aTimeLogger Time Tracker Reviews

I’ve used hundreds of apps over the years. This is easily in my top 5. It is EXTREMELY customizable and allows multi-level tracking to whatever detail you want. I have it on my primary complication on my Apple Watch so I can switch activities with 2-3 taps on my watch. Optionally, it will periodically remind me what I’m currently tracking in case I forget to switch to a new activity. It provides powerful graphical and text reporting with good selective filtering. It is virtually bug free and works as advertised. I can’t comment on their support because I’ve never had to use it. They provide screenshot and video user instructions. Initial setup is straightforward if you first watch the instructions to understand: 1. Groups, 2. Activities, and 3. Adding Activities. I would give it 10 stars if I could.

I couldn't be happier with aTimeLoggerTimeTracker. Been using it for years. It's very customizable, and perfect for tracking your time, whatever that may be. Very easy to use and super easy to create reports you can then email. I use it to track hours for my job. I can record everything I did that day, and if I forget to start or stop my time it's simple to go in and correct it. I just create the report and email it to myself and my boss. Works perfectly!
In addition to a great app the customer service is beyond outstanding!! I ran in to a serious problem that could have spelled disaster for me. I emailed them not expecting a response, and received an email back in less than a hour! He proceeded to walk me through several steps until the problem was solved! They genuinely care about the customer and I can't thank them enough!

Need a way to see how you’re spending your days that doesn’t involve spreadsheets? aTimeLoggerTimeTracker does it. It displays data in both logbook and pie charts, and has a surprisingly generous amour of customization with only few persnickety, not-quite intuitive hoops to jump through.

aTimeLoggerTimeTracker focuses on starting timers to track your habits, rather than after-the-fact record-keeping which requires a few more menus to jump through. And if you’re not careful (or if it bothers you), you’ll end up with overlapping activities.

Is it worth $5? Fortunately, the older version is available for free and I had no trouble importing the data. The old app is rough around the edges, but you’ll quickly understand if it’s what you’re looking for.

As far as things to improve, I strongly recommend the devs to create/show-off a couple of Groups for the newely-installed app. That way a new user can immediately see how some Activities are suited for grouping. Breaking Entertainment into a group consisting of nested activities (Videogames, Reading, Internet, the subgroup Hobbies, etc.), would have been very helpful when I started!

Additional comment August 2019: I would love to be able to use standard keyboard emoji for activity icons! The provided icons are many, but sometimes they just don’t fit the bill for defining my activity. Other than that, I still love ATimeLogger and totally recommend it!

Original Review: This is hands down the best time tracker app on the market. Easy to use, very flexible & customizable. You can see how you spend your precious time in clear detail. aTimeLoggerTimeTracker will work for just about everyone. And I love that I can sync between my iPad & phone so I can log my time on the go. Bonus!: the developers respond quickly to my questions. Highly recommended!

aTimeLoggerTimeTracker data collection disclosure states that they do NOT collect personal data connected to users, but the Privacy Policy contradicts that statement. I cannot see a relevant purpose for this company collecting the type of personal data that is collected apart from selling the data. Using aTimeLoggerTimeTracker , you provide the company with detailed info about your daily activities. aTimeLoggerTimeTracker is probably a good fit if you are comfortable allowing this company, seemingly based somewhere in East Asia, to have unlimited access to the following personal data, as described in the company’s privacy policy:

“ including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile devices unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browsers you use, and information about the way you use the Application.”

I was looking for an app that would let me track the time I spend on pre-defined activities. I wanted to see multiple-day view with the graph of each activity over time so I could compare the patterns of activities each day. And aTimeLoggerTimeTracker does this perfectly! It also has a search function that can find activities based on the words contained in comments. This is also a feature that I need! Seems like the developers thought of everything!
It is a very well thought out app! I highly recommend it!

I continue to have this problem. I wrote the review below some time ago. Again, I travel between time zones often and the times I enter where I am when I travel automatically are converted to EST when I return. It seems there is no way around this and there is no customer support email to write to.

I just returned to the Eastern Time Zone from a two week trip in the Mountain Time Zone. When I landed all the times I manually entered over the past two weeks were shifted two hours to their EST times. I can not access your Help section - frustrating. I am baffled at this and wondering why this happened, what purpose on earth this feature could be useful for, and how to avoid it in the future. This may not be the correct forum but as your help is not working it appears there is no other.

I downloaded aTimeLoggerTimeTracker a few years ago. I began tracking my actions and in just a couple of weeks I realized how much time I was wasting. I began altering my behavior until I became a time-optimization machine.

After getting myself into a rut these past couple months I realized I haven’t been tracking my time. So I began doing it again recently and I’m slowly optimizing my time again.

Truly incredible how a simple to use app can completely change your life, but that’s what aTimeLoggerTimeTracker can do. Anyway, I hope they keep aTimeLoggerTimeTracker around for a long time. ❤️

UPDATE: The next day, aTimeLoggerTimeTracker was fixed — no crashes! Thank you for the quick repair and the remarkable app. It’s the answer to all app prayers! 5 huge stars.

I love aTimeLoggerTimeTracker and use it daily, religiously. But since the last update, it crashes as soon as I tap on anything after opening it. I imagine/hope the developers are aware of the situation and are working on it. I will definitely update my rating to 5 stars (where it belongs) when aTimeLoggerTimeTracker is fixed. Until then, new users be aware of the bug.

Kudos to the designers! aTimeLoggerTimeTracker has many features and it takes a while and a little patience to learn them. Once you get the hang of it, you understand how well-crafted aTimeLoggerTimeTracker is, and how necessary each feature is to a complete, flexible, timekeeping system. The designers have invested lots of brainpower into making each creature user-friendly. Helpful support team as well. If you want to keep track of time spent on your activities each day, aTimeLoggerTimeTracker is easily worth many times the price.

So far my experience on aTimeLoggerTimeTracker has been fantastic. Despite the numerous amount of features, the one thing that has been a problem is recurring events. Having to set the time for daily or weekly events (such as school or work) gets old fast which would be great if there could be an optimization to allow for the user to enter in recurring events that happen on specific days & the like. Fantastic app, The lack of the feature mentioned above is the only thing holding it back from a five star review

I think every book on time ‘management’ starts with the idea that you should begin by accurately recording the way you ACTUALLY spend your time. I have never come across another app that can do all the things aTimeLoggerTimeTracker does. I am a professional musician, and this is the best app I have ever used for tracking practice time and practice goals—for each day, each week, or each month. It’s also great for helping monitor and limit time spent on an activity.

Love aTimeLoggerTimeTracker. Takes a little while to get the hang of it and make it a routine, but don’t give up! Once I made it a habit (about 2 weeks of daily use even if I didn’t do it perfectly) it became a quick, easy way to track where my time was going. Eventually I was able to cut out a lot of wasted time, and instead plan—and stick to—a more productive, enjoyable and realistic schedule than my to-do lists ever allowed on my own. Try it!

I switched to aTimeLoggerTimeTracker mainly for Apple Watch. Previously I used NowThen heavily but unfortunately it doesn’t have Apple Watch compatibility.

Overall aTimeLoggerTimeTracker is easy to operate. I like the customized icon and color and how they look like on Watch.

The biggest disadvantage is the daily usage visualization. I can only view in Pie chart, or color blocks under calendar icon. It is very difficult to tell apart the colors by eyes, especially when I switch between tasks frequently. Unable to zoom in makes it even more frustrating.

It is pretty straightforward on how to track and view data in aTimeLoggerTimeTracker. I like how it automatically pause the current activity when you start a new activity. The only issue I have is that I constantly forgot to update my activities.

Adding a widget might help because it will be larger and more obvious on the Home Screen to see which activity I’m current on and thus will be able to remind me to check if I should switch task whenever I look at my phone.

I’m really enjoying the simplistic nature of aTimeLoggerTimeTracker, it’s great!
The only thing I wish it had is an option to keep the screen awake.
I’d love to just have the timer setup on my desk and leave it running to monitor and see how long I’ve spent on various tasks. Also it helps for remembering to stop the timer if I’m leaving the desk.

Overall a great app and I’m leaving a 5 star ratting as I don’t think it’d be fare to take one off for the screen lock feature.

You should be able to customize activity type and even categorize them under broader categories. An example would be under Study you could customize subjects - math, geography, etc.
Both categories and subcategories could be customizable. Sorry, I wasted the money on something that is not suited to my needs. I anticipated the add button would allow for this kind of customization!

January 25, 2021: I recently posted that an update had a bug. I could no longer adjust the start time of an in progress activity!! The color of the spin dials were black text in black background. The development team sent me a personal message in response to my review, and quickly fixed the issue and posted an update to aTimeLoggerTimeTracker Store. Great Job and Great App!

Very useful app—the Apple Watch integration makes my expensive smart watch a lot less useless :)

There are some UI bugs that could be fixed, though. For example, if I manually add a new activity (to start something in the past that km doing now) to the log, it starts out as Stopped, and when I switch it to Running it adds an extra 0m log “Stopped” interval.

Some black icons also show up as invisible on the black background of the Watch.

The calendar view sometimes is not very smooth, and I accidentally zoomed out once and it was hard to see what was going on.

Finally, some of the text alignment (the activity names above the times) sometimes looks a little off center.

But this is a great app overall and incredibly useful. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.

I’ve been using aTimeLoggerTimeTracker for about a month and by using it I was made aware of how unproductive my work flow and rhythms were. Since using aTimeLoggerTimeTracker I have changed how I go about my day which has made a big difference in what I am able to get done. The best part is that I’m not bringing work home anymore. I definitely recommend.