The short answer
Choose Clockify when price-conscious team timekeeping, a kiosk, attendance, many integrations, or several capture modes are the decision. Choose Phased when the real question is whether a solo fixed-fee project, each phase, and every extra request are still earning what you intended.
Clockify
Published fit: freelancers and teams needing broad timekeeping, reporting, and administration
- Timer, timesheet, calendar, auto tracker, and kiosk
- Desktop, mobile, browser apps, and 90+ integrations
- Scheduling, attendance, approvals, expenses, and client billing
Better fit when many people or workplaces need several ways to record and administer time.
Official source clockify.me/features
Phased
Designed for: solo freelancers, independent artists, and one-person studios
- Project → Phase → Task keeps the fee, time, and scope connected
- Grid and List entry views, plus a synced live timer
- Phase budgets, effective rates, and frozen client reports
Better fit when you agree a project price up front and need to protect it during delivery.
Clockify covers more ways to collect and administer time
Its published feature set spans personal tracking and workforce operations. It can collect time through a timer, timesheet, calendar, auto tracker, or kiosk, then add schedules, attendance, approvals, expenses, client billing, roles, reports, and exports around it.
Read the official feature overview clockify.me/features
Track the hours against the price you agreed
A timesheet row tells you how long the work took. Phased also keeps the agreed price on the phase and compares it with time added through Grid, List, or the live timer. If a €2,700 phase takes 24 hours, its current effective rate is €112.50 an hour; at 45 hours, it is €60. The rate remains provisional until the work is finished.
When the client asks for more, mark that time Out of scope. The hours remain recorded but stop consuming the original phase budget, and a frozen client report can present them separately as Additional Work. This is a focused fixed-fee project workflow rather than a general workforce timekeeping system.
Record time your way. Draw an entry in Grid, add or review it in List, or run the live timer. The running timer stays synced with your account, so you can start it on a desktop and stop it from a mobile browser. The complete workflow is optimized for desktop and mobile browsers, with nothing else to install.
Follow one project through PhasedProject
The client, agreed price, overall budget, tasks, status, and reports.
Phase
A real slice of delivery with its own money or hours budget and health.
Task + time
Calendar work inherits its task, phase, project, rate, and scope context.
Decision + record
Current effective rate, Additional Work, and frozen client reports close the loop.
Compare the tier that covers the job
Clockify's free offer supports up to five users and its Basic tier costs less, but Pro is the closest published match for money budgets, estimates, alerts, and profit analysis, and its plans are priced per seat. The complete paid Phased workflow costs €7 with monthly billing or €66 with yearly billing, with phase budgets, effective-rate analysis, Additional Work, and branded reports included. Compare the tier that covers the job rather than the first number alone.
$9.99/seat/month
Annual billing $7.99/seat/month $95.88 per seat per year
Official pricing clockify.me/pricing
€7/month
Annual billing €5.50/month €66 per account per year
See Phased pricingThe paid Phased plan is the full solo workflow. It includes unlimited active projects and phases, money budgets, custom rates, current effective-rate analysis, priced Additional Work, branded reports, and templates. A new account can try it for 30 days without a card.
A focused tool should make its limits obvious
Phased is not a general team timekeeping, billing, or firm-management suite. Its narrower job is helping one person connect project structure, time, scope, and fixed fees. These are the boundaries to consider before choosing it.
- No kiosk, attendance, location records, screenshots, activity monitoring, payroll calculation, or employee scheduling.
- No browser extension, auto tracker, or third-party integration catalog. Phased is optimized for desktop and mobile browsers, with nothing else to install.
- No shared team projects, user roles, manager approvals, or combined organization reporting.
- No expense ledger, billing-document creation, or payment tracking. Phased reports are project records, not accounting documents.
If kiosk time, attendance, schedules, team permissions, approvals, expenses, or client billing become everyday needs, Clockify is the more appropriate category.
Before you decide
Is Phased a replacement for Clockify?
Not for a business that needs a kiosk, attendance, payroll inputs, staff schedules, approvals, expenses, client billing, or many integrations. For one project-based freelancer who needs phase budgets, scope separation, current effective rates, and client-ready project records, Phased covers a more specific job.
Can I try Phased before paying?
Yes. A new account starts with a 30-day trial of all paid features. No card is required, and the trial does not become a paid subscription automatically.
What happens if my studio grows?
Phased remains one person per account. A few people can keep separate accounts and send individual Time Reports to an owner, but those records do not roll into shared projects, attendance, approvals, payroll, or scheduling. Clockify is designed for that coordinated timekeeping layer.
Can I use the complete Phased workflow on my phone?
Yes. Phased is optimized for desktop and mobile browsers. You can use Grid or List, run the timer, and manage the rest of the workflow in your browser of choice. A running timer stays synced with your account, so it can be started on a desktop and stopped from a phone. Phased does not provide OS-level background activity capture or native app integrations.
Is Phased only for architects?
No. It is especially useful for solo architects, interior designers, graphic designers, artists, consultants, and videographers who agree a project price, organise work into phases, and need to see how the fee holds up against recorded time.