Hourtick for lawyers
Legal time tracking without the six-minute scramble
Billable hours are the product of a law practice, yet a surprising share is reconstructed from memory at the end of the week. Hourtick makes capturing time the default: a timer in the menu bar, notes per entry, and weekly approval before anything is billed.
Notes on every entry
Narratives live on the entry itself and export to CSV alongside the hours.
Approval before billing
Submitted weeks lock until approved or sent back, so billing works from reviewed time.
Idle detection
Stepped away from your desk? Hourtick asks whether to keep or remove the idle time.
The problem
- Reconstructing Friday what happened on Monday
- Time lost between matters because switching timers is fiddly
- Billed entries edited after the invoice went out
How lawyers set up Hourtick
- Create each client and a project per matter.
- Use task types such as Research, Drafting, Court, Client call — billable or not.
- Switch matters from the menu bar or with ⌃⌥S; write a short note on each entry.
- Submit the week; the supervising partner approves and marks billed entries as invoiced.
In practice
A litigation boutique moves every attorney to the menu bar timer. Weekly approval replaces the Friday email chase and invoiced entries stay locked.
Included on every plan
- Mac menu bar timer
- Timesheet approvals
- Billable rates and budgets
- Reports and CSV export
- Invoiced locks
- Offline sync
Frequently asked questions
Does Hourtick round to six-minute increments?
Hourtick records exact time and displays whole minutes. Apply your firm's rounding rules when invoicing from the report.
Can partners see everyone's time?
Managers and admins see team reports across all matters; members see only their own time.
Is there per-user pricing?
Free for your whole firm with 500 MB of usage a month, or $29/month for 5 GB — never a per-seat bill when you hire.
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