Automatic time tracking for landscapers.
How a landscaper's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A landscaper's day is the opposite. You're mowing lawns, planting beds, and installing hardscapes, switching between addresses like Residential yards, Commercial properties, HOA common areas, and doing tasks like Mowing and edging, Mulching and weeding, Paver and stone installation. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction landscapers tell us about
- Losing track of drive time between distant residential properties
- Forgetting to log the extra trip to the nursery for mulch or sod
- Difficulty justifying billable hours when stops are short and frequent
- Missing out on tax deductions because of unrecorded mileage between sites
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically detects every yard stop without manual timers
- Captures every mile driven between clients for easy tax exporting
- Turns a scattered day of maintenance into rounded billable hours
- Creates a seamless mileage log of all trips to nurseries and job sites
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.