Toggl costs $10/user/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $360 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$10/user/month is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Timevault: the pay-once alternative
Timevault does the same core job for $29, once. Self-hosted time tracking — one-click timers, hourly rates, weekly timesheets, billable reports.
| Timevault | Toggl | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 once | $10/user/month |
| Cost over 3 years | $29 | $360 |
| Your data lives | Your server / your PC | Their cloud |
| Billable rates & totals | Yes | Yes |
| Report rounding (5/15 min) | Yes | Paid tier |
| Overlap detection | Yes | No |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Source code | MIT, yours | Closed |
Three months of Toggl pays for Timevault outright — after that, every tracked hour is pure margin.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Toggl's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Timevault is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Timevault — $29, once
Self-hosted time tracking — one-click timers, hourly rates, weekly timesheets, billable reports.