Time Tracking Tools Are Splitting Between "Bundled With Project Management" and "Deliberately Standalone"
Toggl Track has held its position by staying tool-agnostic, while many competitors increasingly bundle time tracking directly into broader project management suites.
The convenience case for bundled time tracking (tracking time directly within a project management tool you already use) is real, but it assumes your team has standardized on that one platform for everything. Toggl Track's continued relevance rests on the opposite bet: many freelancers and small agencies use different combinations of project management and invoicing tools, and a tool-agnostic, purpose-built tracker serves that fragmentation better than any single bundled suite could.
This is less a story of one approach winning than two genuinely different use cases persisting side by side — teams fully standardized on one platform benefit from bundled tracking; teams using a patchwork of tools benefit from a standalone, integration-friendly tracker.
Our Toggl Track and Asana reviews cover both approaches in more depth.
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