Time Tracking for Contractors & Freelancers | A Human Time
Simple, human-friendly time tracking for independent contractors and freelancers. Track billable hours across clients, generate invoices, and see which projects actually pay. Start with a 14-day free trial.
Your time is your business. Track it without the busywork.
A Human Time helps contractors and freelancers log billable hours across clients, spot where their time really goes, and get paid faster — without surveillance software or clunky spreadsheets.
14-day free trial · No credit card required · Works on any device
Solo tracking that stays out of your way
When you work for yourself, you are the timekeeper, the biller, the accountant, and the person actually doing the work. Every minute you spend administering your business is a minute you can't bill — so the last thing you need is a time tracker built for a 200-person finance department. A Human Time is deliberately the opposite: start a timer in under two seconds, log an hour after the fact when you forgot, and get on with your day.
The whole design assumes you are moving between clients, contexts, and locations all day. Pin the projects you touch most, tap once to switch, and let the app remember what you were doing. There is no manager dashboard watching you, no idle-time detector, no screenshots — just a quiet record of where your hours actually went, which turns out to be the single most useful thing a contractor can have.
Built for the way contractors actually work
You juggle clients, deadlines, and locations. Your time tracker should keep up — not slow you down.
Multi-client tracking
Switch between clients and projects in one tap. No more mental math about where your morning went.
Invoice-ready reports
Turn tracked hours into clean, professional invoices your clients actually want to pay. Export or send directly.
Mobile-first for the field
Start a timer from a job site, pause at lunch, resume at the next client. Works offline and syncs when you're back.
Effective rate insights
See your real hourly rate per client — including unbilled prep time and emails. Know which gigs are worth keeping.
One-tap timers
Start tracking in under two seconds. Pin your frequent projects and pick up right where you left off.
Private by design
No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no GPS breadcrumbs. We track time, not people. Your data belongs to you.
Invoicing without the Sunday-afternoon dread
For most independents, invoicing is the tax on getting paid — an hour or two of scrolling back through the week trying to remember what you did and rounding to feel fair. A Human Time removes the reconstruction step entirely. Because your hours are already tagged to the right client and project, generating an invoice is a matter of picking a date range and a client, not rebuilding your week from memory.
You can group billable hours by client, project, or task, mark entries billable or non-billable so nothing slips through, and export the result or hand it straight to your accounting tool. If you have ever undercharged because you forgot the small stuff, the fixes in common contractor invoicing mistakes pair well with tracking that captures those minutes in the first place. And if you routinely run several clients at once, tracking time across multiple clients covers how to keep them cleanly separated so no billable hour lands on the wrong invoice.
Rate-setting, tax time, and the numbers you actually need
Two questions decide whether freelancing pays: am I charging enough, and where did the money go at tax time? Both are answered by honest time data. A Human Time's effective-rate view shows your real earnings per hour on each client once you fold in the unbilled prep, revisions, and email — which is often nothing like your headline rate. That is the number that tells you which gigs to keep, which to reprice, and which to let go.
The same tagged history makes tax season calmer: a clean, exportable record of billable versus non-billable time by client and project, ready for your accountant or your own bookkeeping. If you are still setting or revisiting your number, how to set your freelance rate with time data walks through using your tracked hours as the basis, and if you simply need a starting point today, our free timesheet template gives you a clean sheet to log against before you upgrade to automatic tracking.
From tracked hours to paid invoices in minutes
No training manual needed. If you can set a phone timer, you can use A Human Time.
- Add your clients and projects — takes about 60 seconds each
- Tap to start a timer or log hours after the fact (we won't judge)
- Tag entries as billable or non-billable so nothing slips through
- Generate invoices grouped by client, project, or date range
- Review your effective rate dashboard to spot underpriced work
- Export to your accounting tool or send invoices directly to clients
Contractors who stopped guessing and started knowing
"I was losing about 5 billable hours a week to context switching I never logged. Now I tap a button between clients and actually bill for my full day."
— Maria Santos, UX Design Consultant, Independent
"The effective rate insight was a wake-up call. One client was paying my highest hourly rate but needed so much unbilled revision time that they were actually my least profitable."
— James Okafor, Electrical Contractor, Okafor Services
"Invoicing used to take me a full Sunday afternoon. Now I hit export on Friday and send the invoices before I close my laptop."
— Rachel Huang, IT Consultant, Freelance
You already do the hard work. Let us handle the timesheet.
Free for individuals with up to 3 projects. No credit card, no commitment, no surveillance. Just a clear picture of where your time goes.