HoneyBook's Time Tracker is gone. Here's how to track and bill hours now.
Updated October 5, 2026 · By Otter Potter, the maker of Timecomb (so, not neutral: we say where that matters).
HoneyBook turned off its built-in Time Tracker on September 7, 2026. If you billed clients by the hour, you lost the timer, the hour log, and the step that turned logged time into invoice lines. HoneyBook's community threads about it filled up fast, and the official answer so far is to use another app.
First: save your old hours
According to HoneyBook support, entries you logged before the shutdown stay viewable at app.honeybook.com/app/time_tracker until the end of 2027, but the Time Tracker itself isn't coming back. Viewable isn't the same as safe, so copy them out now:
- Open the Time Tracker page while you're signed in to HoneyBook.
- Copy each entry into a spreadsheet with these columns: date, client, project, hours, rate, note. One row per entry.
- Save it as CSV (File → Download → CSV in Google Sheets, or Save As → CSV in Excel). Keep a copy somewhere other than your laptop.
That CSV works with almost any time tracker's import, including Timecomb's.
Three ways to keep billing hourly
1. A spreadsheet
Free and flexible: one row per work session, a formula for hours × rate, and you type the totals into each HoneyBook invoice. It works if you bill a few clients and don't mind the retyping. The weak spots are forgetting to write things down and copying numbers by hand.
2. A separate time tracker (Toggl, Clockify, Harvest…)
Good timers, reports and phone apps; some have free plans. None of them connect to HoneyBook, so at invoice time you export a report and retype each line into the HoneyBook invoice. For many people that retyping is exactly what Time Tracker used to save.
3. Timecomb (we make this)
Timecomb is a browser extension built to replace Time Tracker. It puts a Start timer button on each HoneyBook project page and an Add unbilled hours button in HoneyBook's invoice editor, which adds your logged time as invoice line items (you still review and send the invoice yourself). Your hours stay in your browser; there's no account. It can import the CSV from step one. Free for one open project; Pro is $19 once. The trade-offs: it's desktop-only (Chrome and Edge), and its two in-page buttons depend on HoneyBook's page layout, so a HoneyBook redesign can break them until we update it (the timer and your hours keep working).
Which should you pick?
| Spreadsheet | Separate tracker | Timecomb | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Free to ~$10+/mo | Free, or $19 once |
| Timer | No | Yes | Yes, on HoneyBook pages |
| Hours onto HoneyBook invoices | Retype | Retype | One click (Pro) |
| Phone app | Yes (Sheets) | Usually | No |
| Team time | Shared sheet | Yes | No (one person per browser) |
If you work on a team or need a phone timer, a separate tracker is the better fit. If you're a one-person business billing from your computer and miss how Time Tracker worked inside HoneyBook, try Timecomb.
Questions
- Is HoneyBook bringing Time Tracker back?
- As of October 2026, HoneyBook hasn't said so. If it does, you can keep using whichever method you've switched to.
- Can I get my old hours into Timecomb?
- Yes, with Pro: copy them into a spreadsheet as above and use Settings → Import CSV. It reads dates, hours (or start and end times), notes and rates.
- Is Timecomb made by HoneyBook?
- No. Timecomb is made by Otter Potter and is not affiliated with HoneyBook.