Built for the one-person business
HourTrack is a single-screen dashboard that combines billable-hour tracking, invoicing, payment follow-ups and revenue reporting for solo freelancers. Open one page and see today, this week, what is unbilled, what is outstanding and who needs chasing — then act on any of it in a single click.
The product
This is the real layout, rendered at desktop width. Nothing scrolls at the page level — each panel keeps its own scroll, so your position on the screen never changes while you work.
Billable today
3h 20mThis week
26.5hUnbilled
$4,820Outstanding
$18,940Overdue
$5,610Follow-ups
Priya Nair
Helios Analytics
INV-0042 · $5,610 · 6 days late
Tomas Berg
Kestrel Health
Loom walkthrough requested today
Daniel Okafor
Grove & Co
Sprint capacity confirmation
Revenue
CollectedBillableTimer
00:42:18
Recording billable time
Storefront rebuild — hero section
1h 35m · $150.
| # | Client | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| INV-0042 | Helios Analytics | $5,610 | Overdue |
| INV-0041 | Northwind Labs | $2,438 | Sent |
| INV-0039 | Kestrel Health | $3,384 | Sent |
| INV-0038 | Bloom Retail | $1,986 | Paid |
Features
HourTrack replaces the pile of tabs most freelancers keep open — a timer, a spreadsheet, an invoice tool and a mental note to chase a payment. Each feature below answers one question you probably ask yourself weekly.
A one-screen freelancer dashboard puts every number that matters — billable hours, unbilled work, outstanding invoices, overdue payments and revenue trend — inside a single viewport. Nothing is hidden behind navigation, so you see your whole business the moment you open it and can act on any figure with one click.
You start the timer when work begins, and HourTrack stores each session against a client and project with a rate snapshot. Unbilled hours roll up automatically. Select the entries you want to bill, and the app groups them into line items, applies tax, and writes a draft invoice while marking those entries as invoiced.
00:42:18
Create invoice from selected
Every client that needs contact today appears in a prioritised queue sorted overdue first, then due today, then upcoming. Each row shows the last touch and next action, and offers a reminder with a pre-written message, a snooze option, and a done action that clears the row and updates your counts immediately.
Helios Analytics
6 days late
Kestrel Health
Due today
HourTrack tracks every invoice as draft, sent, paid or overdue, and flips a sent invoice to overdue the moment its due date passes. The table shows age as days late or days remaining, and each invoice keeps a reminder history so you can see exactly what was sent and when.
The chart stacks paid and outstanding amounts per month as bars, and draws a dashed projection line for the current and next two months based on your trailing average. A toggle switches the bars between value of billable work completed and cash actually collected, across three, six and twelve month ranges.
How it works
Track, invoice, get paid. Those are the only three motions in HourTrack, and the whole path from a running timer to a sent invoice takes five steps and about a minute.
Pick a client and project, describe the work, and start the timer. Manual entries support 6, 15 and 30 minute rounding for work you did away from the desk.
Unbilled time collects in the timer panel with its dollar value. Select the entries you want to bill and choose create invoice from selected.
HourTrack groups entries into line items and shows subtotal, tax and total. Edit any rate before confirming.
Confirming writes a numbered draft invoice, marks the source entries as invoiced, and updates every KPI on the screen.
Send the invoice, then use the follow-up queue to nudge overdue clients with a pre-written reminder until the payment lands.
Track
Timer or manual entry, per client and project
Invoice
Hours group into line items with tax applied
Get paid
Follow-ups chase the balance until it lands
Comparison
Most freelancers run billing across a project management tool and a spreadsheet. HourTrack treats billing as the primary job, which is why every comparison row below is about time saved and money not forgotten.
| Capability | HourTrack | Generic project management tools | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to see your full financial position | Instant — one screen | Several clicks across tabs | Manual formula upkeep |
| Timer to invoice path | One click from tracked hours | Not connected | Copy and paste by hand |
| Overdue payment detection | Automatic on due date | Not built in | Conditional formatting you maintain |
| Follow-up queue | Prioritised with reminders | Generic task list | Sticky notes |
| Revenue and cash-flow chart | Paid, outstanding and projected | Delivery focused | Manual chart rebuilding |
| Setup effort | Loads with realistic sample data | Days of configuration | Hours of template building |
Key facts
HourTrack is free during early access and needs no account. It stores your data in your own browser, runs on any modern platform, and its differentiator is that the entire business fits one screen with no navigation.
FAQ
Straight answers about storage, invoicing rules and day-to-day behaviour. Last updated: .
No. It tracks hours, raises invoices, applies a tax rate you set, and records when payments arrive. That is enough to run your own billing. It is not bookkeeping software, so you would still pass exported figures to an accountant at year end if you use one.
HourTrack is local-first. Your clients, entries and invoices are stored in your own browser, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. You can export the whole workspace as a JSON file at any time and import it back on another machine.
Yes. The timer stores its start time rather than counting seconds, so closing the tab or reloading the page does not lose time. When you return, it shows the correct elapsed duration and you can stop it to log the session.
You choose a prefix and a starting number in settings, and HourTrack increments from there, for example INV-0044. Duplicating an invoice also consumes the next number, so your sequence stays continuous with no gaps or repeats.
No, and that is deliberate. Invoices are always scoped to one client, which keeps tax handling and payment chasing unambiguous. If you select tracked hours belonging to different clients, the app asks you to narrow the selection before it creates a draft.
Its status flips from sent to overdue automatically, the amount moves into your overdue KPI, and the client appears in the follow-up queue with a pre-written reminder. You can snooze the follow-up or mark it done once you have made contact.
Yes. Open any invoice and choose print. A dedicated print layout renders a clean white A4 document with your line items, subtotal, tax and total, and you can save it as a PDF from the print dialog in any browser.
There is no separate app to install. HourTrack runs in the browser and adapts below desktop width to a stacked layout with a sticky summary bar, so you can log time, check a balance or read the follow-up queue from a phone.
Time you worked that a client has agreed to pay for, measured per client and project.
Work in progress that has been tracked but not yet placed on any invoice.
Days sales outstanding, the average number of days between issuing an invoice and receiving payment.
How long an unpaid invoice has been outstanding, usually expressed as days past its due date.
Free during early access
Open the dashboard and it loads with a realistic month of clients, hours and invoices, so you can see exactly how it works before you enter a single number of your own.