For firms where quiet matters
Client numbers stay on your drive. Not someone else’s cloud.
Hours live in one file, on your machine. Nothing leaves. Track the busy season without the cloud conversation, bill fixed-fee or hourly, and hand the working papers a clean CSV.
One payment. No rent. File is yours.
Accounting & Finance — straight talk
The parts that usually go sideways.
Busy season looks fine — until someone quits
Weekly totals per person, per job. You spot the overload on Tuesday, not in the exit interview.
That $400 return cost you $900
Set a budget per return type. Margin view tells you which fees to lift next year.
Compliance hates your SaaS stack
A SQLite file in ~/Documents/owntime/. Back it up where policy says. No accounts, no telemetry.
What you’ll actually use
Just the bits you bill for.
Budgets per job type
Individual, corp, bookkeeping — each gets a standard hour budget. Outliers pop right away.
Filings and fees, on the bill
Registry fee, courier, research. Log as expense, flag billable, done.
Exports your accountant likes
Any range, any cut. Drops straight into the workpaper without a pivot.
And the rest of owntime
Timers, timesheets, invoices with tax, expenses with snaps, estimates, per-client currency, CSV you can hand to anyone — the full list.
What the client sees
A bill that looks like you wrote it.
| Description | Qty | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual return — standard | 3.5h | $180 | $630 |
| Quarterly bookkeeping (recurring) | — | — | $450 |
| Expense: Registry filing | — | — | $85 |
| Total | $85 | ||
Plain lines, your letterhead, your numbers. PDF, made locally. No server in the middle.
Test it on a real week.
14 days, full app. If it doesn’t survive your busy week, don’t pay. Simple.
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