Timelines vs Toggl
Toggl is moving toward team planning, and new accounts no longer get Toggl Track. If you just want to track your own time on iPhone and Apple Watch, Timelines keeps it simple.
Starting a timer takes one tap, your day shows up in color on a timeline, and the Apple Watch app works fully on its own. Toggl is the better fit if you track as a team, need billable rates, or work on Windows or Android.
We make Timelines, so we’re not neutral, but we’ve tried to keep this comparison fair.
Rated 4.8 on the App Store · Featured by Apple · Compared in November 2026
Free to start
| Timelines | Toggl | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for up to 3 categories. PRO: $39.99/year or $7.99/month, with a 7-day free trial | Free for basic tracking. Starter, with tags, billable rates and more: $108/year or $12/month per person, with a 30-day free trial |
| Account and sync | No account needed: your data stays on your device. Sync between your devices with PRO | Account required: your data is kept online, and syncs between your devices for free |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac (the iPad app, on Apple silicon) | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Android, web, and a browser extension |
| Your day at a glance | An interactive timeline you can zoom | A calendar-style day view, in your project colors |
| Statistics | Interactive pie chart that shows the day, week or month you’ve zoomed to. Bar charts in PRO | A separate Reports tab, for the dates you pick: a bar chart by day and a donut chart by project or client |
| Starting a timer | One tap on one of your categories, each with its own color, always in the same place | One tap on a recent entry or a suggestion. A new timer starts blank, or with a description you type, and you can add a project and client |
| Simultaneous timers | Yes | No, one at a time |
| Apple Watch app | Start and stop timers, fix times with the Digital Crown, add notes by voice, see statistics | None. Toggl Track has one, but it can’t start new timers, and new accounts can’t use Track |
| Live Activity | Yes, with a button to stop the timer | Yes, with a button to stop the timer |
| Widgets | Start and stop timers right from the widget, on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Pie and bar chart widgets you can configure | One Home Screen widget: it starts and stops a timer without opening the app, and you name it in the app afterwards |
| Control Center | Start and stop timers from Control Center | No |
| Shortcuts | Start and stop tracking, see what’s running, and create PDF or CSV exports | Start and stop a timer, continue the last one, and open a report |
| Apple Health import | Workouts and sleep (PRO) | No |
| Calendar | Imports events, and exports your time automatically, one calendar per category (PRO) | Shows your calendar events next to your time |
| Teams and billing | Built for tracking your own time. PDF and CSV exports (detailed CSV in PRO) | Clients, billable hours and teams. Billable rates and team reports in paid plans |
| App Store rating (US) | 4.8 (1,500+ ratings) | 3.4 (10 ratings; the app is new). Toggl Track: 4.8 (9,600+ ratings) |
Compared in November 2026. Prices are for the US.
A time tracker only helps if you keep using it. That’s why we’ve spent years making the everyday things in Timelines take as few taps as possible, so that tracking never turns into a chore.
Used to describing each entry in Toggl? Timelines can ask for a name each time you start a timer. Pick one of your recent names, or type a few letters to find it, and tap the checkmark. With PRO, you can then see how your time splits between those names.
Start and stop timers from a widget on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, from Control Center, or with the Action button. While a timer runs, the Live Activity keeps it in view in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen, with a button to stop it.
Your time is laid out as colored blocks on a timeline. Zoom in to see a single day hour by hour, or out to see your whole week, month or year. Your statistics follow along: the pie chart always shows the day, week or month you’ve zoomed to.
Toggl has no Apple Watch app for new accounts. Timelines has been on Apple Watch since 2016, and it works fully on its own. Leave your iPhone behind when you go for a run or into a meeting, and you can still:
With PRO, everything you track on your watch syncs to your iPhone and iPad.
You can try Timelines for free, no account needed.
Toggl Track is now called “Toggl Track (Legacy)”, and new users can no longer sign up for it. In September 2026, Toggl made a new app its flagship. Toggl calls it “the next version of Track”, and it’s built around team planning as well as tracking. Toggl Track is still supported for existing users, with no end date announced. If you track your own time on iPhone and Apple Watch, Timelines is an alternative that needs no account and has a full Apple Watch app.
Toggl is built for work: teams, clients, billable rates and project reports, on almost any platform. Timelines is built for your own time, at work and outside of it, from client projects and studying to workouts and sleep, so you can see where your time is going and spend it more intentionally. If you track as a team or need billable rates, Toggl is the better fit. If you want a simple tracker on iPhone and Apple Watch that you’ll keep using, Timelines is.
Timelines is free to download, and the free version lets you track up to 3 categories, with the timeline, the pie chart and reminders included. Timelines PRO adds unlimited categories, sync between your devices, goals, bar charts, Apple Health and Calendar import, and detailed exports. It costs $39.99 a year or $7.99 a month in the US, and you can try it free for 7 days.
Not yet, but it’s planned. Until then, you can start fresh in Timelines and keep your old entries in Toggl.
No. Timelines works fully offline, and your data stays on your device. You only need an account for Timelines Cloud, the optional sync in PRO. There are no ads, and your data is never sold or used for advertising.
Not yet. Timelines runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, and on Macs with Apple silicon. You can join the Android waitlist, and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Free to start, with a 7-day free trial of PRO.
