Kimai
Track work time and print out a summary of your activities on demand.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 42% of tracked projects; popularity more than 66%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 5k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.67.0 · 13 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Kimai actively maintained?
Kimai is under active development: 186 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 39 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 333% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, 2.67.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 13 projects we track in Time Tracking, Kimai ranks #3 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Kimai actually does
Kimai is a self-hosted time-tracking application designed to log working hours and generate activity summaries on demand. It provides a centralised web interface for recording billable or non-billable tasks against various projects and clients. The software is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence and built using PHP.
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.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server like Nginx or Apache, a PHP runtime, and a separate relational database such as MySQL or MariaDB. You should ensure proper persistent storage for data volumes and configure a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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