Ruddr review (2026): is it worth $14 a month, billed yearly?
Professional services automation with time tracking and billing
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Ruddr report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for time and profit tracking for service firms
Ruddr is professional services software with time, budgets, invoices and utilization from $14 a billable user a month. Resource planning, multicurrency and revenue recognition need the $24 plan, and it won't give refunds.
Who Ruddr is for
- Fits if you are a consultancy that tracks project profit by the hour
- Works for firms that want time, invoices and utilization together
Who Ruddr is not for
- Pricey if you just want hours, as $14 is well above the middle for time trackers
- Tight if you need resource allocations or multicurrency, both on the $24 plan
- Not for you if staff are mostly non-billable, since you pay for half the members below 50% billable
- Watch out: no refunds, and after 24 locked months prices can rise up to 10%
Why Ruddr gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for money$14 a billable user a month on annual billing, $17 monthly, and resource planning and multicurrency are on the $24 plan. The category's dearer quarter starts at $10.
- CFree plan and trialA 30-day trial with no card. No free plan.
- BFeaturesTime, budgets, utilization, expenses and invoicing on Team, with an API and MCP server. Plan and forecast tools are Pro.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Projects, rate cards and budgets take setup.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb and a Mac app, with QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and an API. No phone apps listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ruddr's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Ruddr's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 23 of the 98 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 17.
It stands best on features (B, above 65 of 98) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $14 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.99 for the category: 67 of the 80 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 18 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 99 time tracking apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Ruddr’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 98, level with 15
- CFree plan and trialAbove 15 of 98, level with 58
- BFeaturesAbove 65 of 98, level with 33
- CEase of useAbove 3 of 98, level with 75
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 26 of 98, level with 45
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 87 time tracking apps. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Ruddr, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Ruddr you could make: time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 58 of the 98 other time tracking apps grade higher. It costs $168 a year.
What you could make
- Time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services.
- A real app for macOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Salesforce among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Ruddr’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Ruddr?
Ruddr is a professional services automation platform for agencies and consultancies. Time tracking and timesheets sit alongside project budgets, expenses, invoicing, resource planning, utilization and revenue reporting. Pricing is per billable member, and non-billable staff are free as long as at least half of the workspace is billable.
Worth knowing
- Non-billable members are free only while at least 50% of workspace members are billable; below that, you pay for half the members.
- Resource allocations, multicurrency, revenue recognition and sales pipeline need the Pro plan.
- The pricing FAQ says it does not provide refunds, only prorated credit when billable members are removed.
- After 24 locked months, increases can occur once per 24-month period and be no more than 10%, per its pricing FAQ.
Key features
- Timesheets and time tracking
- Staff log time against projects and tasks, with attachments on entries and, on Pro, multistep approval and timesheet attestation.
- Project budgets and profitability
- Track project budgets, utilization and profit analysis, with Kanban boards and tasks for the work itself.
- Invoicing and expenses
- Invoices, payments, credit notes, expense reports and tax tracking are on the Team plan; multicurrency is Pro.
- Resource planning
- Resource allocations, plan-and-forecast and variance reporting are Pro features, along with project health tracking.
- Revenue recognition
- Pro supports several revenue recognition methods and automated recognition, with rate cards at workspace, client and project level.
- AI assistant, API and MCP server
- Both plans include an AI assistant, an API and an MCP server for connecting outside tools.
Ruddr pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Ruddr is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $14 per billable user / month, billed annually ($17 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $14 per billable user / month, billed annually ($17 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Team | $14per billable user / month, billed annually ($17 billed monthly) | Time tracking, projects, budgets, expenses, invoicing, utilization, standard reports, API and SSO. |
| Pro | $24per billable user / month, billed annually ($30 billed monthly) | Adds multicurrency, multistep approvals, resource allocations, revenue recognition, sales pipeline and a sandbox. |
Read from ruddr.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ruddr before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Nonprofit10% nonprofit discount
The pricing FAQ says nonprofits get 10% off annual plan pricing.
Stated on ruddr.com - Annual discountLower rates with annual billing
Team is $14 billed annually against $17 monthly; Pro is $24 against $30.
Stated on ruddr.com
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Common questions
Does Ruddr have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Ruddr is listed for Web and macOS.
Does Ruddr have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Ruddr is listed for Web and macOS.
Is Ruddr open source?
Ruddr is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Ruddr have an API?
Yes. Ruddr offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.