Caato: Time Tracker & Work Log App Reviews

very intuitive… it has all the elements required to keep you most productvie. ui could be little better but as is too it is just works beautifully.

Simple, easy, and functional. The only thing I’d like to see added is another row of “folders”. Not sure what to call them, but I work for several different companies simutaneously, and I wish I could make a catagory for each company. This change would make this app perfect.

The free version will only allow you for 1 project and tasks inside of it. You could use the tasks as different projects I guess, however I prefer to pay a little bit more for a program that allows me to have more projects that 19.99$ for the pro version of this program.

Very limited export options. Clunky interface, almost no configuration (good thing all my clients end their week on saturday). Still.. it does function and better than some others I’ve tried.

This seemed to be a great program when I first started using it, as it has a nice interface and easily keeps the aggegate time for any number of individual tasks and separate projects in the $19.99 paid version. Unfortunately, it won’t generate a proper report usable to bill clients because the .xls and .cvs reports list the dates and start time and end time of each separate task but don’t state what the AMOUNT of time was that was spent on each task so one is left with the necessity of going over start and end times for a mutlitude of individual tasks and create a separate time report using a separate program before one has something one can actually use to bill ones client’s. A very fundamental and nearly inexplicable oversight that ruins what would otherwise be a great program. Guess I’m going to have to try (and spend) again.

Its one of the better ones I have used. Its simple and exports in a spreadsheet.

Love this app. So easy to log in and out. Exports to spreadsheet. Can divide tasks for better reporting. Couldn’t be happier with it.

The free version had the basic timers I needed but it constantly nags me to upgrade to the pro version since I’ve had it for a few days. I’m going to look elsewhere for non-pesterware software.

This works well for keeping time. My only suggested change would be, when you go to edit your time, show the total time; not time of day. For example, if I forget to turn the timer on and realize that about 25 minutes later, it’s tricky to back out the start time from, say “11:17:41a.m.” If there were a box saying “total time: 00:31:15” I could just change the “31” to “56,” so it reads “total time: 00:56:15” and be good to go. Other than that, seems to work well. I haven’t had to export the time so not sure how that will be, but figure it exports to Excel so should be fine.

The simplicity of the software makes it easy to use; there a few changes that I would make at this point. 1. When you switch to a task in another project, it leave the task in the first project running (not so if you just switch tasks in the same project.) I’m not sure if this is an oversight or an intentional design ‘feature’ but having a parameter like ‘Run concurrent tasks 0|1’ would allow users to select the behavior they desire. 2. When traking time on a specific task, it would be nice to make comments as to what I was specifically doing during that time period. Especially since I have some general administrative tasks, it would be helpful to have some additional information about the time pair specifically (but it doesn’t make sense to break into a new tasks.) 3. The ability to have some team functionality would be great (I understand this greatly complicates the design and mechanics). I would start with the ability to import projects/tasks/timepairs (with some parameters to decide how much detail) to other team members so that recombining data later has standardization. It would then be nice for a manager to be able to import the team members time data (even manually would be fine to start) and then view the complete team picture. Right now, I’m doing this externally into Excel (functional but clunky.) Of course, this could extend quite a bit further but in the interest of staying true to time usage tracking, I think project planning/scheduling is beyond the scope of this app but might be considered for an expansion app.

No subscription + project & task time tracking = winning. The ability to filter results based on the days, weeks, year, etc. is useful as well. As a designer myself I appreciate that they kept the design simple and functional.

I use the program to track time for my timesheet as an engineering consultant. I work on numerous projects and tasks throughout the week, and this app has: (1) been a huge timesaver; and, (2) improved my time-keeping accuracy. Previously, I relied on spreadsheets + handwritten notes. I should have purchased this app ages ago. I use the app on a MacBook Pro. Operation is seamless.

Though the company has been promising a release that syncs across devices, we don’t have it yet. Consequently, it is a pain to work on a given project if you have a desktop and laptop machine. There is no way to share or move the program’s internal database of what is being tracked. WE NEED THAT UPDATE!!!! Also, there is no way that I found to mark time which you have billed already. This is messed up because billing for your time is the whole point. Why should I have to delete my records in order to get a clean spreadsheet of what remains to be billed on a given project? You should be able to mark data as having been billed out and be able to hide the billed data so you can track what current.

I’m very satisfied with Caato Time Tracker. I needed time-tracking software that was inexpensive and yet useful for multiple projects. I like that I am able to track multiple projects, and get time reports both individually and cumulatively for daily, weekly, and mothly job tracking. When I asked customer support a question, they answered promptly, and while the functions I was asking about weren’t available yet, they were open to the suggestion for future updates.

I had been searching for a time tracking app that worked in the Mac environment. I’ve tried a couple of other apps but they didn’t seem to have the features I needed. When I saw Caato Time Tracker, I was skeptical that it would meet my needs. But the screen shots showed some of the features that I was looking for so I decided to give it a try. I found the app works great for my consulting business. I’m a construction manager and need to keep track of my time by project and activity. Time Tracker does a good job. The developer is planning to release a new version that has another feature lacking in the current program. I need the ability to write descriptions for the various activities. Like “TC w/John re: change orders.” It will be fantastic to print out reports with these description. Overall, I would recommend this app if you need to track your time by project (or customer) and activity.

does as promised, no extras, no shortcomings, rare in the app store

makes tracking easy - even if you forget to turn on the timer when you start. it works for me.

It’s the best time tracker that I’ve ever worked with. I’d love to give it four stars, but it quite frequently asks me to upgrade to Pro. Multiple times in one day. Sometimes multiple times in one hour! No good!

Was excited to try this out and I’ve been using a mobile app to keep track of project hours. Really wanted an easy/simple one for the desktop. You can only create ONE project on the free version. So, the free version is basically just a timer with a title - useless. If you want to add TWO projects, they ask that you pay $20.00 for that functionality. WAY too expensive for casual use. Powerusers, sure - this does a lot of addtional stuff that I don’t need. Casual users, go look elsewhere or use one of the many (and free) mobile apps to track multiple projects if you don’t feel like paying $20 bucks to unlock the simpliest of features.

Wish it would because it looks like a great app. Caato- please contact me if you know how I can fix this because there seems to be a major shortage of decent time tracking apps out here.