Automatic time tracking for handymen.

How a handyman's day actually looks

Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A handyman's day is the opposite. You're handling odd jobs and small renovations, switching between addresses like small residential repair calls, light carpentry and trim work, drywall patching and paint touch-ups, and doing tasks like mounting TVs, shelving, and fixtures, patching drywall and repainting, replacing and adjusting interior doors. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.

Friction handymen tell us about

• A full day is often 5–7 small addresses, each under 90 minutes, which is the exact pattern timer-based apps handle worst
• Clients push back on hourly invoices when they can't see what you were doing at each stop
• You forget which client got the 20-minute favor and which one was the 90-minute real job
• Multi-stop errand runs to the hardware store are hard to attribute honestly across clients

How TradesTimer handles it

• Every short stop is captured cleanly — a 20-minute call shows up exactly as 20 minutes
• Each address on the invoice preview gets its own line with a defensible arrival and leave time
• Clients see location-grouped time, which cuts down on 'why am I being billed for that?' emails
• Hardware store drives appear as their own trips you can assign or write off per client

Typical hourly rates

Handymen in North America typically bill between $60–120/hr . Typical North American handyman rate; specialized work (tile, carpentry) bills meaningfully higher. 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.