What is Kimai?
Kimai is a free open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action …
It’s simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s web browser based interface it runs cross-platform. Likewise you can install it as a web service or as a single-user program on your local workstation.
“While there are many programs one can use for time and project tracking, they tend to be overkill for my rather simple needs. Kimai came about because I was tired to feed lame boring excel tables …”
Kimai does not have to run to do the recording. You can even quit your browser. Your time is still recording until you stop it from any web browser that has access to your installment. It is designed to hold lots of users but you can use it for a single user if you need to.
Kimai is localized in English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese so far. Feel free to send your self-made language files! Not all localizations are complete – we’re still looking for translators!
You can also send us your own skin designs (find instructions in the ‘skins’ directory). We will also have some skins available in the future.
XAMPP
Kimai is based on PHP5/MySQL5 technology. If you don’t have a web server installed on your machine you can use XAMPP (Windows and Mac). XAMPP comes with everything you need for Kimai.
Some testimonies:
“We hunted for days trying out lots of different open source programs, for keeping track of time. So glad we found Kimai, it’s simple and easy to use. A big thanx too all those that have worked and workin on the project…”
“I have search and searched and searched for a timesheet program. And even though this is still in beta, Kimai looks the most promising. I need a software program to do one thing and one thing well and that is to track time. “
“…As mentioned before also, I’m also tracking my sleep time and other personal time, so Kimai to me is not just a “Time Tracker” but a “Life Tracker”. This is what I’m hoping to get out of Kimai so I can try to get some of the time in my life back…”
“Dude this is a-w-e-some!” – Kevin Rose, Diggnation …. No, just kidding! ;)