project and click a button to start tracking.

When you start tracking, the application will ask you to describe your current activity, which can be a simple word or nothing at all, if you want to. Additionally, you can set TopTracker to ask this every few minutes, if you move on to a different stage of your project. When you are done working, you can click a button to stop tracking. If you have missed something or for got to start tracking, you can manually add a time entry, with a description and exact hours.

Besides recording how much time you spend working, the software can also log your activities and take timed screenshots, as well as webcam snapshots. However, TopTracker takes privacy into account, which is why it places various privacy controls at your disposal. You can decide which of these actions can be carryout out and how often and you can also set the application to blur the pictures.

The logged information can be found on a web-based user interface, after you log into your online account. All projects are displayed in a list and you can expand their entries, to reveal each tracked activity, along with its time and other details. What's more, TopTracker provides you with detailed reports and it lets you export them, in PDF and CSV format. The best part is that other people can join in with their own statistics, so you can also compare your progress, besides providing your clients with all the information they need about your workflow.

With TopTracker working on your computer, you will know exactly how much time you spend working on individual tasks and where to make improvements.