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Kimai is a web-based multi-user time-tracking application. Works great for everyone: freelancers, companies, organizations - everyone can track their times, generate reports, create invoices and do so much more. SaaS version available at https://www.kimai.cloud

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Kimai - time-tracker

Kimai is a professional grade time-tracking application, free and open-source. It handles use-cases of freelancers as well as companies with dozens or hundreds of users. Kimai was build to track your project times and ships with many advanced features, including but not limited to:

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.

Versions

There are two versions of Kimai existing:

  • Version 2 — the current stable release (PHP 8.1+)
  • Version 1 — EOL since mid of 2023 (PHP 7.4)

Do NOT use Version 1, it won't get any more updates!

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Requirements

  • PHP 8.1.3 minimum
  • MariaDB or MySQL
  • A webserver and subdomain (subdirectory is not supported)
  • PHP extensions: gd, intl, json, mbstring, pdo, tokenizer, xml, xsl, zip

Support for PHP 8.2 and 8.3.

Installation

There are also documentations for:

And if you don't want to host Kimai, you can use the Cloud version of it.

Updating Kimai

Plugins

Roadmap and releases

You can see a rough development roadmap in the Milestones sections. It is open for changes and input from the community, your ideas and questions are welcome.

Release versions will be created on a regular basis, every couple of weeks latest. Every code change, whether it's a new feature or a bugfix, will be done on the main branch.

Contributing

You want to contribute to this repository? This is so great! The best way to start is to open a new issue for bugs or feature requests or a discussion for questions, support and such.

In case you want to contribute, but you wouldn't know how, here are some suggestions:

  • Spread the word: More user means more people testing and contributing to Kimai, which in turn means better stability and more and better features. Please vote for Kimai on any software platform, you can toot or tweet about it, share it on LinkedIn, Reddit or any of your favorite social media platforms. Every bit helps!
  • Answer questions: You know the answer to another user's problem? Share your knowledge.
  • Something can be done better? An essential feature is missing? Create a feature request.
  • Report bugs makes Kimai better for everyone.
  • You don't have to be programmer, the documentation and translation could always use some attention.
  • Sponsor the project: free software costs money to create!

There is one simple rule in our "Code of conduct": Don't be an ass!

Credits

Kimai is based on modern technologies and frameworks such as PHP, Symfony and Doctrine, Bootstrap and Tabler, and countless others.