What Taskmetrics does: a task manager with time tracking, in one app

Taskmetrics is a task manager with time tracking built in. Every task can carry a timer, an estimate and a spot in your day, so your to-do list and your timesheet are the same thing. This is the written tour: what each part does, what's free, what's Pro, and who we think it's for.

#The problem it solves

Most people keep tasks in one app and time in another. The two never talk. You end the week with a tidy checklist, a pile of timer entries, and no clear answer to a simple question: which task ate Tuesday?

Taskmetrics puts both in one place. You plan the task, you track the task, and afterwards you can see how the plan and the reality compare.

#1. Capture: Quick Add

Everything starts with Quick Add. You type the way you'd talk, and it picks out the details as you go:

Draft Henley proposal tomorrow 2pm #Clients p1

That line becomes a task due tomorrow at 2 pm, in the Clients project, at priority 1. The date, project, priority, tags and repeat rules ("every Monday") are highlighted live as you type, so you can see what it understood before you press Enter.

Anything without a project lands in your Inbox. When you're ready to sort it, drag the task onto a project in the sidebar.

#2. Plan the day: Today, the hour grid and estimates

Today shows everything due today across every project. Overdue tasks sit in their own red section at the top, with a one-click option to move them all to today or tomorrow.

Planning goes a step further than a list:

• Estimates. Give a task an estimate in minutes (quick picks for 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h and 4h, or type your own).
• The hour grid. Drag the task onto the hour grid, and "something to do today" becomes "2:00 to 3:30".

Estimates and Today scheduling are both on the free plan.

The hour grid appears beside the list on a desktop-width screen; on a phone-width browser Today is the list alone.

Your meetings sit beside your tasks. Connect a calendar under Settings → Calendars, tick the calendars you want, and their meetings appear on the hour grid in Today and Upcoming, so you plan work into the gaps you really have. It works both ways: choose one calendar to write to, and tasks you schedule on the grid appear there as events; move one of those events in your calendar and the task follows within about 15 minutes. Outlook (Microsoft) accounts can connect now. Google Calendar is waiting on Google's review of the app, so as of September 2026 most Google accounts can't connect yet. We'll update this when that changes.

#3. Track: a timer on every task

This is the part most to-do apps leave out. Every task row has a play button. Press it and the timer starts, already labelled with the task and its project.

• One timer, always the right one. Start a different task and the first timer stops by itself.
• The global timer bar stays at the top of the app wherever you are, and your browser tab title ticks along with it.
• No task? No problem. Type what you're doing into the timer bar, or start typing a task's name and pick it from the suggestions.
• Each task keeps its own log. Expand a task to see its recent entries and a badge with its total tracked time, so you can see exactly how long that "quick fix" really took.
• Meetings count too. If you've connected a calendar, hover a meeting on the hour grid and press its timer button. The meeting becomes a task, so you can time it and the hour shows up in your reports.

The timer, the timer bar and the timesheet are all free.

#4. See where the time went: the Week calendar and estimate vs. actual

The Week calendar shows your tracked time as blocks on a grid. Forgot to start the timer? Click and drag on an empty slot to add the entry afterwards, or drag and resize an existing block to fix it.

Planned blocks can sit next to what you actually tracked, so you can see the gap between the plan and the day you really had. The Week calendar is on the free plan.

The report that ties it together is estimate vs. actual. It compares each task's estimate with the time you tracked, task by task, and flags anything more than 20% off. After a few weeks you stop guessing how long things take, because you have the numbers.

Estimate vs. actual is part of Reports, which is a Pro feature. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial, no card needed.

On the free plan you see the last 7 days of tracked time and completed work. Pro shows all of it.

#5. Reports (Pro), and getting your hours to an invoice

Reports is where the numbers add up:

• Filter by date range (with 7, 30 and 90-day shortcuts), project, task, tag or a saved filter.
• See logged time and average daily hours at a glance, with a bar chart of time per day.
• Group the breakdown by project, task, tag or day.
• Export the filtered entries as CSV (hours in decimal) or the report as a PDF.

There's also a custom reports builder: drag a data source (time by project or tag, estimate vs. actual, completed tasks and more) onto a canvas, pick a table, list, bar chart, pie chart or single number, and save it.

Reports and the custom reports builder are Pro.

If you bill by the hour, know this up front: Taskmetrics has no billable flag, no hourly rates and no invoices. It isn't accounting software. What it does is hand your hours to the tool that sends the bill. Keep each client in its own project, tag any non-billable time if you want to separate it, and use the Tracked time export on the Reporting page: a detailed CSV, a summary by project and day, or the column layouts QuickBooks Time and Harvest import, all in decimal hours. Multiply by your rate in your invoicing tool. That export is on the free plan too, and it covers your whole history, not just the last 7 days.

#6. The rest, when you want it

You don't need any of this on day one, but it's there:

• Project layouts. Free projects use the list layout. Pro adds board, calendar and timeline layouts.
• Journal (Pro), with templates and prompts, including a weekly review template.
• Work notes (Pro) for meeting and project notes, where any action item can become a real task in one click.
• Life planning and habits (Pro): life areas, goals and daily or weekly habits, with streaks.
• Sharing (Pro): share single tasks. Shared projects, roles, sprints and team rollups are part of the Team plan, which is open now with the same 14-day free trial.
• On your phone, on every plan: Taskmetrics installs straight from the browser (Add to Home Screen) and stays synced with the web app. The native iOS and Android app is built but not in the App Store or Google Play yet.

#Free vs. Pro, plainly

Prices checked 23 September 2026. The Team plan is $12 per seat per month, minimum 3 seats, billed monthly, with a 14-day free trial. See /pricing for the current details.

The short version: the free plan gives you tasks, the timer and three projects, for keeps. Pro adds the reporting that answers "where did my hours go, and how good are my estimates?"

#Who it's for, and who it isn't for

It's a good fit if:

• You bill by the hour and want time tracked against the actual task, not re-typed into a separate tracker, then exported to the tool you invoice from.
• You've finished a "productive" week and couldn't say what you actually did.
• You keep underestimating how long work takes and want the numbers to fix it.

It probably isn't for you if:

• You just want a shopping list or a simple checklist. Honestly, you don't need this.
• You only want a timer and never plan tasks. A dedicated time tracker may suit you better, and our free plan limits you to three active projects.
• You want rates, billable totals or invoices inside the same app. Taskmetrics doesn't do money; it exports hours.
• You need a large, mature team set-up. The Team plan (shared projects, roles, sprints and team reporting) is new, and a big organisation with complex needs may be better served by ClickUp or Asana.

Where Taskmetrics stands out is keeping tasks, timer and estimates in one app, so the plan and the result are always side by side.

#FAQ

#Is there a task manager with time tracking built in?

Yes. Taskmetrics is one: every task has its own timer, and a global timer bar follows you around the app. You plan, track and review in the same place instead of switching between a to-do app and a separate time tracker.

#Is Taskmetrics free?

There's a free-forever plan with no card required. It includes tasks, Quick Add, Today scheduling, task estimates, the timer and timesheet, three active projects and the last 7 days of history. Reports, including estimate vs. actual, are part of Pro ($10 a month or $96 a year), which has a 14-day free trial.

#Can I import my tasks from Todoist?

Not at the moment. There's no Todoist import, so you'd add your tasks by hand, and Quick Add makes that faster. Going the other way, your tracked time and completed tasks export as CSV or PDF at any time, on any plan, however far back they go.

#Does Taskmetrics have a phone app?

Not in the app stores yet. The native iOS and Android app is built and store submission is in progress. Today you can install Taskmetrics on your phone straight from the browser (Add to Home Screen), on every plan including Free, and it stays in sync with the web app.

#Does Taskmetrics work for teams?

Yes. Pro lets you share single tasks, and the Team plan ($12 per seat per month, minimum 3 seats, 14-day free trial) adds shared projects, roles, sprints and team reporting.

#Sources

This article describes our own product. Plan details and prices come from the Taskmetrics pricing page, /pricing, and feature details from the app's code, both checked 23 Sept 2026. It cites no third-party facts.

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