Automatic time tracking for garage door technicians.
How a garage door technician's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A garage door technician's day is the opposite. You're swapping torsion springs and adjusting limit settings, switching between addresses like Residential driveways, Attached garages, Commercial loading docks, and doing tasks like Tensioning torsion springs, Replacing worn nylon rollers, Programming wireless keypads. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction garage door technicians tell us about
- Losing track of drive time between residential service calls when the day gets busy
- Forgetting to log the extra mileage for long-distance warehouse or commercial repairs
- Difficulty separating travel time from actual repair labor during back-to-back stops
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatic stop detection logs every driveway visit without needing to start a timer
- Automatic mileage log captures every trip between job sites for easy tax deductions
- Provides rounded billable hours instantly as you move from one garage to the next
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.