I was paying $120/year just to run a timer and fill in a PDF. So I built the replacement.
I'm a solo freelancer. For two years I paid for one of the popular time tracking subscriptions. And one day I looked at my billing history and realized I'd spent over $200 on software that — for my workflow — did exactly two things: started a timer and generated an invoice.
I wasn't using the team dashboards. I wasn't using the integrations. I wasn't using the Gantt charts or the project boards or the client portals. I was literally paying $10/month to avoid doing it in a spreadsheet.
So I built TimeClock Pro. It does the one workflow I actually needed:
Clock in → work → clock out → click one button → get a clean PDF invoice with every line item, date, and total already filled in.
That's it. That's the whole app.
A few specifics:
— One-time purchase, $29.99. No subscription. Not now, not in six months, not ever.
— Runs on your Windows PC. Your data stays in a local database on your machine — nothing goes to the cloud.
— You can manually add entries if you forget to start the timer (because we all forget).
— Reports page shows you total hours, earnings by project, and what's still unbilled.
It's not for everyone. If you run a team, need integrations with Slack or Asana, or want automatic email delivery — this isn't that. This is for the freelancer who just needs to stop losing track of hours and stop paying a monthly fee for the privilege of generating a PDF.
Site's here if you want to look: freelancertimeclock.com
Curious — how many of you are paying for a subscription tool but only actually using the timer and the invoice? Or am I the only one who felt dumb about that?