Eon For Mac

With freelance and remote work getting more and more popular, tools that help you track and manage time, as well as calculate payments, are becoming essential for many professionals.

Eon is designed as a simple, minimalistic time tracker, but it packs quite a bit more versatility under the hood. While it can function as a basic desktop project tracker, it can also synchronize this data with a number of online services, allowing you to use them together and make the best of all of them.

The first thing you will see is a tiny window on your desktop. From there, you can create projects, work on tasks as part of those project, and manage the time spent on them. The UI is very intuitive, and it is designed to give you all the information you need at a glance.

Once a timer has been started, you don’t even need to bring up the main window until you’re ready to move on to something else. You can track your time directly from the menu bar, and you can click it to see which project you’re working on and perform various adjustments.

What really sets Eon apart from other time trackers is its ability to be integrated with a wide range of services that deal with project management, time tracking, calculating payments, or just general accounting.

If you buy the app from the App Store, support for these services has to be unlocked via in-app purchases. Purchasing via Paddle is more expensive, but it includes all these integrations from the get-go.

As a standalone time tracker, Eon is nice, but probably not worth the price. However, it becomes a lot more valuable if you need a tracker that can work with a particular service that you’re already using. It can sync your data and make it unnecessary to transition to an entirely new platform just to add desktop time tracking.