A time tracking app with Flutter

a time tracking app that respects your privacy and gets the job done without getting too fancy.

motivation

i’d rather not do time-tracking at all, but since its a necessity for my work, it’s either use an app or keep track of things manually (which i’m terrible at). there are many time tracking apps on the app stores (and i have tried several of them), but each of them has at least one pain point that eventually drives me off—some cost more money than i think they should, others have (what i consider) poorly designed interfaces, some are way too complicated, some don’t export data easily, most require an internet connection, i have privacy concerns with a large number of them, etc, etc.

time tracking in and of itself is rather straightforward (hence all the apps on the app stores), so i figured “why not use this as an opportunity to practice mobile development and learn some new things?”. this app is the result of that question—its a tool that i use every day for work, but also a sample project to work off of and share with others.

features

• offline-only, mobile-only (ios / android)
• fully private—there is no tracking / spying / advertising / etc
• keep track of tasks with multiple parallel timers that can be started with the tap of a button
• associate timers with projects to group your work (or don’t)
• start, stop, edit, and delete timers whenever with no fuss
• export data as a .csv file, filtered by timespans and projects
• export the app’s database for full access to all of its data
• automatic light mode / dark mode based on your device settings
• localized in several languages (thanks to google translate): english, arabic, german, spanish, french, hindi, indonesian, japanese, korean, portuguese, russian, chinese (simplified), chinese (traditional)
• open source (licensed under apache-2.0)—download away!

localizations

translations are handled using project fluent. currently all translations (except english) were auto-translated by google translate using my translate tool. if you notice any incorrect strings, i would love to know about it so that it can be fixed asap. similarly, if you want to add a language, please do!