Tempo Timesheets review (2026): is it worth $10 a month, billed yearly?
Time tracking and timesheet approvals built into Jira
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Tempo Timesheets report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for time logging inside Jira
Tempo Timesheets logs time from inside Jira, with team approvals and reports. It only runs inside Jira, the licence follows your Jira user count, and approvals by project and revenue reports need other Tempo products.
Who Tempo Timesheets is for
- Fits if your team already lives in Jira and wants time logged there
- Works for admins who need team approvals and reports on Jira work
Who Tempo Timesheets is not for
- Not for you if you don't use Jira, as it runs only inside it
- Watch out: the licence must match your Jira user count, not the number who log time
- Watch out: project approvals and revenue reports are separate Tempo products
- Tight if you use Data Center, which has no calendar, IDE or AI suggestions
- Pricey if your team passes 10 users, as the flat $10 becomes about $5.99 a user
Why Tempo Timesheets gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for money$10 a month for up to 10 users, which is $2 a head for five, under 60% of the cheaper quarter of time tracking at $2.70. It also needs a Jira licence.
- DFree plan and trialA free trial is offered, but the page states neither its length nor whether a card is needed, and there is no free plan.
- CFeaturesLogging, team approvals, reports and workload schemes, but project approvals and planned-versus-actual views need other Tempo products.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. An app to install and configure inside Jira, with accounts and work attributes to set up.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb inside Jira Cloud or Data Center, with an API and 8 integrations on record; no desktop or phone apps.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tempo Timesheets's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Tempo Timesheets's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 25 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 16.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 60 of 69) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 4).
Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 46 of the 58 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 30 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 70 time tracking apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Tempo Timesheets’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 60 of 69, level with 9
- DFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 69, level with 5
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 69, level with 41
- CEase of useAbove 2 of 69, level with 47
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 18 of 69, level with 28
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 64 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 Tempo Timesheets, or make your own?
Your call
A time tracker at its plainest is a start button, a stop button and a table of hours.
You could make the core of Tempo Timesheets for yourself: time tracking, reports and calendar. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $120 a year.
What you could make
- Time tracking, reports and calendar: an app builder makes these well.
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- It plugs into other products, Jira, Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Tempo Timesheets’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 Tempo Timesheets?
Tempo Timesheets is an app that installs into Jira and records time against Jira issues. People log hours from a calendar, timesheet or list view, teams approve timesheets, and managers report on billable and non-billable work by account, team or project. The license size must match your Jira license.
Worth knowing
- It runs only inside Jira, and the license must match your Jira user count, not the number of people who log time.
- Project-level approvals, revenue reports and planned-versus-actual views need other Tempo products.
- The calendar, IDE and AI suggestion features are not available on Data Center.
- Prices are for Jira Cloud and Data Center licenses bought through Atlassian Marketplace.
Key features
- Logging from where work happens
- Log time from Jira issues, a calendar view, a timesheet view or a list view, with Cloud suggestions from calendars, IDEs and connected work systems.
- Team-level approvals
- Organize people into Tempo teams whose leads approve timesheets; once a period is approved, no more time can be logged or changed.
- Accounts and work attributes
- Group worklogs by customer or cost center, mark them billable or non-billable, and add custom fields such as overtime or travel.
- Reports and exports
- Logged-time reports by team, project, account or user, with export to CSV or XLS, PDF summaries and a Tempo API with webhooks.
- Holiday and workload schemes
- Define holidays and working-week lengths per country or office so expected hours are right for each team.
- Financial and capacity add-ons
- Project-level approvals and revenue reports need Financial Manager, and planned-versus-actual views need Capacity Planner, both sold separately.
Tempo Timesheets pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Tempo Timesheets is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $10 per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly).
- Starts at
- $10 per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial offered; length not stated on the page
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud, 1 to 10 users | $10per month for up to 10 users, billed monthly ($100 billed yearly) | Flat fee for the whole Jira site. Yearly billing is listed at $100 for 1 to 10 users. |
| Cloud, 11 to 100 users | $5.99per user / month, billed monthly, for 11 to 100 users | Price falls with size, to $4.21 at 101 to 250 users. Yearly: $898.50 for 11 to 15 users, $5,990 for 51 to 100. |
| Data Center | $2,622per year for up to 50 users | Self-managed Jira. $5,245.15 a year for 51 to 100 users; calendar, IDE and AI suggestions are Cloud only. |
Read from tempo.io on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tempo Timesheets before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountYearly billing option
The pricing page offers a yearly billing toggle: $100 a year for 1 to 10 users on Cloud, against $10 a month on monthly billing.
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Common questions
Does Tempo Timesheets have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Tempo Timesheets is listed for Web.
Does Tempo Timesheets have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Tempo Timesheets is listed for Web.
Is Tempo Timesheets open source?
Tempo Timesheets is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Tempo Timesheets have an API?
Yes. Tempo Timesheets 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 12, 2026.