TimeUno vs Toggl Track: automatic tracking or a timer?

Toggl Track is a timer. You press start, name the work, and press stop. If you remember every switch, you get a clean timesheet. If you forget, you rebuild the week from memory on Friday.

TimeUno has no timer. It runs in the background, records the app or site in front of you, sorts every stretch into a project and a category, and builds the timesheet from that. Here is how the two compare on price, tracking, projects, privacy and AI, with prices as of October 2026 from each company's own pricing page.

The short answer

Pick Toggl Track if you bill clients by the hour, your team already logs time with a timer, or you need approvals, billable rates and a mobile app. It is a mature timer with calendar, Jira and Asana integrations.

Pick TimeUno if the timer is the problem: you forget to start it, forget to switch it, and lose the hours in between. TimeUno records the day you actually had, including the time your AI tools spend working, without anyone pressing a button.

How tracking works

Toggl Track is built around the timer. You can start it from the desktop app, the browser extension, your phone or a calendar event. Toggl also has helpers that soften the forgetting problem:

• Timeline (desktop app): records every app and site you use for more than 10 seconds, shown in 15-minute blocks, private to you. You still turn those blocks into time entries yourself.
• Autotracker: keyword rules that suggest or start an entry when a matching window is in front.
• Idle detection: asks what to do with the time when you come back to your desk.

All three help you fill the timer. None of them replaces it.

TimeUno starts from the other end. The desktop app records the app or site in front, the window title and idle time, all day, without you doing anything. It never records what you type. Every stretch of time is sorted into a project and a category, and marked as productive or unproductive. When it gets one wrong, you correct it once and TimeUno remembers the correction.

The difference shows up in a normal day. You open a pull request, answer a message, review a design, then jump into a call. With a timer, that is four switches to remember. With TimeUno, it is four rows on your timeline that are already filed.

Projects and timesheets

In Toggl Track you pick the project for every entry, or let an autotracker rule pick it. Projects can have clients, tasks, tags, estimates and billable rates, and Premium adds fixed-fee projects, profitability reports, timesheet approvals and locking. If your business runs on billable hours, this is where Toggl is strongest.

In TimeUno the project is detected from what you were working in: the folder open in your editor, or keywords you set for a client or project. Timesheets are built from the tracked time per project for this week, last week or this month, with a client name. You edit any line, then export as CSV. TimeUno does not do billable rates or invoices, so if you invoice from your tracker, keep that part in Toggl or your invoicing tool.

Pricing in October 2026

Toggl has a free plan and TimeUno does not, so for a solo freelancer who only needs a timer, Toggl Free costs nothing. Once you pay, the two land in the same range. TimeUno charges in USD or EUR. Toggl's add-ons, like Time Off Pro and capacity management, cost extra per user.

One thing to know: in September 2026 Toggl launched a new combined app called simply Toggl, which joins Track with its planning tool and adds Toggl AI. Toggl Track stays available next to it. It is still supported with no end date, and paid Track teams get the matching Toggl plan at no extra cost.

Privacy: what each one sees

Toggl Track stores your time entries in the cloud. Its Timeline is stored on your computer and only synced if you turn that on, and admins cannot see it. Toggl takes no screenshots.

TimeUno records more by default, because it has to see your day to file it. Screenshots and on-screen text are on by default, and you can turn them off for each computer. From AI tools it reads metadata only, never your prompts, answers or code. In a team, admins see worked time and scores, never your apps or sites. Data is stored in Germany and never sold.

If you want a tool that only knows what you tell it, Toggl is the quieter option. If you want the full picture of your day, TimeUno sees more and shows it only to you.

AI: Toggl AI vs tracking your AI tools

The two use "AI" for different jobs.

Toggl AI is a chat inside Toggl. You ask it about your time data, or ask it to log time and create projects for you. Toggl also offers an MCP server, so assistants like Claude can read and write your Toggl data.

TimeUno tracks the AI tools themselves. Claude, Cursor and other coding agents often work while you do something else. TimeUno gives that work its own timeline, with tokens and cost, and the desktop agent and server agent pick up sessions on your machine or a remote server. For a team, admin connectors for Anthropic and Cursor add this with nothing to install. If a growing part of your work is done by agents, a timer cannot see it at all.

When Toggl Track is the better choice

• You invoice clients by the hour and want billable rates in the same tool.
• Your team needs timesheet approvals, locking and profitability reports.
• You track time away from a computer, on your phone or on site.
• You want a free plan for a team of up to 3.
• You prefer a tool that records nothing until you press start.

When TimeUno is the better choice

• You forget timers, and Friday is spent rebuilding the week.
• Your day is full of short switches that a timer turns into fiction.
• You want to see where your focus goes, not only your hours.
• You work with AI coding tools and want their time counted too.
• You want timesheets without asking anyone to log time.

Can you use both?

Yes, and some people do. Keep Toggl Track for the client hours you bill, and run TimeUno to see the whole day, including the hours no timer caught. After a week, compare the two totals. The gap between them is the time your timer never saw.

Questions people ask

Is TimeUno a free Toggl alternative?

No. TimeUno has no free plan, but every plan starts with a 14-day trial, so you see a full week of your own time before you pay.

Does Toggl Track track time automatically?

Partly. The Timeline records apps and sites on your desktop, and autotracker rules can start an entry. But the time sheet still comes from timers and entries you confirm. TimeUno files the time without a timer.

Can I import my Toggl history into TimeUno?

Not today. TimeUno starts tracking from the day you install it. Most people keep their old Toggl reports and compare a week of each.

Which one works on Linux?

TimeUno has a Linux app in beta, as an AppImage for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. Toggl's Linux page lists only its Windows and Mac apps, so on Linux you would use Toggl in the browser.