What’s New

June 2024

What’s new

• Backups are performed every 8 hours now

May 2024

What’s new

• Backups are now performed every hour, instead of once every 24 hours as before

April 2024

What’s new

• Time tracking on app startup (when enabled) is now being assigned to the last selected project

What’s fixed

• Fixed a bug that caused timesheet manual entries spawning overlapping entries

March 2024

What’s fixed

• Minor translation fixes

February 2024

What’s new

• We have added and experimental French language support
• Optimized the app and reports
• Added error monitoring

What’s fixed

• Adjusted time display for noon and midnight for 12-hour clocks
• Fixed safe area offsets on newer iPhones to avoid the bottom bar being covered by the system UI
• Regular updates and performance improvements
• Improved error display to help with remote issue resolution

January 2024

What’s fixed

• Removed Sentry error monitoring to prevent them from training their AI models on your data

December 2023

What’s fixed

• Upcoming activities are now excluded from the default recent project selection for new activities

November 2023

What’s new

• The last selected project is now selected by default when time tracking is started
• Added a welcome banner on demo accounts 👋

What’s fixed

• Fixed formatting in Excel exports for duration cells exceeding 24 hours
• Fixed wrong date displays and date range picker behavior on various time zones negative to UTC
• Adjusted some printing styles to make custom and summary reports printable
• Fixed "Up to today" selection of dates for reports
• Fixed wrong duration display on the activity start form
• Forced reports update when navigating to their pages to ensure the data is up-to-date and fresh

October 2023

What’s new

• Reports are no longer recomputed live by default. They are computed once you view them and you can refresh them on demand. The live mode is still there as a switch that can be enabled to bring the live refresh back.

What’s fixed

• Mitigated security vulnerability after receiving responsible disclosure from Tushar Bhardwaj (@silentbronco)
• Fixed layout issues on Safari that made clicks and mouse pointers target the wrong elements
• Unwanted blueish texts are no longer there on Firefox

March 2023

What’s new

• New activity grouping for reports to allow data to be grouped per each entry

January 2023

What’s new

• Sign in with Yahoo

What’s fixed

• Date picker display improvements

December 2022

What’s new

• No user limit anymore
• Summary report available
• Improved date range selection in reports

October 2022

• Enabled sign-in with Microsoft account
• New about and help page
• Sign-in experience improvements
• Localization fixes
• Landing page optimizations and improvements
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause the macOS app to crash
• You can now rate and review Sandtime.io right from the apps
• Performance improvements and minor fixes

September 2022

• Mobile and desktop app updates
• Fixed an issue that could cause the app window to collapse into the void
• Stability improvements
• Account removal flow simplification
• Translations improvements and app menu localization
• Language switchers were added on various pages
• Desktop app resource consumption reduction while it is in the background
• Proper handling of commas and periods while entering time on timesheets
• Performance improvements and minor fixes

August 2022

What’s new

• Support for multiple locales
• Each user can use the appropriate locale version

What’s fixed

• In the email informing about the overlap of the two activities, the names of these activities were added
• Fixed an issue where after setting the language version the desktop application would not remember this setting after restarting
• The names of the default reports are already adapted to the selected locale

June 2022

What’s new

• Custom goals via core hours
• Sign in via shortcodes

What’s fixed

• Chat view can now be properly closed
• Onboarding animation should no longer play full-screen on iOS devices
• Fixed formatting of ordinals on timesheets

June 2021

What’s new

• Timesheet approvals
• Requests can be approved and rejected with one-click action from email notifications
• Email notifications may now contain images and attachments

What’s fixed

• Inbox messages layout has been improved to aid readability
• Timesheets were unlocked without a time limit in specific cases when auto-locking was enabled

May 2021

What’s new

• User onboarding and setup assistant
• Performance improvements when rendering activity lists and report rows
• “Select only me” option on the report’s member selection
• Sign in/sign up form is now right on the landing page
• Sign up logs users in when they have already an active organization instead of creating a new one

What’s fixed

• Navigating back preserves scroll position
• Widgets layout rendering on Safari was improved
• Fixed a black window being shown after closing the window in fullscreen mode on macOS
• Changing the ended at date and time no longer influences the started at date and time

April 2021

What’s new

• Sign in on mobile apps uses in-app web browser views
• Mobile apps may now ask for a review from time to time
• File menu on macOS now contains navigation items to specific views
• Users are now redirected to their preferred or any other organization after being signed in, without having to select an organization first
• Sign-in/sign-up flows behave as continue, instead of separate actions
• Empty report rows are now filtered out by default (this can be switched off, existing reports are not affected)

What’s fixed

• Sign-in/sign-up flows improvements for apps
• Cookie consent simplification and improvements
• Performance improvements on the dashboard page
• Weekly and goal widgets are now always displayed, even if they are empty
• Improved handling of optimistic pending changes rendering
• Cross-day activities now display proper time ranges
• 24-hour clocks should no longer display time above 24:00
• Rates end date is now correctly set to the selected day’s end of the day
• Daily reports should no longer collapse their groups

March 2021

What’s new

• Sign-up is now greatly simplified
• Subdomain can now be changed from within the organization settings
• Roadmap page
• New year-month-day grouping for reports to allow data be grouped day-by-day

What’s fixed

• Back button is now always present, not only on mobile devices
• App sign-in is now triggered automatically, without a need to click a button
• Hardware back button is now handled on Android phones
• File exports are now supported on mobile apps

February 2021

What’s new

• iOS and Android apps
• Unified Sandtime.io branding
• Activity list on organization, projects, and project members pages
• Activities can now be reassigned by administrators
• Start tracking button on the sidebar on desktops and above the app bar on mobile
• Rendered dates now include days of the week

What’s fixed

• Performance improvements, especially when the app is in the background
• Desktop app should reload itself after crashes
• Downtime has been reduced during deployments
• Loading and error views have been improved for the extension and apps
• Buttons should no longer be occluded by the chat widget
• Desktop app settings have been merged with other settings
• Errors should not flicker when launching the app
• Safe area insets are now respected to prevent notches and phone UI from obscuring the interface
• Disabled fields are now focusable and selectable to allow copying

January 2021

What’s new

• Sign in with Apple
• Core hours can now be customized
• Monthly goal reached notifications
• Improved breadcrumbs design
• Reports now support the “Up to today” range
• Overhours are now rendered on the goals widgets
• Project members list now supports the “Show archived” switch

What’s fixed

• Empty states for projects now show helpful guides for both users and administrators
• Notifications should now display dates using local time zone information
• Rounding indicators should no longer shift layout on Safari
• CPU usage when the app is in the background has been significantly reduced
• Timesheet locking has been improved
• Users can now browse other users' timesheets when they have access to the data

December 2020

What’s new

• New app icon
• Customizable notifications
• Vary welcome message by user/admin role
• Status badges for pending user invites
• Store badges for desktop apps

What’s fixed

• External pages now open in the browser when navigated to within the apps
• Restart button is always visible, even for locked weeks
• Improvements to the desktop apps
• Automatic timesheets locking should behave more consistently

November 2020

What’s new

• Nicer email templates
• Desktop apps for Windows and macOS
• Tray integration with timers for desktop apps
• New and improved email notifications
• Chat widgets
• Common timesheets settings are now merged together
• System tray integration for desktop apps
• New notifications about upcoming timesheet locks

What’s fixed

• Welcome message is now shown only on the first visit
• 404 pages should no longer be displayed when removing items
• Tab key handling improvements
• Pending activities are now carried and displayed on reports
• Improvements to installable web apps
• Grammarly extension should no longer cause error popups to display

October 2020

What’s new

• New text fields design
• Timesheets export
• Reports column hints
• New button design
• Long-running timer alerts
• New grouping by year for reports
• New cookie consent dialog
• Generic notes for organization and projects

What’s fixed

• Many performance optimizations
• Improved error notifications when offline

September 2020

What’s new

• Sandtime.io is out of Early Access!
• Sandtime.io Chrome extension is now available
• Reports tiles
• Selected report tiles can now be pinned to the dashboard view
• Activities can be shown on timesheets now
• A new non-billable time metric has been added to reports

What’s fixed

• Navigation should be more smooth now

August 2020

What’s new

• Date, time, and duration format settings
• The current day is now highlighted on timesheets

What’s fixed

• Timesheets synchronization issues
• Scrollable lists are now better indicated as such
• Reports should no longer pull new projects and members automatically

July 2020

What’s new

• Dedicated offer for nonprofits and NGOs
• What’s new page
• Billable time status
• New menu and timer UI
• FAQ page
• New timer UI
• Holidays settings

What’s fixed

• HTML injection in emails
• Incorrect email addresses should no longer be accepted

June 2020

What’s new

• Reports rendering performance improvements
• New email notifications
• Timesheets browsing of other members for organization administrators
• Timesheets auto-locking
• Manual timesheets locking
• Support for editing timesheets of other members for organization administrators

May 2020

What’s new

• Performance optimizations
• Cookie policy
• Administration portal for self-hosted solutions
• Google Chrome extension
• Reduced CPU usage when the app is in the background
• Asynchronous reports computation

April 2020

What’s new

• Active members badge display
• Error pages for broken connections
• Sign up with Google
• Landing page feature sections
• Login state persistence when switching organizations
• Project administrator membership change requests
• Landing page content and accessibility improvements

March 2020

What’s new

• Pending indicators for activities
• Report renaming
• Change notifications
• Rounding indicators
• Support for multiple errors display from form submission
• Horizontal widgets on mobile
• Expanded list of supported currencies

February 2020

What’s new

• Reports improvements
• Policies consent persistence
• Public holidays exclusion from goal estimation
• Time rounding
• Reports dependent columns automatic rendering
• PII filtering out of server logs

January 2020

What’s new

• Backup retention policy
• Reports UI improvements
• Report fields aggregation
• Report fields filtering
• Demo avatars for projects and members
• Demo data now aligns with the current date

December 2019

What’s new

• User projects list
• Report metrics adjustments
• Organizations list when signing in
• Timesheets project filters
• Activity markers
• Reports persistence

November 2019

What’s new

• Localized date formats
• Unassigned project handling
• Email and in-app notifications improvements

October 2019

What’s new

• Improved temporal rates
• Temporal tax rates
• Unsaved changes notifications
• Custom reports improvements
• Mobile layout improvements
• Improved error messages

September 2019

What’s new

• Rate timelines
• Multi-currency reports
• Stripped report styles
• Error messages notifications
• Improved email notification templates
• Notification settings
• Organization data export

August 2019

What’s new

• Dedicated action sections for destructive actions like account removal
• Fallbacks rendering for missing names
• Member tags
• Monospace fonts for report values
• Multi-currency support
• Temporal rates
• Default currency support

July 2019

What’s new

• Long-running activity notifications
• Activity overlap notifications
• Infinity scrolling for activity lists
• Daily, weekly, monthly goal charts
• Persistent timer stuck to the window
• GDPR compliance improvements
• Currency formatting

June 2019

What’s new

• Email notifications
• Extensive logging
• Member archiving support
• Avatar cropping
• Settings view

May 2019

What’s new

• SSO with Google Sign In support
• Organization switcher
• Live demo data
• PII filtering out of analytics
• Custom reports persistence

April 2019

What’s new

• Improvements for mobile views
• Avatar uploads
• Chart widgets
• Reports data export
• Estimated expected work hours display
• Reports date range picker
• Members, projects, and organization avatars display
• Custom reports
• Report printing support

March 2019

What’s new

• Date pickers for timesheets
• Confirmation dialogs
• Input validation
• Backups
• Activity lists
• Pending states
• Slack integration

February 2019

What’s new

• Landing page
• Subdomains
• Reports
• Demo

January 2019

What’s new

• Basic time tracking
• Timesheets
• User roles
• Member invites
• Projects
• In-app notifications