Everhour supports team time tracking and budgeting, while free unlimited-user setups still need complete, accurate records.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
| Day | Time In | Break Start | Break End | Break | Time Out | Total |
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The calculator gives you the number — Everhour takes it from there.
One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
Measurement
Track your budget through time or costs
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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
A free unlimited-user tracker is for teams that need every worker to record time without deciding who deserves a paid seat. That matters when part-time staff, contractors, rotating project contributors, or temporary helpers all touch client work. The practical goal is simple: capture each person's work time in one place so totals are available by day, week, project, client, and task.
For U.S. employers, the FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. Covered employers still need accurate records for non-exempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. A free tracker works when it records those fields completely and keeps the data organized enough for payroll, billing, and manager review.
A usable team time record needs the worker name, date, start and stop times or total time, project, task, billable status, and notes when the entry needs context. For U.S. records, the workweek matters because covered non-exempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay.
The workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, or 168 hours. Do not average hours across two workweeks for FLSA overtime review. Weekend and holiday work can stay in the same record, because the FLSA does not require premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work unless weekly overtime or another law, policy, or agreement applies.
Unlimited users create a record-quality risk when everyone can add vague, late, or duplicated entries. A free setup needs clear rules for who can create projects, change past entries, approve time, and export records. The biggest mistake is treating no-cost access as a substitute for process. Free time tracking still needs consistent project names, client names, billable labels, and weekly review.
Privacy also needs a boundary. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive personal information about employees should collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely. California employees and job applicants can also fall under CCPA obligations for covered businesses.
A free unlimited-user tracker is enough for a small team that needs a weekly total, a basic client summary, or a simple audit trail. It fits early-stage billing review when the owner still checks every entry. It also works for short projects where the main deliverable is a clean export, not a long-running operating process across budgets, approvals, payroll, and invoices.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when tracked time drives project budgets, client limits, and handoffs between managers and finance. Everhour Project Budgeting supports hour-based and money-based budgets, recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, budget protection, expense inclusion controls, multiple billing methods, and client-level budgets. That turns time entries into budget control instead of leaving them as disconnected weekly totals.
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G2
Summer 2026
Best Ease Of Use
Capterra
Summer 2026
Rated in the top time trackers across G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius — with consistent praise for ease of use, integrations, and support.
A free unlimited-user tracker can handle a full team when it records each person's daily and weekly hours, separates projects and clients, and gives a manager a reliable export. Seat count alone does not prove the record is usable. The system also needs clear permissions, consistent project naming, and a review step before time affects payroll or billing.
The most important fields are worker name, date, hours worked each workday, total hours worked each workweek, project, client, task, billable status, and notes for corrections. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek.
Unlimited-user tracking does not remove overtime review. Under the FLSA federal baseline, unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay. State law, local law, contracts, or employer policy can add stricter rules.
No-cost access is worth it when users enter time daily and managers review totals every week. Manual entries lose accuracy when workers reconstruct a full week from memory. A free tracker should make same-day entry easy and show missing days, duplicate rows, and unusual totals before the week closes.
Covered employers must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. A free tracker needs exportable records because access to the app is not the same as a controlled retention process.
Everhour Project Budgeting connects tracked time to hour-based or money-based project budgets, including recurring periods and threshold email alerts. Teams can monitor budget use as people log time, then use budget protection rules to stop extra tracking after a project exceeds its limit.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into customizable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. That helps managers review billable time, labor costs, project progress, and invoice status without rebuilding reports from raw rows.
Track every hour against the right project, then use Everhour Project Budgeting to manage recurring limits, alerts, billing methods, and budget protection as team time becomes budget control.
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