Cut Time vs Toggl

Cut Time vs Toggl — which fits a video editor?

Toggl is a general-purpose time tracker used by everyone from consultants to marketing teams. Cut Time lives in your menu bar — built only for video editors. It tracks projects, clients, earnings, finds you contests, and runs your analytics, all without a single timer click.

What Toggl gets right

Toggl is polished, cross-platform, and deeply integrated with project-management tools like Asana, Jira, and Trello. If your team already lives in those tools and everyone starts their own timer, Toggl is solid.

Why Cut Time fits editors better

Editors don't start timers. They open a project and start cutting. Cut Time runs in your menu bar, detects which editing project is open, and logs active editing time automatically — no timer button, no "forgot to stop it" problem, no habit change.

Side by side.

The features that actually matter when your day job is editing video.

Feature
Cut Time
Toggl
Auto-detects Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut
Manual timer / stopwatch
Not needed
Active vs idle time detection
Partial
Per-project breakdown from the editing app itself
Runs in your menu bar
Studio dashboard for editor teams
Built-in earnings tracker + rate analysis
Project-management integrations (Asana/Jira)
No
Starting price
Free
$10/user/mo
Works offline

Pick Cut Time if

  • You're a video editor, motion designer, or colorist
  • You use Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, or Final Cut
  • You keep forgetting to start your Toggl timer
  • You want per-project data without any new habits
  • You run a post studio and want editor dashboards
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Stick with Toggl if

  • You don't work in video editing software
  • You need deep Asana/Jira/Trello integration
  • Your team already lives inside Toggl and won't switch
  • You bill in task-based time blocks, not per-project

Common questions

Can Cut Time track non-editing work?

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Not today. Cut Time is tuned specifically for video editing software. If you also need to track writing, meetings, or other non-edit work, Toggl will handle that breadth better.

Is Cut Time cheaper than Toggl?

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Yes. Cut Time is free for individual editors. Toggl starts at ~$10/user/month even on small teams. For studios, Cut Time is $8/editor/mo (or $80/editor/year — two months free).

Can I use both?

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Sure. Some editors use Cut Time for edit time and Toggl for everything else. Cut Time doesn't care what else is running on your machine.

Does Cut Time replace Toggl reports?

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For video editing, yes. Cut Time exports verified timesheets per project with tracked time + self-reported creative time — cleaner than a generic Toggl export because it knows your work context.

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