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Hourbun vs Tempough

Looking for a Tempough alternative that does not charge for each seat? Hourbun tracks time and bills each client in its own currency, for one flat price per workspace.

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The short answer

Hourbun keeps a team of up to 30 people on one flat price, $99 a month, and bills each client in its own currency. Tempough Team charges for each seat with a 3-seat minimum, so a team of 10 pays $130 a month, and each Tempough workspace has one currency. Tempough fits a solo freelancer who wants a free or an $8 plan.

Why switch

Why teams pick Hourbun over Tempough

  • A team of 10 pays $99 a month on Hourbun Team and $130 on Tempough Team; a team of 25 pays $99 against $325.
  • One flat price for up to 30 people: Tempough Team charges for each seat, with a 3-seat minimum.
  • A currency for each client or project: Tempough has one currency for each workspace.
  • Team roles, weekly capacity and profit reports from the Duo plan: Tempough keeps roles, capacity planning and margin reports for its Team plan.
  • A one-way Xero sync of issued invoices and their payments: Tempough exports a CSV in the QuickBooks format.
  • Your Tempough time comes with you: Hourbun imports the CSV of time that Tempough exports, with its clients, projects, tasks and people.

Head to head

At a glance

Hourbun and Tempough at a glance
Hourbun Tempough
Duo, a month $15 Duo $15 Partnership
Free plan None 1 user, with the timer, the timesheet, unlimited clients and projects, and CSV exports; no invoicing.
Free trial 14 days, with no card 14 days of a paid plan, with no credit card.
Client invoices Yes Higher plan From approved time and expenses, from the Individual plan
Online payment Yes By card or bank debit, into your own Stripe account Higher plan By card or bank, into your own Stripe account, from the Individual plan
Timesheet approvals Higher plan On the Team plan Higher plan Weekly timesheets, on the Team plan
Desktop or mobile apps No A web app with a layout for phones Yes A macOS menu bar app on every plan; a Windows version is on the way

Same work, two prices

What you'd pay each month

Hourbun costs less in 2 of 5 examples below.

Hourbun

  • One flat price per workspace
  • Duo up to 2 seats · Team up to 30
  • 14-day free trial, no card

Tempough

  • A flat price on Individual and Partnership
  • A price per seat on Team, with a 3-seat minimum
  • Lower prices when billed yearly
  • A free plan for 1 user, with no invoicing
What each example pays a month, billed monthly
Hourbun Tempough
Solo freelancer 1 person · 5 clients $15 Duo $8 (lower price) Individual $6 billed yearly
Duo 2 people · 8 clients $15 Duo $15 Partnership $12 billed yearly
Small studio 5 people · 15 clients $99 Team $65 (lower price) Team $55 billed yearly
Agency 10 people · 30 clients $99 (lower price) Team Save $31 a month $130 Team $110 billed yearly
Larger team 25 people · 60 clients $99 (lower price) Team Save $226 a month $325 Team $275 billed yearly
  • USD list prices, billed monthly
  • Before tax and payment fees
  • Highlight = lower price
  • Checked 10 November 2026
Pricing details (6)
  • Team with team groupings, branded invoices and company documents.
  • Team and Team Pro charge at least 3 seats, and take $2 off each seat above 25 seats.
  • Enterprise, for SSO, a custom SLA and a white-label client portal, is priced on request.
  • Tempough states that it has no per-email, usage or overage charges.
  • Clients pay through your own Stripe account: Stripe charges its fees, and Tempough takes no percentage.
  • The usage of each example: Solo freelancer: 1 person · 5 clients · 6 projects · 5 tasks · 6 invoices and $7.5k invoiced a month. Duo: 2 people · 8 clients · 10 projects · 8 tasks · 10 invoices and $16k invoiced a month. Small studio: 5 people · 15 clients · 20 projects · 10 tasks · 20 invoices and $40k invoiced a month. Agency: 10 people · 30 clients · 40 projects · 15 tasks · 40 invoices and $90k invoiced a month. Larger team: 25 people · 60 clients · 80 projects · 20 tasks · 80 invoices and $220k invoiced a month.

Feature by feature

Features

  • Yes
  • Partly
  • No
  • Only the rows that we could check on a page of Tempough
The features of Hourbun and Tempough
Hourbun Tempough
Time tracking
Timer Yes Yes
Weekly timesheet grid Yes Yes
Keyboard shortcuts Yes Yes
Billable and non-billable time Yes Yes Hourly, fixed-bid and non-billable projects on every plan
Hourly rates by client, project, task and person Yes Yes By client, project, task and project member
Desktop or mobile apps No A web app with a layout for phones Yes A macOS menu bar app on every plan; a Windows version is on the way
Invoicing and payments
Invoices from tracked time Yes Higher plan From approved time and expenses, from the Individual plan
Invoice lines of your own (a fixed fee, a product) Yes Higher plan Your own line items and one-off charges, with invoicing from the Individual plan
Recurring invoices Yes Higher plan Drafts on a schedule that you approve and send, from the Individual plan
Estimates or quotes that a client accepts online Yes Higher plan Quotes that a client accepts online, from the Partnership plan
Expenses with receipts, billed with a markup Yes Higher plan Receipts and mileage from the Individual plan, billed with a configurable markup
A currency for each client or project Yes No One currency for each workspace
Online payment of an invoice Yes By card or bank debit, into your own Stripe account Higher plan By card or bank, into your own Stripe account, from the Individual plan
No fee of the app on online payments Yes Only the fees of Stripe Yes Tempough takes no percentage of a payment
Projects and reports
Project budgets in hours or money Yes Higher plan Project budgets with burn alerts, from the Individual plan
Fixed-fee projects Yes Yes Fixed-bid projects on every plan
Cost rates and profit Yes For admins and the owner Higher plan Cost rates and margin (P&L) reports on the Team plan
Reports with a CSV export Yes Yes CSV time exports on every plan
Weekly capacity of each teammate Yes Higher plan Forecast and capacity planning on the Team plan
Team
Team roles Yes Member, manager, admin and owner Higher plan Admin, Manager and Contributor, and permission groups, on the Team plan
Timesheet approvals Higher plan On the Team plan Higher plan Weekly timesheets, on the Team plan
Integrations and data
Accounting sync Partly Xero, one way: issued invoices and credit notes, and their payments if you choose Partly A CSV of time and invoices in the QuickBooks format, which also works with Xero and Wave
QuickBooks No Partly A CSV export in the QuickBooks format, from the Individual plan
A public API No Higher plan A REST API, webhooks and an MCP server, from the Partnership plan
Project-tool integrations (Asana, Jira and others) No Partly Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, and a community-built Azure DevOps app
Import of a Harvest account, with its invoices, expenses and estimates Yes Also its budgets, receipts and team, after a preview Partly Harvest CSV exports of clients, projects, time, expenses and invoices with their lines
Import from any app by CSV, with past invoices and expenses Yes Time, clients and projects too; a format guide with a prompt for an AI agent Partly Clients, projects, time, expenses and invoices, in the CSV layout of Harvest
Data export and account deletion Yes A whole workspace as CSV files with receipts, for the owner and admins; your account as JSON Yes A JSON export of your data from your profile; account deletion on request
No ads and no analytics in the app Yes Yes No ads, and no third-party analytics in the signed-in app

Which one fits

Hourbun or Tempough?

Choose Hourbun if

  • Your team has 10 or more people, and you want one flat price, not a price for each seat.
  • You bill clients in more than one currency.
  • You want team roles, capacity and profit on a plan for two people.
  • You use Xero and want invoices and their payments sent to it.

Where Tempough is better

  • A free plan for 1 user, with the timer, the timesheet, unlimited clients and projects, and CSV exports.
  • A macOS menu bar app on every plan, which keeps working offline.
  • Forecast and capacity planning, time off and overtime on the Team plan, and an API, webhooks and an MCP server from Partnership.

Switching

Switch from Tempough to Hourbun

Hourbun imports a CSV of time entries from any app, and Tempough exports time as CSV on every plan. Upload the file, check the columns and the people that Hourbun proposes, and see a preview of the clients, projects, tasks and time before anything is added. Your clients, projects, expenses and past invoices can come too: give the Hourbun format guide and your Tempough exports to an AI agent, and upload the files that it makes. The 14-day trial of Hourbun needs no card.

Questions

Questions and answers

Is Hourbun cheaper than Tempough?

For 10 or more people, yes: a team of 10 pays $99 a month on Hourbun Team and $130 on Tempough Team, and a team of 25 pays $99 against $325. For two people Hourbun and Tempough both cost $15 a month. Alone, Tempough Individual is $8 and Hourbun Duo is $15, and for five people Tempough Team is $65.

Does Tempough charge per user?

On its team plans, yes: Tempough Team and Team Pro charge for each seat, with a 3-seat minimum. Hourbun charges a flat price per workspace, and its Team plan holds up to 30 people.

Does Tempough have a free plan?

Yes. Tempough has a free plan for 1 user, with the timer, the timesheet, unlimited clients and projects, and CSV exports, but no invoicing. Hourbun has no free plan: it has a 14-day trial with no card, and then a flat price per workspace.

Can clients pay Hourbun and Tempough invoices online?

Yes. Hourbun has online payment by card or bank debit on every plan, into your own Stripe account. Tempough sends invoices with a Stripe payment link from its Individual plan, and the money also goes to your own Stripe account.

Can I move from Tempough to Hourbun?

Yes. Tempough exports your time as CSV on every plan, and Hourbun imports it with its clients, projects, tasks and people, after a preview. Try Hourbun for 14 days with no card.

Sources

  • From the pages of Tempough, unless a source says otherwise
  • A feature that we could not check has no row
  • Prices change: check the pricing page of Tempough
All sources (7)

Tempough is a trademark of Tempough, and Hourbun is not affiliated with it.

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