Time Doctor review

No, there is no free plan on Time Doctor. The only free route is a 14 day trial, and it starts with the full feature set rather than a trimmed version. After the trial window closes the account moves to a paid plan, so budget for a subscription from the first billing period onward.

The trial opens the whole feature set, including the project management tools and the payroll option, so you can test the full package for 14 days. The median trial length on ForgeCue is 14 days and the longer tail reaches 30 days, so this is a middle length rather than the longest on offer.

Payroll is included in the Time Doctor package rather than sold as an add-on, so a team handling pay and project work in one place does not need a second subscription for it. That bundling helps explain why the offer part of the ForgeCue score, 5.2, sits above the cost part.

Time Doctor sits in project management rather than bookkeeping alone, and it was founded in 2012. With payroll included, the purchase covers the project side and the pay side together, which suits a small business that would rather not carry two separate tools.

The mobile app is listed for ios only, and that is the full platform set recorded for the brand. Teams with mixed device estates should check what they need on a desktop before standardizing on phones. The 60 integrations often matter more for a mixed setup than the phone app does.

Support runs through help centre, so day to day answers come from documentation you search yourself. Help centres are the most common channel among the brands on ForgeCue, with email next, so expect more self-serve and less live help here than with a brand that lists a support line.

The listed audience is small business and enterprise, so it serves small businesses and enterprise teams rather than one narrow segment. Payroll is included and the trial opens every feature, which fits a small business that wants project and pay work in one place. Larger enterprise groups are covered by the same audience listing.

The overall ForgeCue score is 4.1, split into 3.1 for cost and 5.2 for offer. Cost sits lower because there is no free plan, while offer reflects the 14 day trial with every feature, payroll included, and 60 integrations.