1. Add your projects
Under Clients, add each project with how you charge for it: by the hour, a fixed price, a monthly retainer, or "I enter what I earn" if you just want to type what each piece of work paid. A project can be paid in another currency: give the exchange rate (for 15 currencies it is filled in from the European Central Bank's rates of 6 November 2026) and every figure is worked out in yours. Add the hours you planned if you quote fixed prices, and the share a marketplace or payment service keeps.
2. Log your hours
Start the timer on a project, or type an entry: 2h30, 2.5, 150m, 9:00-11:30 or 9-5 all work. Say what the time was (project work, calls, email, revisions, quotes, travel) and whether it was billed. Time spent on your own business (admin, finding work, learning) goes under "Your business". You can also import a CSV or Excel export from Toggl Track, Clockify, Harvest or your own sheet.
3. Add invoices if you want to track payments
Under Time and money, add each invoice and tick it when it is paid. The report then shows what is overdue, how long each client takes to pay, and work you have not invoiced yet. It is optional: without invoices, earnings come from the rates and prices you set.
How earnings are counted
- By the hour: your rate times the billed hours, in the month they were worked.
- Fixed price: the price spread over every hour you put in, so a job that runs over pays less per hour.
- Retainer: the monthly fee for each month it runs (this month counts up to today).
- I enter what I earn: the invoices you add, on their dates.
- If you invoiced more than the rate or price says, the invoiced amount counts.
The staircase
It starts with what clients pay for each billed hour, then takes away what each thing costs per hour: client time you did not bill, fees, time on your own business, your business costs and tax. The last step is what an hour of your work leaves you. The effective rate (after fees, per hour spent on clients) is the figure most worth comparing with a target. Costs, tax and admin hours are your own figures; change them under the staircase or in Settings.
What to charge
"The rate you need" works backwards from the money you want to take home. "Quote a fixed price" uses how far your past fixed jobs ran over and how much client time you usually do not bill, so the price still pays your rate. Neither is advice; they are sums with your numbers.
Where your data is kept
There is no account, and nothing you type or import is uploaded. Everything stays in this browser's storage on this device; Delete everything, under Settings, removes it and leaves the rest of the site alone. Use Export backup to keep a copy or to move to another device. Hide amounts blurs every amount when someone is looking over your shoulder.
Keyboard
- 1 to 5 switch views, ← and → move between the tabs (outside a text box)
- T starts or stops the timer
- L logs time, N adds a project, I imports a time report
- [ and ] the period (or week) before and after
- H hides or shows amounts, Esc closes a window