# Beebole review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Project time tracking with budgets, costs and resource planning Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Beebole is a project time tracking and planning tool for teams that need to see hours against budgets. People log time on projects and tasks, managers approve timesheets and plan resources, and paid plans add billing rates, costs, expenses and profitability. The vendor says it was founded in 2008 and is based in Brussels, Belgium. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** Beebole (since 2008) - **Website:** https://beebole.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you grow past 5 users, as the free plan stops there. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Beebole has a free plan, and paid plans start at €9 per user / month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free for up to 5 users: project time tracking, resource planning, basic time off tracking, custom reports and integrations. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of all features, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | €0 for up to 5 users | Project time tracking, resource planning, basic time off tracking, custom reports and integrations. | | Essential | €9 per user / month, billed annually | Adds billing rates, time off allowances, multi-level timesheet approvals, multiple currencies and custom single sign-on. | | Advanced | €18 per user / month, billed annually | Adds costs and profitability, expense tracking, project budgets, custom fields and configurable roles and permissions. | Read from https://beebole.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Beebole before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 10% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Beebole's pricing page lists a 10% saving on paid plans when billed annually instead of monthly. Source: https://beebole.com/pricing - **Nonprofit and education pricing** (Nonprofit): Beebole says it offers special pricing for nonprofits and educational institutions, handled case by case through its team. Source: https://beebole.com/pricing ## Key features - **Project and task time tracking:** Log time on people, projects and tasks with unlimited activity and task levels, work schedules and automated reminders. - **Resource planning:** Plan work and tasks by person and project. Resource planning is included on the free plan. - **Time off:** Track time off for the whole team with public holidays, and sync approved leave from BambooHR. Allowances and balances start on Essential. - **Costs and budgets:** Billing rates, cost management, profitability insights and live project budget monitoring, with cost features on Advanced or as an Essential add-on. - **AI and reporting:** Suggested time entries, a connection for an AI assistant and plain-language report building, plus CSV, Excel and PDF report downloads. ## Good for - Consultancies and agencies tracking hours against project budgets - Small teams of up to 5 people who want a free plan - Finance teams that need timesheet approvals and audit trails ## Worth knowing - The pricing page shows euro prices and no monthly-billing figure; the saving for annual billing is stated as 10%. - Costs, expenses and budgets, and custom fields and roles, are Advanced features or paid add-ons on Essential. - The free plan is capped at 5 users, and moving back to it ends a paid subscription with no refund for the remaining period. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Beebole tracks time against projects, with resource planning and time off on the free plan for up to 5 users. Billing rates, approvals and single sign-on need Essential at €9 a user, and costs, budgets and custom fields need Advanced at €18. - **Value for money: C.** Essential is €9 a user a month billed yearly and Advanced €18, against a time-tracking dearer quarter from $9 and a dearest tenth from $12. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free for up to 5 users with time tracking, resource planning and basic time off, plus a 30-day card-free trial of everything. - **Features: B.** Time, resource planning, time off, approvals, budgets and costs, with nothing missing for project time tracking. The money features sit on Advanced. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You set up projects, rates and approvals first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a browser extension with Google Calendar, Outlook, QuickBooks, Xero, Asana and BambooHR. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Beebole's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among time tracking apps - Beebole's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 42 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 51 of 69) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at about $10.05 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 48 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 16 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/time-tracking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Beebole you could make: time tracking, reports, time off and calendar. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $120.66 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, reports, time off and calendar: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar and QuickBooks Online among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, QuickBooks Online, Xero, Asana, BambooHR, Google Sheets **Tags:** Time tracking, Reports, Time off, AI features, Public API, Calendar ## Alternatives - [Harvest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harvest): Time tracking that turns logged hours into client invoices. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beebole-vs-time-doctor) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://beebole.com/pricing - https://beebole.com/integrations - https://beebole.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/beebole Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).