Time tracking that stays affordable
Punch in. Punch out. Get on with the work.
Puncha is lightweight time tracking for teams and freelancers. Hours land on projects, projects belong to clients, and everybody can see how far they are from their target - without a spreadsheet and without a price hike.
No credit card. A whole team is set up in about five minutes.
- 5 min from sign-up to the first tracked hour
- 0 € for freelancers, with every feature
- 1 command to punch in without leaving the terminal
Website relaunch
Acme GmbH · acme-website
02:14:08 Punch out
Thursday is a public holiday: off the target, not missing.
Features
Everything a timesheet needs. Nothing it doesn't.
We built Puncha because we needed it ourselves: a tool the whole team actually fills in, that answers the client question at the end of the month, and that costs what a time tracker should cost.
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Timers or plain numbers
Start a timer and switch projects as the day goes, or type the week's hours in on Friday. Both are first-class ways to work.
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Clients and projects
Every project belongs to a client, so a month of scattered hours turns into a clean breakdown per client.
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Teams and roles
Create a company profile, invite your team, and give everyone the role they need - from member to administrator.
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Made for freelancers too
Working alone? Skip the company setup entirely and keep the same clients, projects, targets and CLI.
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Public holidays included
Puncha knows the holidays where you live and takes them off your target, so a legitimately empty day never looks like a forgotten one.
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Weekly and monthly targets
Set the contracted hours per person and see who is on track long before payroll asks for the numbers.
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Reminders for the forgetful
Everybody forgets. When a month is running short of quota, Puncha sends one email listing the days that are still empty.
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A CLI for the terminal crowd
punch acme-website punchin. Same account, same data, no browser tab, no context switch.
Holidays & targets
An empty day is not always a missing day
Most time trackers treat every weekday the same and then nag you about the ones you left empty. Puncha knows your country of residence, marks its public holidays, and subtracts them from the target you agreed on.
What is left is a number that means something: the hours still owed this month, and the exact days they are missing from.
- Public holidays per country, and per region where they differ
- Weekly or monthly target hours, set per person
- One reminder email when the month runs short - not a daily nag
- Tracked
- Missing
- Public holiday
Command line
punch acme-website punchin
Half the team lives in a terminal, so Puncha ships a CLI. Start and stop a timer, or book a whole day at once, without reaching for the mouse.
It authenticates once and then talks to the same API as the web app, so an entry created from your shell shows up in the team's timesheet immediately.
- punchin and punchout for the running timer
- punch acme-website punch 8h adds a full day after the fact
- Project slugs you can remember, so there are no ids to copy around
$ punch acme-website punchin
Started acme-website at 09:02
$ punch acme-website punchout
Stopped at 12:16 · 3 h 14 m booked on Website relaunch
$ punch acme-website punch 8h
Added 8 h to acme-website for today
$ punch status
This month: 138 h of 160 h · 8 h holiday credit · 1 day missing
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Pricing
Priced like a tool, not like a subscription trap
Puncha exists because time tracking got expensive. We are not going to repeat that mistake.
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Solo
0 € forever, one person
For freelancers tracking their own hours.
- Unlimited clients and projects
- Public holidays for your country
- Weekly and monthly targets
- Full CLI access
- Most popular
Team
3 € per user / month
For teams that bill their hours.
- Everything in Solo
- Company profile, invitations and roles
- Targets and quota reminders per person
- Client and project reporting for the whole team
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Company
Let's talk annual agreement
For larger teams and specific requirements.
- Everything in Team
- Onboarding and data migration
- Priority support with agreed response times
- Dedicated EU instance or self-hosting
All prices exclude VAT. Puncha is in early access, so these figures are indicative: final pricing will be announced before general availability, and existing accounts get 30 days' notice of any change.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
A lightweight time tracking tool. You record hours on projects, projects belong to clients, and each person works against a weekly or monthly target. It is built and used every day by Zest Labs.
Still have a question?
Send us a message and we will get back to you, usually within one working day.
Close the month without chasing anyone
Create your account, add your first client, and punch in. Free for one person, a few euros a month for the team.