The ultimate open-source time tracking management solution for freelancers: Kimai

Freelancers are often required to track their progress, time, invoices, and tasks in organized fashion to boost their productivity. It is not that easy to find one solution to do everything within one place. But, we are lucky with Kimai.

Kimai is the ultimate freelancing management solution, as it offers more than project and time management. It  includes invoices management, customer support, activities, expanses management and more.

It also contains, multi-user support, team management  and improved sharing and collaboration features and options which help freelancers build teams and track project progress.

Although, the project is branded as time-tracking software, It can work as project management solution in timely manner. This feature helps many coders to organize their project and work activities in a timely manner, which leads to better productivity and customer satisfaction.

Why do we like Kimai?

1. Track work progress
2. Timesheet management
3. Built-in invoicing with automated features
4. Customers manager
5. Teams management support
   

Features

1. Self-hosted
2. Invoicing
3. Informative dashboard
4. Time-tracking
5. Reporting and analytics
6. mobile-friendly
7. Timesheet manager
8. multi-languages support
9. Team support
10. Multi-projects support (advanced project manager)
11. Activities tracking
12. Invoice templates
13. Export invoices and reports in many formats
14. JSON REST-API
15. Docker installation support
16. LDAP, SMAL support
17. Statistics
18. Performance tracker
19. Third-party plugins and themes
20. Marketplace ready
21. Integration-ready with 3rd-party software
22. Archiving
23. Time-clock
24. Teams management

Technology stack

• PHP7
• Symfony 4
• Doctrine
• Flex
• Bootstrap
• Webpack

Resources

• https://www.kimai.org/