Time tracking 6 min
LexTime vs Toggl: which time tracker works better for small law firms?
26 March 2026
Toggl is good software. It is well-designed, reliable, and used by millions of freelancers, agencies, and small teams around the world. If you need to track time across projects and generate a basic report, it works.
But small law firms are not agencies. They do not have projects — they have matters. They do not send reports — they send timesheets, attached to invoices, with the firm’s letterhead. Their clients are not project clients; they are legal clients with active, ongoing relationships that span months or years. And increasingly, their lawyers want to log time the way they do everything else: by talking to an AI.
This is a fair comparison of the two tools, written for a managing partner or senior advokat considering which one to adopt.
What Toggl does well
Toggl Track is genuinely impressive as a general time tracker. The timer is fast to start, the browser extension works reliably, and the reporting interface is clean and flexible. For a freelance consultant or a marketing agency tracking time across client projects, it is hard to fault.
The free plan is generous. Up to five users can use Toggl’s core features at no cost, which makes it attractive for a small firm looking to try time tracking without a budget conversation.
Integrations are a strength. Toggl connects with over 100 tools — Asana, Jira, Google Calendar, Salesforce — which matters if you are running a complex tech stack. For most small law firms, this is irrelevant, but it is worth noting.
Where Toggl falls short for law firms
It does not speak in legal language
Toggl organises time around projects and tasks. A law firm organises time around clients and matters. These are not just different words — they reflect a different mental model of work. When a lawyer opens Toggl and has to decide whether a client is a “workspace”, a “project”, or a “client tag”, something has already gone wrong. The cognitive overhead is small but constant, and it is the kind of friction that leads to late, imprecise entries.
LexTime is built around clients and matters from the first screen. A new client is a client. A new piece of work is a matter. Time entries belong to a specific matter. When the invoice arrives, the timesheet reflects exactly that structure — because the tool was never confused about what it was tracking.
It cannot generate a branded timesheet PDF
This is the most practical gap. Toggl can export time reports as CSV files or generate summary reports in its own format. What it cannot do is produce a clean, professional PDF timesheet with your firm’s name, the client’s name, each matter itemised, hours totalled, and descriptions intact — ready to attach to an invoice or send directly to the client.
That document is what your client actually sees. It is what gets questioned when a fee is disputed. A CSV export pasted into a Word template at 17:30 on a Friday is how description errors get introduced and rounding mistakes get made.
LexTime generates that document in one click. Select a date range and a client — the PDF is ready.
Per-seat pricing scales awkwardly
Toggl’s Starter plan costs $9 per user per month, billed annually. For a firm of five lawyers that is $540 per year — before any premium features. The Premium plan, which unlocks profitability tracking and time audits, is $18 per user per month: $1,080 per year for five people.
LexTime charges DKK 299 per month for the whole firm, up to five seats, with additional seats at DKK 25 per seat. For a five-person firm that is DKK 3,588 per year — a straightforward number that does not change as your team grows modestly.
More importantly, LexTime has one tier. There is no feature gate to worry about. Every firm gets branded PDFs, the browser extension, matter management, and the MCP connection from day one.
No AI integration
This is where the gap is widest, and widening.
Toggl has no native AI time-logging capability. You open the app, start a timer, and type a description. That is the workflow, and it has not changed materially in years.
LexTime includes a connection to Claude via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In practice, this means a lawyer can log time by describing their work in plain language — to Claude, in the same conversation where they might be drafting a letter or reviewing a contract. Claude logs the entry, assigns it to the correct client and matter, and confirms the details. No context switch. No opening another tab. No remembering to start a timer before the call.
For lawyers who already use Claude regularly, this is not a novelty — it is the natural next step. Time gets captured at the moment of work, in the flow of work, without interrupting it.
Side-by-side comparison
| Feature | LexTime | Toggl Track |
|---|---|---|
| Clients and matters model | Yes | No — projects and tasks |
| Branded PDF timesheets | Yes | No |
| Browser extension | Yes | Yes |
| Manual time entry | Yes | Yes |
| Firm overview (all lawyers) | Yes | Yes (paid plans) |
| AI time logging via MCP | Yes | No |
| Free plan | No — 30-day trial | Yes (up to 5 users) |
| Pricing model | Flat per firm | Per seat |
| Starting price | DKK 299/month | ~$9/user/month |
| Built for law firms | Yes | No |
| 100+ integrations | No | Yes |
| Mobile | PWA — install from the browser (Android and iOS) | Yes, native app |
What about mobile?
LexTime is not a native app in the App Store or Google Play — and it does not need to be. LexTime is a progressive web app (PWA). You add it to your home screen from Safari or Chrome in a few taps, and it behaves like an installed app: full-screen, quick to open, works offline, remembers your matters and clients, and feels the same as any installed app when you are away from your desk. Updates ship with the web app; there is no separate app to maintain or approve through the stores.
On Android and iOS, the browser will offer to install LexTime when the conditions are met. Once installed, it sits alongside your other apps. Open LexTime in Safari or Chrome on your phone and accept the install prompt — it takes a few seconds.
Which one should you choose?
If your firm is already deep in a broader tech stack — if you use Asana or Jira to manage work, if your team tracks time across multiple business types, if you specifically want a native store app — Toggl is a reasonable choice, and its free plan gives you room to evaluate it without risk.
If your firm’s primary need is accurate billable time capture, clean timesheets, and a tool that understands what a matter is, LexTime is the better fit. It is designed for exactly this context and nothing else. There is nothing to configure around, no vocabulary mismatch to work through, and no template to maintain when it is time to invoice.
The MCP connection to Claude is the feature that distinguishes LexTime most clearly from anything else currently available. For a lawyer who already spends time in Claude — drafting, reviewing, researching — the ability to log time in the same conversation removes the last remaining reason to break flow.
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