# Chrometa review (2026): is it worth $19 a month per user, billed yearly? > Automatic time tracking that sorts desktop activity into billable time Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Chrometa records what you do on your computer and phone in the background, then allocates the time to clients and projects using keywords, email addresses and phone numbers. The result is a daily timesheet for review. It is aimed at lawyers, consultants and agencies that bill by the hour. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** Chrometa (since 2007) - **Website:** https://www.chrometa.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you pay monthly, at $19 against $11.67 a month on yearly billing. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Chrometa is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $19 per user / month, billed monthly ($140 billed yearly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial with full access to the chosen plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Standard | $19 per user / month, billed monthly ($140 per user billed yearly) | Passive time tracking, unlimited entries, basic AI categorization, daily summary emails and invoicing. | | Plus | $29 per user / month, billed monthly ($212 per user billed yearly) | Adds screenshots every 10 minutes, shared workspaces, team dashboard, unlimited projects and integrations. | | Premium | $49 per user / month, billed monthly ($360 per user billed yearly) | Adds API access, role-based access, screenshots every 5 minutes, real-time team monitoring and audit logs. | Read from https://www.chrometa.com/pricing.html on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Chrometa before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **40% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Chrometa's pricing page states a 40% discount for an annual subscription on any plan. Source: https://www.chrometa.com/pricing.html ## Key features - **Passive time capture:** Collectors for Mac, Windows and Android log documents, emails, websites and calls without timers. - **Automatic allocation:** Assigns time to clients and projects by keywords, email addresses and phone numbers; AI allocation improves on Plus. - **Daily timesheets:** A generated timesheet is ready each day to review, edit and tag before billing. - **Budgets and alerts:** Sets time and budget alerts for projects, including a warning when billable time is at risk of under-billing. - **Invoicing:** Invoices clients from tracked time, with exports to accounting and practice management tools. - **Team tracking:** Plus and Premium add shared workspaces and a team productivity dashboard, with real-time monitoring on Premium. ## Good for - Lawyers and consultants who forget to start timers - Agencies that bill clients by the hour - Teams already on Clio, QuickBooks or Xero ## Worth knowing - Standard limits client and workspace tracking and has no screenshots. - Screenshots start on Plus and API access only on Premium. - Yearly prices are per user per year and work out well below the monthly rate. - The homepage mentions the Clio team adding features, so ownership is unclear from the site. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Chrometa logs desktop and phone activity in the background and sorts it into client time for invoicing. It starts at $19 a user a month, the trial doesn't say whether a card is needed, and screenshots and the API sit on the dearer plans. - **Value for money: D.** $19 a user a month, or $140 a year ($11.67 a month), where the middle of time tracking is $6.67 and the dearest tenth starts at $12. API access only arrives on Premium at $49. - **Free plan and trial: D.** 30-day trial of the chosen plan, but the page does not say whether a card is needed, and there is no free plan. - **Features: C.** Passive capture, keyword allocation, daily timesheets and invoicing, but Standard has no screenshots and limits clients and workspaces; the listing names those gaps. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Collectors for each computer and keyword rules for allocating time have to be set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, an API on Premium and integrations with Clio, QuickBooks, Xero and others. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Chrometa'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 - Chrometa's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 4 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 47 of 69) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 55 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 Chrometa you could make: time tracking, invoicing and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 53 of the 69 other time tracking apps grade higher. It costs $228 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, invoicing and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - 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, Clio, QuickBooks and Google Calendar among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Clio, QuickBooks, Google Calendar, Xero, FreshBooks, PracticePanther, Rocket Matter, Salesforce **Tags:** Time tracking, Invoicing, AI features, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Rize](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rize): Automatic time tracker with focus tools and AI reports. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrometa-vs-rize) - [Timely](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timely): Automatic time tracking with AI-drafted timesheets for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrometa-vs-timely) - [Memtime](https://toolgpa.com/tools/memtime): Automatic desktop time tracker that keeps activity data offline. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrometa-vs-memtime) - [ManicTime](https://toolgpa.com/tools/manictime): Automatic time tracker, in the cloud or on your own server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrometa-vs-manictime) - [RescueTime](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rescuetime): Automatic time tracking with distraction blocking and timesheets. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrometa-vs-rescuetime) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.chrometa.com/pricing.html - https://www.chrometa.com/ - https://www.chrometa.com/integrations.html - https://www.chrometa.com/about-us.html Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/chrometa Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).