Clock Clerk vs Clockify: an honest comparison
Clockify is a time tracker, with a timer on every device and a low price per seat. Clock Clerk is built around the monthly sign-off: boards, client threads, approvals and invoices made from the approved hours. Here is where each one wins.
Checked against Clockify's published plans and help pages in November 2026. Plans and prices change, so confirm them on Clockify's own site before you buy.
Side by side, question by question
| Question | Clock Clerk | Clockify |
|---|---|---|
| Timesheet approvals | Every plan, Free included. One reviewer approves each person's calendar month. Approved hours are locked, and a send-back carries its reason. | Standard and up. People submit a week or a month; approved time cannot be edited until the approval is withdrawn. |
| Project boards | Every plan. A board per project with your own columns; each card has an hour estimate and its own thread. No Gantt, sprints or dependencies. | Not in Clockify. Boards and tasks are Plaky, a separate product from the same company, bought on its own or in a bundle. |
| Client collaboration | Starter and up. Clients join a project's threads as guests, at no charge. They do not see boards, hours or invoices in the app. | No client role that we could find. Clients see time through reports you export or share with them. |
| Invoices from approved time | Team. A draft takes the client's approved, billable hours at your rates and locks them while the invoice stands. US dollars, one tax rate, no online payment. | Standard and up. An invoice imports tracked time and expenses by client, project and dates. We found no setting that limits it to approved time. |
| Timer and mobile app | Neither. Hours are typed per day and task in the browser, which fits a phone screen. No timer, idle detection or app to install. | Every plan. A timer on the web, desktop, phones and a browser extension, with idle detection, and a kiosk for clocking in. |
| Scheduling and time off | No. A holiday calendar lowers targets on public holidays, but there is no capacity plan, leave request or balance. | Paid plans. Time off with balances from Standard; scheduling people onto projects on the higher plans. |
| Accounting export | Team. Hours, costs and expenses go to QuickBooks Online or Desktop; Enterprise adds other ERPs. Invoices stay in Clock Clerk. | Standard and up. Integrations with QuickBooks and Xero. |
| Who is charged | Only the people who log hours that month. Approvers, administrators, finance readers and client guests are free. | Every user. Owners, administrators, managers and members each take a paid seat; kiosk-only seats cost less. |
| Free plan | Up to 3 people, 10 active projects and 20 clients, with approvals, boards and expenses. | Up to 5 users, without approvals or invoicing. |
| Sign-in and single sign-on | Single sign-on from Starter, at $3 a filer: Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or any OpenID Connect provider. Free signs in with a password, with two-step sign-in and passkeys. Provisioning from Okta or Entra ID over SCIM is on Enterprise. | Enterprise only. Single sign-on through SAML or OAuth comes with Clockify's Enterprise plan and with none of the plans below it. |
What it costs a 15-person company
Fifteen people who all log time, on the cheapest plan of each that has both timesheet approvals and invoicing. Clockify's list prices as published in October 2026.
| Product and plan | Per person / month | 15 people / month | 15 people / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clock Clerk Starter, for up to 15 people who log hours: approvals, boards, expenses and client threads, without invoices | $3 | $45 | $540 |
| Clock Clerk Team: adds invoices, contractors and the QuickBooks export | $6 | $90 | $1,080 |
| Clock Clerk Team, when 3 of the 15 only approve and log no hours | $6 | $72 | $864 |
| Clockify Standard, billed annually | $5.49 | $82.35 | $988.20 |
| Clockify Standard, billed monthly | $6.99 | $104.85 | $1,258.20 |
| Clockify Pro, billed annually: adds scheduling, labor cost and budgets | $7.99 | $119.85 | $1,438.20 |
Clock Clerk bills each month for the people who logged hours in it. There is no annual plan, so there is no annual discount either. List prices in US dollars, before tax.
Clockify, Paymo, Productive, Scoro, ClickUp and Workday are trademarks of their owners, who have not reviewed or endorsed this page. Their plans and prices are given as published on the date at the top.
When Clockify is the better choice
Clockify is a time tracker first, and a good one. Choose it over Clock Clerk if any of these is what you need.
A timer on every device
Clockify runs a start-and-stop timer in the browser, on the desktop, on phones and in a browser extension, and notices when you go idle. Clock Clerk has no timer and no app to install.
Shifts, attendance or field work
A kiosk for clocking in, attendance and overtime, and GPS on the higher plans. Clock Clerk records hours per task, not a start and an end time.
Planning people's weeks ahead
Clockify schedules people onto projects and tracks time off with balances. Clock Clerk records the hours that were worked and has no leave requests.
Weekly approval, or the lowest seat price
Clockify can approve a week at a time, and its annual Standard plan costs less per person than Clock Clerk Team. Clock Clerk approves by calendar month.
When Clock Clerk is the better choice
Clock Clerk is narrower than Clockify, and the narrowness is the point: the work, the talk about it and the hours sit in one place and are signed off once a month.
Your managers approve but do not track
Clockify charges for every member, managers included. Clock Clerk charges only the people who logged hours that month, so reviewers, administrators and finance cost nothing.
Your projects live on boards
Every Clock Clerk plan has a board per project, with each card's thread and hours on it. With Clockify, boards are a second product.
Clients are part of the conversation
Invite a client into a project's threads as a guest, free of charge, and keep the decisions next to the work they are about.
An invoice must match what was approved
A Clock Clerk draft is built from approved hours and locks them for as long as it stands, so a bill and a timesheet cannot drift apart.
Asked while comparing
Can I bring my Clockify history into Clock Clerk?
Not as hours. On Team and Enterprise, Clock Clerk imports tasks from Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello and Notion, but no plan imports time entries from another tracker. Most teams start on the first day of a new month and keep Clockify's reports for the months before it.
Is Clock Clerk cheaper than Clockify?
It depends on who logs time. For 15 people who all do, Clock Clerk Team costs a little more than Clockify Standard billed annually and less than it billed monthly. The more people only approve or read reports, the cheaper Clock Clerk gets, because they are not charged.
Why does a Clock Clerk page say where the other product is better?
Because a trial would show you the gaps anyway, a week later. These pages are checked against each product's published plans and help pages on the date at the top. If something here is wrong or has changed, write to us and we will correct it.
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