Daily – Hours & Time Tracker App Reviews

The program seems to be designed for employees working for one project only. There is no independent support for project and activities. Uselsee for me, but may be helpful for others

I like it, it helps me keep track of the thounsand tasks I do everyday! Definitely recommend it!

Very good idea. The app need to be develop to became interesting… otherwise the prize is absolutly to high (a fare prize for the app as it is could be 1.99) What it missed: (in order of importance) 1. Is not possibile to register offline activity or change the time of the registered activity. (without this feature I would not suggest the app) 2. Not time display just aggragated data. In the report I want to see the time ranges of the activity. 3. There is not in-app data visualization. That would solve problem 2. Maybe a Gantt visualization? 4. An on-line manager to manage multiple user statistics amond the same project, “labeled activity” 5. Would be nice an integration from “calendar” to “Daily”.

Daily helps filling in my weekly time sheets by tracking my worked hours throughout the week. At the end of the week I use the gathered information to fill in the companys provided time sheet software. The few dollars spend on this software really makes my work more pleasant and I recommend it to everyone who is required to track their worked hours.

Ive added one star for being able to see now a weeks, months or years activity. The developer does seem intent on improving his product. But you still can only add activities to track. You cant archive them when theyve been completed. That is a reall key feature that needs to be added. Additionally, you should be able to see totals for the activity, not just day, week, month and year. Hopefully this will be possible with new releases.

Dont expect this app to provide fancy reports or graphs. Export data to CSV and play there. This app can complement other time tracking apps (if you want) by reminding you to start a timer for a new activity. I jump back and forth among activities like a madwoman. I usually forget to start a timer in any standard timer app I use. This little app pops up now and then (I set it to high frequency, but its random) and asks me what Im doing. I can start typing and it autofills from any previous entry, with full-text search. So if I type "wiki" I see entries like "fix internal wiki," "add wiki entry," etc. When I do remember to start a timer, a hotkey lets me switch activities immediately. So I dont have to just wait until it asks. If it pops up and I dont want to track what Im doing (maybe Im eating lunch and dont care to store that info), I just cancel and that time chunk is just dropped. I usually go for apps with a jillion features, but this simple one is more useful than many other apps Ive tried. It will help me know where my time is going and what to tell my boss when he asks why I havent finished project x. (Because he called me off onto projects a, b, c, and z!)

By being as passive and simple as possible to use, this app definitely gets more use than other time trackers, which alone makes it a more accurate gage of my time. However, I do occasionally miss not having more control. Some other apps that require you manually start and stop a timer, which quickly becomes a pain, and I stop using them. Others try to automatically track activity based on the app or website you have open, which doesn’t seem very accurate to me. Daily tries to solve this problem by using a ‘sampling’ method, like in statistics. Every 15 minutes, it asks you what you’re doing. The idea is that, over time, with a lot of samples, you’ll get a more-or-less accurate breakdown of what you do with your day. Because it asks you, rather than you having to start it, it solves the problem of having to remember to set task before starting any activity. However, Daily is very opinionated in how it works. It’s very difficult to actively tell it what youre doing; theres no way to go back and edit missed/inaccurate information; and the UI and reporting graphs are purposefully very simplistic (it’s basically just the pop-up window you get from clicking on the menu bar icon.) For example, I can find no easy way to tell it about more than one activity at a time that I’ve been doing while I was away from the computer. It also gets kind of distracting, popping up it’s annoying “what are you doing?” dialog all the time, like a clingy girlfriend. If your main problem is that you try to use time trackers but can never stick with it, Daily may be the solution. However, the simplicity also keeps it from being as useful as other options. Still, it’s currently my favorite time tracker, simply because I actually use it, which is more than I can so for other apps.

For the first time ever, my boss isn’t nagging me to get my time in! I hate keeping track of my time, but since I work at an agency, it’s an unfortunate necessity. This is the first (and only) tool that has made it entirely painless for me to keep a record of how I spend my day. By answering one simple question a dozen or so times each day, I have an accurate and comprehensive log of my activities. Then, at the end of the week, I can just export the data and enter it into our official time logging system. Other apps are definitely more feature-rich, but with Daily, my time gets tracked without fail.

It’s my first day using this app, and I’m already hooked. What a relief! Every other tracker I’ve ever used is torture by comparison. Daily sits there quietly in the background and then pops up asking me to type in a word or two every now and then. So easy. Somehow, using that information, it keeps track of my time breakdown with remarkable precision. I don’t know, maybe it’s splitting the difference when I switch from activitiy to activity, but it’s at least as accurate as when I try to keep track with specific start and stop times. Why? Because half the time I forget to start or stop, and them I’m just guessing when I try to add them later. This is the no-stress tracker I’ve always wanted without realizing it. I LOVE THIS APP.

Great idea. My boss will be happy that I finally found a way to accurately keep track of my hours.

This app does a wonderful job at helping me keep track of how I’m spending my day. I may work on a number of differnet tasks and projects during a day and this solves the problem of remembering to start and stop the timer or switch tasks. The interface is simple and easy to use and the developer has been adding new features on a regular basis, particularly in the area of reporting. With that said, the philosophy of the app will probably not lend itself well to people who need to have detailed, to-the-minute accuracy for billing purposes. Depending on how often you set it to pop-up and ask what you’re doing, times will have somewhere around a +/- 15min. accuracy. This is fine for my purpose, which is to get a general accounting of how much time I’m spending on various projects for our weekly status reporting. If you do want more accuracy, it does also give you the ability to manually switch tasks. In short, I think this is the best time tracking app I’ve come accross to date for folks who frequently switch tasks or projects during the day.

Recent revisions to this app have greatly improved the performance of Daily on my setup (MBP Late 2013, using multiple monitors at work and Parallels to run Windows). Earlier versions did not cooperate, but now all is working very very well. Now the app stays running and performs as I expect. I am happily keeping track of my highly fragmented day as Daily keeps prompting me for what I am doing now. I gladly provide an update because I know at the end of the day Ill have a great record of how long I worked on various tasks. Its a wonderful thing. Thanks to the developer for staying at it until the issues were fixed and making many other improvements along the way.

First off, I would like to say that daily is a very promising and unique app that i’m going to stick with. As can be plainly seen , the interface is excellent and the "what are you doing" feature is novel. At first glance, dailys simplicity seems to be geared towards freelancers rather then corporate use. Unfortunately, its missing features that would seem to be crucial for this use case, such as tracking seperate ongoing projects. It almost seems like the developers don’t seem to not know exactly who it’s customer is. Corporate users are going to want something much more complex, and while freelancers do like simplicity, this app does not have important features we require. With some minor additions, this app could be the best in or out of the app store and while I love simplicity,I feel it’s currently to it’s detriment. I would like to see : -A better way toview hours, daily has export options but no integrated UI to view hours. More robust export options such as PDF would be welcome as XLS does not export in an invoice friendly way. - An improved way to stop tracking for non work related items. -The ability to add different projects and to track them independently. (a requirement for freelance work)

The basic idea behind this application is brilliant. For years (eight years, nine months to be exact) I used a typical time tracking app that I had to actively engage with to switch between tasks. Despite continuous use I would still get caught up in actual work and forget to manually set my timers. The simple fact that Daily gives a quick pop-up to ask what I’m doing makes all the difference. The reason I gave only three stars is that I really need the ability to manually add and edit activities, as promised in the v1.5.0 release notes. I spend a lot of time working away from the computer and must have a way to track time the old-fashioned way. Without that ability, Daily is just short of useless for me. I’ll give five stars when the manual feature is delivered (assuming it’s implemented in a usable way).

The implementation needs some corner smoothing. For instance, the dropdown menu takes 3 clicks to adjust tasks. That’s kind of silly; it should be a one-click process to select from a list. Otherwise I enjoy it. Edit: I looked around the app more and found a hotkey for continuing the past action, which I find WAY less distracting then clicking the box (I’m a hotkey kind of person). This app is great.

In my line of work, time is money. If I can’t track time and document it accurately, I can’t bill for it. The idea of Daily is fine: it will pop up every now and then and asks what you are working on. You don’t notice it is there. However, you don’t notice when it is not there, either, and that’s the enormous problem with this app. When it crashes, there is no notification, no backup, no nothing to let you know that you aren’t getting the prompts you have grown accustomed to. It has been crashing at least once a week, if not more frequently. You lose all that record keeping, and there is no way of getting that back. It is beyond frustrating. I know I only paid a few bucks for this utility, but I have lost a couple of orders of magnitude more because I couldn’t bill for it. This really kills me. Also, the algorithm that figures out what you have been doing is great, but not perfect. The operator (me) sometimes misuses Daily or does something that needs to be fixed later, like a comment. Daily doesn’t let you go back and make any changes to its records, and that really, really stinks. Finally, the width of the daily window is not wide enough to see longer comments. I need to keep detailed records, and I need to copy those into another system. The only way I can see my comments is to go through the inefficient export process. That’s a hassle. It is even moreso a hassle, because the default file name of the export file has forward slashes in it, which doesn’t work on Windows machines, and doesn’t work with Excel. All of these factors make it difficult for me to process the data or have an assistant do it for me. I’d love to be able to click something to see and/or copy the entire comment without having to do the export ritual. A couple of simple fixes, and I would give this a 4 or 5 star rating. As it stands now, it almost hurts more than it helps.

I was really excited for this update, but after trying for a day I’ve found that I can’t open any of the following: - Preferences - Configure scheduler - Manage activities Also, really disappointed that the keyboard shortcut to add additional activities has been removed (at least, it’s not working for me anymore). That became an integral part of my workflow — now it’s just gone. I still love the app. But I *really* want to see these bugs resolved. --- My previous review: "Out of all the time tracking apps I’ve tried — Toggl, RescueTime, and WakaTime to name a few — this is by far my favorite. I fell in love with the friendly prompts, and now that I can actually manage entries it’s even better. Great app for a great price."

I have absolutely loved using Daily for my time tracking for work for the last 8+ months. It works phenomenally as a non-intrusive, easy and accurate time tracker. I never expected to see another update to this, because it was already just so good. And then I did. The new version adds manual time modification, so that I can add things that I walked away from my desk for, like meetings, or doctor’s appointments, etc, incredibly easy. Or if I accidentally confirm I was working on something and wasn’t, I can now fix that easily too. Well done. And seriously, phenomenal app for time tracking of tasks.

I love this app. The latest update adds the ability to edit entries. My hands-down favorite feature though, is the “nag” that reminds me (at intervals I can control) to be tracking the right task. No more forgetting to switch my timer to a different project, at which point I have to stop what I’m doing to figure out where I am. I would love some more data visualization, but simplicity rules with this app. Thanks for the great app!

This nice app helps me tracking my daily activities in a convenient way. Really like the concept of asking me what I’m doing rather than me remembering to toggle my current activity manually. It’s also nice to see the app is being updated regularly and gets more and more nice features. Nice job guys!