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Toggl vs Track and Invoice
Toggl Track is excellent at what it does. The timer is clean, the reports are good, and it's free for up to five users. The problem is that it stops at time tracking. When it's time to bill a client for those hours, you're on your own, exporting a report, opening a separate invoicing tool, and manually recreating the work. For freelancers who track time specifically to invoice clients, that's a meaningful extra step every billing cycle.
Toggl Track vs. Track and Invoice
Track and Invoice Starter | Toggl Track Free | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription fee | $0 | $0 |
| Time tracking | ||
| Invoicing | Standard plan only | |
| Expense tracking | ||
| Receipt attachments | ||
| Item/goods billing | ||
| Task-level time tracking | ||
| Built-in reporting | ||
| Profitability reports | ||
| Company logo on invoices |
Who should choose Track and Invoice
If you track time because you bill clients for it, Track and Invoice keeps both in one place. Time entries flow directly into invoices. You select the unbilled hours, they populate the invoice, and you send it. No export, no second tool. If you also sell goods or need to bill client expenses, those go on the same invoice. The subscription free Starter plan covers all of it.
Who should stick with Toggl
If time tracking is genuinely all you need, logging hours for your own records, tracking how long projects take, or feeding data into accounting software you already use for billing, Toggl is hard to beat. It's fast, well-designed, and the free plan is real. It also works well as a companion app if you have a separate invoicing setup and don't want to change it.
Why Track and Invoice is different
Toggl does have invoicing, but it's only available on their Standard paid plan, not on the free tier. So if you want to track time for free and invoice clients, you'll need to pay for the upgrade or manually export and recreate the work in a separate tool.
Toggl's free plan also has meaningful reporting limitations. There are no team-level reports, no profitability reports, and no utilization reports on the free tier, all of which Track and Invoice includes. Toggl also only tracks time down to the project level; there's no task-level tracking, which makes it harder to break down exactly where hours are going within a project.
Track and Invoice was designed around the assumption that the same person tracking time is also the one sending the invoice. The whole workflow, time tracking, invoicing, reporting, and goods billing, lives in one place on the subscription free Starter plan, with nothing to unlock.
Built for the way you work
Running a small business means you feel every dollar, every subscription, every "upgrade to unlock this" moment, every tool that costs more than it should for what it actually does. We felt all of it. Before building Track and Invoice, we were evaluating the same software you're looking at right now, and kept running into the same problem: either the price was hard to justify, or the product was too generic to actually fit the way we worked.
So we built our own. Not to disrupt anything, just to have something functional, honest, and priced like it was made for people who watch what they spend. It turned out other small business owners, freelancers, and solopreneurs were looking for the same thing, so we made it available to them too.
Track and Invoice is straightforward by design. It does time tracking, expense tracking, and invoicing well, without burying those features behind a learning curve or a paywall. If that's what you need, we think you'll feel right at home.
Free Starter plan. Built for service businesses.
No credit card required.