Self-hosted alternatives to Toggl Track
Reporting and billing rates — the reason you track time at all — sit on paid plans.
Below are 10 open-source projects that cover the same ground, each scored 0–100 on how actively it is actually maintained — commit volume, release cadence and recent trend. 4 of the 10 are currently rated healthy or better. Ordering reflects that score, not sponsorship.
| Project | Health | Activity (11 mo) | Stars | Licence | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Gauzy Open business management platform for collaborative, on-demand and sharing economies (ERP/CRM/HRM/ATS/PM). | Thriving · 90 | 8.1k | AGPL-3.0 | 27 Sept 2026 | |
| solidtime Modern time tracking application for freelancers and agencies. | Healthy · 78 | 8.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| Kimai Track work time and print out a summary of your activities on demand. | Healthy · 70 | 5k | AGPL-3.0 | 13 Sept 2026 | |
| Wakapi Tracking tool for coding statistics, compatible with WakaTime. | Healthy · 70 | 4.4k | GPL-3.0 | 14 Sept 2026 | |
| ActivityWatch Automatically track how you spend time on your devices. | Steady · 67 | 19k | MPL-2.0 | 18 Sept 2026 | |
| TimeTracker Track time across projects and clients, with timers, kanban tasks, CRM, expense tracking, multi-currency invoi | Steady · 63 | 628 | GPL-3.0 | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| OpenHabitTracker Track habits, tasks and notes with time tracking, calendar view and completion statistics. | Steady · 62 | 288 | GPL-3.0 | 27 Sept 2026 | |
| Beaver Habit Tracker Habit tracking app to save your precious moments in your fleeting life. | Steady · 61 | 1.8k | BSD-3-Clause | 26 Jul 2026 | |
| Focus Flow Complete ecosystem for time management using the Pomodoro technique. | Slowing · 40 | 50 | MIT | 16 Jun 2026 | |
| Traggo Traggo is a tag-based time tracking tool. In Traggo there are no tasks, only tagged time spans. | Slowing · 39 | 1.6k | GPL-3.0 | 1 Mar 2026 |
How these were picked
Every project listed here is open source and can run entirely on hardware you control. We start from the categories that match Toggl Track's job — Time Tracking — then rank by health score so that a popular-but-abandoned project never appears above a smaller one that is actively shipping. The scoring method is documented in full.
The scores are recomputed from repository data on every rebuild, so this page reflects the state of these projects as of 1 Oct 2026 — not the day it was written.
Ever Gauzy
Open business management platform for collaborative, on-demand and sharing economies (ERP/CRM/HRM/ATS/PM).
Best fit: It suits organisations looking to consolidate multiple business operations, such as HR, CRM, and resource planning, into one self-hosted platform under an AGPL-3.0 licence.
Worth knowing: Deploying an all-in-one platform handling multiple business domains introduces a significant operational footprint and high configuration complexity. It also competes with many well-established standalone alternatives for each of its included modules.
solidtime
Modern time tracking application for freelancers and agencies.
Best fit: Freelancers and small agency teams who want to self-host their billing and time-tracking infrastructure rather than relying on third-party SaaS tools.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 licence imposes strong copyleft requirements if you modify the code and offer it as a service to external users. It also faces competition from many established time-tracking platforms in this category.
Kimai
Track work time and print out a summary of your activities on demand.
Best fit: Freelancers, small teams, or agencies needing a dedicated, self-hosted system to monitor billable hours and produce basic work reports without relying on third-party SaaS tools.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 licence imposes strong copyleft requirements if you modify the code and offer it as a service over a network, and you will need to manage your own database backups and user authentication.
Wakapi
Tracking tool for coding statistics, compatible with WakaTime.
Best fit: Developers who want to maintain ownership of their programming metrics and prefer using open-source tools compatible with existing WakaTime editor plugins.
Worth knowing: You will need to configure your editor plugins to point to your private instance rather than the default endpoint, and manage your own data retention policies.
ActivityWatch
Automatically track how you spend time on your devices.
Best fit: It is well-suited for freelancers, developers, and privacy-conscious users who want to audit their daily habits without sharing telemetry data with external companies.
Worth knowing: The project relies on a beta release cycle and relies on various client-side watchers that can occasionally require manual troubleshooting across different operating systems. You should also expect to manage local storage growth over time as event logs accumulate.