Toggl alternative
A Toggl alternative for people who bill what they track.
Toggl Track is a genuinely good stopwatch, and if timing your work is the problem you have, it solves it. Militime is for the problem after that one: the hours have to turn into money, and the billing has to survive contact with how you actually sell.
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Revenue
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Lumen Studio is billing $79.27 an hour against a $80.00 cost of delivery. Eighty-two hours of work, and it's costing you money to do it.
The difference
Where the two tools part company
Billing models, not tags
In a general tracker, a retainer is a tag and a bank of hours is a spreadsheet. Here they're first-class: recurring cycles with live utilization, and blocks that draw down as you track.
Margin, not just hours
Revenue against cost of delivery, by client and project. The account that keeps everyone busy and the account that actually earns are rarely the same one, and hours alone will never tell you which is which.
A price that survives adding people
Militime's first seat carries the plan and every seat after it costs a fraction of the first, so a team costs a fraction of per-seat pricing. Move the slider on the pricing page and check the arithmetic yourself.
Why Militime
Everyone else has the order backwards
General trackers start with a stopwatch and leave the billing to you. Militime starts from how the project is sold, so the money is computed as you work instead of reconstructed afterwards.
Traditional time trackers
Track first. Work out the billing afterwards.
- 01Start a stopwatch.
- 02Tag the entry and hope it's right.
- 03Export a timesheet at the end of the month.
- 04Rebuild the billing in a spreadsheet.
- 05Find out the margin once it's already spent.
Militime
Decide how it bills. Tracking follows.
- 01Set the project's billing model once.
- 02Start the timer — the rate is already attached.
- 03Watch utilization and billable value update live.
- 04Read margin by client and by project.
- 05Send a report the client actually understands.
Compares native, out-of-the-box capability. “Add-on” means available on the other tools through a paid upgrade or an integration. Invoicing is the row where they win today — Militime doesn't ship it yet, and we'd rather say so here than let you find out after signing up.
Project-specific billing
Every project bills differently. Militime already knows.
Most trackers give you one rate and call that billing. Here each project carries its own model — and the totals, the utilization and the reports follow on their own.
Hourly
Per-client and per-project rates, with date-ranged changes that apply themselves to the right entries.
Hourly
Rate changed Jun 1Date-ranged rates apply themselves to the right entries.
Retainer
Recurring cycles with live utilization: hours delivered against hours committed, and overflow that carries into the next cycle.
Retainer
Jun 12 – 251.5h left in this cycle — overflow carries into the next one.
Bank of hours
Sell a block up front. Every tracked entry draws the balance down, so nobody is surprised at month end.
Bank of hours
100h purchasedEvery tracked entry draws the balance down as it lands.
Fixed price
One agreed fee. Militime tracks the effective hourly rate as the work lands, so you feel the squeeze early enough to matter.
Fixed price
$10,000The fee is agreed. The effective rate is what tells you how it's going.
One engine
Four billing models, one timer. You never choose how to track. You choose how the project is sold — once — and the tracking follows from there.
Questions
Militime compared to Toggl Track
- At more than one seat, considerably — Militime charges a full price for the first seat and a fraction for each one after it, where per-seat pricing charges the same for the tenth as the first. The pricing page has an interactive calculator with the comparison at your exact seat count, using published list prices.
- Invoicing, which Militime doesn't ship yet — it's in build, and we'd rather tell you here than let you discover it after signing up. Toggl also has a far larger catalogue of third-party integrations and browser extensions. If your workflow depends on those, it's the better fit today.
- Not automatically yet. You can export your history from Toggl as CSV, and if you're moving a real book of business over, email us — we'll help you get set up rather than leaving you to it.
Trust
What we can actually prove
Militime is early. Rather than invent numbers, here is who runs it, where your data lives, and what happens if you decide to leave.
Encrypted end to end
TLS 1.3 in transit and encrypted at rest on Supabase's hardened Postgres. Backups inherit the same protection.
Stripe handles every card
Subscription payments run through Stripe. Militime never sees or stores your card details.
Built and run from Montreal
Designed around Quebec's Law 25 and Canada's PIPEDA, with GDPR access, erasure and portability treated as product requirements.
Your data leaves when you do
Export every project, report and time entry as CSV or PDF on demand. Ask us to delete the account and we honour it end to end.
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