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Everything the app does

A short list, on purpose. A time tracker earns its place by being fast enough to use on a day you are busy, and every feature below is there because it removes a reason to stop tracking.

Projects

A project is a piece of work for a client. Each one carries a title, an hourly rate, a currency, optional billing rules, an optional client and optional notes, and the list can be dragged into whatever order suits the week.

Only one project can be running at a time. Punching in on a second stops the first at the same second, which quietly prevents the most common error in freelance timekeeping: two overlapping clocks nobody notices until the invoice.

  • One hourly rate and one currency per project, from a list of 159 currencies.
  • Rounding to the nearest 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, and a minimum billable increment.
  • A client and notes for the projects where you need them.
  • Drag to reorder; punching into one stops any other that is running.

Sessions

A session is a punch in and a punch out, with a date, a start, an end and a duration. You can give it a title and notes while it is running, which is the moment you actually remember what it was for.

Nothing is written in stone. Swipe a session to edit or delete it, add one that never got tracked, or use Punch Earlier to start one at a time you choose. Any session can be marked non-billable, and each one keeps the rate that was in force when you tracked it, so raising your rate never rewrites what past work was worth.

LOGGED

Northwind — API integration

Date
Tue 14 Apr
In / out
09:12 → 12:48
Note
Auth handshake + retries
Tracked
3h 36m

The rest of it

  • Hours and earnings

    The summary totals your time for the chosen period and, from the project's hourly rate, what that time comes to in the project's own currency.

  • Periods that group themselves

    All, Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. Sessions fold into groups you can open, and the week starts on the day you tell it to.

  • Everything is editable

    Swipe to edit or delete a session, add one by hand with real start and end times, or backdate a start you forgot with Punch Earlier.

  • Live Activity on iPhone

    A running session appears on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with the project name and a timer that counts itself up.

  • Active session notification

    On iPhone and Android alike, a notification can sit in the shade for as long as a session is running, so a forgotten clock is visible.

  • CSV and PDF export

    Pick a date range and a format. CSV gives one row per session; PDF gives the same table with the project, the range and the totals on it.

  • Optional cloud sync

    Sign in with Apple or Google and turn sync on to reach your other devices. It is off by default and the app is complete without it.

  • Billing rules per project

    Round tracked time to the nearest 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, set a minimum billable increment, and mark any session non-billable. Off by default.

  • A safety net for forgotten timers

    A reminder when a timer has run for hours, an auto-stop at a limit you choose, and a nudge at the end of a day with nothing tracked. All three start off.

  • Backup, restore and import

    One file holds your projects, sessions and settings and restores by merging. CSV exports from Toggl, Clockify and Harvest import straight in.

  • Clients and invoices

    Clients are records with their own address, tax details and default rate. A client and a date range become an invoice, exported as a PDF.

  • Reports

    Hours per client and per project, billable against non-billable, earnings over the last twelve months, and a heatmap of when you actually work.

  • Budgets with a warning

    Cap a project by hours or by amount, one-off or monthly, and get told at 80 percent rather than after you have gone past it.

  • Eleven languages

    English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, following whatever your phone is set to.

  • Four themes

    Warm, Glassy, Material and Minimal, each in light, dark or system. Plus Keep Screen On, and a confetti animation on punch-out you can switch off.

Invoicing

The hours are the hard part and the app already had them. Invoicing is the part that turns them into something a client can pay, and as of 2.0.0 it is in the app — free, like the rest of it.

  • Clients are real records — company, address, email, tax ID, a default rate and currency — with as many projects as you like billed to each.
  • Your own details go in once: company, tax number, logo, payment details and the numbering your invoices follow.
  • Pick a client and a date range and the tracked work becomes invoice lines, grouped by project, by day or by session, rounded by the same billing rules.
  • Tax, discounts and expenses on top, exported as a PDF that looks like an invoice rather than a timesheet.
  • Draft, sent, paid — with a running list, what you are owed per currency, and which invoices have gone past their due date.
  • Expenses for the non-time things: materials, mileage, subcontracted work, with a receipt photo if you want one.

How invoicing works, in detail

What it deliberately is not

Naming the gaps is more useful than a feature list that quietly implies them.

  • Not an accounting system. Invoicing produces the invoice and tracks whether it was paid; there is no ledger, no bank feed and no reconciliation.
  • Not a team tracker. There are no seats, no shared projects and no reporting on anybody but you.
  • Not a break timer. Punch out and punch back in — the gap is then visible in the log rather than hidden in a session.
  • Not a payment processor. The invoice PDF carries your payment details; the money arrives the way it always did.

The billing questions behind the features

Most of what is above exists because of a question below. The answers are written out in full, and every one of them ends in something the app does about it.

All 14 answers

All of it is free, so the only cost is a minute.

Make one project, punch in on the thing you are doing now, and see whether the loop survives a real day.

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