Sandtime.io

If your team bills by the hour, every forgotten timer is money you simply never invoice. Sandtime.io is a free time tracker built for freelancers, consultants, and small client-service teams who are tired of reconstructing their week from memory at billing time - and tired of tools that watch every keystroke to do it.

It does one thing exceptionally well: it captures the hours, organizes them by client and project, and turns them into clean reports you can invoice from. No screenshots. No keystroke logging. No monitoring creep.

100% free. Unlimited users. No credit card. Set up in under two minutes.

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Why teams are switching

Most time trackers solve the "where did my hours go" problem by spying on you - taking screenshots, logging keystrokes, scoring your "productivity." Sandtime.io takes the opposite approach. Time is self-reported, shared openly across the team, and approved by a manager. You get accountability without turning your studio into a surveillance operation.

That philosophy comes straight from the person who built it.

"I built Sandtime.io because I was tired of time trackers that felt like surveillance tools."

Łukasz Sienkiewicz, Founder of Sandtime.io and CEO of Sanddev

What you get for free

• One-click timer - start tracking the moment a task begins, stop it when you switch
• Manual and backdated entries - reconstruct an interrupted day so no billable time is lost
• Weekly and monthly timesheets - a clear grid of who worked on what
• Client-ready reports - weekly, monthly, or any custom range, with one-click Excel export
• Projects by client and phase - organize work and assign your whole team
• Billable toggles, time rounding, and multi-currency - the details that make invoices add up
• Track from anywhere - Slack command, Chrome extension, mobile apps, and desktop apps that all sync

Best of all, the plan that covers every one of those features costs nothing.

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Turn tracked time into clean invoices

The whole point of tracking hours is getting paid for them. Sandtime.io builds reports your finance person (or your client) can actually read - reported time, cost, and revenue, broken down by team member and project, ready to drop into an invoice. No spreadsheet cleanup the night before billing.

Weekly timesheets give you the other half of the picture - a simple grid showing exactly where the week went, project by project, so approvals take minutes instead of meetings.

See projects before they slip

Retainers quietly drain. Fixed-bid projects quietly overrun. Sandtime.io organizes time by client, project, and phase, with billable toggles and per-period rates, so you can see budget burn and profitability before a project slips past its estimate - not after the margin is already gone.

Up and running in two minutes

There is nothing to install and nothing to configure. Create an account with your email or sign in with one click through Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Yahoo - no complex forms, no mandatory fields, no friction. Start the timer, invite your team, and you are capturing billable hours the same afternoon.

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What it costs

• Free - unlimited users and every core feature, no credit card required
• Premium - more advanced controls, coming soon
• Enterprise - self-hosting, extended security, and compliance controls for larger teams

Qualified nonprofits get the full product free. For most small teams, "free forever" really is the whole story.

Who it is for

Sandtime.io is a natural fit for freelancers, consultants, software agencies, and any small client-service team that bills by the hour or runs on retainers. If you have ever guessed at hours, rebuilt a week from calendar entries, or quietly written off time you forgot to log, this is built for you. It is a lighter, friendlier alternative to heavyweight project-management suites and to the keystroke-logging trackers your team resents.

Why you can trust it

Sandtime.io has served teams since 2020 and is trusted by more than 500 teams worldwide, with a 4.7 out of 5 rating across 40+ reviews and long-term customers who have stayed for years. It is built and run by Sanddev, an independent software company, backed by real human support - no bots - and no surveillance: no screenshots, no keystroke logging, no monitoring. Follow Sandtime.io on X for updates.

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The bottom line

If you bill for your time, the fastest payback in your whole stack is a time tracker your team will actually use. Sandtime.io is free, takes under two minutes to set up, and captures the billable hours that usually slip through the cracks - without making anyone feel watched.

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