# The 8 best time tracking apps for electricians in 2026 By **Jeff** · Updated October 15, 2026 Canonical HTML: · App Store: > An electrician's day is five addresses, a van, a supplier counter and a phone that has to work with dusty hands. The right app logs hours per job site without a login screen, keeps the receipt for the breaker bought on the way, and turns the week into an invoice without re-typing. This guide compares eight iPhone apps on exactly those points, with ratings checked on the US App Store. ## Quick answer Quick answer: Jobber and ServiceM8 are the strongest choices for an electrical business with a crew and an office that schedules the day. HoursTracker is the simplest way to keep an exportable log of hours if someone else does the billing. For a self-employed electrician, or one with a helper, who quotes and invoices clients directly, iTimeSheet is our pick: hours per job site, receipts attached to the site, and invoices built from the same entries on the phone. The usual trap is to pick an app for the business you might become rather than the one you run. Field-service suites are impressive in a demo, but a one-person shop pays for dispatch screens nobody opens, while a bare clock-in app leaves the receipts and the invoice to a Sunday evening with a spreadsheet. We looked for the app that matches the size of the business and the way the day actually unfolds between the van, the site and the supplier. We compared eight apps on the US App Store on the criteria below, using only what each listing and product states, and we note ratings with the date we read them. iTimeSheet is our app; we held it to the same criteria and we are precise about its limits, including the cases where another app on this list is the better choice. ## What to look for Electricians do not work at a desk, so we weighted the criteria toward what happens between 7 am and 6 pm rather than toward dashboards. - **Works with the phone in a pocket** — Starting and stopping from the Lock Screen, a widget or the wrist decides whether the hours get logged at all. If it takes an unlock and three taps, logging stops by Wednesday. - **Hours land on the right job site** — A day often spans a kitchen rewire, a fuse-board upgrade and an emergency call. Switching sites should take one tap and save the previous entry without a prompt. - **Receipts stay attached to the site** — The supplier receipt for cable and sockets belongs to one site, not to a generic expense pile. If it is not attached, it rarely makes it onto the invoice. - **From hours to invoice without re-typing** — Quotes, deposits, invoices and credit notes follow the same job. An app that only logs time leaves the billing to another tool and another evening. - **Keeps working without signal** — Meter cupboards, basements and plant rooms often have no network. The app has to keep running and must not lose the entry. - **Client data stays under your control** — A list of who you worked for, where and for how much is the business itself. We favored apps that keep it on the phone or let you leave without losing it. ## The ranking _App Store ratings checked on October 15, 2026 (US App Store)._ ### 1. iTimeSheet: Best for solo electricians who invoice — _5.0 ★ · 1 ratings · US App Store_ **Built around the job site, not around a team dashboard** iTimeSheet organizes work as Client, Mission and Task, which for an electrician reads as client, job site and phase. The hourly rate is set once on the client, every site and phase inherits it, and a single entry can be overridden when an evening call-out bills at a different rate. The timer starts with one tap from the app, the Apple Watch or, on Pro, a Home Screen widget, the Lock Screen or the Dynamic Island. Switching to the next site saves the previous entry with its duration. Expenses are where most time trackers stop. On Pro, a photo of the supplier receipt is attached to an expense pinned to the job site, so it sits next to that site's hours. Pro ships fourteen ready-made categories such as mileage, parking and hardware, and there is no preset for parts or materials, so an electrician creates that category once. On Studio, the Invoices tab shows the un-invoiced amount per client and generates the PDF in one tap with a logo, sequential numbering, the US invoice layout and payment details, along with quotes, deposit invoices at 20, 30 or 50 percent of a quote, credit notes and overdue reminders. The final invoice does not deduct deposits automatically; they have to be accounted for by hand. Data stays on the phone: no account, no vendor server, no analytics SDK and no ads. Manual iCloud backup is available on every tier, and an automatic daily iCloud backup starts with Essential. The limits are real: iPhone and Apple Watch only, one user, no web dashboard, no real-time sync between devices, no customizable invoice templates and no QuickBooks connector, only a configurable CSV export. - **Strengths:** One-tap timer on iPhone and Apple Watch, plus widgets, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island on Pro; offline Watch taps are backdated when back in range; Receipt photos attached to expenses pinned to the job site on Pro; Quotes, deposit invoices, credit notes, overdue reminders and paid or unpaid tracking on Studio; No account and no vendor cloud; a free tier with 3 clients to try the workflow - **Limits:** iPhone and Apple Watch only: no Android, no web app and no iPad version yet; Single user: no crew scheduling, dispatch or shared client list; No accounting connector; CSV export only; Relaunched in July 2026, so very few ratings on the US store so far - **Best for:** A self-employed electrician, or one with a helper, who bills clients directly and wants quotes, hours, receipts and invoices in one place on the phone. - **Pricing:** Free to start (3 clients, 2 entries a day). Essential $4.99/mo or $29.99/yr adds unlimited entries, CSV and PDF export and automatic backup. Pro $7.99/mo or $59.99/yr adds receipt photos and widgets. Studio $9.99/mo or $89.99/yr adds the full invoicing workflow; it has no free trial, but a watermarked invoice preview shows the PDF with real data first. > ★★★★★ **A very useful app!** — « I started out with the lite version & liked this app so much I purchased the full app. Im just a blue collar worker servicing 1/2 a dozen accounts a day within 100 miles of my plants location. I was having problems with overtime because my work load had been increased but I was expected to stay under 40 hours because the supervisors "thought" a certain service call "should" only take so much time. Using iTimesheet I was able to track my complete day from clocking in to work, arrivals & departures at clients, lunch breaks & clocking out at the end of the day. I then exported all this info to excel & after a couple of months I was able to complie all this information to help my company stop the guess work concerning how long it should take to service a client & make us more efficient by showing the actual service times. This created an average that we now use to determine labor cost & service charges. I came out smellin' like a rose! » > — doodude, App Store review · United States · 2009 ### 2. Jobber: Best for contractors running a crew _Octopusapp Inc · 4.8 ★ · 21,250 ratings · US App Store_ **The field-service suite, when there is an office behind the vans** Jobber covers the whole cycle of a service business: quotes, scheduling and dispatch, invoices, payments and QuickBooks sync, on monthly plans built for a business with a crew. If several technicians need to be routed and an office needs to see every job, it does far more than iTimeSheet ever will. For one person, much of what the subscription pays for goes unused. - **Strengths:** Scheduling, dispatch, quotes, invoices and payments in one account; QuickBooks sync; Well above four stars on more than twenty thousand US ratings - **Limits:** Monthly plans priced for a business, not a sole trader; Account required; client data lives on the vendor's servers; Heavy for a one-person shop - **Best for:** An electrical contractor with two or more vans and someone in the office who schedules the day. - **Pricing:** Subscription ### 3. ServiceM8: Best for job cards and quotes _Eroldawn Pty Ltd · 4.5 ★ · 848 ratings · US App Store_ **Job management written for the trades** ServiceM8 names electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians and locksmiths as its audience. It handles job cards, quotes, staff locations, invoicing and payments, on a subscription with an account. Compared with iTimeSheet, it is the better fit when the work needs to be assigned to staff and tracked as jobs; time tracking is one feature among many rather than the center of the product. - **Strengths:** Trade-specific from the start: job cards and quotes; Invoicing and payments included; Staff locations for a business with technicians - **Limits:** Subscription plus account; data on the vendor's servers; Time tracking is not the core of the product; More admin than a one-person business needs - **Best for:** A small electrical business that wants job cards, quotes and staff tracking as much as hours. - **Pricing:** Subscription ### 4. Tradify: Best for growing teams on Xero _Tradify Limited · 4.8 ★ · 179 ratings · US App Store_ **Quotes, scheduling and timesheets for one to twenty people** Tradify describes itself as job management for businesses of one to twenty people: quoting, scheduling, invoicing and timesheets, with QuickBooks and Xero sync. It is a reasonable middle ground between a bare time tracker and a full dispatch platform, and it beats iTimeSheet clearly on accounting sync and staff timesheets, as long as a subscription and an account are acceptable. - **Strengths:** Quotes, invoices, scheduling and timesheets together; Xero and QuickBooks sync; Sized for one to twenty people - **Limits:** Subscription, account and vendor cloud; Built around jobs and staff rather than one person's hours; Pricing aimed at a company - **Best for:** A growing electrical business that already uses Xero or QuickBooks and wants quotes and timesheets in one place. - **Pricing:** Subscription ### 5. Joist: Best for fixed-price estimates _Joist Software Inc. · 4.8 ★ · 14,324 ratings · US App Store_ **Estimates and invoices from the driveway, but no timer** Joist is a contractor's estimate and invoice maker: build the quote on site, collect the client's e-signature on the phone, take payment and send the invoice. It does not track hours at all, so it pairs with a time tracker rather than replacing one. For electricians who mostly sell fixed-price jobs, that split can be exactly right. - **Strengths:** Fast estimates and invoices on the phone; Client e-signature and payments; Free plan to start - **Limits:** No time tracking; Account required; documents live on the vendor's servers; Useful extras sit in paid plans - **Best for:** Electricians who sell fixed-price jobs and want a signed estimate before leaving the house. - **Pricing:** Free plan, paid plans ### 6. HoursTracker: Best for a plain, exportable hours log _Cribasoft, LLC · 4.8 ★ · 56,323 ratings · US App Store_ **The clock-in veteran with geofenced reminders** HoursTracker logs jobs and shifts with breaks and pay, and exports CSV. Its useful trick for an electrician is the geofence: a job site's location triggers a reminder to clock in on arrival and out on departure. It has no invoicing and no receipt photos, so billing happens elsewhere. An account is only needed for the optional cloud backup, and it carries more US ratings than any other app in this guide. - **Strengths:** Geofenced clock-in and clock-out reminders; Breaks, pay and CSV export; No account needed unless you want cloud backup - **Limits:** No invoicing and no receipt photos; Job-based rather than client, site and phase; Billing has to happen in another tool - **Best for:** An electrician paid by the hour by a contractor who needs an accurate, exportable log. - **Pricing:** Free with in-app purchase ### 7. Time Squared: Best for photos and mileage per job _TSQ Publishing Corp. · 4.9 ★ · 2,430 ratings · US App Store_ **Hours, mileage and photos per project, for an invoice made elsewhere** Time Squared sits between a plain hours log and a job tool: projects and tasks, GPS punch in and out, mileage, photo attachments and project reports meant to feed an invoice created in another app. The free tier shows ads and a premium subscription removes them. It is the closest app here to the idea of expenses attached to a job, without the invoice itself. - **Strengths:** Projects with photo attachments and mileage; GPS punch in and out; Project reports to support an invoice - **Limits:** No invoices generated in the app; Free tier carries ads; Premium features need a subscription - **Best for:** Someone who wants photos and mileage attached to each job but already has an invoicing tool. - **Pricing:** Free with in-app purchase ### 8. atWork: Best for employed electricians _Sergej Steinbach · 4.8 ★ · 3,832 ratings · US App Store_ **A simple hours and pay tracker in 22 languages** atWork is the plain, well-made option for hours and pay: clock in and out, or use Siri, then export CSV, Excel or PDF timesheets. It backs up to iCloud, has an Apple Watch app and needs no account. There is no invoicing and no expense tracking, which is fine for an employed electrician who simply wants a personal record of hours. - **Strengths:** No account, iCloud backup and Apple Watch; CSV, Excel and PDF timesheets; Available in 22 languages - **Limits:** No invoicing or receipt photos; Job and client rather than site and phase; Extra features are an in-app purchase - **Best for:** An employed electrician keeping a personal record of hours and pay. - **Pricing:** Free with in-app purchase ## Side by side | App | Account required | Where your data lives | Invoices | Receipt photos | Platforms | Pricing | Rating | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | iTimeSheet | No | Your iPhone (your iCloud for backup) | Yes (Studio) | Yes (Pro) | iPhone + Apple Watch | Free plan, paid plans | 5.0 ★ (1) | | Jobber | Yes | Vendor's servers | Yes | — | iPhone + web/other | Subscription | 4.8 ★ (21,250) | | ServiceM8 | Yes | Vendor's servers | Yes | — | iPhone + web/other | Subscription | 4.5 ★ (848) | | Tradify | Yes | Vendor's servers | Yes | — | iPhone + web/other | Subscription | 4.8 ★ (179) | | Joist | Yes | Vendor's servers | Yes | — | iPhone + web/other | Free plan, paid plans | 4.8 ★ (14,324) | | HoursTracker | Optional | Your iPhone; optional cloud | No | — | iPhone + web/other | Free with in-app purchase | 4.8 ★ (56,323) | | Time Squared | Optional | Your iPhone; optional cloud | No | Yes | iPhone | Free with in-app purchase | 4.9 ★ (2,430) | | atWork | No | Your iPhone (your iCloud for backup) | No | — | iPhone + Apple Watch | Free with in-app purchase | 4.8 ★ (3,832) | _App Store ratings checked on October 15, 2026 (US App Store)._ ## How to choose - Pick Jobber if you run several vans and need scheduling, dispatch and online payments in one account. - Pick ServiceM8 if your business runs on job cards and quotes assigned to technicians. - Pick Tradify if you are growing past a few people and want quotes and timesheets synced with Xero or QuickBooks. - Pick Joist if most of your work is fixed-price and you only need fast, signed estimates and invoices. - Pick HoursTracker if you are paid by the hour and want geofenced reminders and a CSV log. - Pick Time Squared if you want photos and mileage per job but invoice from another tool. - Pick atWork if you are employed and just want an offline record of hours and pay. - Pick iTimeSheet if you work alone or with one helper, bill your own clients, and want hours per job site, receipt photos attached to the site, and quotes and invoices from the same entries without an account. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the best time tracking app for electricians? It depends on the size of the business. For an electrical contractor with a crew and an office, Jobber or ServiceM8 cover scheduling, dispatch and payments. For an employed electrician who only needs a log, HoursTracker or atWork are simple and inexpensive. For a self-employed electrician who quotes and invoices clients directly, we rank iTimeSheet first because hours, receipt photos and invoices live on the same job site on the phone, without an account. ### Which apps keep working in a basement with no signal? Apps that store data on the phone keep working without a network. iTimeSheet and atWork keep everything on the device, and iTimeSheet's Apple Watch app queues taps and backdates them when it is back in range. Cloud-based suites usually cache entries and sync later, so check how each one handles conflicts before relying on it underground. ### Where is client data stored? It varies. Jobber, ServiceM8, Tradify and Joist require an account and store data on the vendor's servers. iTimeSheet stores everything in a local database on the iPhone, with no account and no vendor server; backups go to the user's own iCloud Drive as a single file visible in the Files app. Its App Store privacy label lists a device identifier, purchases and usage data, none linked to the user and none used for tracking. ### What does a US invoice for electrical work need? A US invoice has no national list of mandatory mentions beyond identifying the business and the client, the work and the amount. Sales tax on labor and materials varies by state, so check the rules where the job is. iTimeSheet's Studio tier ships a US invoice layout with sequential numbering, a client billing profile, payment terms and bank details. It does not track sales tax for you. ### How much does a time tracking app cost for one electrician? Clock-in apps such as HoursTracker and atWork start free with in-app purchases. Field-service suites such as Jobber and ServiceM8 run on monthly plans priced for businesses. iTimeSheet has a free tier with 3 clients and 2 entries a day; Essential is $4.99/mo or $29.99/yr, Pro $7.99/mo or $59.99/yr, and Studio, which includes invoicing, $9.99/mo or $89.99/yr on the US store, billed through Apple. ### Can apprentices log hours in the same iTimeSheet account? No. iTimeSheet is single-user and has no shared workspace. Each apprentice can run the app on their own phone and export CSV, but if the business needs a shared schedule, dispatch or approval of timesheets, Jobber, ServiceM8 or Tradify are the better fit. ## The bottom line The size of the business decides most of this choice. Electrical contractors with vans and an office will be better served by Jobber or ServiceM8, or Tradify when Xero or QuickBooks sync matters. Employed electricians who just need proof of their hours can stop at HoursTracker or atWork. For the electrician who is also the business, iTimeSheet is the pick: the hours land on the right job site from the wrist, receipts follow the site, and Studio turns the same entries into quotes and invoices, with no account and nothing stored on a vendor's server. --- _Method: ratings and review counts come from the US App Store on October 15, 2026; features come from each app’s own App Store listing. iTimeSheet is our app, and it was held to the same criteria as the others. No affiliate links._ ## Other guides - iTimeSheet for electricians: the product page: - The 7 best time tracking apps for plumbers in 2026: - The 7 best time tracking apps for HVAC technicians in 2026: - The 7 best time tracking apps for locksmiths in 2026: - The 7 best time tracking apps for people who bill by the hour in 2026: - Guides: - llms.txt: · agents.md: