We have been building software since 2013. Like everyone, we needed to track time: by project, by task, by person. We tried the popular trackers, and every time we ran into one of two things. Either it was expensive, especially once the team is more than two people. Or it was complicated: to log two hours of work you had to learn a system that can do everything except give a simple answer to "how much did I work today".

So we built our own. Log.gold is the tracker we use ourselves.

What it costs

Nothing, for now. We are in no hurry to charge, for a simple reason: we need the service ourselves, and it works regardless of how many people use it.

When there are many of us, the price will be about a cup of coffee per person per month. Not per seat, not for a "premium plan", not for each feature separately. One price per person, low enough not to think about.

It is simple

Press "Start", work, press "Stop". That is all there is to the tracker.

The task is suggested from the third character, the project is picked once, yesterday's work starts again in one click. There is nothing to learn: the instructions are not there to figure things out, only to tell you about details like pausing and reviewing forgotten timers.

We keep the interface light on purpose. No heavy libraries, no megabytes of scripts: pages open instantly, use little traffic, and work on a weak laptop and on a phone on the go. Your time should go into work, not into waiting for the tracker to load.

Who it is for

Teams where time is money: studios, agencies, outsourcing, contractors paid by the hour. And anyone who simply wants to know where the working day goes.

A company is set up in a minute, people are invited by email. You never pay for a seat nobody took: every invitation is personal.

Why these hours can be trusted

The server keeps the time, not your browser. The internet dropped, the computer rebooted, the tab closed: the entry keeps running. Open it on your phone and you see the same task. Two open tabs are one entry, not two.

People do not edit their own hours. They see them but cannot change them. Data the person doing the work can rewrite proves nothing, neither for them nor against them. Made a mistake or forgot to stop? Flag the entry and say what is wrong. A manager fixes it, and the fix stays in the log together with the reason.

A forgotten timer does not turn into fifteen hours. While the page is open, it sends a sign of life once a minute. If it went silent long before "Stop", the entry goes to review, and a manager trims it to the last live signal with one button.

Every change is visible. Who, when, what it was, what it became, and why. The dispute "I worked six hours but it says four" is settled by the log, not by memory.

What is not here

We deliberately do not build what turns a tracker into surveillance.

No desktop screenshots. No keystroke tracking. No "mouse activity" metering. We count the time a person reported themselves and check it by honest means, not by peeking.

There are also no notifications like "you were added to a project" or "a manager edited your entry". A tracker should not be a source of anxiety.

Tasks without a separate board

A small team has no reason to keep a time tracker and a task board in two different services. Here they are one.

A manager sets a task: title, description, expected time and who does it. The person sees it in their "Your tasks" list, starts the timer right on it and writes comments along the way: what is done, where they are stuck, why it took longer. Finished, closed. Tasks without an assignee are visible to everyone on the project, and anyone can take them.

The comparison "estimated this much, spent this much" comes by itself, from what is recorded anyway. And the "Tasks" screen also shows who is working on what right now.

Closed tasks gather in the "Done" list for any period, with export: handy for writing a client the "this is what we did this month" email.

It is not a replacement for large project management systems, and that is the point. There are no subtasks, sprints or column boards here: just enough task setting to keep it out of your head and out of the messenger.

Getting started

Setting up a company

Create a company: name, your email, password.
Confirm the address with the link from the email.
Add projects and invite people.

You were invited

Open the invitation email and follow the link.
Set your password yourself, nobody else knows it.
No email? Ask the person who invited you for the code and enter it on

the Use your invitation code page.

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