What Is Everhour? How It Works and What It Really Costs

Everhour is a timer that lives inside Asana, Jira, Trello and ClickUp. Here is what it does, and why the free plan drops the part people come for.

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Plans and prices read off everhour.com, 31 July 2026.

Definition

What Everhour is, in one sentence

What it is

Everhour is a time tracking tool that adds a timer, an hours column and a budget bar to the tasks in the project software your team already runs, then turns those hours into reports, project budgets and client invoices. It is built by Everhour Inc. and it is best known for how little it asks of the people using it. Nobody has to open a second app, because the timer button shows up on the task card they were already looking at. There is a web app and a browser extension, plus apps for iPhone and Android.

Who needs this

Agencies, dev shops and consultancies of roughly 5 to 50 people who run their work through Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp or Basecamp and need hours, budgets and invoices tied to those same tasks.

The core idea

Everhour is a layer, not a separate app

Most trackers ask your team to go somewhere else to log time. Everhour goes to them instead, which is the whole reason people pick it.

It appears inside your project tool

Everhour has built-out pages for Asana, Trello, Jira, ClickUp, Basecamp, Notion, GitHub and monday.com. Once connected, a start button and a running total sit on the task itself. Your projects and tasks come across on their own, so there is no second list of work to keep in step.

Hours roll up into budgets

Every task carries an estimate and a live spent figure. Roll those up and you get a project budget with a threshold alert that fires before the money runs out, not after. This is the part agencies actually buy, and it is why Everhour reads as a profit tool rather than a stopwatch.

Billable hours become an invoice

Mark work billable, set a rate per person or per project, and Everhour drafts the invoice from the approved hours plus any expenses logged against them. It is a light invoicing module rather than a full accounting system, and several reviewers say so.

Pricing

What each Everhour plan costs and includes

Everhour advertises simple pricing, and it mostly is. Two details are easy to miss, and both of them change the bill.

Comparison dimension	Free	Team	Custom
Price per seat a month	$0	$8.50 billed yearly, $10 monthly	Quote only
Seat minimum	None, capped at 5	5 seats, even if you are 2	50 seats
Smallest real monthly bill	$0	$42.50 billed yearly	Not published
Native project-tool integrations	No, none at all	Yes, all of them	Yes, all of them
Time tracking, projects and tasks	Yes	Yes	Yes
Billing, budgets and invoicing	No	Yes	Yes
Single sign-on and permissions	No	Yes	Yes
Free trial	14 days of everything	14 days, no card asked	Talk to sales

Read off everhour.com/pricing on 31 July 2026. Everhour's own FAQ states it plainly: with 2 or 3 users you are still charged for 5 seats. Only one of the seven ranking reviews says so.

Read this first

The free plan drops the reason to use Everhour

Everhour is free for up to 5 seats and that is a real offer. It is also the one plan where the product stops being what it is sold as.

No integrations on free

Everhour's pricing FAQ says integrations are available only on the paid plan. So the free plan gives you a plain timer with projects, tasks and reports, and none of the in-task tracking that the whole product is built around. One of the ten reviews ranking for this term mentions it.

The trial can trap you

The 14-day trial gives you every feature. If you connect an integration during it and then want the free plan, Everhour support has to manually strip the integration and every record it synced. That is stated on their own pricing page, and it is not automatic.

No billable work on free

Billing, budgets and invoicing all sit on the paid Team plan. If you are evaluating Everhour to bill clients, the free plan cannot show you that, and judging the product by it will give you the wrong answer in both directions.

Features

What Everhour does, feature by feature

Everything below except basic tracking and reporting needs the paid Team plan, because Everhour has only one paid tier and puts the whole feature set in it.

In-task timers

Start and stop from the task card in Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp or Basecamp, or from the web app if you would rather. The browser extension is what puts the button there, so most teams end up installing it on day one.

Project budgets and alerts

Set a budget in hours or money, watch it burn down live, and get an alert at the thresholds you pick. Reviewers consistently rate this as Everhour's strongest feature, ahead of the tracking itself.

Invoicing and expenses

Turn billable hours into a client invoice, and attach expenses with a receipt so they land on the same bill. It is deliberately simple. Reviewers who use full accounting software call the invoicing underpowered.

Reports

Break hours down by person, client, project, task or tag, save the view, and have it emailed on a schedule. Reports are the one advanced area that partly works on the free plan.

Time off and a visual planner

Book leave against a policy, and see a timeline of who is booked on what over the coming weeks. This is resource planning rather than a shift rota, so it suits agency work far better than hourly shift work.

Timesheet approvals

Everhour leads its own homepage with approved timesheets, so a submit-and-sign-off step exists. Like everything else, it needs the paid Team plan, because the free plan carries basic tracking only.

Apps and extension

A web app, a Chrome extension, a desktop app and mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Note that several ranking reviews claim Everhour has no mobile apps at all. Everhour publishes them, so those reviews are out of date.

What Everhour leaves out

No GPS or geofenced clock-in, so field crews are a poor fit. No screenshots or keystroke logging, which Everhour treats as a promise rather than a gap. There is an API and Zapier if you need to reach further.

Fact sheet

Everhour and TimeTracker side by side

We build TimeTracker, so read this page knowing that. Every figure below came off the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown.

Everhour

The tracker that lives inside your project tool. Timers, budgets and billable totals appear on the task itself, so nobody has to open a second app to log an hour.

Best for: Agencies and dev shops that run their work through Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp or Basecamp.
Pricing: Free for up to 5 seats, with no integrations and no billing. Team is $8.50 a seat a month billed yearly, or $10 monthly, with a 5 seat minimum. Custom pricing starts at 50 seats. 14-day trial, no card needed.

Timers inside 8+ project tools
Project budgets with alerts
Client invoicing from hours
Expenses with receipts
Visual planner and time off
Chrome extension, iOS and Android
No GPS and no screenshots

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Best fit

TimeTracker

A stricter time and attendance tool. Approvals and locking come with the one paid plan, and rounding never throws away the exact duration it started from.

Best for: Teams whose hours get checked afterwards by a client, a payroll run or an auditor.
Pricing: Free for up to 3 people, no credit card needed and no seat minimum. Paid is $15 per user a month, or $12 per user a month when you pay yearly.

Approvals on the one paid plan
Approved periods lock against edits
Every edit after approval recorded
Rounding keeps the exact duration
Location rules with geofence and IP
Preview who a location rule blocks
Kanban, tasks, subtasks, dependencies

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Head to head

Where Everhour wins and where it does not

Everhour is cheaper than us and it connects to project tools we cannot touch. We are not going to pretend otherwise.

Comparison dimension	Everhour	TimeTrackerBest fit
Timers inside Asana, Jira and Trello	Yes, this is the product	No, nothing like it
Number of app connections	8+ native, plus Zapier and an API	CSV export only
Cheapest paid plan	$8.50 a seat billed yearly	$15 per user a month
Free plan	5 seats, no integrations	3 people, everything included
Seat minimum on paid	5 seats, so $42.50 is the floor	None, pay for real people
Project budgets and profit	Yes, budgets with alerts	Not a profitability tool
Approvals	Paid plan only	The one paid plan, no upsell
Approved periods lock	Not published	Yes, every edit recorded
Keeps raw time beside rounded	Not published	Yes, both are stored
Location rules on clock-in	None, no GPS at all	Geofence, IP and accuracy
Time off and leave balances	Yes, on the paid plan	Accrual policies, paid plan
Shift rotas and payroll sync	Neither	Neither, CSV export only

Prices and plan limits checked on each vendor's own site on 31 July 2026. Everhour's 5-seat minimum makes $8.50 a seat cost $42.50 a month at the smallest paid team size.

Pros and cons

The real strengths and limits of each

Both write-ups follow one rule. Strengths and limits carry the same weight, nothing is invented, and every price was read off the vendor's own site on the date shown.

Everhour

Best for

Agencies whose work already lives in Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp or Basecamp.

Pricing

Free for up to 5 seats with no integrations. Team is $8.50 a seat a month billed yearly, or $10 monthly, with a 5 seat minimum, so the real floor is $42.50 a month. Custom starts at 50 seats.

Checked 31 July 2026

Where it wins

Timers built into 8+ project tools, which almost nothing else matches
Live project budgets with threshold alerts before the money runs out
One paid tier with all features, so nothing is held back for an upsell
Invoicing and expenses with receipts, on the same billable hours
No screenshots and no keystroke logging on any plan
Web, desktop, Chrome extension, iPhone and Android

Where it falls short

The paid plan bills a minimum of 5 seats, so two people still pay for five
The free plan has no integrations, which removes the point of the product
Leaving the trial for free after connecting an integration needs support to intervene
No GPS or geofenced clock-in, so field and site work is a poor fit
Invoicing is light next to real accounting software, by several reviewers' accounts
Custom pricing starts at 50 seats, so mid-size teams have one option

TimeTrackerOurs

Best for

Teams that have to prove their hours later, not just record them.

Pricing

Free for up to 3 people with no seat minimum. Paid is $15 per user a month, or $12 per user a month billed yearly.

Checked 31 July 2026

Where it wins

Approvals and locking on the only paid plan
Rounding to 6, 15 or 30 minutes always keeps the exact raw duration too
Location rules combine geofences, IP ranges and accuracy limits
Preview which people a location rule will block before you switch it on
Real project work: kanban boards, subtasks, dependencies and templates
Time off with real accrual policies, balances and requests

Where it falls short

No timer inside Asana, Jira, Trello or ClickUp, and no browser extension
Costs more at $15 per user a month against Everhour's $8.50
Free plan covers 3 people, fewer than Everhour's 5
CSV export only, so there is no app marketplace to plug into
No project profitability reporting, which Everhour does well
A clock-in needs a connection, and there is no rota builder

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Which to pick

Should you use Everhour or something stricter?

Choose Everhour when…

Your whole team already works out of Asana, Jira or ClickUp.
Everhour puts the timer on the task. We have no answer to that.
People will only track time if it takes no extra step.
In-task timers beat any separate app on adoption.
You need to see a project burn through its budget live.
Everhour does budgets with alerts. We do not.
You are a small agency and price is the deciding factor.
Everhour is $8.50 a seat against our $15, if you have 5 people.
You want a Chrome extension and a big app marketplace.
Everhour has both. We export CSV and stop there.

Choose TimeTracker when…

You are 2 or 3 people and will not pay for 5 seats.
We bill per person with no minimum, free for the first 3.See how
A client disputes an invoice and you need the original numbers.
Approved periods lock and later edits are all recorded.See how
You round billable time but still have to show the real figure.
Both the exact duration and the rounded one are stored.See how
A clock-in should only count from an approved place.
Location rules use geofences, IP ranges and accuracy limits.
You want approvals without buying the paid tier first.
Submit and approve comes with the one paid plan.See how

FAQ

Common questions about Everhour

These are the questions Google shows people asking about Everhour, plus the ones the ranking reviews answer, all answered straight.

What is Everhour used for?: Everhour is used to record how long work takes and what it is worth. Teams connect it to the project tool they already run, start a timer on a task, and Everhour rolls those hours into project budgets, reports and client invoices. Agencies are the main audience, because the question they need answered is whether a project is still profitable while there is time to do something about it.
Is Everhour free?: Yes, for up to 5 seats, but read what the free plan drops. Everhour's own pricing page says integrations are available only on the paid plan, and billing, budgets and invoicing sit there too. So the free plan is a plain timer with projects, tasks and reports. Our pricing is free for 3 people to track and submit time.
How much does Everhour cost?: The paid Team plan is $8.50 a seat a month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly. The figure most reviews leave out is the 5 seat minimum. Everhour states it plainly: with 2 or 3 users you are still charged for 5. So the smallest real bill is $42.50 a month on yearly billing, not $17. Custom pricing needs 50 seats.
Can Everhour track billable hours?: Yes, on the paid plan. You mark work billable, set an hourly rate per person, project or client, and Everhour totals the billable value as the hours land. Those totals then feed the budget bar and the invoice. On the free plan there are no billable rates at all, so a free account cannot answer this question for you.
Is Everhour a project management tool?: Not really. Everhour manages time, money and budgets against tasks that live somewhere else, which is why it connects to Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp and Basecamp rather than replacing them. It does add a visual planner showing who is booked on what. If you want tracking and the boards in one place, TimeTracker's project work covers kanban, subtasks and dependencies.
Can Everhour be used offline?: No. Everhour needs a connection, because the timer writes straight to the server and the integrations sync live. If your people work in basements, on planes or on remote sites, weigh that heavily. TimeTracker has the same limitation and we are not going to pretend otherwise, so neither of us is the answer if offline tracking is the requirement.
Does Everhour have a mobile app?: Yes, for both iPhone and Android. This is worth stating because several reviews ranking for this term claim Everhour has no mobile apps, and one of the top results is literally the Google Play listing. Everhour publishes a mobile app page covering both platforms. Those reviews are simply out of date, which is a good reason to check dates before trusting one.
How secure is Everhour?: Everhour offers single sign-on and role-based permissions, though both sit on the paid Team plan. It takes no screenshots, logs no keystrokes and captures no GPS on any plan, so it holds far less sensitive data than a monitoring tool. Everhour does not publish whether it keeps a record of who changed an hour after it was approved.
Who is Everhour best for?: Agencies, dev shops and consultancies of roughly 5 to 50 people who already run work through a project tool and bill by the hour. It fits badly for teams under 5, because of the seat minimum, and for field or shift work, because there is no GPS and no rota. Our head-to-head comparison covers that split in detail.
What are the best alternatives to Everhour?: It depends on what is pushing you off it. Toggl Track and Clockify are the usual swaps for teams that want a cheaper timer with a browser extension. Harvest is the closest match for invoicing. If the problem is that hours get disputed after the fact, that is what we built for. The full field is in our Everhour alternatives roundup.

Paying for five seats when you are three?

Everhour's paid plan bills a minimum of 5 seats. TimeTracker bills for the people you actually have, and it is free for the first 3. Approvals, locking and a full record of every edit come with the single paid plan.

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