Cut Time vs Clockify

Cut Time vs Clockify — which fits a video editor?

Clockify is a free-tier-forever general time tracker. Cut Time is purpose-built for video editors — a tiny menu-bar app that holds your hours, projects, clients, earnings, contest finds, and analytics in one place. Clockify asks you to start a timer. Cut Time already knows you're cutting.

What Clockify gets right

Clockify is generous with its free tier — unlimited users, unlimited projects. For a small team that's willing to start and stop a timer every day, it's a solid free option.

Why Cut Time fits editors better

If you're editing, you're not clicking a timer. Cut Time detects your open editing project and counts active editing time the moment you open it — no start button, no "forgot to start it again" gaps, no guessing what those 3 hours Monday actually were.

Side by side.

The features that actually matter when your day job is editing video.

Feature
Cut Time
Clockify
Auto-detects Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut
Manual timer / stopwatch
Not needed
Active vs idle time detection
Per-editor dashboard for studios
Built-in earnings tracker + rate analysis
Verified PDF timesheet export
Basic
Streak + leaderboard for personal motivation
Free tier
Free for individuals
Free for teams
Studio team plan starting price
$8/editor/mo
$3.99/user/mo
Works offline

Pick Cut Time if

  • You edit video all day and forget to start timers
  • You want data that matches what you actually did, not what you remember
  • You want an editor-specific dashboard (earnings, streaks, projects)
  • You care about which clients are profitable, not just total hours
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Stick with Clockify if

  • You need the cheapest team plan at any cost
  • Your team doesn't work primarily in video
  • You want to track categories beyond editing (meetings, email, ops)
  • You're OK manually starting and stopping timers every day

Common questions

Clockify's free tier is free forever — can Cut Time match that?

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Cut Time is free forever for individual editors. For studios, we offer a 30-day free trial with unlimited editors, then $8 per editor per month (or $80/editor/year). Clockify's team plan is cheaper per-seat in raw numbers, but you're paying with "timer-starting" overhead every day and no editor-specific insights.

Does Cut Time have an app on every platform like Clockify?

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Cut Time has desktop apps for both macOS and Windows. We don't have mobile — editors don't edit on phones, and the automatic editing-app tracking only makes sense on desktop.

Can I use Clockify for meetings and Cut Time for editing?

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Absolutely. Plenty of users run both. Cut Time handles edit time automatically, Clockify handles the rest when you start the timer.

Is the data comparable between tools?

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Cut Time distinguishes "active editing" (actually touching the editing software) from "idle" (app open but no input). Clockify's timer doesn't know the difference — it only records what you manually start and stop.

Built specifically for the edit.

Free for individual editors. 30-day trial for studios. No card required. Cancel anytime.

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