Automatic time tracking for painters.
How a painter's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A painter's day is the opposite. You're prepping surfaces and applying finishes, switching between addresses like Residential homes, Commercial offices, Retail storefronts, and doing tasks like Sanding and prepping surfaces, Taping and masking edges, Priming new drywall. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction painters tell us about
- Losing track of mileage during mid-day supply runs to the paint store
- Difficulty proving exact on-site duration for split-day jobs like prep vs. finish coats
- Unrecorded travel time between scattered residential clients in a single afternoon
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatic stop detection for every house and site visit
- Seamless mileage logging for every trip to the supply house or client
- Rounded billable hours calculated from every detected jobsite
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.