Kimai

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Easy time tracking for teams & freelancers

About Kimai

Kimai is an open-source time-tracking software designed to help businesses of all sizes keep track of and analyze their time data. The platform offers a comprehensive set of features that go beyond just time-tracking, making it a versatile solution for project-driven teams.

Kimai is available in two versions, a self-hosted option and a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. The self-hosted version allows organizations to manage the software on their own servers, while the SaaS version provides a fully hosted and managed solution with additional features like a free TLS/SSL certificate, hosting, updates, backups, and custom fields. Both versions are GDPR compliant and support unlimited users with different roles and permissions.

The core functionalities of Kimai include time tracking, expense management, invoicing, task planning, audit trail logs, and working hours management. The software also offers advanced reporting and analysis capabilities, allowing users to evaluate recorded times, customers, projects, and activities. Kimai's extensive JSON API enables seamless integration with external applications and custom tools. Additionally, the platform can be localized to over 30 languages and is extendable through a plugin system, providing users with the flexibility to tailor the software to their specific needs.


Key benefits of Kimai

Open source time tracking software available for self-hosting or as a cloud SaaS
Supports unlimited users with customizable roles and permissions
Includes features like reporting, invoicing, JSON API, and plugins
Available in over 30 languages for localization
Integrates with LDAP, SAML, and external identity providers


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Reviews

Overall rating

3.6 /5
(7)
Value for Money
4.3/5
Features
3.9/5
Ease of Use
3.6/5
Customer Support
3.8/5

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Shivakant
Shivakant
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Really good program, simple and useful. I'm satisfied.

Reviewed on 2018/04/03

An excellent example of lean, straight-forward open-source software

An excellent example of lean, straight-forward open-source software

Pros

Another great time tracking software! You can also consider using Time Doctor as an alternative, it provides various online and email reports to management which allow you to see how time is being used. We've been using this in our company and we're also proud to recommend this to everyone.

Cons

No doubt, this is a nice tool for tracking time. But as per my business needs, I was looking for a tool that can also track my business sales and expenses these things lag little bit here.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Open source time tracking

Reviewed on 2019/12/04

Time tracking for small teams works great with Kimai. The software is stable, easy to set up and...

Time tracking for small teams works great with Kimai. The software is stable, easy to set up and run.

Pros

Easy to set up and relatively easy to use. Quick monthly exports in a variety of formats. Self hosted environments keep your data safe.

Cons

User interface is sometimes a little clunky and hard to use. The structure of customer, project, activity is hard wired.

Jim
Jim
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

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Reviewed on 2019/10/17

Pros

It has a simple interface and just works. You can manage everything in an easy way.

Cons

The interface (V1) is oldschool and it is missing integrations like Wunderlist or browser extensions to directlty interact with it

Daniel José
Daniel José
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best time tracking open source solution

Reviewed on 2019/08/15

I am using kimai for the last three months to track time in digital marketing tasks and invoicing...

I am using kimai for the last three months to track time in digital marketing tasks and invoicing to customers. It`s the best open source solution.

Pros

Is open source and free. Works great. No errors. Can be improve with custom modules. Multi language.

Cons

It will be great integrate task management and customize taxes (more than one taxes), to fit different markets and countries.

Telmo
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  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Free software to track and analyse dedication of the team in each part of the projects

Reviewed on 2017/09/08

Pros

It gives you the opportunity to log all the work done by the team. It is a program with opensource and server located.

Cons

No visual reports, it is better to export to excel file and then analyse there.
Low maintenance and development (5 years no release). There were some bugs (I did not test last version released last year), old-fashioned.

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Kimai FAQs

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Kimai offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: €3.99/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Kimai has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50

Kimai supports the following languages:

English

Kimai supports the following devices:

We do not have any information about what integrations Kimai has

Kimai offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum

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