Timely - Work Hour Tracking
Main features
* Set up once by marking some wifis at the place you want to track. After this you can forget the app until you want to check the logged hours
* Runs in the background tracking places for which you have enabled the automation
* Stop tracking from a notification or from the application. This is handy for example if you have lunch at the office
* Resume automatic tracking after the break from a notification or the app itself
* Set up target time, and easily compare the actual hours to the target
* Filter the visits by date, and group them by day, week, month or year to see the deviation from target time for those time periods
* Configure which notifications you want to see. Timely can, for example, show a notification about the current visit allowing you to easily view the elapsed time for the current day.
Tips for usage
* Timely's automated tracking works directly in most devices. If it, however, does not seem to work correctly in your device it is probably because the device's restrictions to apps working in the background. These restrictions are meant for saving battery, but in case of apps like Timely they do more harm than good. That's why android allows the user to add battery optimization/power-saving exceptions per app. You can add this kind of exception for Timely in the Android settings.
* Make sure to give Timely permission to the device's location. An application can only scan wifis if it has permission to the device's location
* Also Android's location tracking needs to be on. The battery saving level is enough though, no need to use battery-hungry gps
* Either allow background scanning of wifis (in Android's location settings), or keep the wifi on. Otherwise the automatic tracking won't work
* Wifis have a fairly limited range, which make them ideal for tracking your presence at the office. However, in a big (or even medium) office one wifi might not cover the whole area. Either make sure to add wifis at different parts of the office to Timely, or if the different access points have same network name, you can just add one of the wifis, and tell Timely to recognize it by its name
Category : Productivity
Reviews (14)
Useful app. WiFi detection is inconsistent as it may not start the clock up to an hour and a half after i arrive. Widget to force wifi check would be helpful. UPDATE: Thanks for the suggestion! After updating the battery settings for the app, the WiFi detection now works as it should.
Works well and does what it says it does. Limited by WiFi coverage area but that's the tradeoff you get for extra battery life. Overall very easy to use I'm quite happy.
Best app. Committed to the features as advertised. Everything is working fine flawless. Notification support. Export option is outstanding.
It would be nice if you could add a description to go with the daily hours of accomplishments, activities etc. Otherwise, the app works well.
Like it. Could improve. Better use of limited space on Places screen and would appreciate export of memo field to spreadsheet.
Auto clock in and out but you have too manually clock out if you don't leave your building....plus it's not accurate too the min because it clocks you in as you drive up
It is a good app overall What i should add is posibility to change target time for each day of the week
previous version was really good and accurate. this version have to manu bug .
It's very usefull for time management.
Absolutely awesome simple application that does exactly what I need, not more, not less. No visible battery drain even with 1 minute update intervals and system power management turned off for this app in Android 8.1.
It would be great if I could adjust or correct the time if it is not the correct clock in or clock out.
Awesome, it's so easy to use. You dont need to do anything manually after setup and it records time accurately! Perhaps grafical presentation could be useful, instead of the list with numbers.
Works great but why would a week be from Monday through Sunday? My week is Sunday through Saturday, at least give the option to change this please!
Great app, very useful, does what it promises. WiFi detection doesn't seem to draw any noticeable amount of power, and you still get the flexibility to modify all logged details manually. You can just install the app, set it up, and forget about it until you want to check or modify your logs. 6 stars! Slight detail: when counting towards a set weekly goal, behavior of counted hours is a bit confusing if/when you miss a day.