You need 4 more apps alongside it. Toggl Track is clean time tracking, but at $9-18/user/month it's just a stopwatch. Helix is $279 once for everything.
Bottom line: Toggl Track Starter costs $108/year per user. But Toggl is ONLY time tracking — you still need invoicing, CRM, scheduling, and accounting. The real stack: Toggl + FreshBooks + Calendly + a CRM runs $800-1,200/year. Helix is $279 once and includes time tracking, CRM, invoicing, scheduling, and accounting. Break-even vs Toggl alone: ~16 months. Vs the full stack: ~3 months.
Toggl is pre-selected below. Add the other apps you use alongside it to see the real cost.
Toggl Track Starter: $9/user/mo = $108/year. Break-even with Helix: ~16 months.
Toggl Track has the cleanest time tracking UI in the market. One-click timers, detailed reports, project breakdowns, and integrations with nearly every tool you already use. The Chrome extension is excellent. For teams that need granular time analytics, Toggl is genuinely best-in-class.
Toggl does exactly one thing: track time. No invoicing. No CRM. No scheduling. No accounting. No expense tracking. You track your hours in Toggl, then manually create invoices in FreshBooks, manage clients in a spreadsheet, schedule in Calendly, and do books in QuickBooks. That's 4-5 apps, 4-5 subscriptions, 4-5 logins — all because your time tracker doesn't do anything else.
Most Toggl defectors aren't unhappy with the time tracking. They're tired of the stack. The trigger is usually the realization: "I'm paying $800-1,200/year across 5 tools when I could pay $279 once for one tool that does it all." Time tracking is a feature, not a product — and paying separately for it stops making sense.
Export time entries, projects, and client data as CSV from Toggl. Takes about 5 minutes.
15-minute setup. Import clients, configure services, set up time tracking. Everything in one place now.
Track time in both for a few days. Verify Helix captures everything you need.
Cancel Toggl, your invoicing app, your scheduling app, and your accounting app. One tool left.
Yes, and more. Helix includes time tracking plus CRM, invoicing, scheduling, and accounting. Toggl Track is only time tracking — you need 4 more apps alongside it.
Starter $108/yr per user, Premium $216/yr per user. Free tier exists but is severely limited. Most solos need the full stack: Toggl + invoicing + CRM + scheduling + accounting = $800-1,200/yr.
Toggl alone is cheap. The real savings: replacing Toggl + FreshBooks + Calendly + a CRM. That stack runs $800-1,200/yr. Helix replaces it all for $279 once. Over 3 years: $2,121-3,321.
Toggl's time tracking is best-in-class — clean UI, detailed reports, powerful integrations. If all you need is time tracking, Toggl is hard to beat. But most solopreneurs need more than a stopwatch.
Yes. Export time entries, projects, and client data as CSV from Toggl. Import into Helix.
Toggl + the apps you need alongside it costs $800-1,200/year. Helix is $279 once.
Calculate Your Savings· Data sourced from official pricing pages