What Is OpenTickly
OpenTickly open-source docs — quickstart, Docker self-hosting, Toggl API compatibility notes, and AI agent integration. From install to wiring up Claude and Cursor, in one reference.
OpenTickly is a free, private-first, AI-friendly alternative to Toggl.
Toggl is a great product, but it's expensive and your data doesn't really belong to you. On top of that, the 30 requests/hour API limit is painful — an AI agent can burn through an hour's quota in a single minute.
OpenTickly aims to stay aligned with Toggl, so you can move your data in and out between the two without any loss. Keep every workflow and habit you already have. Nothing changes — it just gets better, cheaper, and more private.
Scope of Feature Development
OpenTickly's roadmap only considers features Toggl already has, plus extensions that don't touch user data. The benefit:
- You can always walk your data back to Toggl — no vendor lock-in.
Examples: instance management, AI-related extensions. Even if a change would be useful or popular, if it would fork user data away from Toggl, it won't be accepted.