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Automatic time tracking and invoicing for Mac freelancers

It minds thy labour. Thou gettest the bread.

A Mac menu-bar app that turns your git commits and coding sessions into a timesheet, then a finished invoice by month's end.

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A framed medieval painting of a bakery beside yesterday's popover: three clients' work already written down, and the invoice it becomes, INV-006 totalling $5,367

Hours returned to thee.

The end-of-month scramble is the quiet tax you pay for working for yourself. Reckon what it costs thee, in thine own numbers.

$ / hr
hours
How much dost thou dread it?
Invoicing, a year of it36 h
The putting-it-off around it+9 h
The nudge instead, 30 seconds a day−3 h
Hours returned to thee42 h
Billed at thy rate, that is$4,200a year

A real working week, handed back with interest.

It tracks billable hours from the work you already do

You pick up no new habits at all. It notices the trails you already leave and turns them into billable lines.

Your folders

Point it at the folders where client work lives. The commits you make there become the line you were too deep in code to write.

Claude sessions

What you explored and built with Claude, collapsed from a hundred micro-steps into one honest summary.

Cursor sessions

The afternoons you spend pairing with Cursor get read the same way, and still make the sheet.

Or just type it

Meetings, calls, work with no trail? Write it into the daily nudge, paste notes, or tell it in chat. It listens.

It works for you, not on you.

Most tools like this can be aimed at a worker by whoever is paying. This one was built so it never can be.

It stays on your Mac

Every signal it reads is handled on your own machine and never uploaded, so there is nothing to breach but your own laptop.

No boss's-eye view

There is no team dashboard and no manager login, and there never will be. It answers to you and to no one above you.

Your client only sees the invoice

They never touch the tool or see your day. The single thing that ever leaves is the finished invoice you choose to send.

How automatic time tracking works, in four steps

I.

Point

Point it at the folders where each client's work lives. One-time setup. It learns which work belongs to which client, and what's just yours.

II.

Get nudged

Once a day, the menu-bar popover shows what it saw. Confirm in a tap, or add what it missed. Skip a day and it waits for you.

III.

Refine

"Merge those two days." "Bill design at $150." "Drop the sick day." Chat with it like a person. It listens.

IV.

Send

Month ends, the invoice is built. Tweak it, export a clean PDF, and send it however you already get paid.

Freelance invoices you'd actually want to send

No clip-art logo, no "Powered by", and no fee skimmed off the top. Just an invoice you'd actually send, paid however you already get paid.

Invoice INV-006, clean and modern, tilted over the illuminated manuscript page it leaves behind: four billed lines, GST, $5,635.88 total, e-Transfer, Net 14
The dark ages · and what it hands thee instead

I built it for myself.

I freelance for one main client. Once a month I'd scroll through commits, calendar entries, and Slack threads trying to remember what I actually did, and I'd always lose a few days to "I know I worked, I just can't prove it." Then I'd open an invoicing tool built for an accounting team of forty and fight it for an hour.

The invoice it made was ugly. I'm a designer. I sent it anyway.

So I built the thing I actually wanted, which notices the work as it happens in the background, asks me one small question at the end of each day, and has the whole invoice waiting by the time the month rolls over. Now the end of the month is a thirty-second glance instead of a lost evening of detective work, and the thing that comes out the other side is finally an invoice I'm happy to put my name on.

Jaycee

One fair price. No tithes.

Free for 14 days with no credit card. Then one flat price for everything: automatic capture, the daily nudge, chat editing, designed invoices, and as many clients as you have. Never a fee on the money you earn.

$12USD / month
$10USD / month

Billed monthly. Cancel anytime, right from the app.

$120 billed yearly, two months free. Cancel anytime.

The AI drafting is included, no API key or setup of your own. Your work data stays on your Mac either way. Begin thy free trial.

Things people ask.

How does it track my hours without a timer?
It reads the trail you already leave behind: the git commits in the folders you point it at, and the coding sessions you run with Claude or Cursor. At the end of the day it shows you what it saw and you confirm or adjust it, so there's nothing to start and nothing to stop.
What if I forget to check the daily nudge?
Nothing breaks, and nothing nags you. The day waits, and the next time you open the app it's still there to confirm, so a missed Tuesday doesn't vanish, it just queues up and waits until you get to it.
How does it know what's actually billable?
You point it at the folders where each client's work lives, once, and it learns what counts as their work and what's your own side project. It also flags anything it's unsure about rather than inventing hours, so you stay the one who decides what makes it onto the invoice.
Do I have to be a developer for it to work?
Not at all. The capture is richest if you write code, but if you'd rather paste in your own notes or type the month out by hand, it builds the same clean timesheet from whatever you give it.
Where does my data live?
On your Mac. It reads your work locally rather than shipping your whole working life off to someone else's server, which is honestly the entire point of building it this way.
Can my client or boss see any of this?
No, and it's built so it never can. Get Thy Bread runs on your Mac and works only for you, with no team dashboard, no manager view, and no account your client ever logs into. Nothing about your day is uploaded anywhere they could reach, and the only thing that ever leaves your machine is the finished invoice you choose to send. It works for you, not on you.
Does it take a cut of my invoices?
Never. Get Thy Bread doesn't process payments at all, so there's no per-invoice cut and no processing fees nibbling away at what you earn. It writes the invoice and you get paid exactly the way you already do, with every cent of it staying yours.
How is this different from FreshBooks or Harvest?
Those are built for teams, bookkeepers, and people who genuinely enjoy configuring projects and tags. This is built for one freelancer with a client or two who simply wants the month to add itself up and hand back an invoice worth sending.
How do freelancers track billable hours automatically?
Instead of starting and stopping a timer, you let the work track itself: Get Thy Bread reads the git commits and the Claude and Cursor sessions you already produce in your project folders, then turns them into hours you confirm at the end of the day. Automatic time tracking for freelancers means there's nothing to remember and nothing to forget.
Is there a free time tracker and invoice app for Mac freelancers?
Get Thy Bread is a Mac menu-bar app with a free trial that both tracks your freelance hours automatically and builds the invoice from them, so you don't need a separate time tracker and invoicing tool. It's made for solo freelancers on macOS, not teams or agencies.
What's the best invoicing app that doesn't take a cut of your money?
Get Thy Bread never processes payments, so it takes no per-invoice cut and charges no payment-processing fees. It writes the invoice and you get paid the way you already do, keeping every cent, which most invoicing apps that handle payments can't say.
How much does Get Thy Bread cost?
It's free for 14 days with no credit card required. After that it's $12 USD a month, or $120 a year which works out to two months free. One price includes everything: the automatic capture, the AI drafting, designed invoices, and unlimited clients, with no per-invoice fees ever.
Can I bill more than one client?
Yes. Each client gets its own project with its own folders, rate, and invoices, and the daily nudge sorts new work into the right client automatically. Your invoice numbers stay in one tidy sequence across all of them.
Can I reshape the timesheet before invoicing?
Yes, in plain English. Tell the chat things like "combine everything into Mondays and Thursdays" or "bill design work at $150" and it reshapes the sheet while keeping the record of what actually happened. Days you've confirmed are frozen, so totals never drift.
Does Get Thy Bread run on Windows or Intel Macs?
Not yet. Get Thy Bread is a native Mac app for Apple Silicon (M1 and later) on macOS 12 or newer. There's no Windows, Intel, or mobile version, and no web app; the local-first design is what lets it read your work without uploading it anywhere.

How it compares, and how it works

Invoices from your Claude Code sessionsThe trail an AI session leaves is better evidence than a timer. Get Thy Bread vs Toggl TrackToggl needs you to start a timer. This reads the work you already did. Get Thy Bread vs HarvestHarvest is priced and built per seat. This is built for one person. Get Thy Bread vs FreshBooksFreshBooks is accounting. This is just the invoice, done properly. A Mac invoice app that fills itself inThe work isn't the PDF, it's knowing what to put on it. Automatic time tracking for freelancersReading your work, not watching your screen. Tracking billable hours without a timerFour methods for when you never remember to start one.

Get thy bread.

The doors are open. Fourteen days free, no card and no catch, and thy Mac shall be drafting thy timesheet by supper.

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