Toggl Track is a genuinely good timer — and these days it can even produce an invoice. There's a basic "create invoices" feature that generates a downloadable PDF from your tracked time. But generating a PDF isn't the same as getting paid and keeping books: there's no sending and tracking an invoice to paid, no reconciling against your bank, and no books that map to Schedule C at tax time. If you bill clients for your time, that after-the-PDF gap is the whole problem.
| Timebook | Toggl Track | |
|---|---|---|
Time tracking | Strong — timers, tags, reports | |
Invoicing from tracked hours | Yes — hours become a PDF invoice you send and track to paid | Basic — generate and download a PDF; billable rates on paid plans |
Bookkeeping + tax reports | No — books live in another tool | |
Payment tracking + bank reconciliation | Invoice status (draft/sent/paid) + optional Plaid reconciliation | No |
Pricing | $29.99/mo for Pro, no per-seat | Free tier + paid per-user tiers |
Built for | Solo freelancers / single-member LLCs who bill time | Teams and individuals who want a pure timer |
Toggl Track has a basic invoicing feature: you can generate and download a PDF invoice from your tracked time. What it doesn't have is the rest of getting paid — sending and tracking invoice status, reconciling payments against your bank, and books that map to Schedule C. For a freelancer, the PDF is the easy part.
Partially, in Toggl Track — it can generate a PDF invoice from tracked hours, with billable rates on its paid plans. In an all-in-one like Timebook, the same couple of clicks produce an invoice you send and track to paid, and the income lands in Schedule-C-ready books automatically.
Clockify has the most generous free time-tracking tier. But "free timer" and "gets you paid" are different goals: if you bill clients, the cost that matters is the second tool you bolt on for invoicing. Compare on the whole track-to-paid loop, not just the free timer.
Toggl Track is the best pure timer; Clockify has the most generous free plan; Harvest pairs time tracking with invoicing. For a solo freelancer who wants tracking, invoicing, and Schedule-C-ready books in one free-to-start tool, an all-in-one like Timebook fits better than stitching a timer to a separate invoicer.
Export your time entries from Toggl as CSV, set your billable rates per client or project in the new tool, then track one real session and send one real invoice. If that felt like one step instead of three, you've found the right setup.