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WorkTime

By NesterSoft Free to try Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff May 21, 2009

Keeping careful track of your time is critical if you're paid by the hour -- even more so if you're both the boss and the workforce. WorkTime 5 is a robust time-tracking tool that's easy to use, especially when it's time to create reports for billing clients. It monitors and reports your time and activities while you're at your computer, so anyone who needs to keep track of time spent on the computer can use it. WorkTime is shareware that's free to try for 30 days.

When WorkTime's installer finished, a pop-up nag appeared with information about our trial, including a notice that registration removes the nag. We continued our trial and turned to WorkTime's compact user interface, a small square in the lower right corner of our screen. It's a simple tool: just Start and Stop buttons and three editable, browse-able drop-down lists labeled User, Client, and Project. Using WorkTime basically entails three steps: Configuring your User, Client, and Project data; tracking time spent working; and creating a detailed report, including graphs, that you can email or print and send to clients and project managers. WorkTime imported our Windows User name into the User field and displayed Client 1 and Project 1 in the other fields. It started tracking our time as soon as we opened it, displaying counters for each category we were following. Clicking Stop froze the count; clicking Start set the timer running again. The Quick Task option produces tiny widget-like versions of the interface that we could park anywhere. WorkTime has a good Help file, too.

WorkTime's everyday controls are as simple and compact as they can be, which we appreciate, but it's not lacking in features and options. For example, clicking Reports on the View menu produced a sophisticated, customizable tool for creating reports. The Tools menu let us add Notes (only while tracking time, though) and add times manually. Options include client-server and offline modes. Registration comes with free technical support for one year. Contractors, consultants, and professionals who bill by the hour (or minute) will appreciate WorkTime's simple everyday operation and clear, easy-to-generate reports.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of WorkTime 5.21.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 5.22

Version 5.22: Multiselect filters in reports, minor fixes and improvements.

General

Release October 22, 2012
Date Added October 22, 2012
Version 5.22

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP
Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 2,827,015
Downloads Last Week 0
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Developer's Description

Fully automated PC usage or Project tracking software that surveys the time spent on the PC. WorkTime gathers statistics about projects you work on, applications you run, documents you open, web-sites you visit and time spent for every of these activities. WorkTime tracking is very precise and flexible: it can pause for the keyboard/mouse or screensaver inactivity, automatically change projects depending on the active application/document, track certain applications only and more. WorkTime offers informative reports that are perfect to analyze or bill your time: tables and graphical charts can be printed or exported to various formats. Reports are highly customizable: projects, users, workstations can be grouped, filtered, compared. WorkTime is a unique combination of simplicity and usefulness it suits from a home user to a large company.

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