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Hubstaff and Toggl are known as two of the most widely used time tracking tools thanks to their robust features and excellent reliability.
Hubstaff offers a blend of time tracking and employee monitoring, productivity, timesheets, and payroll software that makes it easy to manage global teams of all sizes. Toggl offers time tracking, reporting features, and an intuitive interface that users love.
While you can’t go wrong with either of these industry-leading time tracking tools, each has its strengths that could make it the right fit for your team. Before we get started, let’s take a high-level look at Hubstaff vs. Toggl.
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Hubstaff vs Toggl: Feature by Feature
How do these two tools stack up against each other? Before we get into an in-depth breakdown, here are some key features of these time tracking software worth comparing:
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Timesheet management |
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Employee productivity |
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App and URL tracking |
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Task management |
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Reporting |
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Payroll |
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Employee scheduling |
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Invoicing |
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Ease of use |
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Voted best ease of use by Capterra |
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Time tracking and timesheets
Hubstaff’s intuitive time tracking features make it easy for global teams of freelancers, independent contractors, and full-time employees to track time. From there, users can track across the desktop app, web, and mobile and seamlessly convert this time into detailed, itemized timesheets.
Like Hubstaff, Toggl’s time tracking allows you to set reminders for weekly limits, start and stop times, and more. However, creating and approving timesheets isn’t as straightforward as it is with Hubstaff.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Productivity measurement and activity monitoring
Hubstaff provides employee monitoring features like optional screenshots, URL and app usage, and idle detection. It also measures activity data based on keyboard and mouse activity. With the new Insights add-on, you can view and compare industry-standard activity benchmarks in real time.
Toggl Track has a feature that automatically records websites and apps you’ve visited for more than 10 seconds. Teams can turn this time tracking data into accurate time entries. That said, it lacks the employee monitoring features and advanced performance analytics Hubstaff offers.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Project and task management
Project managers can leverage time and team productivity metrics to plan and manage better projects in Hubstaff’s task management add-on Hubstaff Tasks. Sort work into Kanban boards, Sprints, and other views and create task dependencies and rules to streamline project management.
Toggl Plan offers similar flexibility in project management with Kanban boards, timelines, and other views. Like Hubstaff, Toggl Plan and Toggl Track pair nicely for time-related insights, but neither provides insights into employee productivity beyond basic hours tracking.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Reporting and analytics
Hubstaff has a fully customizable dashboard with real-time widgets for hours worked, PTO, employee activity tracking, and other workforce analytics insights. You can also take a hands-off approach to management by scheduling up to 20+ different reports on time and activity, attendance, and more.
Toggl doesn’t have a dashboard and only offers three reports: Summary, Detailed, And Weekly. You can filter by user, task, or project and export them as a PDF or CSV and deploy them via email.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Automated payroll
Hubstaff converts tracked time into timesheets and timesheets into payments with ease. Use Hubstaff Pay to pay freelancers, contractors, and employees. Alternatively, you can utilize integrations with premier payroll platforms like PayPal, Wise, and Deel to pay teams on their preferred platform right from Hubstaff.
Toggl markets itself as a payroll tracker and does do a great job of creating beautiful, accurate time records and timesheets — but you can’t pay your team right from the platform.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Shift Scheduling
Manage overtime costs, PTO, paid and unpaid breaks, and more with Hubstaff’s scheduling features. Use insights from the Hubstaff dashboard to see your team’s most productive hours to plan schedules for peak efficiency.
Toggl Plan lets users create drag-and-drop timelines for better project management, but it lacks true scheduling for shift-based work.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Automatic invoicing
Create your own invoices with custom line items, branding, and expense tracking. Once you’re finished, you can email them right from the Hubstaff web app. Or, use an integration with QuickBooks, Bitwage, FreshBooks, or another preferred platform.
Toggl Track enables you to track billable hours, but you can’t send invoices directly. You’ll have to export and upload data to your accounting software and look to integrations with tools like Xero, Spidergap, or Zoho Books.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Live customer support
With 24/7 live support, an expansive support site, and a concierge for enterprise teams, Hubstaff provides premiere customer support.
While Toggl has beautiful UI/UX, their lack of 24/7 live customer support is cause for concern for teams outside of Europe. Weekend coverage is signficatnyl reduced as well.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Ease of use
Hubstaff’s ease of use across the web, desktop, mobile, and even Google Chrome extensions sets it apart from its competitors. You can seamlessly switch between your computer, mobile device, or tablet without losing a second of tracked time.
Toggl offers a sleek, intuitive time tracking interface, but the inability to pay teams directly from the app brings an added layer of confusion to an otherwise great time tracker.
Winner: Hubstaff
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Integration options
Hubstaff seamlessly integrates with over 35 tools for payroll, project management, CRM, and more. You can also use the Hubstaff Tasks add-on to combine project management and time tracking.
Like Hubstaff, Toggl Track and Toggl Plan integrate nicely for tracking time to projects. While Hubstaff’s integration capabilities are impressive, Toggl offers over 100 integrations to take your time tracking operations to new heights.
Winner: Toggl
Customer satisfaction speaks volumes
G2 data shows Hubstaff leads with overall impression/product direction, overall satisfaction, and in the time tracking category. Toggl has more reviews and a slightly higher G2 rating.
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What our customers say
“We work in a lot of different industries, so I can’t always know what’s a 45-minute task and what’s a four-hour task. With tools like Hubstaff, you can tell. You then decide if a whole project should’ve taken 16 hours or if someone is just not the right fit.”
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OneIMS President and Founder
“We believe — just like Hubstaff — that talent is everywhere and people should be able to work any time, anywhere, even in their pajamas,” says Kothari. “As a company, we believe in the same future of work as Hubstaff, which is great because our values align.”
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Hubstaff vs. Toggl: The final verdict
When it comes to time tracking, you can’t go wrong with Toggl or Hubstaff. Intuitive interfaces and flexibility across an array of devices and time tracking methods make both tools premier options in the time tracking space. However, if you’re looking for more than a time tracking tool, there are some key differences worth considering:
Hubstaff is best for:
Employee monitoring
Payroll
Employee productivity
Workforce analytics
Toggl is best for:
Easy onboarding and intuitive time tracking for small teams
Seamless integration into your existing tech stack
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