# FunctionFox review (2026): is it worth $10.50 a month per user, billed yearly? > Time tracking and project management for creative agencies Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. FunctionFox is a web-based time tracking, budgeting and project management tool built for creative agencies and in-house creative teams. Timesheets and a stopwatch timer feed estimates, retainers, job costing and reports. Higher tiers add to-do lists, Gantt charts, availability reports and a request portal. Every plan has a three-user minimum. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** FunctionFox System Inc. - **Website:** https://functionfox.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you work alone, as every plan needs at least 3 users. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, FunctionFox is a paid product, starting at $10.50 per user / month, billed annually ($12.75 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Classic | $10.50 per user / month, billed annually ($12.75 billed monthly) | Timesheets with a stopwatch timer, unlimited clients and projects, estimate and budget tracking, retainers and reports. 3-user minimum. | | Premier | $16 per user / month, billed annually ($19.25 billed monthly) | Adds a to-do list, Gantt charts and schedules, availability and traffic reports and an internal blog. 3-user minimum. | | In-House | $36.75 per user / month, billed annually ($44 billed monthly) | Adds custom job intake forms, a request portal, an advanced report builder and unlimited custom job fields. 3-user minimum. | Read from https://functionfox.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with FunctionFox before buying. ## Key features - **Timesheets with a timer:** Enter time on a timesheet or with a stopwatch, with approvals, reminders, batch timesheets and locking of projects and timesheets. - **Estimates, budgets and retainers:** Build fixed-fee or hourly estimates, apply billable rates and markups, track job costs and manage retainers on every plan. - **Schedules and Gantt charts:** Premier and In-House add project schedules, Gantt charts, milestones, calendar and board views and recurring to-dos. - **Resource availability:** Availability and traffic reports show who has capacity; resource forecasting is listed on the higher plans. - **Request forms:** In-House includes a request portal with custom job intake forms and email alerts when new requests arrive. ## Good for - Creative and marketing agencies that bill clients by the hour or on retainer - In-house creative departments that take work requests from other teams - Small teams that need estimates, budgets and time in one tool ## Worth knowing - Every plan requires at least 3 users. - The pricing page does not mention a free plan or a free trial; it offers a demo booking. - Gantt charts, to-dos and availability reports need Premier; custom job intake forms need In-House. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. FunctionFox does timesheets, budgets and schedules for small creative firms. Every plan needs at least three users, the useful extras sit on Premier, and there is no free plan or trial. - **Value for money: D.** $10.50 per user a month billed yearly with a 3-user minimum, so at least $31.50 a month, and Gantt charts and to-dos need Premier at $16. - **Free plan and trial: F.** The pricing page mentions no free plan or free trial, only a demo booking. - **Features: C.** Timesheets, estimates, budgets and schedules, but Gantt charts, to-dos and availability reports need Premier and request forms need In-House. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Clients, projects and budgets have to be set up before it is useful. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations or mobile apps on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from FunctionFox'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 - FunctionFox's GPA of 1.4 is higher than 0 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (C, above 3 of 69) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $10.50 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 49 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 45 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 FunctionFox you could make: time tracking, Gantt & timelines, reports, tasks, invoicing and forms. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 69 of the 69 other time tracking apps grade higher. It costs $126 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, Gantt & timelines, reports, tasks, invoicing and forms: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Time tracking, Gantt & timelines, Reports, Tasks, Invoicing, Forms ## Alternatives - [Harvest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harvest): Time tracking that turns logged hours into client invoices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/functionfox-vs-harvest) - [Costlocker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/costlocker): Time and cost tracking that shows profit per project for agencies. 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