Comparison

Hourglass vs Clockify

Both track time. Hourglass is built around what happens next: budgets, capacity and profitability.

Clockify is a popular time tracker with a generous free plan. If your questions have moved on to "who is over capacity?", "is this project profitable?" or "what did we deliver last month?", Hourglass puts time tracking, resource planning and profitability reporting in one place.

Try Hourglass free

Clockify

A widely used time tracker with a free plan, and paid tiers that add further features. Popular with teams that want an inexpensive way to log hours against projects and clients.

Hourglass

Time tracking connected to project budgets, resource planning, utilisation and profitability reporting — in one product, built and supported in the UK. Free for up to 3 users.

Feature comparison

FeatureHourglassClockify
Time tracking
Free plan
Built and supported in the UK

What's included in Hourglass

Time tracking with a live timer, billable and out-of-hours flagsAll plans
Projects, tasks, milestones and a client portalAll plans
Team Performance, Time Audit and Task Breakdown reportsAll plans
Budget tracking with RAG project health scoresPro
Engineer planner with time off and capacityPro
Profitability, utilisation, client billing and executive summary reportsPro
Invoicing with Xero syncPro
AI report summaries and capacity forecastingPro
AI budget risk and anomaly detectionBusiness

Free for up to 3 users · Pro £12/user/month · Business £18/user/month · 14-day full-feature trial

When Hourglass is a good fit

You want budget burn and project health visible while projects are still running

Your PMs need to see who is over or under-allocated next week

You want to answer "is this project profitable?" without exporting to a spreadsheet

You want scheduling and time tracking in the same tool

You would like a UK-built product with UK-based support