Comparison

Hourglass vs Toggl

Toggl is an excellent time tracker. Hourglass connects time to budgets, capacity and profitability.

If your team mainly needs fast, accurate time logging, Toggl works well. If you also want utilisation, budget burn and profitability across projects in one place, that's what Hourglass is built for.

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Toggl

A well-regarded time tracker, strong on quick, accurate time logging for individuals and teams, with reporting and a free plan.

Hourglass

Time tracking connected to resource planning, project budgets, utilisation and profitability reporting — in one product, built and supported in the UK, for teams of 5–80.

Feature comparison

FeatureHourglassToggl
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 to choose Hourglass over Toggl

You need to see how workload is distributed across the team

You want budget burn tracked against project budgets while work is under way

You want utilisation and profitability reporting across projects and clients

You want a resource planner connected to your time tracking

You need to show delivery health to clients or leadership

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