TDF Tracker Reviews

I’ve been using TDFTracker for a number of years, and it’s been alright. The last few months, when I enter information into these windows, be it notes, set the time, or name a task. As soon as I right aero out to the day showing jobs, then click back to that job I manipulated. It doesn’t save the information. In most cases if I have a lot of notes to enter. If I don’t block that information and copy it before exiting out to go to another job. I have to rewrite all I just entered. I’ve recommended TDFTracker to a lot of people. If that frustrating addition to TDFTracker isn’t solved, I’ll be forced to delete it forever.

I started using this to keep track of my time and miles starting around Oct-Nov '09. Loved it as it helped me keep track of the hours worked and the miles driven on a every week, monthly or (Other) any custom date basis. Since the new year, it would not allow me to use the custom date to report the hours worked starting any date in '09, i.e. start October 01 '09 - end January 25 '10. Just can't select October '09. It would roll over to a month in '10. That means you just can't get a report for the # of hours worked on a Fiscal year basis. Very frustating.
The other thing I noticed is that it is very bad at tracking miles if you use two vehicles. The Autofill - Last Entry, does not work if you have used two vehicles. It keeps putting in the highest mileage from one of the vehicles even though you have switched to the lower mileage vehicle. The entry has to be modified every day to reflect the correct mileage for the lower mileage vehicle. Again very frustating.
Hope it gets fixed or I will have to look a better product.

I'll start with the good points:
1. It will create a report and allow you to export it by emailing
2. The report format is a .CSV file that you can open in Excel
3. It's the best expense app I've found for the iPhone - but that isn't saying much
Now the weaknesses
There are very few expense fields - all it has is the date, client, project, amount, expense type and a notes field. I need a lot more fields like:
1. Location of expense
2. Report number field
3. Currency (Euros, Yen, etc)
4. Exchange rate
5. Vendor (restaurant, hotel, airline, etc)
6. Client name (person's name for entertainment expense)
7. Client title or function
8. Receipt ID (number or file name)
As it is, the only way to add this extra information is using the Note field; but that's a lousy way to do data entry.
It would also be nice if there was a field for the mileage reimbursement rate. This isn't absolutely necessary because it can be added in Excel when the report is export to my computer, but why not?
This program seems to be well written and easy to use, but really lacks features, especially considering the high price (by iPhone app standards).
I won't be using TDFTracker as currently written. I recommend buying Documents-to-Go and making a simple spreadsheet to record expenses.

I don't bill by the hour. I work in a network mktg company & TDFTracker has been nice for tracking the personal hours, mileage & expenses I put into growing my business & client base.

It would be great if TDFTracker would export mileage & expenses directly into Turbo Tax (or similar).

Oh...lightbulb...what if it could recognize a text, email or call being sent/made to a particular client or business partner that is already in your TDF Tracker app & input that info into the TDF Tracker for you. Then instead of having to send an email, and go back into TDF to log all the info, we could just click "confirm" if we agree with the suggested entry.

Right now when I have back to back calls, emails, texts, etc., it can be time consuming to have to go into TDF & log all the details in & sometimes the time is forgotten & not logged at all. It would just make a more accurate picture of my business for me & what is actually taking place in a day.

Also, I would love it to include client data management....bday reminders, personal contact info for the clients. I've added on a separate client app, but that is cumbersome when I need to streamline things.

Good luck. Keep up the good work.

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It does everything it says. I work on multiple projects every day. This requires accounting of time, expenses incurred, and milage. This does it all easily. TDFTracker does have a 1 minor problem: occasionally once I enter info it won't allow me to go back to the input list. I have to close out and come back in.
If I could add one thing to it it would be the ability to add a photo when I have a receipt.

I have reviewed several dailing timekeeping/billing apps and this one hit the nail on the head. I'm a contract IT professional and needed to be able to outline daily projects/task for multiple clients. TDFTracker is money in the bank. This allows me to input everything I need and more. Also, the "and more" doesn't get in the way and make TDFTracker cumbersome. GREAT JOB. The only thing I would suggest is adding the ability to export the report into a spreadsheet, or some other form of document.

I just wanted to add another review for TDFTracker. I've been using it for almost four years now in my job as an IT consultant. Over the years, I've made a few requests and have been amazed at the quick response from the developer and how fast the requested changes were made.

It has been indispensable for my multiple daily entries, tax time for mileage and expense, and for exporting to my billing program. Simplicity is truly the key as I can do everything I need from the exported file.

The ability to view items on the calendar and quickly navigate to a given date is very useful, and the ability to see the total time spent on that day in the footer makes reviewing entries very quick and easy. Dropbox sync is a welcomed addition and makes backup/restore much easier than emailing the backups.

An already powerful/user friendly app for tracking time with detailed reporting has gotten even better with the new updates in v1.6

I was previously using TimeTracker until a recent update started erasing my notes. I tried out about a dozen time tracking apps and this by far was the best one for my needs which included being able to easily track time by client, send reports by client, send reports by project, send reports by date, store client names, store project names, and provide an easy to use decent looking interface. I can't believe there are so many time tracking apps that are useless... It was refreshing to use TDFTracker!

Have TDFTracker for many years. This is the time tracking app that fits my needs completely. I would go try some new and fancy apps. Then, always come back to TDFTracker because the other apps make time entries a lot more complicated then it needs to be.

What I love the most about TDFTracker is its simplicity. But it has all the advanced features that I need: timers, tracking client, project, and tasks. And expense tracking (although I don't use it often). Also the ability to email and print reports. And it's the only app I've tried that lets me set decimal places for hours. The other apps only go to 0.25 for example. TDFTracker lets you set it to rounding to 0.3 (because this is the way our work time entry system would accept).

Some request: Please make it easier to edit Client, Project, and Task lists. In fact, I have no way of "editing" except to add a new one and delete the old one.

Also it would be nice to clock in and out at the home page where the lists of entries are.

Thank you!

I send my hours to my bookkeeper each week to prepare my invoices: takes 30 seconds. Easy to track individual clients / projects for nice detailed invoices without any back-and-forth conversations with my bookkeeper, and I no longer waste time painfully adding up hours from my calendar + memory.

Entering mileage as I accrue is very efficient, for expenses I still use my business CC statement but this is great for paper checks / cash expenses--doesn't eliminate the need for receipts and invoices, DOES eliminate the need for using that pile of receipts to add up expenses!

Overall it has made my life much more organized, I'm invoicing all clients in a timely manner and I'm not loathing my next income tax filing. Yay!!!

. . . I still love TDFTracker. I am a sole practitioner and bill by the hour (or part thereof). I've been through any number of paper and smart phone based time tracking systems. This is the ONLY one that really works for me. EVERYTHING else I had tried was just too laborious to use for 10 minute tasks, so a LOT went unbilled. This has paid for itself hundreds of times over.

Update a year after the above review: STILL love TDFTracker. Not only is it easy to record my fractional hour billables but, at the end of the month, the Reports save me about a half day in getting everything into Quickbooks and billed

I have used TDFTracker for over 13 years (I think). It has been perfect for tracking all my time for various projects for clients. I thought I deleted it recently but thankfully I did not. I say why fix something that is not broken! Thank you for this straight forward application.

I have been looking for an app to do what this one does for a long time. It's simple yet powerful and the interface is fairly intuitive. If you have multiple clients, with multiple projects or jobs and several tasks for each and need to track time, expenses and mileage then look no further.
Yes, TDFTracker is 10 bucks, but if you miss billing or getting reimbursed for 20 miles, one lunch or an hour of work, you've lost more than that.
The reports are clean, well laid out and have the option to preview before submitting or printing. TDFTracker also links to Dropbox for backup.
I've had probably 10 other apps trying to find one as perfect. Save yourself time and frustration and look no further than here.

As a decorator, home-stager and independent consultant I have had difficulty keeping track of my time, mileage and expenses when working for multiple clients, let alone one! I hated having to lug around notebooks that carried random notes "client X = 9:00 - ???" because while I was able to remember when starting something, I forgot when I stopped or took a break. With TDFTracker, I have a detailed report for each client and it takes me 2-seconds to turn the timer on or off. I have a much more accurate understanding of my time allotment per client; now I use it to track projects that aren't work related too! Worth the money spent, totally!!!

To programmers: can you please come up with a task manager as handy as this one? Thanks!

YES! Finally, I can concentrate on the Project, Client and Trip all in ONE Application and it doesn't need me to baby sit. All you do is plug in the details (things like names etc are saved for future use) and "boom" TDF tracker does the rest! I have found it stressful in the past having to MANUALLY write down mileage for every trip, but with TDFTracker your tax preparer and employer will be impressed. I don't normally write reviews, but because this is simple, useful, and automatically keeps track of timed projects and meetings I JUST HAD to share this info for those who may be considering. Now there are not a lot of bells and whistles with this application - But it gets the job done and professionally. In the future, it would be nice to have some customizable drop-down options such as (Project, Meeting, Conference, Training, etc...)

I've been using TDFTracker for about 2 years. I'm a technology consultant that deals with multiple clients. TDF Tracker is so incredibly easy to use. The report function provides the right details that my clients need to see to support my invoices. I also have done some general construction contracting on the side and was able to track my workers time and produce reports that supported what their pay was for the week.

My wife uses it in the role of paid trustee of a trust to support her billing for time, expenses and mileage.

A very, very versatile application. Best of all, their is no online service that you need to pay a monthly fee for like most of the other time tracking options. If your an individual that just needs to track your own time and expenses or just a few other people, this is a GREAT way to go.

I’m enjoying TDFTracker so far. Very helpful maintaining exact times for clients that question time

As a partner in an architectural firm I am constantly jumping from project to project, phase to phase, etc. This program let's me keep accurate time sheets for each client with little or no guesswork or brain strain. I looked for an app like this for months and since I found it I have loved it! The problem is that we have recently converted our bookkeeping system to QuickBooks. The Time tracker program is not compatible with the QB invoicing system and this requires me to use Ebillity as a time tracking system. I HATE IT!!!!!!! Help me please,please, please?