A timer tells you the hours. An agency also needs to know what they were worth.
Clockify and Toggl Track are two of the most popular time trackers there are, and both are good at it. Agencies move on when hours have to turn into budgets, capacity, client sign-off and GST invoices without someone copying them into a spreadsheet every Friday.
Last reviewed: 23 October 2026. Competitor details from each vendor's own pages, linked at the bottom.
What is the best Clockify or Toggl alternative for an agency?
If you only need to record hours, stay on Clockify or Toggl: they are cheaper per person, have desktop and mobile apps, and do the timer better than most tools. If you run a 10 to 100 person agency and the hours have to become margin, capacity and invoices, Ancor puts a timer on every task and sends each hour into the project budget, live margin, the capacity plan and GST invoices drafted from approved time, with weekly approval and locking on every plan, at one flat price per team.
A great timer, or the agency around it.
Time tracking first
Fast timers with desktop, mobile and browser apps, free plans for small teams, and add-ons for scheduling and invoicing on higher plans. Built for anyone who tracks time, not for agencies in particular.
Agency operating system
For marketing, creative and digital agencies that bill for time: tasks, timesheets, capacity, live margin, retainers, client approvals and Indian GST invoices in one system, in the browser.
Line by line, from their own published plans.
| Capability | Clockify | Toggl Track | Ancor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per seat. Free plan; Basic $3.99, Standard $5.49, Pro $7.99, Enterprise $11.99 a seat a month billed annually | Per user. Free for up to 3 users; Starter $9, Premium $16 a user a month billed annually; Enterprise on request | Flat per team: ₹9,999 + GST / $99 up to 10 people, ₹14,999 + GST / $149 up to 20, ₹19,999 + GST / $199 up to 30 |
| Timer apps | Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox and Edge | Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and browser extensions | Web only: a timer on every task, plus manual entry. No desktop app or browser extension, and no iOS app |
| Timesheet approval and locking | Standard plan and up | Premium plan (approve and lock periods) | Every plan, as an org setting; admin unlock needs a recorded reason |
| Invoices from tracked time | Standard plan and up | Listed among Toggl's features; plan not stated on the pricing page | Every plan: drafted from unbilled approved hours, priced from rate cards, each hour billed once |
| Profitability | Budgets and profitability on Pro | Labour cost and profitability reports on Premium | Live projected margin on every project, every plan |
| Scheduling and capacity | Scheduling on Pro | Capacity basics on Starter; full capacity planning is a paid add-on | Hours booked against hours available per person, four weeks ahead, built from task estimates |
| Retainers, client approvals | No | No | Deliverable allowances with burn-down; a no-login client portal with version-pinned sign-off |
| Indian GST, Tally, UPI | Not built for it | Not built for it | CGST/SGST or IGST by place of supply, TallyPrime export, UPI QR on INR invoices |
Clockify and Toggl prices from clockify.me/pricing and toggl.com/track/pricing, checked 23 October 2026, in US dollars as shown on those pages. Plans change, so check their sites for the latest.
The timer was never the problem. The spreadsheet after it was.
- Hours that never reach the budget. In a standalone tracker, the hours sit in one report and the project budget sits in a sheet. In Ancor each hour updates the project's budget burn and projected margin as it is logged.
- Invoices typed by hand. Exporting hours to make an invoice in Tally, Zoho Books or Word is where hours get dropped. Ancor drafts the invoice from approved, unbilled hours with GST worked out, and marks each hour as billed.
- Capacity guessed from memory. A timer shows what happened. Ancor also shows who is booked past 100 percent in the coming four weeks, from the tasks already assigned.
- Per-seat growth. Per-seat tools get dearer with every hire. Ancor's price only changes when the team crosses 10, 20 or 30 people.
Be honest about fit. Sometimes it is them.
- You only need time tracking. Both are cheaper per person for that job, and both have free plans for small teams. Ancor has no free plan after its 14-day trial.
- People track time away from a browser. Clockify and Toggl have desktop and mobile apps with offline tracking. Ancor runs in the browser, with an Android app and no desktop or iOS app.
- A large integration list matters more than agency features. Both connect to many more tools than Ancor does. See what Ancor connects to.
- You want monitored time. Ancor does not take screenshots or track activity, and will not.
Where the competitor facts come from.
- Clockify plans, prices and plan features: clockify.me/pricing, checked 23 October 2026.
- Clockify apps: clockify.me/apps, checked 23 October 2026.
- Toggl Track plans, prices, approvals, profitability and capacity add-on: toggl.com/track/pricing, checked 23 October 2026.
- Toggl Track apps and invoicing: toggl.com/track, checked 23 October 2026.
Where to go next
Keep the hours. Add the agency around them in fourteen days.
The questions worth asking first.
Is Ancor a good Clockify alternative for agencies?
Yes, if the timer is no longer the problem and the questions are now about money: which project is over budget, who is free next week, which retainer has run past its allowance, and which approved hours are still unbilled. Ancor puts a timer on every task and feeds each hour into budget, margin, capacity and GST invoices. If you only need a cheap timer for a team, Clockify is cheaper per person and has a free plan.
Is Ancor a good Toggl alternative?
For an agency that bills clients, yes. Toggl Track is a polished timer with apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, and puts timesheet approvals and profitability reports on its Premium plan. Ancor has timesheet approval and locking, live project margin and invoices drafted from approved hours on every plan, plus capacity planning and a no-login client approval portal. It does not have desktop or mobile timer apps.
Does Ancor take screenshots or track activity like some time trackers?
No. Ancor does not take screenshots, record keystrokes or score anyone on activity. It records the hours people log, and checks how much weight those hours can bear: how late entries are made, how many are suspiciously whole hours, and how many finished tasks have no time against them.
Is Ancor cheaper than Clockify or Toggl?
Usually not, if all you need is time tracking. Clockify Standard is $5.49 per seat a month billed annually, so ten people cost about $55 a month; Toggl Track Starter is $9 per user billed annually. Ancor is a flat price per team: ₹9,999 + GST or $99 a month for up to 10 people. The comparison only tilts when you add the scheduling, approvals, invoicing and client sign-off tools a timer leaves out.
Can I bring my time history from Clockify or Toggl?
Ancor imports projects and tasks from CSV or Excel, and recognises Asana, Jira and Monday.com exports. It does not have a dedicated importer for Clockify or Toggl time entries, so most teams start fresh hours in Ancor from a given week and keep the old tool read-only for history.