# Ruddr review (2026): is it worth $14 a month, billed yearly?

> Professional services automation with time tracking and billing

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Time Tracking
- **Made by:** Ruddr
- **Website:** https://www.ruddr.com
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you just want hours, as $14 is well above the middle for time trackers.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## 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).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Team | $14 per billable user / month, billed annually ($17 billed monthly) | Time tracking, projects, budgets, expenses, invoicing, utilization, standard reports, API and SSO. |
| Pro | $24 per billable user / month, billed annually ($30 billed monthly) | Adds multicurrency, multistep approvals, resource allocations, revenue recognition, sales pipeline and a sandbox. |

Read from https://www.ruddr.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ruddr before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **10% nonprofit discount** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ says nonprofits get 10% off annual plan pricing. Source: https://www.ruddr.com/pricing
- **Lower rates with annual billing** (Annual discount): Team is $14 billed annually against $17 monthly; Pro is $24 against $30. Source: https://www.ruddr.com/pricing

## 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.

## Good for

- Agencies and consultancies that bill clients by project
- Services firms that want time, budgets and invoicing in one system
- Teams where many staff are non-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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: D.** $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.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 30-day trial with no card. No free plan.
- **Features: B.** Time, budgets, utilization, expenses and invoicing on Team, with an API and MCP server. Plan and forecast tools are Pro.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Projects, rate cards and budgets take setup.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a Mac app, with QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and an API. No phone apps listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among time tracking apps

- 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.

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 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.

- You could make: Time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services.
- You could not: A real app for macOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- 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, QuickBooks Online, Xero and Salesforce 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

QuickBooks Online, Xero, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, BambooHR, Expensify, Sage Intacct

**Tags:** Time tracking, Invoicing, Expense tracking, Reports, Dashboards, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Harvest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harvest): Time tracking that turns logged hours into client invoices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/harvest-vs-ruddr)
- [BigTime](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bigtime): Professional services platform with time, billing and projects. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigtime-vs-ruddr)
- [Replicon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/replicon): Time tracking and labor compliance for project-based firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/replicon-vs-ruddr)
- [ClickTime](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clicktime): Timesheets and labor cost tracking for finance and project teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clicktime-vs-ruddr)
- [Costlocker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/costlocker): Time and cost tracking that shows profit per project for agencies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/costlocker-vs-ruddr)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://www.ruddr.com/pricing
- https://www.ruddr.com/
- https://www.ruddr.com/about-us

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