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Stintt vs ClickUp

  • No timer to start or stop
  • Timesheet drafted from calendar events
  • Log off-calendar work from a chat message

ClickUp tracks time against tasks you already created. Stintt tracks the whole week — including everything that never became a task.

How each one gets the hoursCompared August 2026
ClickUp

Time tracking inside a bigger suite

  • Tracking is one tile of many
  • Thin if you bill by the hour
Stintt

Calendar events, read-only

  • The week is already written down
  • Chat covers what never got booked
  • No agent on anyone’s laptop

Convenient if you already live there, thin if you bill by the hour.

Software features

Stintt vs ClickUp, row by row

The same twelve rows every comparison on this site uses, so nothing is cherry-picked for ClickUp. Where a capability is optional or plan-gated, it is marked partly rather than rounded either way.

ClickUp's time tracking is a feature of a task manager, and it inherits that shape: an hour has to belong to a task, and a task has to exist before the hour can be recorded. Real weeks do not cooperate. The client call that came out of nowhere, the incident, the review that ran long — none of them had a ticket, and all of them were billable. Stintt starts from the calendar rather than the backlog, so the week is complete first and gets attributed second.

Capture
No timer to start or stop
Whether the day depends on someone remembering to press a button.
StinttYes — No timer to start or stop
ClickUpNo — No timer to start or stop
Nothing installed on the laptop
Whether capture needs an agent running on every machine.
StinttYes — Nothing installed on the laptop
ClickUpYes — Nothing installed on the laptop
Timesheet drafted from calendar events
Whether the week arrives already filled in from what was booked.
StinttYes — Timesheet drafted from calendar events
ClickUpNo — Timesheet drafted from calendar events
Log off-calendar work from a chat message
Whether "fixed login bug 2h" is enough to record an hour.
StinttYes — Log off-calendar work from a chat message
ClickUpNo — Log off-calendar work from a chat message
Privacy
No screenshots, ever
Whether the tool can photograph a person's screen.
StinttYes — No screenshots, ever
ClickUpYes — No screenshots, ever
No activity or productivity scoring
Whether people get a percentage attached to their name.
StinttYes — No activity or productivity scoring
ClickUpYes — No activity or productivity scoring
No app or website logging
Whether the apps and pages someone opens are recorded.
StinttYes — No app or website logging
ClickUpYes — No app or website logging
Billing
Approval step before hours are billed
Whether a human signs off before time reaches an invoice.
StinttYes — Approval step before hours are billed
ClickUpPartly — Approval step before hours are billedTimesheet approval depends on plan; entries are otherwise editable after the fact.
Invoices built from tracked hours
Whether hours become a client invoice without leaving the tool.
StinttYes — Invoices built from tracked hours
ClickUpPartly — Invoices built from tracked hoursBillable flags and rates are built in; the invoice itself is usually raised in another tool.
Excel, CSV and PDF export templates
Whether the timesheet leaves in the shape a client asked for.
StinttYes — Excel, CSV and PDF export templates
ClickUpYes — Excel, CSV and PDF export templates
Insight
AI categorizes the week automatically
Whether meetings, focus and admin sort themselves.
StinttYes — AI categorizes the week automatically
ClickUpNo — AI categorizes the week automatically
Utilization, capacity and meeting-load reporting
Whether you can see who is over-booked before they burn out.
StinttYes — Utilization, capacity and meeting-load reporting
ClickUpYes — Utilization, capacity and meeting-load reporting
YesPartly, or optionalNot offered

Compared August 2026 from each vendor's public documentation and pricing pages. Products change — check with the vendor before you decide.

Switching made simple

Three steps, and none of them is a migration.

There is no import from ClickUp, and pretending otherwise would be the first promise we broke. There does not need to be — a connected calendar arrives carrying the history a new tracker would spend months collecting.

  1. Connect a calendar

    Read-only access, granted once. It cannot create, edit or delete an event, and there is nothing to install on anyone's machine.

  2. The history is already there

    Existing calendar events become a draft timesheet immediately, so the first week is a review rather than an empty grid waiting for data to accrue.

  3. Review, approve, bill

    Correct the draft, log anything off-calendar from chat, and approve. Only approved entries reach a client invoice, and discarded time stays on the record.

Why teams move

What ClickUp leaves on the table

Three specific things, not a feature count.

The hours with no ticket still show up

Calendar events reach the timesheet whether or not anyone opened a task, which is where most unbilled agency time hides.

From hours to an invoice without an export

Approved time becomes client line items with rates and a tax engine, instead of a CSV handed to accounting.

ClickUp still connects

ClickUp tasks can feed a personal timesheet in Stintt, so switching where time is tracked does not mean leaving ClickUp behind.

The honest version

When ClickUp is the better choice

If your team genuinely runs every piece of work through ClickUp tasks, tracking inside the same tool keeps the loop tight and avoids a second subscription.

If none of that describes your team, the rest of this page is the case for switching. If some of it does, ClickUp is a reasonable buy and we would rather you knew that here than after a trial.

Questions

What people ask about ClickUp and Stintt

No. ClickUp connects as a source for personal timesheets, so tasks can sit alongside calendar events. Server-side team sync is Google-only today — see the ClickUp integration page for exactly what connects.

No. It tracks, approves and bills time. ClickUp remains the better place to run the work itself.

Automatic capture from the calendar, AI categorization of the week, an approval step that owns the invoice, six export templates, and client invoicing with tax handling.

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