Calume vs Toggl: which time tracker fits you?
Short answer: they're built for different jobs. Toggl Track is a work tool — billable hours, clients, teams. Calume is a life tool — your whole day on one timeline, with app blocking to protect your focus.
Toggl Track is one of the most established time trackers around, and if your question is "how do I bill clients accurately," it's a strong answer: cross-platform apps, project and client structure, billable rates, and reports you can hand to whoever pays the invoice. Teams run on it. None of that is what Calume tries to be.
Calume is a personal time tracker for iPhone. It's for tracking your life — work, focus, sleep, training, reading, scrolling — so you can see where your hours actually go. And it does something Toggl doesn't attempt: it blocks distracting apps while you work.
Side by side
| Calume | Toggl Track | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Personal, whole-life tracking | Work tracking for freelancers & teams |
| Platforms | iPhone (iOS 17+) | Web, desktop, mobile, browser extension |
| App blocking | Yes — while timers run, during booked focus time, or until a daily goal is met | No |
| Billable rates & client reports | No | Yes |
| Team features | No | Yes |
| Calendar timeline | 24-hour timeline with booked & planned blocks, iCloud/Google events, .ics import/export | Calendar view and integrations |
| Apple Health import | Yes — sleep, workouts, mindful sessions | No |
| iPhone integration | Live Activities, Dynamic Island, lock-screen widgets, Siri | Mobile app |
| Goals | "At least" and "at most", daily to yearly, can enforce via app blocking | Project time estimates & alerts |
| Pricing | Subscription — free 3-day preview, then 7-day free trial | Free tier, paid plans per user |
Pick Toggl if…
- You bill clients by the hour and need rates, projects, and exportable reports.
- You track time across a team and need admin, approvals, and per-user plans.
- You need the same tracker on Windows, Mac, Android, and the web.
Pick Calume if…
- You're tracking for yourself — you want to know where your own hours go, not report them to someone.
- You want the whole day on one timeline: work and focus, but also sleep, training, and the scroll. Health data flows in from Apple Health on its own.
- Your real problem isn't logging time, it's protecting it — Calume locks the distracting apps while the timer runs, and no work-hours tracker does that.
- You live on iPhone and want the timer in the Dynamic Island, on the lock screen, and one Siri phrase away.
Can you use both?
Sure — some people do. Toggl for billable client hours during the workday, Calume for the life around it: the focus sessions, the evenings, the sleep, and the app blocking. They don't sync with each other, but they don't overlap much either.
If you're starting from zero and the goal is personal — focus more, scroll less, finally see where the week goes — start with Calume. Try tracking one full week and read the record on Sunday.