Why teams leave Tempo
Tempo Timesheets is a capable, mature product — that's not the problem. The problem shows up on the invoice. Marketplace apps are licensed for every user on your Jira instance, so if you run a 100-user Jira where 40 engineers log time and 60 stakeholders, PMs, and service-desk agents never touch a timesheet, you pay Tempo prices for all 100. Atlassian Community is full of threads that say exactly this: the product is fine, the pricing model isn't.
The math, on a real team
An illustrative 100-user Jira instance. Prices were checked on both Marketplace pricing tabs on 7 July 2026 — verify current prices on Tempo's listing and Aevon's listing. Atlassian bills cloud apps on graduated per-user tiers, and both apps bill every user on the instance — the difference is what that costs you.
| 100-user Jira instance | Tempo Timesheets | Aevon Timesheets |
|---|---|---|
| Users billed | 100 — everyone on the instance | 100 — everyone on the instance |
| First 10 users | $10/month flat | Free |
| Users 11–100 | $5.21 per user/month | $0.50 per user/month |
| Monthly cost | $478.90 | $45 |
| Billed annually | $5,210/year | $500/year |
| Per person who actually tracks time (40 of 100) | ≈ $11.97/month | ≈ $1.13/month |
Same instance, same billing model, a 10.6× difference. And at 1,001+ users Aevon drops to $0.25 per user.
An honest comparison
We'd rather you pick the right tool than just the cheaper one, so this table includes the things Tempo does that Aevon doesn't.
| Capability | Aevon Timesheets | Tempo Timesheets |
|---|---|---|
| Time tracking in Jira (weekly calendar, issue panel) | Built-in | Built-in |
| Approval workflow | Built-in — routes one week to multiple approvers by account | Approval workflow included |
| Billing-prep view (hours by approval state, locked approved worklogs, CSV export) | Built-in | Reports + exports; billing rates via the wider Tempo suite |
| Custom worklog attributes & validation rules | Built-in | Built-in |
| Where your worklog data lives | Native Jira worklogs, inside Atlassian (Forge) — never leaves | Tempo's cloud (external servers) |
| Resource / capacity planning | Not our product — Jira Premium’s own Plans now include capacity planning | Via Tempo Planner (separate paid app) |
| Calendar & tool integrations (Google, Outlook, Slack), mobile app, AI suggestions | Limited | Mature ecosystem |
| Data Center support | Cloud only | Available |
| Price (Cloud, users 11–100) | $0.50 per user/month (free up to 10 users) | $5.21 per user/month ($10 flat up to 10 users) |
When Tempo is the right choice: you need resource planning across the Tempo suite, a mobile app, automated AI time suggestions, or you're on Data Center. No hard feelings — those are real capabilities. (Though before paying for Tempo Planner, check what you already own: Jira Premium's Plans include team capacity planning, and Atlassian is rolling out individual capacity planning in 2026.)
When Aevon is: your team logs time in Jira, someone approves it, and finance turns it into invoices — and you'd rather pay for that loop than for a platform. That's most teams we talk to. Take the full product tour or read why we built it.
Switching is smaller than you think
Your worklog history isn't trapped. Aevon reads and writes Jira's native worklogs — there is no proprietary Aevon data store. If your Tempo site syncs worklogs to Jira (Tempo's Jira worklog sync setting), your logged history is already where Aevon can see it: install the app and it's there. If sync was off, export your Tempo worklogs and write them to Jira's native worklogs first. Either way, you configure accounts, approvers, and worklog rules once — an afternoon for most teams — and the first submitted week flows through approval routing immediately.
What about the other cheap Tempo alternatives?
Fair question — the roundups list several low-cost trackers. Most of them stop at logging time. The differences that matter when your timesheets feed invoices: built-in approvals that route one week to multiple approvers by account (three clients, three approvers, one submit), a billing-prep view where approved hours are locked from after-the-fact edits, and Forge-native architecture — your hours and billing data are exactly the kind of information you don't want on a third-party server (why that matters). If you only need a personal timer, a free tool is fine. If timesheets are part of how you get paid, the loop matters.
FAQ
Is there a free alternative to Tempo Timesheets?
Aevon Timesheets is free for teams of up to 10 users on Jira Cloud, with all features included — approvals and billing prep are not paywalled add-ons. Above 10 users it costs $0.50 per user per month.
How much does Tempo Timesheets cost?
As of July 2026, Tempo Timesheets on Jira Cloud is $10/month flat for up to 10 users, then $5.21 per user per month on the 11–100 user tier, with per-user rates decreasing at higher tiers (for example $3.66 for users 101–250). A 100-user Jira instance works out to about $479/month, or $5,210/year billed annually. Check Tempo's Atlassian Marketplace listing for current prices.
Can I track time in Jira without Tempo?
Yes. Jira has basic native worklogs, and apps like Aevon Timesheets add the weekly calendar, approval workflow, and billing-ready reporting on top — at $0.50 per user per month, free up to 10 users.
Does Aevon Timesheets support timesheet approvals?
Yes — submitted weeks are split by account and routed to each account's approver automatically. The week is approved only when every group approves; rejections require a comment.
Where is my time-tracking data stored?
Inside Atlassian's infrastructure. Aevon is built on Forge and stores time as native Jira worklogs: no external servers, no third-party data processors — unlike Connect-based apps, which send worklog data to the vendor's cloud. Read why that matters — or hand your security team the CAIQ (Lite) self-assessment.
Can I export approved hours for invoicing?
Yes — the Review view breaks every account's hours into Ready to Bill, Pending, Rejected, and Not Submitted, and approved (locked) worklogs export to CSV.