Solidtime

Solidtime is an open-source time tracking tool designed for freelancers and agencies ^S98. It solves the problem of tracking billable hours and managing projects, with features like timers, calendars, timesheets, goals, reporting, and invoicing ^{S8 S3}. Its practical value lies in automating the path from tracked time to client invoices, with cloud or self-hosted options ^S98.

• Identity: Solidtime is an open-source time tracking software for teams ^S98.
• Core purpose: It solves the problem of tracking billable hours and managing projects for client work ^{S3 S7}.
• Intended users: Freelancers and agencies that bill clients ^{S98 S141}.
• Product scope: A web app with desktop apps and browser extension, offering time tracking, reporting, invoicing, and project management ^{S8 S3 S7 S98}.
• Positioning: Positioned as a modern, open-source time tracker that gets out of your way ^S98.
• Claimed distinction: Privacy-first by default, GDPR-friendly, EU-hosted, and open source ^S98.

The modern Open-Source Time Tracker for Freelancers and Agencies. Manage Projects, Tasks, Clients and Billing in one place. solidtime.io: an estimated 23,066 total monthly visits and about 111 monthly organic visits across 69 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 92/100.

• Total traffic (modeled): 23,066 monthly visits across all channels.
• Organic search traffic (estimated): 111 monthly visits from search.
• Strongest sampled ranking: solidtime at position 1.
• Leading page in the collected evidence: https://www.solidtime.io/.
• Closest measured organic competitor: reddit.com, appearing 3 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
• Technical crawl: 15 pages, health score 92/100.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Company identity and positioning

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

• Positioning: Solidtime is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) time-tracking tool for teams and freelancers, emphasizing automatic activity tracking, idle detection, and privacy-friendly local-only data processing W1W14W16.
• Product scope: The site covers a full time-tracking suite: timer, calendar, timesheet, reporting, goals, project management, invoicing, and a desktop app W5W179W155W83W131W107W203.
• Adoption signals: The homepage claims 15,000+ users, 1,000+ self-hosted servers, and 8,600+ GitHub stars W11W12W13.
• Pricing model: Cloud plans (Free/Professional) and on-premise licensing (Open Source/Business/Enterprise) are offered W38W56.
• Recent momentum: Blog posts document a public REST API (v0.6.0, Feb 2025) and new reporting features (May 2024), indicating active development W227W66.
• Scout inference: The site has a strong feature-led content structure with dedicated pages for each capability, which supports both SEO depth and conversion paths.

Total website traffic

Domain identity

Website capture

Top organic keywords

Independent Google result page

Query: solidtime

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Prioritized website intelligence pages

Features

Pricing and plans

Integrations and supported platforms

Product and company updates

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

• Homepage (`/`): Core value proposition, feature overview, social proof, and desktop app download links W1W4W11W17.
• Pricing (`/pricing`): Cloud plan comparison (Free vs Professional) with feature tables W25W38W39W46W48.
• On-premise pricing (`/pricing/on-premise`): Self-hosted licensing tiers (Open Source, Business, Enterprise) W49W55W56W57W62.
• Feature pages: `/features/goals` W83, `/features/invoicing` W107, `/features/project-management` W131, `/features/reporting` W155, `/features/time-tracking` W179.
• Desktop app (`/desktop-app`): Download links for macOS, Windows, Linux; activity tracking and idle detection details W203W206W217W219W220W221.
• Blog posts: `/blog/new-reporting-features` W66, `/blog/public-rest-api` W227.
• Scout inference: These pages form the primary conversion and information architecture, covering product, pricing, and technical documentation.

This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-24T10:23:58.265Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.

Sampled competitors

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

• Open-source positioning: Solidtime is explicitly AGPL-3.0 licensed, differentiating from proprietary competitors W14.
• Self-hosting option: On-premise deployment is a key differentiator, with a free self-hosted tier and paid Business/Enterprise licenses W55W58.
• Feature set: Combines time tracking, reporting, goals, invoicing, and project management in one platform, which may compete with multiple single-purpose tools W5W83W107W131W155.
• Desktop app: Automatic activity tracking and idle detection are highlighted as unique capabilities W16W206.
• Scout inference: The competitive angle is "open source + privacy-friendly + all-in-one," targeting teams that want control over data and costs.

Backlink comparison profile

• Domain rating: 48/100
• Backlinks: 15,393
• Referring domains: 779
• Dofollow backlinks: 92.0%
• Dofollow referring domains: 44.0%

Collection decision

The Scout search index remains intentionally excluded from automatic Scout analysis. This Scout traffic model profile costs 5 credits (0.5 cents) and is included in the first comparison run so its usefulness can be judged before the recurring collection is finalized.

AI-assistant referral traffic

• Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.5%

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

• Clear, structured content: Feature pages use descriptive headings and bullet-style lists that are machine-readable, e.g., "Automatic activity tracking", "Idle detection", "Privacy friendly, local only" W16W206.
• Specific claims: Quantified social proof (15,000+ users, 1,000+ servers, 8,600+ stars) provides extractable facts W11W12W13.
• Pricing tables: Feature comparison tables on pricing pages are structured for parsing W38W39W40W41W42W43W44W45W46W47W48.
• Scout inference: The site's content is well-suited for AI answer engines that extract feature lists and pricing details.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

• customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

• Feature pages as landing pages: Each feature (goals, invoicing, project management, reporting, time tracking) has a dedicated URL, which can be optimized for specific search intents W83W107W131W155W179.
• Blog content: Posts on new features (reporting, API) can attract technical audiences and support link-building W66W227.
• Open-source community: GitHub stars and self-hosted server counts are strong trust signals that can be amplified in marketing W13W12.
• Desktop app distribution: Direct download links for multiple OS/architectures suggest a cross-platform opportunity for broader reach W217W219W220W221.
• Scout inference: The site could expand content around use cases (freelancers, agencies) and integrations (REST API) to capture more long-tail traffic.

Independent reviews

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

• solidtime-io/solidtime — - Stars: 9003 - Forks: 515 - Watchers: 9003 - Open issues: 32 - License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 - Homepage: https://www.solidtime.io - Default branch: main - Created: 2024-01-16T15:30:47Z ... solidtime is a modern open-source time tracking application for Freelancers and Agencies. ## Features - Time tracking: Track your time with a modern and easy-to-use interface - Projects: Create and manage projects and assign project members - Tasks: Create and manage tasks and assign tasks t
• Solidtime — Self-Hosted Toggl Alternative — Solidtime is a modern, open-source time tracking application built for freelancers and agencies. It supports projects, clients, billable rates, and team reporting. ... / Known vulnerabilities / None known in v0.21.0 / / Last upstream push
• Solidtime — Open source time tracking for teams — ## Time-Tracking, without the guesswork Automatic activity tracking Sees which app and document is in focus. Idle detection Pauses the timer when you step away. Privacy friendly, local only Stays on your machine until you log it.
• solidtime / cask.news — Maturity: The project is actively maintained with recent commits and a strong community presence on GitHub. Community: Solidtime has been mentioned a few times on Hacker News, indicating some interest, but lacks significant discussion on Reddit.
• Releases · solidtime-io/solidtime · GitHub — . Update as soon as possible! This release updates the PHP version to 8.3.36 to fix two critical vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 (GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w) and CVE-2026-109619 (GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp) With this release, FrankenPHP is also updated to version 1.13
• solidtime — - solidtime-io/solidtime - Modern open-source time-tracking app ( ... stars) - solidtime-io/solidtime-desktop - solidtime timetracker ... and Firefox (4 stars) - solidtime-io/docs - Documentation of the solidtime application (3 stars

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

• Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
• Technical health: 92/100
• Critical issues: 0
• Warnings: 22
• Notices: 3

Issues

Crawled pages

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

Modeled acquisition channels

First-party connections

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

The collected pages do not mention any competitor products. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for on-premise plans, no customer testimonials or case studies, and no independent review ratings. Open questions include the specifics of the open API and the full feature set of the on-premise Business and Enterprise tiers.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from solidtime.io, including feature pages, pricing pages, roadmap, and DPA. The evidence catalog includes 180 items from these pages. External proof search was performed but no review profiles were scraped. Limitations: some pages were not fully rendered, and pricing details for on-premise plans are incomplete.

• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/Verified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/features/goalsVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.solidtime.io/features/invoicingVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/features/reportingVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.solidtime.io/pricingVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.solidtime.io/pricing/on-premiseVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/blog/new-reporting-featuresVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/features/project-managementVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/features/time-trackingVerified
• Documentationhttps://www.solidtime.io/desktop-appVerified
• Documentationhttps://www.solidtime.io/blog/public-rest-apiVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/roadmapVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/blog/detailed-reporting-mass-updates-estimatesVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/dpaVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.solidtime.io/privacyVerified
• Articlehttps://github.com/solidtime-io/solidtime/Verified
• Documentationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709180Verified
• Review Sitehttps://unsubbed.co/tools/solidtime/Verified
• Articlehttps://selfhostindex.com/app/solidtime/Verified
• Articlehttps://cask.news/cask/solidtimeVerified
• Articlehttps://github.com/solidtime-io/solidtime/releasesVerified
• Review Sitehttps://www.blog.brightcoding.dev/2026/06/05/stop-paying-for-time-trackers-solidtime-is-the-open-source-secret-teams-are-switching-toVerified
• Articlehttps://github.com/solidtime-ioVerified