Panda's Recap

Toggl Alternatives in 2026: Use Instead, or Alongside

Updated October 3, 2026 · by the Panda's Recap team

Toggl is one of the easiest timers there is, and plenty of people should stay on it. Clockify and TimeCamp cost less for teams, and Harvest goes further on billing. Panda's Recap does something different with the same hours: it turns them into your performance review and your résumé. On Toggl Track you can keep your timer and connect the two.

What Toggl does well

Toggl's reputation is simplicity. One click starts a timer, and the browser extension puts that button inside the tools you already use. There are apps for web, desktop, iPhone and Android, plus Google and Outlook calendar integration.

The free plan covers up to 3 users with timers, calendar integration, personal reports and basic invoicing. Paid plans are $9 a user a month on Starter and $16 on Premium, billed yearly, adding billable rates, team reports, approvals and more. Toggl also never takes screenshots or logs keystrokes or location.

In September 2026 Toggl relaunched as Toggl 2.0. New signups get the new app, and existing Toggl Track customers can keep using Track.

Comparison

Prices are from each company's own pricing page on October 3, 2026.

Panda's Recap

Best for: someone who tracks their time and wants it to count at review time.

Panda's Recap is a task board with the timer on the card, so the record is a list of things you finished, with the hours behind each one.

When review season comes, it turns that record into a draft performance review, for free. Pro writes the finished review, builds a résumé from your real work, answers questions about your own year, and makes invoices from billable hours if you need them.

You don't have to give up Toggl. If you're on Toggl Track, Pro connects to your account, brings your past entries in once if you want them, and adds new timers to your board as you start and stop them, with the project, client and tags attached. Toggl 2.0 doesn't publish the connection this uses yet, so for now it works with Toggl Track accounts.

Pros

• Turns your tracked hours into a review and a résumé.
• Works alongside Toggl Track.
• $4.99 a month flat. The board, timers and reports are free for good, and new accounts get 14 days of Pro with no card.

Cons

• One person only. No team reports or approvals.
• No desktop or native phone app. It runs in the browser.
• No idle detection.

Clockify

Best for: a team that wants more for less per seat.

Paid plans start at $3.99 a seat a month billed yearly, and the free plan covers up to 5 users. Apps for every platform and over 100 integrations.

Pros: low prices, a big free plan, lots of features.

Cons: invoicing starts on the $5.49 Standard plan.

Harvest

Best for: an agency whose main need is billing.

Harvest's invoices take online payments and sync to Xero or QuickBooks, with expenses and budgets alongside. Seats start at $9 a month billed yearly, with usage-based charges on top.

Pros: the strongest invoicing here.

Cons: the free plan is one person and two projects.

TimeCamp

Best for: a team that needs a free plan with no user cap.

TimeCamp's free plan has unlimited users and projects. Starter is $3.99 a user a month billed yearly and adds invoicing.

Pros: unlimited free users, low paid prices.

Cons: no invoicing on the free plan.

Keep Toggl, or switch?

If you love the timer, keep it. That's what Toggl is best at.

Look at Clockify or TimeCamp if the price per person is the issue, or Harvest if billing is. And if you'd like those hours to show up in your next review and on your résumé, add Panda's Recap. On Toggl Track, the two work together.

Common questions

Is Toggl free?

Yes, for up to 3 users, with timers, calendar integration and personal reports.

What is Toggl 2.0?

Toggl's relaunch from September 2026. New signups get it, and Toggl Track customers can keep using Track.

Can Panda's Recap import my Toggl history?

Yes, with Pro and a Toggl Track account. You choose whether to bring past entries in once, and new time comes in on its own after that.

Can Panda's Recap write my performance review?

Yes. Every account gets a draft built from your finished cards and logged hours, including time that came in from Toggl. Pro writes the finished review and a résumé from the same record.