Chrometa Reviews

Relaxing: you don't have to worry about keeping track of time because Chrometa does an excellent job of that.

When rounding increments of time, Chrometa always rounds up. I'm not comfortable with this because it could result in overcharging clients, so I have it set to record exact number of minutes. I wish they had an option that would use the mathematical rules of rounding.

Intuitive, Easy to use, Great Customer Service, Affordable.

I can't think of any... the app does what I am paying for.

I like the time-tracking, because I am self-employed and have several ongoing projects most of the time.

The entire time I've had this service, I've not been able to add a second device. The onscreen help icon is a chat room, but the help has thus far not helped with any questions . I wish there was a central help desk to call to ask questions. (There is, but they don't answer the phone or return calls.)

I don't have to think about how much time I'm spending on something- with Chrometa, I know. It's the only browser history tracker I've found that also tells you how much time you spent on what website, but it also logs phone activity and computer activity. Time can be tracked, categorized, downloaded, and even billed using Chrometa. Once it's installed, you just go to work- no need to turn anything on or activate it when you need to track something.

There is a bit of a delay on tracking so you have to come back to Chrometa a few hours later sometimes to categorize something to the appropriate client or task. They have Rules which is an auto-tagging feature that can help with this but if you use the same apps/tools for a lot of different clients, then you can't really take advantage of this feature for most things. Also, the Tasks and Annotations still don't quite make sense to me, but they're supposed to be a way for you to tag and categorize things. I need to research it more, but I think those features were originally designed for attorneys, which is probably why they don't make sense to me.

Prior to Chrometa I must have tried dozens of applications in the quest for a user friendly, intuitive and painless way to track my professional time. Program works in the background, no need to start and stop time on various events. If I am away from my computer(s) for a period of time a pop-up is waiting for me to track time away. Feature rich and continues to improve year after year.

Chrometa's iPhone App requires punching in and out before and after phone calls. As a result I find this a bit cumbersome.

Chrometa actually works. As promised it monitors your desktop and phone and when you are ready to log in to Chrometa, all the work you have done appears in lists ready to be assigned to each matter. I had imported my list of current clients and matter names and so it was just a matter of 'Moving to Project' each of the transactions that were saved. The outlook emails, webpages, word docs, adobe pdfs and other work were easy to assign. The keyword search improved this experience. I was pleasantly surprised to see how busy I have been, and seeing the occasional distractions listed also motivated me to stay on task.

There were a large number of 'windows' transactions that are neither billable- nor particularly intelligible. The outlook emails only show the Subject line. The Skype entries do not indicate to whom the calls were made or received. Documents, Notepad, etc, are listed using the saved name of the document. This is not always clear. Having to Move to Project - the first week or first month is fairly labor intensive. I think I should have been assigning the project name every day. Live and Learn!

- Effortless time tracking = it collects automatically your computer activity - one of the only app that tracks your phone calls on android (ie: Apple still block these type of tracking ); - Rules = many works when setting up the app = no more data entry after a few time as almost everything is automated!

- can't enter the budget amount for a project - invoicing - yearly export have to be requested

At first i used in my personal computer to see how it works, and i love it. by getting the info of all the time you pass into any thing when you work help to improve my performance

Only works in microsoft, i would like to work with other system like Linux because my company we use more linux. And the UI has to improve, is not the easiest app to understand

Very affordable, simple to use and tracks well. It even tracks my time in Word Perfect documents, which is something I've found unavailable in other software.

It's not very smoothly integrated into Quickbooks desktop, and I prefer to keep my billing in that program.

Just started to use Chrometa and I'm finding it really usefull. It helps you to keep track of what you are working on. For a pearson that works in multiple projects at once, it is ideal. Will try it on my mobile device as well to see how it works!

I Didn't try all the features yet. But the ones I tried worked fine for me. Just think they should have discounts for teams.

Old interface is intuitive interface and efficient for quickly categorizing automatically recorded time between a large number of projects. The initial one hour orientation by phone with human was top quality. Integration with CLIO worked well.

The desktop app is poor. It freezes and stops recording time without any notification that it has stopped working, though this happens less frequently if you regularly restart windows. Time recorded on the desktop app uploads once per hour, and the app's "Upload Now" function stopped working in 2017, and has not been fixed. This means you cannot annotate your time description when you finish a task;...

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Tracks all files and apps used. Quick and easy to tag all jobs and activities. Prompts you to log 'away time' when the computer is idle (phone calls, meetings, lunch)

I found it difficult moving from a calendar-based interface to a list-type... but after a couple of weeks that passed.

Chrometa is great because it tracks automatically in the background. You just do what you have to do. At the end of your daily routine you assign what you did to jobs/projects. It's a question of 2-5 minutes and you're done. And oh boy: every minute is recorded, you don't have to figure out when you did what and how long. You have it EXACT... no guessing, no hassle. And as you know precisely what you did and when you did it, you bill every single minute. Which means you earn more, and possibly have to work less to still get your usual payday.

It's a pitty that there is no possibility to add third party costs of a project. Would come very handy as the tool allows to generate bills. But as I'm not able to include third party costs I have as a freelancer (suppliers, project partners etc.) it's not the one-stop-shop. You need a moment to get used to the UI, but when you use it on a daily basis that's a snap...

I work with multiple clients and need to track my work for each. Chrometa tracks everything I do on all my work-related computers and devices. When I work on my laptop, I can later be on my desktop viewing Chrometa. There, it'll show the time I spent on my laptop by activity or a summary for each device. Sometimes I get wrapped up in what I'm doing that I'd forget to note the time when I start doing work for a client. Chrometa saves my behind as it shows the time I started. I've tried timers, but ended up forgetting to turn them on or off. I've yet to find anything that works better than this. I went to look up how long I've been using Chrometa. It's been seven years! I think that speaks volumes.

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Chrometa helps you see the time spent in almost every item be it on your Mac or on your mobile phone. Some of its areas includes MS office, Google Chrome, Gmail, android application and even on various local apps. You can then analyze, prioritize or cut out unnecessary time spent accordingly. You can even export time and use it for various purposes like billing. It is very useful to people like me who likes managing and keeping track of every second to make each day more productive. Being an automatic updated app, it is very accurate in itself

1. Billing is not directly handled using this app. 2. It is lengthy and time taking thing to analyze time spent on various apps. It could have used some features like Machine learning where it would have analyzed the time itself and given the recommendation of its own. 3. However easy it is, there is some lagging in the user interface. The interface seems like old fashioned. People who are not bothered with the appearance are good to go. Those who like a better interface should expect some more.

Tracks all activity while using your computer Can track away time as well so long as you use this feature

Away time must be consistently tracked in order to keep it accurate

I love Chrometa! It tracks everything. A specialist walked me through it; Showed me how to set up rules and make everything work like clock work. Chrometa is a beautiful thing!

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Never had the opportunity to try it out

Incredibly terrible customer service. Tried email, phone and multiple live chats and never once got a phone call back.

I love the fact that Chrometa captures every second of your time usage and indicates the what programs/websites you're using. The reports are also extremely helpful to see where most of your time is going.

The website links recorded for your time on Facebook are often general and don't really tell you exactly where you've been or what you've been doing - I'd love to see more specificity.

Automatically tracks what you do on your computer, making tracking your time and figuring out what you did all day a breeze. Simple, clean, intuitive interface. Powerful Excel export feature allows you to export your time and easily enter it into a billing system. The software also allows you to sort by client and matter number and add new ones, making it very easily to sort your time in an efficient manner. The software also handles away time by allowing you to manually enter time entries for phone calls and meetings. Support is friendly, a phone call away and the tech guys there will walk you through anything. Chrometa is a lifesaver.

There isn't really a way to modify the length of time for the automatic tracking. Also, an interface with my phone system would be great

It's easy to get it up and and running and flexible enough to allow you to manage time tracking for a whole team.

It's a bit clunky and often very slow which means that it's hard to know if your time was properly tracked or not. Searching for tasks/assignments isn't very good either. UI is not that great either.

It helps us to track an accurate work time,

nothing to be unlike cause it is useful for my work and my team also

My fave is the background tracker. The fact that I can look back on every website and application and revisit the time spent there is perfect for my work!

The only con's I've found so far is that the ability to transfer the info into a breakdown document hasn't been easy. But I've managed by using print PDF and screenshot.

It's very functional and easy to use. I really like the sistem and I can use it on my PC and smartphone.

Maybe the price may be smaller but it is absolutely worth it. Also, many people do not know about that app.

Captures all computer activities Many helpful video tutorials

Lengthy/complicated to sort time into categories