Install Beebole as a progressive web app on your phone, tablet, or desktop and use the responsive layout, dark mode, and on-the-go time tracking.
Beebole works on any device with a web browser — phone, tablet, or desktop. You can also install it as an app on your device for a native-like experience, complete with an app icon and full-screen mode.
This page covers installing the Beebole web app on your device (PWA). The separate Beebole desktop app is a companion that drafts time entries from your computer activity — you can use both.
Beebole is a Progressive Web App (PWA), which means you can install it directly from your browser without going through an app store. Once installed, Beebole appears as a standalone app on your home screen or taskbar.
Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. Give the app a name and tap Add.
Adding Beebole to the Home Screen is also what lets an iPhone or iPad receive push notifications: Safari doesn’t deliver them to a browser tab. Open Beebole from its Home Screen icon and, in your own Notifications panel, check Push notifications. If it is already checked, tap Enable on this device under it. Opened in a Safari tab, the panel shows a reminder to add Beebole to the Home Screen instead. See Push notifications on your devices.
Beebole’s interface adapts automatically to the width of your screen. It has two layouts:
Desktop — On screens 1280 pixels wide or more: sidebar navigation, the weekly grid, detailed tables, and side panels.
Touch — On narrower screens, which covers phones and most tablets: a compact layout with the sidebar behind a menu button and bottom sheets instead of pop-ups. Below 1024 pixels, the timesheet also becomes a list of days and the Planning page a list of your own tasks (see Planning on mobile).
A tablet turned sideways can cross the threshold and switch to the desktop layout.You do not need to switch between different apps or URLs. The same Beebole account works seamlessly across all devices.
The mobile timesheet is optimized for touch interaction. It presents your time entries as a scrollable list of days rather than a weekly grid, making it easier to navigate on a small screen.
The timesheet on a phone: a list of days grouped by week, with the + button at the bottom
Tap the hamburger menu icon in the top-left corner to open the sidebar, then tap Timesheet.
The sidebar opened from the menu button
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Add a time entry
Tap the + button at the bottom of the screen (floating action button) or the + icon next to a specific day. The activity selector opens as a bottom sheet: your recent activities under Your activities, and the Working activity, Task, and Time off buttons. Task and Time off only show when your timesheet settings let you record time on tasks or time off. With the Allow only planned tasks in the timesheet restriction, Working activity is gone and Task offers only your own tasks planned for that day.
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Select a project, task, or absence
Tap one of your recent activities, or tap Working activity and work down from a category to the project, Task to pick a task, or Time off to pick an absence type. Your choice opens the time entry editor.
Working activity, then the Client category: its clients, each opening its projects
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Enter your time
In the editor bottom sheet, enter the duration or set start and end times (depending on your account configuration). Your entry saves automatically — tap the back arrow to return to the list.
Tap a time entry card to open the editor bottom sheet and update the duration, project, or comment.
Swipe left on a time entry to reveal the delete action. Confirm deletion in the dialog that appears.
An entry opened in the editor sheet
A left swipe on an entry reveals Delete
Editing and deleting are disabled when the timesheet period is locked (submitted or approved). The swipe-to-delete gesture and tap-to-edit are both blocked until the period is unlocked.
Suggested time entries reach the mobile timesheet too. They appear as ghost rows inside each day, next to your real entries, so you see the day Beebole is proposing alongside the one you have already logged. The sparkles button in the header, with the number of suggestions on it, shows or hides them.
Three suggestions on today, with dashed borders and a check to accept each
Accept it as it stands — Tap the check on the row. The suggestion becomes a normal time entry on that day.
Open it first — Tap the row itself. It opens in a sheet where you can change the duration, set or clear the start and end times, and point it at another task or working activity. The sheet carries three actions: the bin dismisses the suggestion, the play button starts a timer on it, and the check accepts it.
A suggestion opened in its sheet, with the bin, play, and check actions
A suggestion that carries no project of its own — one that came from a staffing booking, or one on a task your timesheet settings don’t let you log to — opens the picker instead of accepting straight away, with the message Choose the project to log this time on first. Pick the project and the suggestion accepts normally, keeping its link to the planned task.
Suggestions are private drafts. Nothing reaches your timesheet, or your approver, until you accept it.
When your timesheet is ready for approval, tap the Submit button in the header. The button is visible when the period is in draft or rejected state, you are viewing your own timesheet, and an approval workflow applies to you.After submission, the period is locked and the header shows the Submitted status badge. If your approver rejects the timesheet, the period unlocks and a Resubmit button appears in its place.
Managers and administrators see a team button in the header (person group icon) with a badge showing the number of pending approvals.
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Open the approval sheet
Tap the team icon in the header. The approval bottom sheet slides up with two tabs: Pending and Team.
The approval sheet on its Pending tab, with each submitted week and who it waits for
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Select a timesheet
Tap a person’s entry in the Pending tab to view their submitted timesheet.
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Approve or reject
With the submitter’s timesheet open, tap Approve or Reject in the header. Rejection requires a comment.
A submitted week opened from the sheet, with Approve and Reject in the header
You can also select multiple timesheets using checkboxes and bulk-approve or bulk-reject them from the action bar that appears at the bottom of the sheet.
On a phone, or any screen narrower than 1024 pixels, Beebole’s Planning page becomes a personal list of your own work instead of the Gantt, Kanban, List, and Staffing views. Open it from the menu button in the top-left corner, then tap Planning. Creating and organizing tasks is done on a larger screen.The page has two tabs:
Calendar shows your dated tasks day by day: the tasks you own, and the tasks with no owner yet that you could take. Each month opens with a banner giving its number of tasks, a task spanning several days shows on each of them, and a task card shows the time you logged on it that day. Scroll down to load the following months, pull down from the top to load the previous one, and tap Today in the footer to jump back to the current day. The tab only appears when you have at least one dated task.
To-do lists the same kind of tasks when they have no start date: overdue ones first, then by deadline, then the ones without a deadline. A deadline reads Overdue with its date in red, Due today, or just the date. When the list is empty, it reads All caught up.
A task with no owner that is assigned to you, directly or through one of your tags, shows a + button (Take it) on its card when your role lets you manage tasks. Tap it to become the task’s owner.
Tap a task to open its details in a bottom sheet. Each line appears when the task has a value for it:
Status: tap it to move the task to another status of its planning, if your role lets you manage tasks.
Owner, Assignee (the other people the task is assigned to), Dates, its projects, and Tags.
Planned: the planned time, with a bar comparing it to the time you logged.
Description.
The time you logged on the task Today, This week, and in Total.
Tap Add time at the bottom of the sheet to log time on the task for the day you opened it from (today, from the To-do tab). The time entry editor opens, on your existing entry for that day when there is one. On a task you can still take, Take it replaces Add time.
No. Beebole is a Progressive Web App (PWA) that you install directly from your browser. There is no app store download required.
What can I do in Beebole on mobile?
The mobile layout is focused on day-to-day work: logging and editing time entries, running the timer, submitting your timesheet for approval, (for managers) approving or rejecting team timesheets, and following your own tasks on the Planning page, where you can change a task’s status, take an unowned task, and add time to it. More detailed configuration, planning, and reporting are best handled on a larger screen.
Can I use Beebole offline?
Beebole requires an internet connection to sync your data. However, the installed PWA may cache some interface elements for faster loading when you reconnect.
How do I switch between dark and light mode?
Click the button with your initials at the bottom of the sidebar to open the user menu, then pick Light, Dark, or Auto. The Auto option automatically follows your device settings.
Can an administrator set the theme for the entire organization?
No. Theme selection is a personal preference. Each person chooses their own theme independently.
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