Tmetric vs Timely
An alternative to TMetric’s manual timers and Big Brother mindset
“I always forget to start or stop timers. Manual timer apps also don’t give me any detail about what I did during that time.”
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What makes Timely the best TMetric alternative?
Offering automatic time tracking, Timely is quite a step up from TMetric’s heavily manual functionality. Instead of making you consciously track time on every task and plug in notes, Timely captures everything you work on down to the second! Designed to enable instead of police end-users, Timely actually protects employee privacy—all tracked information stays completely private to each individual and there are no screenshots in sight. Here are a few reasons why TMetric users switch to Timely.
An alternative to TMetric’s manual timers and Big Brother mindset
Feel Helena’s pain? You’re not alone. Almost every time tracking app currently on the market shares TMetric’s essential design error: manual timer input.
Constantly starting and stopping timers is an unnatural and inefficient way to track time — particularly if you regularly hop between projects or responsibilities. It also leaves you extremely vulnerable to expensive inaccuracies . Even if you remember to log your hours every day, studies show that timesheets that rely on manual input are only ever 67% accurate.
TMetric is also notorious for its flagrant violation of employee privacy . Its “Activity Tracking” feature allows managers to take screenshots of employee monitors every ten minutes so they can “monitor employees' activities remotely…[and] know exactly what they are engaged in.” In doing so, TMetric pedals a dangerous top-down time tracking model built around employee distrust, which TMetric itself openly recognizes as “controversial”. (It also calls these invasive features “contradictory”, but we’re assuming that’s a typo).
In this context, TMetric’s feature set and free plan matter relatively little. Ultimately, a robust time tracking solution should satisfy a very basic purpose: capturing hours as accurately and easily without destroying team trust and culture.
