Hourbrook or Toggl Track?
Toggl Track is a timer-first time tracker with a free plan, apps everywhere, and an optional desktop Timeline that records the apps and sites you use.
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Where Toggl Track is the better choice comes first. Facts about Toggl Track are from its own site, read on 3 November 2026.
Choose Toggl Track if you want
- Apps on every platform, phones included.
- A free plan for small teams, and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
- If you like starting a timer, it's one of the best.
Where Hourbrook is different
- Hourbrook is automatic first: the day fills in without a timer, and you pick what to log.
- Activity never syncs. Toggl's Timeline can keep 90 days on its servers when sync is on.
- The brook and lanes show the whole day at a glance, not a list of timers.
- Waiting on Claude or a build counts as work.
Side by side
| What | Hourbrook | Toggl Track |
|---|---|---|
| Tracks your work by itself | Yes: the app, window title and page in front, every 2 s | Timer first; the desktop Timeline records apps and sites used over 10 s |
| Where that activity is kept | On your Mac, never uploaded; only entries you log sync | On your computer with sync off; the last 90 days on Toggl's servers with sync on |
| Free plan | Everything is free during the beta | Yes, for up to 3 users |
| Lowest paid price, per person a month | None yet; prices after the beta aren't final | $9 (Starter, yearly) |
| Platforms | Mac; web for synced time; Windows in the works | Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android |
| Invoices | Yes, from logged hours | Basic PDF invoices from reports |
| Team planning | Planning and capacity for teams | Capacity basics; more as an add-on |
| AI assistant or MCP server | MCP server on your Mac, built into the app | MCP on every plan; AI assistant on paid plans |
| Waiting on AI agents | Counted as your work, up to 3 h | — |
| Certifications | None yet; it's a beta | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 |
“—” means no, or nothing we could find on their site. All comparisons
Coming from Toggl Track
Import your whole Toggl Track history with an API token, or its detailed CSV export. You see what will change before anything does.
Hourbrook starts filling in your day from the first hour it runs, so the brook is there to pick from by the end of it.
What you'd be switching to
A small item in the menu bar, and a main window with your day, week and tasks. A native Mac app, with everything it learns kept on the Mac.
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Read on 3 November 2026. If something has changed, reply to any email from us and we'll correct it.