Automatic time tracking for electricians.
How a electrician's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A electrician's day is the opposite. You're pulling wire and troubleshooting panels, switching between addresses like residential service calls, new-build rough-in, panel upgrades in occupied homes, and doing tasks like running circuits and pulling wire, troubleshooting dead outlets and intermittent faults, sizing and installing panel upgrades. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction electricians tell us about
- Service calls are 45 minutes at one address, then 2 hours at the next — easy to lose half-hour increments in memory
- Diagnostic work on stubborn faults balloons past the quote and you need defensible time to justify the extra line
- Rough-in days jump between unit A, B, and C of the same subdivision and the addresses blur together by Friday
- Permit inspectors arrive unannounced and wreck whatever rhythm you had going
How TradesTimer handles it
- Every stop at every address is captured to the minute without you reaching for the phone
- Ballooned diagnostic time shows up as a long, confirmed stop you can point to in the invoice
- Subdivision unit visits land on the timeline as separate stops with their own duration
- Interruptions don't cost you billable time because you never had to start the timer in the first place
Typical hourly rates
Electricians in North America typically bill between $85–175/hr . Typical North American residential service range; journeyman vs master, and region, swing the number materially. At those rates, even 30 minutes of lost billable time a week is real money — and the free version of TradesTimer is built around recovering exactly that time, with no subscription required.
Rate range as of 2026-04-15.
Free. The whole app.
The whole time-tracking app is free — no trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees. (Encrypted cloud backup is on the roadmap.)
- Automatic day reconstruction from background GPS
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit any block
- Rounded billable-hours summary, shareable as plain text
- Automatic mileage log, exportable for taxes
- 7-day summary view
- All location data stays on your device
Your location history stays on your phone.
There is no TradesTimer server storing your location trails. No account. No sign-up. Your GPS history lives on the device that recorded it — for as long as you want it. The only time anything leaves your phone is when you choose to share your billable-hours summary yourself.
The app does not talk to any third-party service with your location. Nothing about where you've been is uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy for the full detail.