Pay once. Track. Invoice.
A Clockify-shaped loop. Without the rent.
Clients, tasks, a timer you start yourself, export, a PDF the client can pay. No auto-tracker watching windows. No monthly seat. One file on the Mac.
One payment. No rent. File is yours.
Freelancers — straight talk
The parts that usually go sideways.
Every Mac tracker wants a subscription
One payment. The r/macapps thread that asked for a drop-in Clockify with pay-once already rejected a €149 lifetime. This is $99, and invoicing is included.
Auto-track is the wrong job
You create the client and the task and you hit start. Idle can offer to trim. Timeline exists and is off unless you turn it on. Manual is the default.
Export is an afterthought
CSV and the SQLite file itself. Hand a client a timesheet or keep the file forever. You are not waiting on someone else's export button.
The invoice is another app
Unbilled entries become lines. Tax, terms, PDF. Expenses with receipts ride along. One loop from timer to paid.
What you’ll actually use
Just the bits you bill for.
You start the timer
Global hotkey ⇧⌘T, menu-adjacent Today screen, recent chips. No always-on capture unless you opt into Timeline.
Clients and tasks, not a team workspace
The structure Clockify people already know. One person. Per-client currency.
Invoice in the same app
That is the gap Timing and Timemator leave. Tracked time prints. You send it.
Import if you are leaving Toggl or Clockify
CSV, dry-run, tags survive. Then the subscription can die.
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.
Set it up like this
Your world, in your trade’s words.
First run: pick Freelancers
Plain words: Client, Project, Task, Tags, and the brand orange accent. Nothing is seeded, so the app stays as blank as you want.
Client = who pays you
Name, rate default, currency.
Project = the job
Brand site, illustration pack, the month's retainer.
Tasks = if you need them
Nothing is seeded for freelancers, so add your own or skip tasks and let the project carry it.
Invoice = Friday
Select the week, PDF, send. Mark paid when it lands.
A week in owntime
How the work actually flows.
Start of a task
Pick client, start timer or log hours later. Note is optional unless you require it.
During the day
Hotkey to toggle. Idle asks whether to keep or trim.
End of week
Grid. Anything missing gets a manual row.
Bill
Unbilled plus expenses. PDF. Done.
What the client sees
A bill that looks like you wrote it.
| Description | Qty | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illustration pack — client A | 14h | $85 | $1,190 |
| Revisions, round 2 | 3h | $85 | $255 |
| Expense: Stock | — | — | $40 |
| Total | $40 | ||
Plain lines, your letterhead, your numbers. PDF, made locally. No server in the middle.
Straight talk
What it will not do.
Every tool has edges. Here are ours, plainly, so you find out now and not in month three.
- ×Mac only right now (Apple Silicon, 12+). Windows is not a promise with a date.
- ×No phone app. If the work happens on a job site with only a phone, this is the wrong tool.
- ×No Xero, QuickBooks, or Stripe checkout in the app. PDF and a payment link you already own.
Asked a lot
Questions freelancers people ask.
Is it really not a subscription?
One payment per license. Updates through v1.x. The app does not need us after you activate once.
I do not want window tracking.
Leave Timeline off. That is the default. The timer is manual.
Can I export?
CSV from reports, and the whole database is already a file you can copy.
I use Toggl or Clockify today.
Export CSV, Import in owntime, check the dry-run, then stop paying them if the week works.
Test it on a real week.
14 days, full app. If it doesn’t survive your busy week, don’t pay. Simple.
Other worlds: