Time tracking apps, why are they so wrong for me?

I have very simple requirements. I want to track my hourly rate based work against projects, which are against clients. I want to get a clear monthly report that shows the total hours worked per day, total per week, and total for the month.

Yet… I have not found such an application, and trust me I have really looked. I have tried: iBiz, TaskTime, Billings, MyTime, and several others. The one I currently use and have used for a long time now is the somewhat rough round the edges Hourglass, which is a free Java application. To say it’s clunky is an understatement, and the reporting facility is so ugly it hurts (you have to scroll horizontally a long way to get the full month’s figures – why not have a row per week guys?!)

I just don’t understand why nobody can make (yet another) time tracking application that works for this kind of simple scenario. I don’t care about expenses, time slips, or stuff like that. Task tracking is done elsewhere (currently I’m checking out xTime and Merlin for project management… another saga there), I want to log time against clients projects and get monthly reports including hours worked per day, so I know what to bill to whom!

What I also want is the ability to track my time from any of my computers and have the data in one central place. Some applications seem to offer this but its overcomplicated with billing stuff, some completely lack reports, and others have clunky statement-type reports.

One of the most ugly things however is that Java applications just look so nasty and out of place on Mac OS X. As a Java developer I find that depressing.