solidtime

What is solidtime?

solidtime is an open source time tracking application for freelancers, agencies, and teams. You track hours with a timer, calendar, or weekly timesheet against a client, project, and task, set billable rates, and report on where the time went. It is built on Laravel and Vue, and you can self-host it or use the managed solidtime cloud.

What is solidtime best for?

Freelancers and agencies that bill by the hour and want a modern, clean interface without paying per seat. It handles multiple organizations under one account, per-project, per-member, and per-organization billable rates, and role-based permissions, so it fits solo consultants and small teams that need to separate what each person can see and control who edits rates.

What can solidtime do?

• Track time with a live timer, a calendar view, or a weekly timesheet, with tags and descriptions
• Organize work by client, project, and task, each with configurable billable rates and budgets
• Set billable rates at the project, member, or organization level
• Build filtered reports and export them, plus shareable report links and PDF exports
• Turn billable hours into estimates and invoices (Professional plan or self-host)
• Manage multiple organizations in one account with role-based permissions
• Import existing data from Toggl, Clockify, and CSV files
• Run a desktop app with automatic activity tracking and idle detection, stored locally before it syncs

Is solidtime free?

Yes — solidtime is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, and self-hosting gives you every feature at no cost beyond your own server. The managed solidtime cloud has a free Solo plan for one user; the Professional plan, which adds teams, invoicing, estimates, time rounding, and PDF and shareable reports, is €9 per user per month (€8 billed annually).

Where does solidtime fall short?

• It is a young, focused project — there is no plugin marketplace or ecosystem of native third-party integrations. You can import from Toggl, Clockify, and CSV, but connecting it into other tools mostly means the REST API rather than ready-made connectors.
• Invoicing and estimates are built in but lightweight — solidtime turns hours into documents, it is not a full accounting or payments system, so collecting the money still happens elsewhere. On the cloud, those features are gated behind the paid Professional plan.
• Self-hosting is Postgres-only (MySQL is not supported) and expects a reverse proxy plus an SMTP server, since password resets and notifications are sent by email — a more opinionated stack than tools that run on MySQL.

What does solidtime replace?

solidtime is a self-hosted alternative to Toggl Track, Harvest, and Clockify. It covers the same core job — timers, client and project tracking, reporting, and billable-hour invoicing — but you can host it yourself, keep the data on EU servers or your own hardware, and avoid per-seat pricing. If you want a longer-established self-hosted option, Kimai fills the same role.

FAQ

Is solidtime open source? Yes. solidtime is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and the full source is public on GitHub. The self-hosted version and the solidtime cloud service run on the same open source code.

Can I self-host solidtime for free? Yes. Self-hosting is free under the AGPL license and unlocks every feature, including invoicing — you only pay for the server it runs on. solidtime cloud is the optional paid, managed alternative.

Is solidtime a good Toggl or Harvest alternative? For teams that want to own their data and skip per-seat subscriptions, yes — it matches the core timer, project tracking, reporting, and invoicing workflow with a modern interface. Hosted tools like Toggl are faster to start with if you would rather not run a server.

What do I need to run solidtime? A server running Docker, a PostgreSQL database, a reverse proxy for SSL, and an SMTP server for email. Official Docker Compose guides cover the setup, and the database can be a managed Postgres instance.