Tempo Timesheets vs TMetric (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, TMetric grades higher than Tempo Timesheets: 2.8 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Tempo Timesheets grades higher on value for money. TMetric grades higher on the free plan, features and platforms. They get the same grade on ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Tempo Timesheets
Time tracking and timesheet approvals built into Jira
TMetric
Time tracking with billing, invoicing and team monitoring
Which one is for you
Pick Tempo Timesheets if
- Fits if your team already lives in Jira and wants time logged there
- Works for admins who need team approvals and reports on Jira work
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you don't use Jira, as it runs only inside it
- Watch out: the licence must match your Jira user count, not the number who log time
- Watch out: project approvals and revenue reports are separate Tempo products
- Tight if you use Data Center, which has no calendar, IDE or AI suggestions
- Pricey if your team passes 10 users, as the flat $10 becomes about $5.99 a user
Pick TMetric if
- Fits if you're a freelancer or a pair who fit inside the free 2-seat plan
- Works for service teams and agencies that invoice clients from tracked time
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if there are three or more of you hoping to stay free, as the free plan stops at 2 seats
- Skip it if you need invoicing, rates or budgets without paying, because they start on Professional at $5.83 a seat
- Not for you if you want QuickBooks, Jira, Redmine or ClickUp sync on Professional, since those need Business
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at $7 a seat on Professional and $9 on Business instead of $5.83 and $7.50
- Watch out: monthly plans get only 7 days for a refund, against 30 days on annual ones
How we grade them
| 2.4GPATempo TimesheetsFair | 2.8GPATMetricGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | A$10 a month for up to 10 users, which is $2 a head for five, under 60% of the cheaper quarter of time tracking at $2.70. It also needs a Jira licence. | CProfessional is $5.83 a seat a month billed annually, or $7 monthly, and that includes billable rates, budgets and invoicing. Business, with time off, team timesheets and screenshots, is $7.50. Both land in the middle of this category rather than under it. |
| Free plan and trial | DA free trial is offered, but the page states neither its length nor whether a card is needed, and there is no free plan. | BFree for up to 2 seats, with unlimited time tracking, clients and projects, exportable reports, the timer button in 50+ web apps, all the apps and API access. A freelancer could live there. A third person, or an invoice, means paying. |
| Features | CLogging, team approvals, reports and workload schemes, but project approvals and planned-versus-actual views need other Tempo products. | BTimer or manual entry, tags, a timeline, idle detection and an offline mode. Professional adds rates, expenses, project budgets with alerts and client invoices; Business adds team timesheets, time off and optional screenshots and app monitoring. The job is covered. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. An app to install and configure inside Jira, with accounts and work attributes to set up. | CNo store rating on record. The browser extension puts a timer button inside Jira, Asana and GitHub, so you start the clock where the work already is. Somebody still sets up the clients, projects and rates behind it. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb inside Jira Cloud or Data Center, with an API and 8 integrations on record; no desktop or phone apps. | AWeb, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, plus extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and Opera, and an API even on the free plan. The QuickBooks, Jira, Redmine and ClickUp integrations need Business. |
| Best for | time logging inside Jira | tracking, billing and invoicing in one |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Tempo Timesheets and TMetric. How we grade
Price against what you get
Tempo Timesheets starts at $10 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. TMetric starts at $5.83 a month for each person and scores 3.0.
TMetric scores higher and starts $4.17 a month lower. Of the other time tracking apps on the chart, 30 score higher than Tempo Timesheets for less, and 3 score higher than TMetric for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Tempo Timesheets also covers calendar.
- TMetric also covers tasks and invoicing.
At a glance
| Tempo Timesheets | TMetric | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $10 per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly) | $5.83 per seat / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | Free for up to 2 seats: unlimited time tracking, clients and projects, exportable project reports, a timer button in 50+ web apps, all apps and API access. |
| Free trial | Free trial offered; length not stated on the page | 14-day free trial with all features, extendable by 7 days |
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| Made by | Tempo | Devart |
| Price read from | tempo.io | tmetric.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Tempo Timesheets
- It runs only inside Jira, and the license must match your Jira user count, not the number of people who log time.
- Project-level approvals, revenue reports and planned-versus-actual views need other Tempo products.
- The calendar, IDE and AI suggestion features are not available on Data Center.
- Prices are for Jira Cloud and Data Center licenses bought through Atlassian Marketplace.
TMetric
- The free plan is limited to 2 seats.
- Invoicing, billable rates, budgets, calendar sync and task management start on Professional.
- Time off, team timesheets, screenshots and the QuickBooks, Jira, Redmine and ClickUp integrations need Business.
- Refunds are offered within 30 days for annual subscriptions and within 7 days for monthly ones.
Key features
Tempo Timesheets
- Logging from where work happens
- Log time from Jira issues, a calendar view, a timesheet view or a list view, with Cloud suggestions from calendars, IDEs and connected work systems.
- Team-level approvals
- Organize people into Tempo teams whose leads approve timesheets; once a period is approved, no more time can be logged or changed.
- Accounts and work attributes
- Group worklogs by customer or cost center, mark them billable or non-billable, and add custom fields such as overtime or travel.
- Reports and exports
- Logged-time reports by team, project, account or user, with export to CSV or XLS, PDF summaries and a Tempo API with webhooks.
- Holiday and workload schemes
- Define holidays and working-week lengths per country or office so expected hours are right for each team.
- Financial and capacity add-ons
- Project-level approvals and revenue reports need Financial Manager, and planned-versus-actual views need Capacity Planner, both sold separately.
TMetric
- Timer and timeline
- Track time with a timer or add it by hand, organize entries with tags, and review the day on a timeline. Idle detection and an offline mode are part of the feature list.
- Timer button in web apps
- Browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and Opera add a TMetric timer button inside more than 50 web apps, such as Jira, Asana and GitHub.
- Billing and invoicing
- Professional adds billable rates, expenses, project budgets with alerts, time rounding and invoices for clients built from tracked time.
- Team timesheets and time off
- Business adds team timesheets alongside a Time Off module for requesting and tracking leave. Professional includes a personal timesheet view.
- Activity monitoring
- On Business, managers can turn on app and site monitoring, screenshot capturing and activity tracking for the team, with notifications as events happen.
- Reports
- Reports summarize time by project, task, team member and app usage. Exportable project reports are part of the free plan.
Plans
Tempo Timesheets
Cloud, 1 to 10 users$10
per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly)
Flat fee for the whole Jira site. Yearly billing is listed at $100 for 1 to 10 users.
Cloud, 11 to 100 users$5.99
per user / month, billed monthly, for 11 to 100 users
Price falls with size, to $4.21 at 101 to 250 users. Yearly: $898.50 for 11 to 15 users, $5,990 for 51 to 100.
Data Center$2,622
per year for up to 50 users
Self-managed Jira. $5,245.15 a year for 51 to 100 users; calendar, IDE and AI suggestions are Cloud only.
TMetric
Free$0
Up to 2 seats. Unlimited time tracking, clients and projects, exportable project reports, web, mobile and desktop apps, and API access.
Professional$5.83
per seat / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly)
Adds billable rates and expenses, project budgets and alerts, time rounding, client invoicing, calendar sync and task management.
Business$7.50
per seat / month, billed annually ($9 billed monthly)
Adds the Time Off module, team timesheets, app and site monitoring, screenshots, and QuickBooks, Jira, Redmine and ClickUp integrations.
EnterpriseCustom
Everything in Business plus customizable features and integrations, priority support, tailored deployment and volume discounts.
Ways to pay less
Tempo Timesheets
- Annual discount
Yearly billing option
The pricing page offers a yearly billing toggle: $100 a year for 1 to 10 users on Cloud, against $10 a month on monthly billing.
TMetric
- Annual discount
Save up to 20% with annual billing
The pricing page labels annual billing "Save up to 20%". Professional is $70 per seat a year ($5.83 a month) against $7 billed monthly, and Business is $90 against $9.
- Nonprofit
Discounts for non-profits on request
TMetric's pricing FAQ says discounts may apply to workspaces run by non-profit or government institutions. No percentage is published; the vendor asks you to get in touch.
- Education
Discounts for educational institutions
The same pricing FAQ says discounts may apply to educational institutions. No percentage is published.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Tempo Timesheets or TMetric?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Tempo Timesheets starts at $10 per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly), and TMetric starts at $5.83 per seat / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly). One is priced for each person and the other is not, so which costs less depends on how many of you use it.
Which has a free plan, Tempo Timesheets or TMetric?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only TMetric has a free plan. Tempo Timesheets does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Tempo Timesheets and TMetric run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only TMetric lists macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android apps and a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.