PomoZentraPomoZentra vs Toggl Track
Toggl Track is a general-purpose time tracker built for billing clients and reporting across a team. PomoZentra is a narrower personal tool: it checks whether your focus matched a plan you set for the week, work area by work area. They answer different questions, and plenty of people would be better served by Toggl.
Free during early access. No credit card required.
The short verdict
Read this and you can probably stop. The rest of the page is detail.
Choose PomoZentra if
- You already know how many hours you worked and want to know whether they went where you intended
- You work alone and plan your own week
- You want a focus timer at the centre of the product, not as a side feature
- You want partial credit for work that moved but did not finish
Choose Toggl Track if
- You bill clients by the hour and need rates, invoices or client reports
- You need time tracking across a team, with seats and permissions
- You need timesheets for payroll, compliance or an employer
- You need it to connect to project tools you already run
At a glance
Buying criteria only. The feature-by-feature detail is further down.
Compiled from each product's own public description, last reviewed June 2026. Competitor products change often, so confirm anything that matters to your decision on Toggl Track's own site before choosing.
Why people look for something else
Not complaints about Toggl Track, which does its job well. These are the situations where a different question is being asked.
Hours answer a question you already know
If you finish the week aware that you worked a lot and unsure whether it counted, a more precise hour total does not help. The missing reference point is the plan you made on Monday.
A total lets easy work cover hard work
Any single figure lets three extra admin hours quietly offset a skipped delivery block. PomoZentra caps credit per work area so the shortfall stays visible.
Team features you do not use
Toggl Track carries seats, permissions and client reporting because its customers need them. If you work alone, that surface area is cost without benefit.
What each one actually does
Grouped by outcome rather than one long checklist. "Check their site" means we could not verify it well enough to state it.
Measuring the work
Planning
Reporting
Setup and learning curve
How long before the tool is worth anything.
PomoZentra
Setup is one screen and takes about five minutes: name six work areas, choose one to three focus areas, and set blocks per day. No data import, no integrations to connect, no admin. You can run the whole loop in guest mode before creating an account.
Toggl Track
A general-purpose tracker has more surface to configure, because it supports projects, clients, rates and teams. How long that takes depends entirely on how much of it you intend to use. Check their onboarding documentation for current detail.
What each costs
PomoZentra
Free during early access, with no credit card and nowhere in the app to enter one. Every current feature is included. We may add optional paid features later, but pricing and plan details have not been decided, and any change will be communicated before it takes effect.
Toggl Track
We deliberately do not publish Toggl Track's prices on this page. Competitor pricing changes, and a stale figure here would misinform you at exactly the moment you are trying to decide. Check their official pricing page for current numbers, plan limits and terms.
Integrations
Whether it connects to the tools you already run.
PomoZentra
None. There are no calendar, task manager or chat integrations and no public API. The only external service is Google, used for sign-in. This is a deliberate limit, not a roadmap item.
Toggl Track
Toggl Track publicly offers browser extensions and a large integration directory covering common project and task tools, plus an API. If connecting to your existing stack matters, this is a real and significant advantage over PomoZentra.
Customisation and scale
PomoZentra
You rename and recolour your work areas, choose which are this week's focus, set focus and break lengths, and define your own optional output targets. Beyond that there is little to configure, on purpose. One person, one workspace, no roles.
Toggl Track
Built to scale across teams and clients, so it carries more structure: projects, clients, tags, workspaces and member roles. If you expect to grow into that, PomoZentra will not follow you there.
Support
PomoZentra
One inbox, [email protected], read and answered by the team that writes the code. No live chat, no ticket system, no guaranteed response time. Usually a day or two.
Toggl Track
A company with a support organisation and published help documentation. Support levels and response times may vary by plan, so check their current terms.
Switching, honestly
There is no migration tool, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.
- STEP 1Export your history from Toggl Track first. PomoZentra cannot import it, so if you want that record, get it out while you still have access.
- STEP 2Start fresh, which matters less than it sounds. Alignment only ever compares a week against a plan set inside PomoZentra. Imported hours would have nothing to align against, so there is little for a migration to carry.
- STEP 3Run both for a fortnight. Keep Toggl Track exactly as it is and add PomoZentra alongside. Two weeks is the minimum before the numbers say anything, and nothing forces a decision during that time.
- STEP 4Decide with your own data. If the weekly comparison is not telling you something you did not already know, stop. Export from PomoZentra as CSV or JSON at any time and delete the account from Settings.
When PomoZentra is the wrong choice
Stated plainly so you do not find out three weeks in.
Do not use it if
- You bill clients by the hour, or need invoices and rates
- You need a team: seats, assignees, shared boards or a manager view
- You need it to connect to your existing tools, or an API
- You need native mobile apps rather than a browser tab
- Your calendar is filled by somebody else, leaving nothing to plan
- You need vendor security certifications for procurement
What it is genuinely good at
One narrow thing: telling you, work area by work area, whether the week you planned on Monday is the week you actually had, while there is still time to change it.
If that is not the question keeping you up, Toggl Track is very likely the better purchase, and we would rather you made it.
Comparison questions
Is PomoZentra cheaper than Toggl Track?
PomoZentra is free during early access with no card required. We deliberately do not publish Toggl Track's prices here, because they change and an out-of-date figure on our site would mislead you. Check their pricing page for current numbers.
Can I import my Toggl Track data?
No. There is no importer. Alignment only compares a week against a plan you set inside PomoZentra, so imported hours would have nothing to align against. Export your Toggl history for your own records before you stop using it.
What will I lose by switching?
Billable hours, rates, invoicing, client and project reports, team seats, and every integration. If you use any of those for real work, do not switch. Many people run both: Toggl for billing, PomoZentra for their own week.
Can I run both at once?
Yes, and for freelancers who bill hourly that is often the right answer. They measure different things and neither depends on the other.
Does PomoZentra have an API?
No, and none is planned in the near term.
Has anyone switched from Toggl Track?
PomoZentra is in early access and we have no switching stories to show yet. When there are, they will be published with the person's permission and their name attached, not as an anonymous claim.
Try it against your own week
No comparison page settles this. Two weeks of your own data will.
Start free
Plan a week in five minutes and run it alongside Toggl Track. No card, no account needed to try it.
Read the method
How alignment is calculated, why credit is capped per area, and what the product refuses to guess.
Read the FAQ
Forty-nine answers on setup, scoring, cost, data and the product's limits.