Time Doctor vs Timely
No clear leader: Time Doctor (56.9) and Timely (55.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time tracking. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Time Doctor
A workforce monitoring solution that automatically tracks employee activity, time usage, and work patterns to provide managers with visibility into team productivity, workload distribution, and project profitability.
Timely
An AI-powered time tracking platform that captures work activity across your applications and editors, automatically creates timesheets, and provides insights into productivity and project profitability without requiring manual time entry.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Time Doctor
- Basic-
- Automatic tracking
- Projects & Tasks
- Screenshots
- Online / Offline Tracking
- Standard-
- Activity Summary
- Leave tracking
- Break tracking
- Real-time notifications
- 60+ integrations
- +1 more
- Premium-
- Unusual Activity AI Report
- Mouse jiggler & Clicker Detection
- Irregular Keyboard Activity
- Internet Connectivity Tracking
- Dedicated Success Manager
- +6 more
- CustomContact sales
- Private Cloud Deployment
- Customizable BI Dashboards
- Custom pricing and contract terms
- Guided implementation and onboarding
Timely
From $9/user/month (annual billing) to $28/month
- Starter$9/user/month billed annually, $11/month
- Premium$16/user/month billed annually, $20/month
- Unlimited$22/user/month billed annually, $28/month
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- Jira
- Asana
- Trello
- Outlook
- Monday.com
- ClickUp
- Basecamp
Time Doctor
- ADP
- Figma
- Google Docs
- Stripe
- Zapier
- HRIS systems
- Payroll systems
- Workday
- BambooHR
- Zoho People
- Rippling
- Deel
- Salesforce
- Zoom
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Azure DevOps Services
- Freshdesk
- Freshservice
- Notion
- Office 365
- Help Scout
- Intercom
- Sentry
- +4 more
Timely
- Linear
- Clubhouse
- Xero
- QuickBooks
- FreshBooks
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Gmail
- Microsoft Teams
- Git
- Google Calendar
Time Doctor or Timely: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.