Does Asana Have Time Tracking? Complete Guide for 2026

Keito Team
24 May 2026·12 min read

Does Asana have time tracking? Yes, on Advanced and Enterprise plans. See what Asana's native timer and time fields do, plus the best integrations, workarounds, and automatic alternatives.

Time Tracking

Does Asana have time tracking? Yes. Asana has native time tracking on its Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans (Asana). Turning it on for a project adds Estimated time and Actual time fields, and people can use a built-in timer or enter time manually on a task (Asana Help Center). Asana also sells a Timesheets and budgets add-on with timesheet approvals and time and cost reporting (Asana). Teams whose plan does not include these features, or who keep billable time in a separate system, add an integration such as Keito, Everhour, Harvest, Toggl Track, or Clockify, or a passive tool that captures time automatically.

Quick Answer: Asana has a built-in timer plus Estimated time and Actual time fields on its Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans, and a paid Timesheets and budgets add-on with approvals and reporting. If you need time stored in a dedicated time tracking or billing tool, use an Asana-integrated time tracker or a passive tool that works outside Asana entirely.

Asana is one of the most widely used project management platforms in the world. Teams that rely on it for task management often want to know whether it also handles time tracking, and what changes by plan. This guide explains what Asana actually offers, which integrations fill the remaining gaps best, and what the alternatives look like for teams that need time data without adding another manual tool.

Does Asana have time tracking?

Yes. Asana includes native time tracking on some plans, and offers more through a paid add-on.

Native time tracking. Asana lists time tracking as included in its Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans (Asana time tracking features). To use it, open a project’s Customize menu and choose to time your work. Asana then adds two custom fields to the project: Estimated time and Actual time (Asana Help Center).

  • Timer and manual entry. Use the built-in timer on a task, or enter time manually (Asana Help Center).
  • Subtask roll-up. Time tracked on subtasks rolls up into the parent task (Asana Help Center).
  • Dashboards. A project dashboard chart can compare estimated time with actual time (Asana Help Center).

Timesheets and budgets add-on. Asana describes Timesheets and budgets as an add-on available for purchase on Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+. It adds timesheet approvals, plus time and cost reporting and exports (Asana timesheets and budgets).

Other time-related fields. Due dates and start dates define task windows but do not record how long work took. Custom fields, available on Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+, include number fields that can hold values such as estimated hours (Asana custom fields).

Where these features are not included in your Asana plan, or where billable time needs to live in a dedicated time tracking, invoicing, or client billing system, teams add an integration.

Key Takeaway: Asana does have time tracking: a built-in timer and Estimated time and Actual time fields on Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+, plus a paid Timesheets and budgets add-on. An integration is still useful when time needs to live in a separate time tracking or billing system.

Best Asana time tracking integrations

Several dedicated time tracking tools have official Asana integrations. They differ in how deeply they connect, what they cost, and how much manual effort they require.

Tool Integration type Asana sync depth Pricing
Keito Native Asana App Components Track time in Keito form and widget on Asana tasks; entries linked back to the task; optional project and people import and one-way project sync Keito Business plan
Everhour Browser extension Timer embedded in Asana tasks; syncs Asana projects and task names; project budgets and estimates Free for up to 5 seats; Team from $8.50/seat/month billed yearly (as of September 2026)
Harvest Browser extension, plus project and people import Timer icon on Asana tasks; tracked totals shown in Asana; imports Asana projects and people; optional one-way sync of future Asana projects Free plan (1 seat, 2 projects); Teams from $9/seat/month billed annually (as of September 2026)
Toggl Track Native integration, plus browser extension Imports Asana users, projects, and tasks (tasks on paid plans; subtasks not imported); timer inside Asana via the browser extension Free plan; paid plans from $9/user/month (as of September 2026)
Clockify Browser extension Timer button in Asana tasks; picks up the Asana task name and project Free for up to 5 users; paid from $3.99/seat/month billed annually (as of September 2026)
Timely Asana Sync integration Syncs Asana projects, tasks, subtasks, and users; creates Memories from Asana activity; time logged in Timely is reflected on Asana tasks From $9/user/month billed yearly (as of September 2026)

Integration details come from each vendor’s own documentation and prices from each vendor’s pricing page, checked in September 2026: Everhour (help, pricing), Harvest (time tracking, import and sync, pricing), Toggl Track (help, pricing), Clockify (Asana integration, pricing), and Timely (help, pricing). Prices change, so check the vendor’s pricing page before you buy.

Keito is listed in the Asana app gallery and runs inside Asana through Asana App Components, with no browser extension. On the Keito Business plan, team members start a timer or log a duration from a Track time in Keito form on the task, and a Keito widget shows team time, your time, and whether your timer is running. Time is stored in Keito and linked back to the Asana task; Keito never writes to Asana’s native time-tracking fields. Admins can also import Asana projects and people and turn on one-way project sync. See our guide to tracking time in Asana with Keito, the Asana integration docs, and the Asana time tracking with Keito overview.

Everhour provides the most seamless experience: its browser extension embeds a timer in Asana, so you can start and stop the timer without leaving Asana. Everhour automatically syncs your Asana projects, keeps renamed tasks and projects up to date, and lets you set project budgets and see total project hours and estimates (Everhour help). Everhour is the integration most frequently recommended in the Asana community for teams that want time data to feel native.

Harvest is the preferred option for agencies and service firms that need to connect time to invoices. Its Asana integration has two parts. Each team member installs the Harvest browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, which adds a timer icon to Asana tasks; Harvest remembers the project and task chosen for each Asana task, and tracked totals appear in Asana’s list, board, and task views (Harvest Help Center). Separately, Harvest administrators can import Asana projects and people and enable a one-way project sync from Asana to Harvest for future projects; this import is not available on Harvest’s free plan (Harvest Help Center). For accounting teams that also need to push time data into Xero, see our guide on connecting time tracking to Xero invoicing.

Toggl Track suits developers and knowledge workers who already use Toggl. Its native Asana integration imports Asana users, projects, and tasks into Toggl Track; tasks can only be imported into paid Toggl Track organizations, and Asana subtasks are not imported. To track time from inside Asana, you use the Toggl Track browser extension (Toggl Knowledge Base). Toggl’s comparison against other tools covers where it fits best.

Clockify is the choice for budget-conscious teams. The free tier is genuinely functional, and the Clockify browser extension adds a timer button to Asana tasks that picks up the Asana task name and project (Clockify). Time entries feed a Clockify workspace where you run reports. See our Clockify alternatives guide if you need to evaluate it against other options.

Workarounds for tracking time in Asana without an integration

If your Asana plan includes native time tracking, start there. If it does not, and adding a paid integration is not an option, there are lower-friction workarounds. Each has meaningful limitations.

Custom fields for estimated and actual hours. Asana’s Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans include custom fields, including number fields (Asana custom fields). You can create an “Actual Hours” field and have team members update it manually when they finish a task. This is better than nothing — you get a record of time spent — but it requires manual updates, is easy to forget, and produces no real-time visibility.

Browser extensions with a timer overlay. Several generic time tracking browser extensions (the Toggl Track, Harvest, and Clockify extensions) add a timer button to most web apps, including Asana. The extension detects the task name from the page and pre-fills the timer entry. This works, but the time entries live in the external tool; Harvest’s extension also shows tracked totals on Asana tasks.

Zapier or Make automations. You can build a Zapier workflow that triggers when an Asana task is marked complete and writes a time entry to a time tracking tool using the task’s custom “Actual Hours” field as input. This automates the data transfer but does not solve the fundamental problem of someone needing to fill in that field accurately.

Asana timestamps in rules. Asana’s workflow rules can set a date field when a task enters or leaves a status column. With two timestamp fields (e.g., “Started At” and “Completed At”), you can calculate cycle time by subtracting one from the other in a spreadsheet export. This gives cycle time, not time-on-task — a different and less granular metric.

None of these workarounds produce the accurate, real-time time data that a proper integration or dedicated tool provides. They are stopgaps, not solutions.

Why project management tools are not time trackers

Even with Asana’s native time tracking, project management tools and dedicated time tracking tools are built for different jobs.

Project management tools are coordination systems: they track state (to do, in progress, done), ownership (assigned to), and dependencies (blocking, blocked by). Their data model is task-centric.

Time tracking tools are measurement systems: they track how long a unit of work took, who worked on it, and whether that time was billable. Their data model is time-entry-centric.

Asana tasks can span multiple sessions, be reassigned mid-flight, and be worked on by multiple people. A time entry needs a start time, an end time, a single owner, and a billable flag. These models conflict.

The operational problem for teams using Asana with a time integration is context switching: you open Asana to see what to work on, then open the time tracker to log that you are working on it. Forgetting to start, forgetting to stop, rounding to the nearest hour — all of these make time data unreliable.

The deeper problem is that Asana tasks do not capture all of the work that generates billable time. Code reviews, pull request discussions, Slack threads about a task, and unplanned debugging sessions all happen outside Asana and never get logged. For a complete picture of where time goes, you need something that does not require you to open Asana at all.

Automatic time tracking for Asana users

The alternative to adding another manual step is to track time passively — without timers, without switching apps, without remembering to log anything.

Keito builds time entries automatically from the development workflow you already use: the Keito GitHub Action turns commits, pull requests, reviews, and issue activity into entries, the Keito CLI covers terminal sessions and CI jobs, and the Agent Skill logs AI coding sessions from Claude Code or Codex. For teams that rely heavily on Zoom calls alongside Asana for project coordination, our guide shows how to capture Zoom meeting time automatically with no manual logging. If you spend two hours working through a feature branch and reviewing pull requests, Keito records both without any action on your part.

For teams using Asana alongside a development workflow, Keito maps automatically captured time to the relevant projects using time: labels, /time commands, and per-repository project configuration. You see where time actually went — including AI agent activity and async work that never appears in Asana at all.

The practical difference is that passive capture does not depend on someone remembering to start and stop a timer.

For Asana users specifically, this means:

  • Time is tracked whether or not a task is open in the browser
  • Git and PR activity maps to project context automatically
  • CI jobs and scripted work are captured with explicit start/stop timers via the CLI
  • AI agent runs appear in the time log even when they produce no Asana task update
  • Billing and invoicing reports pull from complete, accurate data rather than estimates

FAQ

Does Asana have time tracking?

Yes. Asana has native time tracking on its Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans, with Estimated time and Actual time fields, a built-in timer, and manual time entry. Asana also sells a Timesheets and budgets add-on with timesheet approvals and reporting. Teams that need time stored in a separate billing or time tracking system add an integration such as Keito.

What is the best time tracking integration for Asana?

Keito suits Keito Business teams that want to track billable time from Asana tasks natively, without a browser extension, and keep the record in Keito for review and billing. Everhour is the most deeply integrated option — its browser extension embeds a timer inside Asana tasks. Harvest is the best choice for teams that need time-to-invoice workflows. Clockify is the leading free option. Toggl Track suits teams already on the Toggl ecosystem.

Can you track hours on Asana tasks?

Yes. On Asana’s Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans you can use Asana’s built-in timer or enter time manually on a task. Custom fields, available from the Starter plan, can also hold manually entered hours. Integrations such as Keito let you start a timer or log a duration from an Asana task and store the entry in a separate time tracking system.

Is Everhour or Toggl better for Asana time tracking?

Everhour is better if you want its timer, project budgets, and estimates embedded in Asana through its browser extension. Toggl Track is better if your team already uses Toggl across multiple tools: its native integration imports Asana projects and tasks, and its browser extension adds a timer inside Asana. Both offer a free plan; compare current paid prices on each vendor’s pricing page.

How do developers track time in Asana without manual entry?

Developers who want time data without manual timers typically use a passive time tracking tool like Keito, which captures time from git activity, pull requests, and AI coding sessions automatically. This produces more complete data than manual Asana timers because it works even when a developer is not looking at Asana.

Does Asana track time automatically?

Not passively. Asana’s built-in timer measures time on a task once someone starts it, and time can also be entered manually. Asana can also timestamp when a task moves between columns using workflow rules, giving you cycle time (total elapsed time in a status), but not actual working time. Passive time capture requires a dedicated tool.

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