Everhour tracks employee time against tasks and projects, while modern teams still need accurate daily and weekly 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.
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A modern employee time tracking app helps you record when employees worked, where the time belongs, and which hours need review before payroll, billing, or reporting. For U.S. employers covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records for nonexempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
The practical output is a clean weekly record, not a pile of stopwatch logs. A manager should be able to see each employee, the fixed workweek, daily totals, project or client allocation, and any entries that need correction. The app can support payroll review, client billing, project budgets, and utilization without requiring a specific federal timekeeping form or system.
A modern app does more than capture a start and stop time. It should support manual entries and timers, assign time to project, client, and task, separate billable from non-billable work, and keep review steps clear. The best fit for a team is the one that matches how work already moves through projects, approvals, and billing.
Comparison criteria should focus on workflow quality. Look for a fixed workweek setting, daily and weekly employee totals, notes for corrections, manager approval, exportable records, and reasonable privacy controls. Employee tracking data is personal information, so U.S. businesses should avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act and collect only what they need.
Payroll-ready employee time records need enough detail to explain the total. For a nonexempt employee, a useful week shows Monday through Sunday or another fixed seven-day workweek, daily hours worked, total hours worked each workweek, and the rate context used by payroll. U.S. rate and billing fields normally use U.S. dollars.
Federal overtime for covered nonexempt employees applies to hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create federal overtime premium pay by itself unless the weekly overtime rule applies or another law or agreement adds a premium.
A free weekly tracker is enough when you need a quick total, a simple record for one person, or a short-term way to check hours before entering them elsewhere. It becomes thin when multiple employees split work across clients, managers need approvals, or payroll and billing need the same source record.
Everhour Time Tracking supports that managed workflow by capturing task and project hours through timers or manual entries, including inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review, while admin controls cover approvals, locked periods, reminders, and automatic timer stop rules.
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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 modern employee time tracking app connects time entries to the work record that uses them. It supports timers and manual edits, assigns hours to projects or tasks, separates billable and non-billable time, and creates reviewable weekly records. The app should also respect privacy by collecting needed work-time data instead of unrelated activity details.
The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. Covered employers must keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, and records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. A paper sheet, spreadsheet, kiosk, or app can work if the record is complete and accurate.
Timers work well when employees switch between projects during the day and need accurate task-level records. Manual entries work well when the schedule is predictable and employees can enter time promptly. Teams often need both, with manager review for late edits, missing entries, and unusual totals before payroll or billing uses the data.
Teams should avoid collecting more employee activity data than the timekeeping purpose requires. FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive personal information about employees should collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely. California adds a clear example: CCPA privacy rights cover California residents who are employees or job applicants for covered businesses.
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 modern app should make exports and archived reports easy to retrieve, because payroll, wage, and billing questions often come up after the workweek closes.
Everhour Time Tracking lets employees log task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, including inside supported project tools. Those entries can feed timesheets, reporting, budgets, invoices, and payroll review, while admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and automatic timer stop rules to keep records reviewable.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and exports. Managers can review team hours, billable time, labor costs, invoice status, budget metrics, and overtime data when overtime tracking is enabled.
Use Everhour Time Tracking when weekly totals need to become approved records across projects, clients, payroll review, and billing. Everhour connects daily work entries to the reporting workflow teams use next.
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