Toggl Track (formerly Toggl) is a

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operated by Toggl OÜ, headquartered in

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, that offers online time tracking and

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ing services through their website along with mobile and desktop applications. Toggl Track tracks time blocks, optionally labeled with a task, a project, and tags. Time can be tracked through a start/stop button, manual entry, or dragging and resizing time blocks in a calendar view. With the browser extension, Toggl Track has time tracking integrations with over 100 websites.

Details

Toggl was created in 2006 by Alari Aho and Krister Haav in

. The service was initially developed for internal use. The co-founders were software developers and struggled to work out how much time they had spent on each of their clients. The founders then realised their clients loved it as well and so expanded the software to work for small groups, developers, and independent consultants. It is designed for several operating systems including iPhone, Android,

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, Mac and

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. Toggl employs more than 80 employees. Time entries and active timers are synchronized in real-time via a

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to the website and various applications. Reporting features allow users to track the time spent on various projects and analyze productivity. According to Alari Aho, Toggl's CEO and founder, the application has been fully self-funded from the start. The name was created using a random name generator. In 2014, the company made the transition from a company based in Tallinn to an entirely remote business. As of August 2016, Toggl had more than 1.6 million registered users. The product is sold as

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, based on

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, with monthly and annual plans. Besides the official mobile apps, client apps by third-party developers have also been created using the public Toggl API, such as Timery for iOS. On 7 September 2020, Toggl rebranded to Toggl Track, as the Toggl company

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with Teamweek (now Toggl Plan) and Hundred5 (now Toggl Hire).

Technology

From the beginning, Toggl was based on

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. Starting in 2013, Toggl's began to operate on Google's programming language Go on the back-end. The frontend works on

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(

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). It also uses some

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features (offline storage) and

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to synchronize separate devices in real-time. The database operates on

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and

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is used for mobile devices, and

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for desktop.

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