Kimai
Track work time and print out a summary of your activities on demand.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 121 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.71.0 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Toggl and Harvest.
At a glance
Kimai quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,116
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.71.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Kimai
Full rankings: Toggl alternatives, Harvest alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "JSON API, invoicing, data exports, multi-timer and punch-in punch-out mode, tagging, multi-user - multi-timezones - multi-language (over 30 translations existing!), authentication via SAML/LDAP/Database, two-factor authentication (2FA) with TOTP, customizable role and team permissions, responsive design, user/customer/project specific rates, advanced search & filtering, money and time budgets, advanced reporting, support for plugins and so much more."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Kimai scores 85/100, #7 of 13 in Time Tracking: 121 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.71.0, 5 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,116 stars add 14.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
121 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.71.0 released 5 days ago
- Stars 14.8 / 20
5.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 121
- Last 90 days
- 260
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #7 of 13 tools in Time Tracking by health , between ActivityWatch (#6) and Ziit (#8) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 2.71.0 · 5 days ago |
| Stars | 5,116 |
| Open issues | 309 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | kimai/kimai ↗ |
Kimai vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Kimai (Time Tracking), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Gauzy | 96 | 8.7k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| solidtime | 96 | 9.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| ActivityWatch | 87 | 19k | MPL-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| Kimai (this tool) | 85 | 5.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Traggo | 57 | 1.6k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| TimeTagger | 45 | 1.8k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
Kimai: common questions
What does Kimai replace?
Repoly lists Kimai as an open-source alternative to Toggl and Harvest. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Kimai stands against the others.
Is Kimai still maintained?
Kimai had 121 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 2.71.0, is from 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.