Hourglass - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Hourglass is a cloud-based SaaS platform delivering real-time project profitability and time tracking for small to mid-size professional services firms, including digital agencies, management consultancies, and managed service providers (MSPs). The platform centralises project, time, and financial data in a single environment, giving leadership and delivery teams live visibility into budget burn, team utilisation, and delivery risk without reliance on manual spreadsheet-based reporting. Subscription plans include a free Starter tier and a Pro plan at 12 GBP per user per month, with a 14-day free trial requiring no credit card.

Core functionality spans real-time profit and loss per project mapped against billing rates and budgets, RAG health scores, live burn rate tracking, and margin visibility at the project level. A drag-and-drop Engineer Planner displays scheduled work, capacity, and time off per team member on a weekly basis. Time entries are pre-filled from planned assignments and feed directly into reports, reducing manual logging effort. Delivery risk monitoring surfaces budget burn triggers, overdue milestone alerts, and RAG status scores while intervention is still possible, rather than at month-end review.

Hourglass includes eight built-in reports covering project profitability, resource utilisation, client billing summaries, and executive overviews, all exportable to CSV or PDF. A team utilisation dashboard tracks billable percentage per person across the current week, month, and rolling quarter, updated live. Planned versus actual hour comparisons are generated automatically. An AI delivery intelligence feature allows built-in reports to be summarised in one click, providing leadership with rapid organisational performance overviews covering hours, billable percentage, project health, and profitability.