Timely

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Timely (Memory)

Pricing model

Per-user Starter, Premium and Unlimited monthly or annual plans; custom Enterprise and separately billed Tasks module. 14-day free trial, no permanent free plan.

Plan pricing

Starter $11/user/month monthly or $9/user/month billed annually Vendor source checked; not a hands-on review

Free plan

Not confirmed

Free trial

Yes — check eligibility

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About Timely

Timely is a time-tracking and project profitability platform that focuses on reducing the effort of filling out timesheets. Instead of asking each employee to start and stop a timer for every task, Timely's Memory app records contextual information about active desktop apps and websites and assembles a personal activity timeline. Its AI timesheet functionality can suggest how that activity maps to projects and clients; the employee reviews the suggestions before submitting time. This makes Timely particularly relevant to agencies, consultancies, creative teams and knowledge workers who switch between documents, meetings and browser tools throughout the day. Privacy is a defining product distinction. Timely's official documentation says the Memory app captures active application names, window titles, browser addresses and sometimes filenames, together with the time spent. It does not capture keystrokes, audio or screenshots. Raw Memory activity is private to the individual user and is not automatically exposed to managers or coworkers. Submitted time entries and shared project views may be visible to authorized colleagues, which is different from the personal activity record. Businesses should explain that distinction during onboarding, check configuration and retention settings, and confirm how their own monitoring and consent rules apply. Timely's promises are vendor statements; Toollers has not independently audited how it collects and processes activity data. Timely does not present an ongoing free tier. Its official handbook describes a 14-day free trial, after which users need a paid subscription to continue logging time or creating reports and projects. Some trial history remains viewable, but the paid workflow is disabled. Starter costs $11 per user per month on monthly billing or $9 per user per month equivalent when billed annually. The current pricing page caps Starter at five users and 20 projects. Starter includes automatic tracking, AI categorization assistance, project health monitoring, billable-hours reporting and API access. These limits make it suitable for solo professionals and small teams that can operate within a compact project portfolio. Premium costs $20 per user per month on monthly billing or $16 per user per month equivalent on annual billing. It raises the allowance to unlimited projects and up to 50 users, and adds project-management and accounting integrations, team management, work planning, project budgets and cost management. This tier is more relevant to an agency managing ongoing client engagements and trying to measure utilization or unbilled work. Buyers should check the actual accounting integration, fields and synchronization direction, since an advertised integration does not guarantee every invoice or ledger workflow is automated. Unlimited costs $28 per user per month when billed monthly or $22 per user per month equivalent annually. It removes user-count restrictions and adds capacity management, overtime and undertime visibility, Azure user management, multi-currency support and enhanced customer success. An Enterprise offering requires a custom quote and adds tailored onboarding, team training, priority support and recurring reviews. These tiers target organizations that treat time data as a resource-planning input as well as a billing record. The value depends on accurate project allocations, role rates, expected capacity and team agreement about what counts as billable work. Timely also offers Tasks as a separately paid module for assigning, scheduling and tracking deliverables. Its public pricing page advertises Tasks from $5 per person, while a recent subscription guide specifies a $7 monthly price or $60 per year, or $5 per month equivalent annually. The Tasks add-on generally needs a paid seat for every active workspace user and follows the cadence of the main subscription. Teams that need those features should add them to the total cost estimate instead of assuming project task management is included in every time-tracking tier. The Tasks add-on has an additional trial route, which should not be confused with the initial Timely trial. In daily use, the Memory tracker provides clues about a person's working day, while AutoSheet and other AI assistance can turn those clues into suggested categorized time. The user can correct project attribution, split work across clients, add notes and confirm the finished timesheet. This reduces the risk that small switches between apps or forgotten manual timers leave client work unbilled. It does not make AI-generated hour allocation infallible: an app such as a browser or spreadsheet can relate to multiple clients, and the employee must still choose the right project. Time proposals should be audited against real deliverables before being used for payroll or invoicing. Timely covers project rates, budgets, billable time, reports, utilization and management views. At higher plans, managers can examine staffing and capacity, compare estimated versus actual effort and identify projects with unusually high time consumption. Some of these outcomes depend on the tier, accurate labor costs and the optional Tasks module. The product's best fit is work where employees routinely use many desktop applications. A field team relying primarily on GPS check-ins or a workforce requiring screenshot evidence may find a better fit with Hubstaff or another attendance-oriented platform. Timely intentionally avoids surveillance-style screenshot and keyboard collection. The application offers integrations with calendar, project management and accounting software. Exact connectors and whether they require Premium should be checked against the current account. As with any automatic tracking service, assess how desktop activity behaves when staff work in virtual desktops, restricted browsers or offline environments. Then verify how entries travel into reports after a person edits the AI draft. A short pilot should compare Timely's automatic suggestions against independently recorded hours for two projects and ensure raw personal activity remains private under the desired permissions. Timely's public price page presents per-user rates with a reduced annual equivalent. The actual annual commitment is charged on an annual basis, and all prices are listed in USD. Refund and renewal rules depend on the signed terms; cancellation is managed through account subscription settings and generally takes effect at the end of the paid term. Before moving a larger team from a manual system, compare total paid seats, project limits, separate Tasks seats and any Enterprise implementation cost. Toollers researched this profile using Timely's official pricing, activity-privacy and subscription documentation. No account was operated, AI categorization tested or privacy audit performed. The score below is based on public documentation, not firsthand testing.

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Consultancies, agencies and knowledge-work teams wanting AI-assisted timesheets, low-friction automatic time capture and employee-private activity history.

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