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Kimai

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Kimai is a free open source time tracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action …

Track and manage your (work) times with Kimai or export them.

License model

  • FreemiumOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
3.8 / 5 Avg rating (6)
36 likes
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Features

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  1.  Web-Based
  2.  Multiple teams
  3.  Multiple languages
  4.  Task Time Tracking
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Export to PDF

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    Robbbin added Kimai as alternative to Stunde
    3 months ago
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    mojoai added Kimai as alternative to Mojo AI
    3 months ago
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    POX added Kimai as alternative to Time Tracker for Ridango
    3 months ago
  • Lawrence-Parsons liked Kimai
    6 months ago
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    constantin_graf added Kimai as alternative to solidtime
    6 months ago
  • Frantumn liked Kimai
    7 months ago
  • Tjeu reviewed Kimai  
    7 months ago

    It's clearly designed for business use, though I'm hosting it for my own. Unfortunately, you can't start or stop a timer when offline. Nice that every time entry can contain markdown, and that it supports tags/labels, and has both a calendar view and list view.

  • Tjeu liked Kimai
    7 months ago
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    POX added Kimai as alternative to Time Tracker for GNOME
    7 months ago
  • forcemajore liked Kimai
    9 months ago
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Kimai information

  • Developed by

    Kevin Papst
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $2 and $4 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.8
  • Alternatives

    95 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • Dutch
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Hebrew
    • Italian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Swedish
    • Ukrainian

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GitHub repository

  •  3,505 Stars
  •  597 Forks
  •  276 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 8, 2025 
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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Kimai, and it has gotten 36 likes

Kimai was added to AlternativeTo by ebrahimi on Oct 7, 2013 and this page was last updated Apr 19, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Tjeu
  
Top positive commentJul 13, 2024

It's clearly designed for business use, though I'm hosting it for my own. Unfortunately, you can't start or stop a timer when offline. Nice that every time entry can contain markdown, and that it supports tags/labels, and has both a calendar view and list view.

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maxrempel
  
Top negative commentMar 20, 2020

It has downloads that are not for windows. It is unclear how someone who is not a programmer can use it. Most likely we need to wait for someone to offer it for free for non-programmers.

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poggdogg

A good tech could figure this out pretty quickly but you're right - it's not plug n play in Windows although it is possible to get this running.
You could run it in a VM (HyperV) or with Docker (which might be easier). Windows has HyperV included and Docker Desktop is free but it does require a bit of tech knowledge to get these set up.

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Guest
  
Positive commentJul 24, 2023

You can use it for free, possiliby to add clients, projects, activities, generate reports for billing in various formats.

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poggdogg
  
Positive commentApr 3, 2021

It's got a reactive web design that is mobile-friendly and desktop-friendly It was easy to tailor to operations management for commercial real estate. It can run on a very lightweight server infrastructure.

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Alec Kinnear
  
Positive commentMay 6, 2020

It's completely open source with a quite polished interface. There's enough options here to run a full company (variable rates per company). You still need invoicing software (say Invoice Ninja) to finish the billing, but Kimai can produce excellent billable hours reports.

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Francis Gernet
  
ReviewJan 14, 2019

Open software, web-hosted, could be used in a simply way.

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KuboFHromoslav
CommentJun 7, 2017

Kimai tries to be both straightforward and complex - something quite rarely achieved in programs. One has to take some time to trial-and-error (documentation is rather concise) to figure out how some elements of the interface works, but than it is seems to be just great! Unfortunately, the mobile interface has to be installed separately, although mobile devices are quite wide-spreed today (and will more).

In nutshell: nice, one-task, useful software.

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What is Kimai?

Kimai is a free open source time tracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action …

Its simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s web browser based interface, it runs cross-platform. Likewise, you can install it as a web service or as a single-user program on your local workstation.

Kimai is available in two options to choose from. Libre Software (Open Source) or Software as a Services (SaaS). The Libre Software is fully free and without limitation at https://www.kimai.org In comparison, the Kimai SaaS option is either free with fixed limits or paid with scalable limits at https://www.kimai.cloud

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