Track time across clients, turn it into invoices without rebuilding a document, and finally see which clients are worth keeping. One app, bought once, on your own machine.
Freelancers and consultants rarely struggle to start a timer. The problems that cost money are downstream of it:
Group work by client, then project, then task. Run the timer, with auto-pause so a forgotten timer stops inflating a day you did not work. Set rates per client and override line items when a task was worth more or less than the clock says. Then generate the invoice, the activity report, or the billing breakdown as a PDF — no cloud, no account, no monthly fee.
For consultants specifically, the analytics matter: utilization, period summaries, and revenue by client. That is how you find out which client is quietly the worst one, and what your real hourly rate is once admin time is counted.
One-time purchase. A cloud timer costs $9–$18 per user per month — roughly $324–$648 over three years. AetherTime is $99 once, offline, and your client data stays on your machine.
Your time records and invoices contain client names and financial detail. Keeping them on your own machine is simpler and safer than spreading them across a vendor's servers and a subscription you have to maintain. AetherTime exports to Excel and CSV whenever you want the data out, so you are never locked in.
Small teams can share a single local database file, typically kept in a cloud-synced folder, with no per-seat pricing. True multi-user with roles, permissions, and an audit trail is coming in AetherTime Enterprise, which is still in development — this is a shared file, not a hosted server, and we say so plainly rather than pretending to be enterprise software.
Yes. It was originally built as a freelance time tracker. It groups work by client, project, and task, tracks billable time with auto-pause, generates branded PDF invoices, and shows revenue and utilization by client, all for a one-time price.
AetherTime's analytics summarize hours and revenue by client and project, and its billing breakdowns and reports let you see what your real hourly rate is once non-billable admin time is counted. That is the number that tells you which clients are worth keeping.
Yes. Estimates and proposal drafting are built in, and actual time is tracked against the estimate, so you can see early when a fixed-price engagement is heading for a margin problem.
Yes. It runs offline and stores everything locally, which suits freelancers and consultants who work on client sites or locked-down machines.
Private beta is open. Email us for a free copy before launch — no account, no credit card, no data sent anywhere.
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