My Hours vs Timestamp (2026): which should you pick?

Pick My Hours if

• Fits if there are 5 of you or fewer and you want project time tracking for free
• Works for agencies and consultants who bill clients by the hour without monitoring staff

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want screenshots, GPS or activity tracking, because My Hours says it won't add them
• Tight if you need budgets, invoicing, timesheet approvals or Jira two-way sync, which all wait on Pro
• Not for you if you often work offline, as the desktop app needs an internet connection
• Tight if you stay free past 5 active users or need the API, as both mean a paid plan
• Watch out: Basic at $4 a user adds little to the free plan beyond the API, an attendance report and bulk edits

Pick Timestamp if

• Fits if you are a freelancer who needs hours and invoices in one place
• Works for a small team paying a flat price per 10 or 30 users

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you have more than 4 projects, as the free plan stops there
• Skip it if you want a phone app, as none is named
• Watch out: prices are in pounds and teams over 30 have to get in touch
• Watch out: other integrations are marked as coming soon

My Hours

• The Free plan stops at 5 active users and has no API access, attendance report or bulk editing.
• Budgets, rates per user or task, invoicing, timesheet approvals and Jira two-way sync all need Pro.
• The desktop app is a progressive web app installed from Chrome, Edge or Safari, and it needs an internet connection.
• There are no screenshot, GPS or activity monitoring features; the vendor says it will not add them.

Timestamp

• The free plan covers 1 user and 4 projects.
• Prices are in pounds sterling and the page names no mobile app; it describes a web app that works on all devices.
• Integrations are limited to the five add-ons listed; others are marked as coming soon.

My Hours

Timer or timesheet entry

Start a stopwatch or fill in a daily or weekly timesheet. Each log can carry a description, attachments and expenses, and can be copied or restarted.

Clients, projects and tasks

Every plan allows unlimited projects, tasks and clients, with task templates and projects assigned to users. Assigning tasks to users needs Pro.

Billable rates and budgets

The Free and Basic plans set one billable rate per project. Pro adds rates per user or task, labor costs, profit and loss, and hour or cost budgets with email alerts.

Reports

Dashboard, detailed and timesheet reports can be filtered, downloaded as PDF and emailed. Scheduled reports, Excel exports and your own logo on PDFs need Pro.

Timesheet approvals

On Pro, managers approve or reject submitted timesheets, logs lock automatically after each period, and an audit log keeps 90 days of changes.

Invoicing and integrations

Pro creates invoices from billable time. Integrations import projects from Asana, Basecamp, monday.com and ClickUp, and pass invoices to QuickBooks or Xero.

Timestamp

Time and expense tracking

Simple timesheets and expense entries for staff, including contractors and temporary workers, against clients, projects and tasks.

Project profitability

Track cost, revenue and profitability in real time for each project, and review what the team has logged.

Invoices

Create invoices from tracked time and expenses; the Xero add-on imports contacts and users and lets you create invoices in Timestamp.

Single sign-on

Import users and sign in with existing Office 365 or Google Apps credentials through the add-ons.

Active-user billing

Only users who log time or expenses in a billing cycle are charged, with a 10% discount for a fixed user count paid yearly.

My Hours

• Free$0

  Up to 5 active users. Timer and timesheets, unlimited projects, tasks and clients, a billable rate per project and PDF reports.

• Basic$4

  per user / month, billed annually ($5 billed monthly)

  Core tracking for unlimited users. Adds API access, the attendance report, unpaid breaks, bulk edits and editing of the team's logs.

• Pro$8

  per user / month, billed annually ($9 billed monthly)

  Adds rates per user or task, budgets, labor costs, invoicing, timesheet approvals, a 90-day audit log, SSO login and Jira two-way sync.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Pro, plus mandatory SSO, extended audit log history, a dedicated customer success manager and custom reports and integrations.

Timestamp

• Free£0

  per month for 1 user

  1 user, 4 projects, invoices and expenses.

• Solo£5

  per month for 1 user

  Unlimited clients, projects, tasks, time entries, expenses and invoices, plus external users and add-on importing.

• Startup£50

  per month for 10 active users

  Same features as Solo for 10 users; the page says plans are representative and a slider works out the exact monthly cost.

• Business£150

  per month for 30 active users

  Same features for 30 users. Teams of more than 30 are asked to get in touch.

My Hours

• Annual discount

  Lower per-user price with annual billing

  Billed annually, Basic is $4 per user a month against $5 billed monthly, a 20% saving, and Pro is $8 against $9.

• Nonprofit

  Discounts for nonprofits and larger teams

  The pricing FAQ says My Hours offers discounts to non-profit companies and larger teams. No percentage is published.

Timestamp

• Annual discount

  10% off for yearly payment

  Timestamp offers a 10% discount if you choose a fixed user count and pay yearly.

• Nonprofit

  25% off for charities and non-profits

  Timestamp says it gives charities and non-profit organizations a 25% discount.