# Akollo vs Toggl Track: when to choose which

> Toggl Track makes timers effortless and now adds tasks and planning. Akollo is built the other way round: a project management app where time, people, budgets and AI share one record.

## Choose Akollo if

- Projects, people and cost should live in the same system as hours
- You need employee records and leave approvals, not just time off
- Self-hosting, Turkish screens or non-US data are requirements

## Choose Toggl Track if

- One-click timers across web, desktop and mobile come first
- You never want screenshots or activity tracking
- A small team starting on a free plan

## Akollo and Toggl Track, area by area

Akollo compared with Toggl Track on ten areas. Toggl Track information is from its public website, as of October 2026; features vary by plan.

| Area | Akollo | Toggl Track |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Projects, boards and timelines | Built in: Boards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | Built in: Board, task list, calendar and a Gantt-like timeline. |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Built in: Timesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Built in: Timers on all plans; timesheet approval on Premium and up. |
| Resource and capacity planning | Built in: Planned against available time, per team and period. | Add-on: Capacity Management is a paid add-on. |
| Budgets and profitability | Built in: Budgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | Built in: Estimates, rates, labour cost and profitability by plan. |
| HR basics: people and time off | Built in: Employee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | Add-on: Time off and holidays; Time Off Pro is a paid add-on. |
| CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built in: Accounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | No: No CRM found on Toggl's site. |
| AI assistant | Built in: Admins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | Built in: AI task creator; an MCP server for outside assistants. |
| Self-hosting on your own servers | Built in: Our cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | No: Toggl says its services run on Google Cloud. |
| Product in Turkish | Built in: Turkish, English and German, written natively. | No: Toggl says the web app is English only. |
| Choice of where data is stored | Built in: Self-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | No: Toggl says data is in Iowa, United States. |

## From the timer to the whole picture

Toggl Track grew from timers into planning. Akollo grew from projects and people, and time is one of the parts.

- **Hours that land in a budget** — Approved hours are priced with cost rates and counted against the project budget, so profitability updates as people work.
- **People, not just time off** — Akollo keeps employee records, the org chart, leave balances and approvals. Capacity planning starts from who actually works here.
- **Measure, if you choose to** — Manual time entry works everywhere. If your organisation wants it, a desktop app can measure time on the computer, under a policy people can see.
- **Your servers, your language** — Run Akollo in our cloud or on your own servers, in Turkish, English or German. The AI answers within each person's permissions.

## When Toggl Track is the better fit

Toggl Track is one of the friendliest ways to track time. For many teams that is exactly the point.

- You want the lightest possible timer on every device
- Your culture rules out screenshots and activity tracking entirely
- A small team that wants to start free and grow into planning

## Move from Toggl Track

Toggl Track exports reports to CSV. Akollo imports project and task lists from CSV, up to 5,000 rows per file, with a dry run first.

- **Export from Toggl Track** — Export your projects and tasks from Toggl Track as a CSV file.
- **Map the columns** — In Akollo, match each column to a work item field. A key column updates items you imported before.
- **Dry run first** — See how many items would be created, updated or skipped before anything is written.
- **Move team by team** — Start with one team, add timesheets and capacity, then bring the rest across.

## Questions about Toggl Track and Akollo

### Does Akollo force screenshots or activity tracking?

No. The desktop app is optional and follows a recording policy your organisation sets, with screenshots only if you turn them on. Many teams use manual time entry only.

### Is Akollo a Toggl Track alternative?

If you need time tracking together with projects, people, leave and budgets, yes. If timers alone are what you need, Toggl Track is hard to beat.

### Can we bring our Toggl projects?

Yes. Export your projects and tasks as CSV, map the columns in Akollo and check the dry run before importing.

## See time, people and budgets in one view

We will show Akollo running on your own projects, with the time tracking set up the way your teams prefer.

- [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo)
- [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com)

## Sources

Information about Toggl Track is taken from its public website and help centre, as of October 2026. Plans and features change, so check with Toggl Track before you decide. Product names are trademarks of their owners.

- [Toggl Track: Pricing (plan features)](https://toggl.com/track/pricing/)
- [Toggl: Security policy](https://toggl.com/legal/security-policy)
- [Toggl Support: Other languages](https://support.toggl.com/en-us/article/is-toggl-track-available-in-other-languages-193cez1/)
- [Toggl Support: Exporting data](https://support.toggl.com/exporting-data)


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Source: https://akollo.com/en/compare/toggl-track · [Türkçe](https://akollo.com/tr/karsilastir/toggl-track-alternatifi), [Deutsch](https://akollo.com/de/vergleich/toggl-track-alternative)