Track your time.
Bill it.
Nothing in between.
TimerStep is a calm, editorial time tracker for the people whose hours are the invoice — freelancers, consultants and small studios. Start a timer, get on with the work, and turn that time into clean, paid invoices.
Three steps. Every hour, a step up.
Most trackers are a glorified stopwatch or a heavyweight suite. TimerStep sits in the middle — serious enough to run your billing on, light enough that starting is a single keystroke.
Start a timer
Press N, name what you're doing, go. Step away and come back — TimerStep resumes the same card. A duration is the sum of every stretch you worked, so pauses never inflate your hours.
Sort by client & project
Color-coded projects, each with a rate, a client and an optional budget. Watch a burn meter fill as hours land, so overruns show up before they hurt.
Send the invoice
Pull uninvoiced billable time straight into an invoice — hours × rate, totaled automatically. Auto-numbered, Draft → Sent → Paid. No re-typing, ever.
A clock that works the way work actually happens.
One-tap start, resumable cards, and a live timer that glows clay so you always know the clock is on. The interface stays calm sage until there's something happening.
- Resume, don't restart. Come back to a task later the same day and TimerStep adds to the same entry.
- Multiple ranges per entry. Every start–stop is its own interval — add, edit or remove ranges when you forgot to hit start.
- Billable or not — flip any entry with a click. Live Today / This month / Billable totals keep you oriented.
Guardrails that catch overruns early.
Cap a project by hours or by fee and watch the burn meter fill as time is logged. Per-project rollups show time tracked and value earned at a glance.
- Rates per project, each with an optional client and a status — active, on hold, or completed.
- Burn meter turns clay as you approach the cap — see the overrun coming.
- Clients roll up their projects, so you can see total time and value per client.
Built from the time you already tracked.
Bill what you tracked. Pull uninvoiced billable time straight in as line items — hours × rate, totaled automatically. Marking time as billed locks it to the record so nothing shifts.
- Auto-numbered with a clean Draft → Sent → Paid lifecycle.
- Per-client records with issue and due dates, currency and notes.
- No re-typing. The numbers come from your log, so the invoice is defensible.
A whole studio's worth of tools, out of the way.
Tasks & checklists
Every entry carries a checklist. To do / Doing / Done — but Doing lights up on its own whenever a timer runs on it. It's a timer feature, not a kanban board.
Cost & margin
Assign pay tags with an hourly cost. Every entry snapshots its cost when it closes — the groundwork for true margin: what you bill minus what it costs you.
Team & workspaces
A workspace per team, client or venture. Invite by email; Member / Manager / Admin roles fit a small shop. An append-only activity log keeps everyone honest.
Filters & charts
A filter panel on every tab and removable chips above the list. A quiet mini bar chart follows your filter — hours, top projects, revenue by month — with nothing to set up.
Privacy at a glance
One-click blur hides money so nothing's visible over your shoulder; reveal it with the eye in the header, and let it re-hide automatically after a few minutes.
Yours, in your language
English, Spanish and Portuguese, per person. Accent color, density, sidebar side, currency and font are personal preferences that follow you across workspaces.
What's on your screen is your business.
Money values blur with one click, so a coffee-shop neighbor never sees a rate. Reveal them when you need to — they re-hide on their own.
Simple, per-seat, no sales call.
Start free and stay free as a solo. When the team grows, pay only for the seats you use — changes are prorated.
- One person, one seat
- One project & one client
- Resumable timer, tasks & invoices
- Filters, charts & value blur
- Unlimited projects & clients
- A seat for everyone you invite
- Workspaces, roles & activity log
- Budgets, cost tags & margin groundwork
- Self-serve billing portal · prorated seats
Add or remove seats whenever the team changes — upgrade in a couple of clicks, then manage seats, payment and past invoices yourself.
Start the timer. We'll handle the rest.
Free for one person, no card. Pro at $7/seat with a 15-day trial when your studio grows.