For Freelancers
Track every billable hour.
Own every piece of data.
Keeping Time gives freelancers a clean, private way to log hours across projects and clients. No subscriptions required during beta. No data harvesting. Ever.
Start tracking freeYou shouldn't have to choose between convenience and privacy
Most time tracking apps are free because you are the product. They track your behaviour, sell your usage data, and serve you ads. As a freelancer, your client work, your rates and your hours are sensitive business data — not marketing fuel.
Keeping Time is different. We make money when you find value in the product, not by monetising your data.
Everything a freelancer actually needs
Track hours by project and client
Create projects, log time against them, and see a clear breakdown of where your hours go each week.
Export your timesheets
Download your hours as CSV to send to clients or feed into your invoicing tool.
Set hourly rates
Assign rates per project and see your earnings alongside your hours.
No account lock-in
Your data is exportable at any time. We believe you should always be able to leave.
How freelancers use it
The designer billing by the hour
“I work across three clients a week. I used to use Toggl but I got uncomfortable with how much they knew about my work. Keeping Time lets me track everything without that feeling.”
The developer doing fixed-price projects
“I track time even on fixed-price work — it helps me quote better next time. Keeping Time makes it quick enough that I actually do it.”
The consultant with multiple retainers
“I need to log hours per client for my own records. Nothing fancy — just clean data I can pull at any time.”
How we compare
| Feature | Keeping Time | Toggl | Clockify |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓ | Limited | Limited |
| Data sold to third parties | Never | Unknown | Unknown |
| GDPR compliant | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| US servers | No | Yes | Yes |
| Export your data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Surveillance features | None | Some | Some |