Finally, a nice simple time tracking app - but $49?? That's pretty ridiculous, for what it does. It's not like it's a full time tracking app, just a front end that leverages the APIs of web-based time trackers. Also, no support for Timefox.

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Simple, but a license for Mac Freelance costs less and the program does a heckuva lot more.

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Great app, but this isn't even worth 5 bucks.

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That drives me CRAZY... $50!!!!!!

It is a simple app that should be MUCH less... thats like Commercial pricing!

UG.... OPEN SOURCE FTW!!!

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This is nice however useless if you use freshbooks.

http://www.freshbooks.com/widgets/time-tracker/

They offer a free dashboard widget that does the same thing. I could see it useful if the other services do not offer the same capability or you are too lazy to edit the widget to make it work with other services.

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I'll stick with the old stopwatch for now. Anyone know of any free or cheap alternatives?

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50$????
or you could use this.. for free
http://www.gersh.no/projects/worktimer

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wait wait wait =D LOL!
really?!
no...
seriously?!
you, you can't be serious =D LOL!
$50 for a stop watch?

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This app shouldn't cost $49. It's worth about $5. That's incredibly ridiculous.

I prefer TaskTime4. It costs a hell of a lot less and has a shitload more functionality.

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TUAW why would you cover such a ridiculously over priced App??? I understand (and love) when you cover ones that are a good value and do interesting things... but a $50 stop watch????

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I'd gladly pay $5 or even $10 for this since I'm a Basecamp user. $49 is WAY out of control, though.

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Ok, let's see...

Freshbooks
http://www.freshbooks.com/add-ons/#time_tracking

Harvest
http://www.getharvest.com/widget

Tick
http://www.tickspot.com/widgets/

So there...

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I think the price is reasonable. It's targeted at professional users. $50 for an app that manages an important part of your workflow is not a big deal.

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In my opinion Timepost has too many rough edges to justify its price.

1) Often after stopping the timer the "Clear" and "Post" buttons aren't clickable. Usually restarting Timepost fixes the problem.
2) Often the indentation in the list of tasks is inconsistent.
3) Often when Timepost isn't able to submit time it locks up.
4) Tasks don't stay in sync. I use Tick. When I add a task to Tick it's added to Timepost but when I remove a task from Tick it's not removed from Timepost.

Those are minor problems. Here are a few biggies:

5) Unless the problem is that Timepost isn't able to connect to the service that you're using it with it won't let you know when it was unable to submit time.
6) I sent an e-mail to Timepost support re these problems. A few days later they responded with something along the lines of:

"A new version of Timepost has been released, it's fixed in it."

After having described roughly a half dozen bugs they tell me "it" has been fixed with no indication of what "it" is in their response or the new version's release notes. Not very helpful.

If you can live with these problems you'll probably find that Timepost is usable.

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As of today, Harvest has an elegant iPhone interface for time and expense tracking: http://news.getharvest.com/articles/2008/05/22/time-and-expense-tracking-from-your-iphone/

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Nice but I can't believe people are still making time tracking apps that do not run from the menu bar and to save valuable screen space. Take this with its web service integration and the UI from Work-Timer - http://www.cherryware.de/index.php?section=worktimer&lang=en and I think you'd have a pretty perfect app.

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Am I missing something here? For 99 cents more ($49.99), you can get iBiz which is a strong time billing an invoices manager application with both widget and menubar projects related timer.

http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/

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