Timecove

Timecove exists because billable-hour tracking is a small problem that the software industry insists on charging monthly for. A freelancer needs a timer, manual entries for the hours they forgot to start it for, an hourly rate per client, and an export that turns the month into an invoice. Timecove does exactly that for a one-time €15, and the CSV plus Billcove export is the detail that makes it more than a stopwatch — hours flow into the invoice rather than being retyped, which is where errors and undercharging usually creep in. Per-client rates matter for the same reason: most freelancers work at different rates for different clients and reconstructing that at month-end from memory reliably loses money. It is deliberately narrow. There is no team time tracking, no approval workflow, no project profitability dashboard and no deep integration with the large accounting suites — if you manage a staffed agency, this is not the tool. Support and development come from a single independent maker, Kevin Koellen of Focus2Grow, which is worth knowing when you evaluate longevity, though it is also why the price is a one-off. For solo freelancers and consultants who bill by the hour and want to stop renting a timer, the arithmetic pays for itself in the first invoice.