Tempo Timesheets is the time tracking tool most Jira teams try first. At first glance, it has everything: worklogs, timesheet approval, comprehensive reporting. It’s also a more reputable player than most apps on this list, and some large companies simply feel safer with it.
But Tempo lives in its own ecosystem. Resource planning is Tempo Planner, financial tracking and budget management are Financial Manager, and every piece has its own price tag. Many teams start looking for a Jira Tempo alternative when they notice they’re paying for three apps to answer one question: where did our time go?
Here are five Jira time tracking apps that people often pick as an alternative to Tempo, and how to choose between them.
How to choose a Tempo alternative
These apps solve different problems, so start with your specific needs.
- You just want to track time and get clear reports. A focused time tracking solution with a minimal learning curve is enough, especially for small teams. Key features to check: how easy it is to log time, and whether reports show who logged what and when, like an activity timeline.
- You care about money. Look for cost tracking with hourly rates and expenses tied to time entries.
- You also manage workload. Pick a tool where time tracking and resource planning use the same data, instead of syncing two apps.
- You run complex projects in a big organization. Check approvals, permissions and advanced features before you switch.
- You want to keep your existing tools. Look at integration capabilities and whether the app fits your Jira workflows instead of replacing them.
App | Resource planning | Cost & budget | Best for |
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Planyway | ✅ | ✅ | Planning and time tracking in one tool |
7pace Timetracker | ❌ | ✅ | Automatic time suggestions, approvals and solid reports |
JetTime | ❌ | ✅ | Small teams that care about data privacy |
Time & Cost Tracker (SaaSJet) | ❌ | ✅ | Cost-focused teams |
Worklogs (SolDevelo) | ❌ | ❌ | Filtering and exporting worklogs at a lower price |
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1. Planyway
Planyway is an all-in-one app for cross-project management for Jira Cloud and Data Center, and time tracking is part of it, not a separate plugin. You plan tasks, see the team’s capacity, track time, and report on it directly in one tool. So, it's like all Tempo products in one app, for one price.
Planyway seamlessly integrates with Jira, and everything stays in sync with Jira worklogs.
- Log time your way. Start a timer, enter manual time, or add time entries from the work item, a list, the calendar view, or a timesheet. Logging is super easy, wherever the work happens. Hours can be marked billable or non-billable, so you can separate work for clients from internal time.
- Time plus workload across multiple projects. See every person’s workload on one timeline, spot overloads with utilization bars, and drag tasks to rebalance resource allocation. Time off, holidays and part-time schedules adjust capacity automatically.
- Reports. Tracked time, timesheets with approvals, planned vs tracked, workload and costs & revenue. Check progress against the plan, filter the data, and export customized reports to Excel, CSV or PDF. They give you real productivity insights and show where team productivity drops.
- Everything you need to plan and manage projects in one app. Resource management, roadmaps, time tracking & reports, Gantt, portfolios, and cost management are brought together in one app.
- Learning curve. The interface is intuitive and minimal, so new teammates can start without training.
- Pricing. Free version for up to 10 users, then a per-user rate that gets lower as the team grows. Time tracking, planning, portfolios, and roadmaps are all included.
Where it’s lighter than Tempo: financial reporting is simpler (no invoicing), and there are no specialized features like skills and roles management.
Best for: teams that want time management and planning in one tool, without paying for several apps.
2. 7pace Timetracker
7pace comes from Appfire. It has a long track record in Azure DevOps and monday.com, and it arrived on the Jira Marketplace more recently. Its main idea is cutting down manual time tracking. The app suggests worklogs, so people don’t have to rebuild their week from memory on Friday afternoon. Automatic time suggestions and a duplicate option for repeat entries make logging fast, and calendar sync with Google and Outlook helps cover meetings.
Key features:
- Flexible time entry. Log time in a Jira issue, a calendar, a timesheet, or weekly and monthly views, and edit or delete worklogs quickly.
- Timesheet approval. People submit timesheets, managers approve or reject them, and past periods can be locked to protect financial data. That’s an advanced feature many smaller tools skip.
- Billable hours and cost categories. Custom fields capture billable time, CapEx/OpEx and activity types on each worklog.
- Budgets. Categorized worklog data helps manage spending, and you can compare estimates with actual time.
- Reports. Filter and group data in one place, export it, or pull it via the Reporting API for productivity insights and audit-ready logs.
- Capacity. Planning isn’t built in. It integrates with BigPicture to combine tracked time with team capacity.
The page doesn’t list prices, but there’s a free trial. It seamlessly integrates with Jira workflows, so time tracking feels like part of the product.
Best for: teams that want automatic time suggestions, approvals and detailed time reports without a heavy setup.
3. JetTime
JetTime is built on Atlassian Forge, so it runs entirely on Atlassian infrastructure and your time data stays within your Jira instance. Data residency settings apply automatically. That’s a real plus if you work with strict security requirements or sensitive client data.
Key features:
- Timers and manual entries. Start and stop timers right on the work item, even several at once.
- Timesheets. Break time down by day, week, month or quarter.
- Custom time categories. Billable time, billable overtime, travel and whatever else your team needs.
- Cost tracking. Log costs and financial data and see totals in reports.
- Reports. Multi-level breakdowns, per-client reports, filtering by Jira fields or a saved JQL filter, and roll-up from sub-task to portfolio level, with export to PDF, Excel and CSV.
- Custom metrics. Track any number, like mileage or material quantities, which is a specialized feature you won’t find in most time trackers.
The vendor says it’s free for up to 10 users. The page doesn’t mention approvals, and advanced budgeting is limited compared to enterprise tools, so it fits small teams better than large enterprises.
Best for: teams that want cost effective time and cost tracking with data privacy built in.
4. Time & Cost Tracker (SaaSJet)
This app starts from the money side. Its idea is simple: project cost equals logged hours times hourly rates, plus direct expenses. If your main question is budget tracking and financial tracking rather than workload, it’s worth a look.
Key features:
- Rates. Set hourly and billing rates per person with effective dates, so changes in pay don’t distort old reports.
- Expenses. Add one-time and recurring direct expenses and link them to a project or a user.
- Cost reports. Generate reports for any scope and period, use JQL filters, and visualize them in charts. You can compare budget vs actual in depth.
- Forecasts. Plan costs for sprints, releases or departments based on estimates and team rates.
- Time tracking widget. Log time on Jira issues and see it converted into money.
- Access control. Limit who sees financial data.
It can also work with other time trackers, which is handy if you want to keep your existing tools for logging. It isn’t meant for planning who does what.
Best for: teams and agencies that bill clients and want financial tracking tied to time spent.
5. Worklogs by SolDevelo
Worklogs - Time Tracking and Time Reports focuses on the reporting side. Jira’s built-in reports don’t show time per person across projects, and this app fills that gap. It’s been around for years and has thousands of installs.
Key features:
- Time logging. Log time in Worklogs or directly in Jira issues, with comments in a work description field.
- Flexible reports. Group by user, project, issue or period, switch between table, bar chart and pie chart views, and drill down to single worklog entries.
- Export. Download reports as Excel files to share with clients or managers.
- Dashboard gadget. Put reports on a Jira dashboard.
- Permissions. Choose who can see the data.
It has limited features on purpose. There’s no planning and no cost or budget tracking, and approvals aren’t part of the pitch. There’s a 30-day trial, and users often call it an inexpensive option.
Best for: teams that mostly need to dig deeper into logged time and export it for clients or internal reviews.
Which Tempo alternative is right for you?
- Time tracking and resource planning in one tool: Planyway.
- Automatic time suggestions and billable hours reporting: 7pace.
- Data staying in your Jira instance: JetTime.
- Cost reports first: Time & Cost Tracker.
- Simple, affordable time reports: Worklogs.
If approvals and invoicing are non-negotiable for a large organization, Tempo may still be the right call. Most of these time tracking apps offer free trials, so the easiest way to decide is to run your top two next to your current setup for one sprint.
