Best Open Source Alternatives to Toggl

Compare the best free and open-source alternatives to Toggl — self-hosted and desktop replacements you fully control, ranked by GitHub stars, license and platform support.

Curated by open-source.store · Updated November 2026 · 3 alternatives

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Toggl alternatives compared

Open-source alternatives to Toggl, compared by stars, license and platform
Tool		License	Platforms	Self-hosted
Midday	15,113	AGPL-3.0	LinuxmacOSWindows	No	Jun 2026	Visit
TimeScribe	931	GPL-3.0	DockerLinuxmacOSWindows	Yes	Nov 2026	Visit
Ever Teams	602	AGPL-3.0	LinuxmacOSWindows	No	Oct 2026	Visit

Top open-source Toggl alternatives

Midday15,113AGPL-3.0

Midday replaces Harvest with live bank feeds, automated receipt matching, and client invoicing to give agencies real-time visibility into project margins.

LinuxmacOSWindows

vs Toggl: a free, open-source option you fully control, licensed AGPL-3.0.

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Edgar Sipki

Go & gRPC engineer · founder of EasyP

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Mentoring for backend developers. Consulting for startups.

Go, gRPC and Protobuf done right, LLM agents in production, and the hard parts of shipping a first product.

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Speaker at HighLoad++, GolangConf, AI Conf, DevOpsConf
Helped launch 7+ startups
Maintainer of EasyP, the open-source Protobuf toolkit

TimeScribe931GPL-3.0

TimeScribe is an open-source, offline time tracker that replaces Clockify with local SQLite project billing, idle detection, and zero cloud telemetry.

DockerLinuxmacOSWindows

vs Toggl: a free, open-source option you fully control, licensed GPL-3.0.

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Ever Teams602AGPL-3.0

Ever Teams is an open-source ClickUp alternative combining project task tracking and developer time logging on top of a self-hostable backend.

LinuxmacOSWindows

vs Toggl: a free, open-source option you fully control, licensed AGPL-3.0.

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