Everhour turns lightweight time entries into reports, budgets, and billing data without forcing teams into a heavy workflow.
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 |
|---|
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
Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
Use this page to organize one week of work time without building a full payroll system around it. A practical timesheet records the person, date, project or client, task, hours worked, and notes when the entry needs context. U.S. users usually enter billing, payroll, and rate fields in U.S. dollars.
For covered employers under the FLSA, records for non-exempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA requires accurate records, but it does not require a specific app, template, or timekeeping format. A lightweight app is valid when the records are complete, accurate, and available for review.
A lightweight timesheet app should reduce steps, not remove the record details that matter. The clean version starts with daily entries, groups them into a fixed workweek, separates billable and non-billable time, and leaves a clear project or client trail. A weekly total alone is too thin for covered non-exempt employee records under the FLSA.
Small teams often need manual entry, a timer, or both. Manual entry works for after-the-fact cleanup and short admin blocks. Timers work better for project work that changes during the day. The main mistake is letting everyone summarize from memory on Friday, because reconstructed timesheets lose task detail and create disputes over billable time.
Lightweight does not mean empty. A useful app keeps the screen simple while still showing daily hours, weekly totals, project labels, billable status, notes, and approval status. A bare tracker that only stores a stopwatch total leaves the reader to rebuild client, payroll, and budget context later.
The app should also make exceptions visible. Covered non-exempt employees must receive FLSA overtime for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not require federal overtime premium by itself unless the weekly overtime rule applies or another law, policy, contract, or agreement adds a premium.
A lightweight timesheet is enough when you need a clean weekly record, a short client backup, or a fast review before sending hours to payroll or billing. It is also enough for a solo worker who tracks time by project and exports totals before invoicing.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when multiple people track time across projects and clients, managers approve entries, and reports feed billing, payroll review, budgets, or utilization. Everhour fits that stage by turning logged time into customizable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, exports, and scheduled delivery.
This content is for general information only, may not be fully up to date, and is provided without any warranty or liability.
High Performer
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 lightweight timesheet app should record the worker, date, hours worked, project or client, task, billable status, and notes when needed. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
Yes. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, but it does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. The chosen app still needs enough detail to support daily hours, weekly totals, wage calculations, overtime review, and record retention.
A lightweight app is enough when it shows hours by workday and total hours by workweek. FLSA overtime for covered non-exempt employees applies to hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek, and hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for that purpose.
The biggest cleanup problem is using one weekly total without daily detail. That shortcut weakens payroll review, client billing support, and overtime checks for covered non-exempt employees. Daily entries also make missed time, duplicate time, and incorrect project assignments easier to correct before approval.
Employers must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, including daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. State rules, contracts, client requirements, or company policy may require longer retention.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time into customizable reports with 45+ columns, metadata filters, grouping, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. Teams can review billable time, labor costs, project data, invoice status, and overtime visibility through Team Hours or custom reports.
Everhour can run standalone or inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Team members track time where the work already lives, while the entries flow into one reporting layer for review.
Track weekly hours without adding heavy admin. Everhour converts time entries into configurable reports, exports, and scheduled summaries that support billing, payroll review, and project visibility.
14-day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime
