Comparison

Hourglass vs Clockify

Clockify is a free time tracker. Hourglass is a professional services delivery platform.

Clockify works well when you just need a timer. When your team grows and you start asking questions like "who is over capacity?", "is this project profitable?", or "what did we actually deliver last month?" — you need something built for professional services delivery, not just time logging.

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Clockify

A free timer with basic project and client categorisation. Popular for its zero-cost entry point. Advanced features (scheduling, utilisation reports, budgets) require paid plans, and delivery-focused capabilities remain limited even then.

Hourglass

A platform that connects time tracking to resource planning, delivery management, utilisation reporting and profitability analysis. Free plan available. Designed for professional services teams who need more than a timer.

Feature comparison

FeatureHourglassClockify
Time tracking
Free tier
Weekly calendar view with scheduled assignments
Engineer Planner with drag-and-drop scheduling
Team utilisation dashboardPaid plan
Budget tracking with RAG health scoresPaid plan
Project profitability reporting
Resource utilisation report
Executive summary report
Time off indicators in plannerPaid add-on
Project health dashboard (RAG)
Pre-filled entries from planned assignments
UK-operated, GBP pricing, UK GDPR

Signs you've outgrown Clockify

You spend time manually building utilisation reports from exported CSV files

Your PMs can't see whether engineers are over or under-allocated without checking multiple places

Project overruns happen before anyone noticed the budget was at risk

You have no quick way to answer "is this project profitable?"

Scheduling and time tracking are managed in separate tools that don't talk to each other

You need UK GDPR compliance and a UK-operated platform

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