Automatic time tracking for mobile mechanics.
How a mobile mechanic's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A mobile mechanic's day is the opposite. You're diagnosing engine faults and performing roadside repairs, switching between addresses like customer driveways, corporate parking lots, roadside breakdown sites, and doing tasks like swapping brake pads, diagnosing OBD-II codes, recharging A/C systems. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction mobile mechanics tell us about
- Losing track of time spent stuck in heavy traffic between calls
- Difficulty proving exactly how long a roadside repair took when the customer is watching
- Missing mileage deductions for those long, unplanned detours to pick up parts
- The headache of tallying up service call fees versus actual wrench time at the end of a busy day
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically captures every roadside stop as a jobsite without you ever touching the phone
- Logs every mile driven between customers, ensuring you don't miss tax-deductible transit
- Reconstructs your entire day of repairs and travel, even when your hands are under a hood
- Provides rounded billable hours so you can quickly quote the next client
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.