HoneyBook Time Tracker status and what to use instead (2026)

Quick answer

Pick your scenario:

• You have unbilled hours in HoneyBook. Export or screenshot your time log history today. The tracker is back, but HoneyBook switched it off once without much warning.
• You want to stay on HoneyBook. Add a dedicated tracker — Toggl or Harvest are the usual picks — and move your open projects into it.
• You are ready to switch. Workspace369 includes time tracking on every plan, and every plan includes invoices and proposals, so tracked hours become invoice lines in the same workspace. Moving from HoneyBook lists what you can export and what moves. Start a 14-day trial (card required, then $74/month until you cancel) or check pricing.

First, rescue your existing time entries

Before you pick a replacement, protect the hours you already logged. Two groups matter most:

1. Unbilled hours. Anything logged but not yet invoiced is revenue you can lose track of if the log is ever frozen. Invoice it now, or move those totals into your next tool with a note of the client, project, and date range.
2. Your full history. Old entries back up your invoices if a client questions a bill months from now. Once the read-only window ends, do not count on that record still being there.

In HoneyBook, export or screenshot your time log history and store it outside the app — a file export if HoneyBook offers one for your account, plain screenshots if it does not. We are deliberately not publishing click-by-click steps: the exact path can vary by account, and the community thread is where the read-only window and any official export guidance are documented. If the thread does not answer your case, ask HoneyBook support in writing, so you have the reply on record.

Do this even if you plan to stay on HoneyBook for everything else. A tracker that was switched off once can be switched off again.

What HoneyBook users said

The announcement thread drew sharp replies when the retirement was announced. Two stand out:

"every hour I had logged and not yet invoiced is gone"

— a HoneyBook user, HoneyBook Community, September 8, 2026

"I now think we will lose money because our packages are based on hours."

— another HoneyBook user in the same thread, September 9, 2026

A week later, on September 15, a HoneyBook employee replied in the same thread that Time Tracker was back and previous entries were still there. If the status changes again, that thread is where it will show first.

Your options now

Option A: keep HoneyBook, add a dedicated tracker

This is the lowest-disruption path, and for many solo users it is the right one:

• Toggl — a dedicated time tracker built around timers, projects, and reports.
• Harvest — time tracking with its own invoicing and online payments on top (Workspace369 vs Harvest compares the two).

Both are established tools; check their sites for current plan details, since we have not verified their prices for this guide.

The trade-off: your hours now live outside HoneyBook. When it is time to bill, you copy totals from the tracker onto a HoneyBook invoice by hand. That works fine at five clients and gets old at twenty. You are also paying for and maintaining one more tool, which is the setup that made a built-in tracker attractive in the first place.

Stay on HoneyBook if its booking, contracts, and clientflow still run the front of your business the way you like, and a separate timer does not bother you.

Option B: switch to a system where time tracking is built in

The other path is a workspace where the timer, the client record, the project, and the invoice are one system, so a vendor changing its plans cannot strand your hours.

Workspace369 is our product, so weigh this accordingly — and check it against your own workflow:

• Time tracking is included on every plan, from Cadet at $29/month.
• Invoices and proposals are included on every plan, from the $29/month Cadet plan up, so logged hours convert into invoice lines without exports or retyping.
• Projects, tasks, calendar, and the client CRM sit next to the timer, which is what keeps the hours billable instead of just recorded.

Where Workspace369 fits — and where it doesn't

A good fit when:

• You bill by the hour and want hours, client, project, and invoice in one place.
• Two or more people track time. Voyager includes 2 seats, and extra seats are $10 each.
• You were already rethinking HoneyBook after its 2025 and 2026 price and feature changes. The full timeline is in our Workspace369 vs HoneyBook comparison, and the HoneyBook cost calculator puts your yearly plan cost next to Workspace369's for your team size.

Not the best fit when:

• You are solo and just want a timer. A dedicated tracker costs less for that one job.
• You want your HoneyBook history imported automatically. There is no published migration tool from HoneyBook to Workspace369. The realistic path is to export your records, re-enter what is still active, and keep the archive as a file. Our support team can help you plan the move.
• You only need invoicing, no time tracking. The $29/month Cadet plan covers invoices and proposals, and time tracking is part of it, so you can ignore the timer.

How to move your time records in one afternoon

1. Export or screenshot your complete HoneyBook time log history.
2. List every project with unbilled hours and its total.
3. Invoice what you can right away from those records — invoices are on every Workspace369 plan if you are moving.
4. Recreate only your active projects in the new tool. Closed projects stay in the archive file; do not rebuild history you will never bill.
5. Start the new timer the same day. Running two trackers for a while is how hours fall through the gap.

The bottom line

HoneyBook switched its Time Tracker off on September 8, 2026 and brought it back a week later. Rescue your hours first, then decide between a dedicated tracker next to HoneyBook and a workspace with tracking built in.

If you bill by the hour and want time tracking that cannot be separated from your invoices, start a Workspace369 trial on the Cadet plan (card required, then $29/month until you cancel) — time tracking included — or compare plans on the pricing page.

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