Caato: Time Tracker & Work Log 4+

I have been using the free version for the better part of a year to track one volunteer project I work on. Caato is so easy to use, it’s quite remarkable. I finally decided that although the volunteer project tracking is awesome, I need to get my personal life in order and find out just where I am wasting time on foolishness. The way to do that is to track my time, so I just upgraded to the Pro version. For those who want notes and a myriad of other features, the business version (+) may be what you need, but for me, the simplicity of the interface and the fact that it doesn’t have all sort of other things it can do is ideal. It does what I want it to do, it Tracks Time Usage.
As a professional software developer for over 40 years with a specialty of database and user interface design, all I can say is that this is an excellent app. Kudus to all involved, it is well designed, well implemented, professionally supported. Everything I could hope to have in an App.

I don’t know what the problem is with the person that apparently wants everything free without any strings attached (too bad for him I guess lol), but I can say this app is NO backup app, it’s the main one, and if he’s using this one as he says as a “backup” to 2 other apps, and he’s as frustrated as he says he is, he would just stop using this one, so apparently this one is pretty good.

I’ve checked out almost a dozen different timer apps for Mac, and so far this one has the most features and a reasonable price as well. It does exactly what it says it will do and it does it well. I work at home and need to bill clients for time on spent on website projects, and this app works great for that. …

Having said all that I’d love to see one thing for sure that Mr. “I use this as a backup” suggested as well as one of my own:
- Please give us the ability to input the time to start/end when editing a timer instead of having to calculate the minutes/hours to get the right time.
- Please also give us the total minutes in the window of the timer we are editing as there is no way to identify which one we’re editing, to be sure we’re editing the correct one, other than looking at the timers which can be boggling at times.

These really are the only Cons I’ve found in this app, and that’s pretty minimal and definitely they do not hinder the use of the app in any way, just could be more convenient for the user. Kudos to the developers!

I'm a freelance transcriptionist/translator and usually bill by the hour. It was definitely worth it for me to upgrade to the pro version as I have multiple clients and multiple projects for each client. One thing I really love about this versus other time tracking apps I've used is that when you start and stop a timer, it is saved as it's own individual time entry. Whereas other apps when you stop a timer and then start it again, it just picks up where it left off. I also like that in the edit view all the timers for a specific task can be adjusted individually. (for when you accidently leave it running for 8 hours...) Overall, 5 stars. I have recommended it to other people already. I didn't need a lot of bells and whistles and integrations, I just needed something easy and clear and simple.