Track time the way work actually happens
Timers stay tied to real work, can be paused and resumed, and are designed to remain accurate across restarts and suspended sessions.
Trakara
Offline time tracking and invoicing without cloud lock-in
Trakara is aimed at freelancers, consultants, and small teams that want local time tracking, multiple parallel timers, clean invoices, and a one-tap JSON Backup & Restore that keeps every client, project, session, invoice, logo, and setting in your own hands.
One-time purchase
EUR 9.99
Timer and active work tracking
Invoices generated from tracked time
Offline-first
JSON Backup & Restore
PDF, X-Rechnung, CSV and XLSX export
Multiple parallel timers
How Trakara is structured
Organize clients, projects, and tasks
Keep billable work structured with a simple client-project-task model and archive finished items without losing history.
Take your data with you
Create PDFs for billing, prepare optional X-Rechnung output, export tracked segments as CSV/XLSX, or generate a full JSON backup you can email to yourself or drop into iCloud Drive or Google Drive.
Preview screenshots
Timer overview
Active and paused work remains visible in a clear day and week oriented overview.
Clients
Keep client records organized so tracked time and invoices stay tied to the right business contact.
Projects
Group billable work by project and keep tasks attached to the correct delivery context.
Stats
Review hours, revenue, and project breakdowns across week, month, year, or custom ranges.
Invoices
Create invoices from tracked work and prepare PDF or optional X-Rechnung handoff directly inside the app.
Settings
Configure rates, currency, VAT, invoice identity details, long-running timer warnings, and JSON Backup & Restore in one place.
Built for sensitive work data
- Local SQLite database on the device
- No cloud, no tracking, no account requirement
- Full JSON backup file stays under your control
- Hourly rates per client, project, or task
- PDF invoicing, optional X-Rechnung, plus CSV and XLSX export
- Confirmation-gated restore that replaces the current dataset
Trakara stays intentionally local, focused, and built around billable work.
Invoices, exports, and full backups without extra tooling
Trakara generates PDF invoices directly from tracked time. For raw data and downstream processing, CSV and XLSX exports are available, optional X-Rechnung output can be used when structured e-invoicing is required, and Settings -> Tools -> Backup creates a full JSON snapshot you can keep yourself.
Why Trakara?
- Because local-first time tracking is more trustworthy for many freelancers than a SaaS backend.
- Because rates, clients, projects, and tasks live in one focused workflow.
- Because your data stays your file: backup and restore are local, manual, and entirely under your control.
- Because invoices, optional X-Rechnung output, backups, and raw-data exports are available directly inside the app.
Prepared for billing and handoff
Instead of reconstructing billable work later, Trakara keeps the relevant time and pricing information structured from the start.
- Tracked time stays clearly assigned to the right client and project.
- Hourly rates can be stored at the right level for the work.
- PDF invoices can be created directly from existing time entries.
- A full JSON backup can snapshot every table, app setting, and invoice logo into a single file that is typically compact even for large histories.
- Restore is intentionally destructive and protected by a confirmation step so nobody overwrites live data by accident.
- Optional X-Rechnung output supports customers or public-sector workflows that require it.
- CSV and XLSX exports simplify handoff to accounting or finance workflows.
That keeps the path from tracked work to finished invoice short and auditable.
Data control instead of platform lock-in
The focus is on local storage, clear export paths, and a workflow without mandatory cloud infrastructure. That now also includes one-tap Backup & Restore in JSON: no cloud sync, no account, no upload, just a local file you decide where to keep.
FAQ
No. The positioning is explicitly local and offline-first, with no required account, no cloud dependency, and no telemetry pressure.
Yes. The supplied product material and description both position parallel timers as a core capability.
Yes. The export surface includes PDF invoices, optional X-Rechnung output, plus CSV and XLSX exports for downstream workflows.
Yes. Trakara now creates a single human-readable JSON backup with clients, projects, tasks, timers, sessions, invoices, line items, settings, and the invoice logo. You can restore that file on another device of the same Trakara version.
No. It is a manual full-data backup, not continuous sync. The file stays with you and restoring it replaces the existing data after an explicit confirmation step.
Primarily freelancers, consultants, and small teams that want clean hourly billing without moving work history into someone else's service.
The product positioning is local-first with no cloud requirement. Data only leaves the device when you explicitly export or share it as PDF, CSV, XLSX, X-Rechnung, or a JSON backup file.