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Getting started

Install and first run

Download, open, pick your industry, add one client.

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The loop

Track, pick entries, invoice, mark paid. The whole app in four steps.

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Trial, licence and updates

14 days, what $99 buys, activations, and how updates arrive.

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Tracking

The timer

Start, stop, the global hotkey, and the menu bar.

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Log time by hand

Manual entries, notes, and the same-day corrections you always need.

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The timesheet

A week at a glance, edit any cell, see the week total.

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Pause, idle detection

Step away and owntime asks whether to keep or trim the time.

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Tags and notes

Tag entries, and let notes autocomplete from that client's history.

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Rounding

Round tracked time on the way to an invoice, or leave it exact.

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Daily goal and focus nudges

A target for the day, and an optional pomodoro nudge.

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Timeline and the macOS permission

Off by default. What we read, what we never read.

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Clients, projects and money

Clients, projects and tasks

The three nouns everything else hangs off, and why they get renamed per industry.

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Rates

A billable rate per project, an internal cost rate, and rate history.

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Budgets and alerts

Hours budgets with 75/80/90/100% warnings, on screen and by email.

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Email alerts for budgets

Send those warnings to your inbox, using your own mail account.

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Invoices

Build one from tracked entries, add your terms, export a PDF.

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Estimates

Quote first, then convert the accepted one into an invoice.

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Expenses and receipts

Log a cost, attach the receipt, bill it on to the client.

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Recurring retainers

A reminder on your cadence and a one-click draft. Tracked time or a fixed amount. Nothing sends itself.

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Payments and credit notes

Record what came in, part payments included, and issue credits.

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Reports, cost and margin

Where the hours went, what it cost you, and what it earned.

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Export CSV, Excel or PDF

Take a range out of owntime in the shape you already use.

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Export invoices to Xero

A CSV Xero imports. No account, no OAuth, no sync.

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Moving data in and out

Import time entries

Harvest, Toggl, Clockify or FreshBooks CSV, with a dry run first.

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Import clients and projects

A plain list, no time entries needed.

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Moving from Harvest: verify first

The reconciliation pass before you cut over, check by check.

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Where your data lives

One SQLite file, local backups, sync folder, what a backup contains.

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Restore a backup

Put an earlier copy back, and what happens to your current file.

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Back up to your own R2 / S3

Mirror the file to a bucket you own. Your keys, never ours.

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Two machines, one file

The one writer at a time rule, and how to move between them.

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The activity log

What changed lately, and how to clear it.

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The app itself

Keyboard shortcuts

Every shortcut, and the global one that works from anywhere.

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Industry vocabulary

Projects can read as matters, matters as stages. No behaviour changes.

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The local CLI

Start, stop, log and check status from a shell. Optional.

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Privacy and what leaves your Mac

No telemetry, no account, and the four times anything touches the network.

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When something looks wrong

The handful of things that actually go wrong, and what to try.

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