Time tracking for solo freelancers
Every hour,
accounted for.
CronLoom is a fast, honest time tracker — with the numbers a one-person business actually runs on. What each client really pays per hour. How that fixed bid is tracking against the quote. Where the month lands. No dashboards to build, no team tier to unlock.
Free during early access. No credit card, no contracts. Then €/$9 flat.
Find your floor rate
drag to tryMost freelancers bill about 60% of the week. The rest is admin, pitches and gaps nobody pays for.
Your floor rate
$48/hr
60% billable
of your week
Charge below this and the month doesn't work.
That's your floor. CronLoom checks every client and fixed bid against it.
Set it once. CronLoom keeps score from then on, no spreadsheet.
Built for one. developers, designers, consultants, writers, anyone billing for their own time. Not for agencies or teams managing seats.
Not just hours. Numbers.
A timesheet counts your hours. CronLoom shows what they're worth.
Hours are only the input. CronLoom keeps three numbers current while you track: your rate against your floor, who actually pays it, and where the month lands.
01 · Rate vs. your floor
▼ below floor$57.38
/hr, against the $85 floor you set
Where you slipped below your line. Your effective rate is what you actually keep per worked hour. You set $85 as your floor; a fixed bid that ran long is paying you $57. CronLoom shows you the gap early — while there's still room to act.
Check yours with the free calculator →02 · Who actually pays your rate
$/hr, this quarterNorthwind Studio
project
Acme Corp
hourly
Bright Studio
hourly
Delta Agency
retainer
The vertical line is your effective rate ($57/h). Anything short of it pays you less than you actually keep.
Who actually pays your rate. Every client ranked by what they truly earn you per hour. That comfortable retainer at the bottom is quietly your worst-paid work — and it's the first conversation to have.
03 · Where the month lands
$8,420 / $11,000
June, projected vs goal
Where the month lands. It updates as you track, so a thin month shows up long before the invoices do — with time left to do something about it. Income that won't sit still is the freelancer's worst month-end surprise.
This is the whole dashboard. Not a “reports” add-on you pay extra for later.
Toggl and Harvest hide profitability behind a pricier tier. Here it's the home screen, in the one €/$9 plan. The calculator above sets your floor. CronLoom keeps score from then on.
Open the free rate calculator →
Same numbers, every device
Your real numbers, wherever the work happens.
The same numbers on the web and in your pocket. Rate vs. your floor, projected income, client profitability: they stay in sync everywhere. Start a timer offline on the train and watch it land on your desktop later.
- In sync across web, iOS and Android
- Tracks offline, syncs clean when you're back
- EU-hosted, export anytime
From first timer to your first real number
Useful on day one. Sharper every week.
No setup project, no onboarding call. Already tracking somewhere else? Bring your history across in a CSV from Toggl, Harvest or Clockify.
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Start the timer
One click to start, or import your past entries from another tracker. Set your rate per client once and forget it.
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Tag the work
Pick the client and project as you go, and mark what's billable. That's the entire habit. The mobile app keeps it going offline.
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Watch the numbers
Effective rate against your floor, who actually pays it, and projected income fill in as the entries land. CronLoom flags anything that slips under. There's nothing to configure.
Coming from another tracker?
How CronLoom compares.
The honest version. Each of these is a good tool for the job it was built for. CronLoom is built for one person who wants to know if the work pays.
| Toggl | Harvest | Clockify | CronLoom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profitability analytics | Higher tier | Higher tier | Basic totals | Included |
| Price | $9–18 / seat | $11+ / seat | $4–15 / seat | $9 flat, one person |
| Hosting | US | US | US | EU, GDPR-first |
| Ownership | VC-backed | PE-owned, 2025 | Vendor suite | Independent solo |
| Best if | you manage a team | you need full invoicing | you want free forever | you bill for your own time |
Everything, none of the team chrome
Built for one. Not a team tool you squeeze into.
One-click timer
Start tracking with a single click. Smart suggestions, idle detection, pause and resume. Keeps running offline on mobile and syncs clean when you're back.
Budgets & goals
Hour or money budgets per project, with visual progress and alerts before you run over. A weekly goal that tells you if you're on pace.
Multi-currency
Bill each client in their currency and see every figure consolidated into yours. Built for freelancers who work across borders.
Billing-ready export
Clean CSV and reports your clients trust. ISO dates, per-row currency, billable flags. Drops straight into Lexware, sevDesk or an invoice.
Offline mobile apps
Native iOS and Android with real offline support. Track on a train or on-site; nothing is lost to a sync bug.
Owned by the person who builds it
The price you sign up for is the price you keep.
When private equity buys a tool you depend on, you can set your watch by what happens next. Layoffs, then a renewal you never agreed to. CronLoom can't run that play. There's no PE firm here to run it.
Acquired & repriced
A real, reported renewal:
After Harvest's 2025 acquisition, paying freelancers reported renewals jumping past 10×. This isn't a one-off. The same acquirer has done it across the products it bought.
The honest Harvest alternative →Independent & flat
The CronLoom promise:
- No per-seat tax, you're one person
- No surprise 10× renewal, no PE owner
- Hosted in the EU, GDPR-clean, no ad trackers
- No contracts, no lock-in, export your data anytime
Harvest renewal figures reported by customers after the 2025 acquisition. Sources on the Harvest comparison page.
A note from the founder
Thomas, building CronLoom solo in Germany
I freelanced for years with a timer that told me how many hours I worked and almost nothing about whether the work paid. The month I added up my real rate by hand was the month I started turning down my most “comfortable” client.
CronLoom is the tool I wanted then. One person builds it, one person answers your email, and the price is the price. I can't 10× your plan next year, because there's nobody here who could make me.
Thomas
One plan. Everything included.
No seats. No tiers. No surprise bill at renewal.
CronLoom
Everything a one-person business needs
the announced price when billing launches · or $90/year
- Unlimited time tracking, projects & clients
- Floor-rate flagging, profitability & income analytics
- Project budgets & weekly goals
- Multi-currency support
- CSV & billing-ready exports
- iOS & Android apps with offline support
- Smart reminders & weekly summaries
No credit card · no contracts
Why no free plan?
A free tier forces one of two ugly choices. Either you cripple the product behind feature gates, or you pay for the free users by selling their data. CronLoom does neither.
Instead you get one honest plan with every feature, free while it's in early access. A flat €/$9 once billing launches is what keeps an independent, privacy-first tool sustainable and free of ad-tech.
- Free during early access, the whole product, no credit card
- No contracts or lock-in, export your data anytime
- The €/$9 we announce is the €/$9 you keep
Questions, answered straight
Frequently asked
- Is there a free plan?
- No permanent free tier is planned. CronLoom is free during early access, then one flat plan at $9/month with every feature included. No tiers, no add-ons, nothing held back.
- Do I need a credit card to start?
- No. CronLoom is free during early access, so there's no card and no payment details to enter. Billing starts only when early access ends, at a flat $9/month.
- What happens to my data?
- Nothing gets deleted out from under you. Your data is yours to take whenever you want, and you can export everything to CSV at any time.
- What will it cost when billing launches?
- A flat €/$9 a month. There's no investor or acquirer pushing for a bigger number, so the price we announce is the price you keep.
- Where is my data hosted?
- All data is hosted in the EU and CronLoom is GDPR-compliant. The marketing site ships almost no JavaScript and loads no third-party trackers or Google Fonts. The app itself runs privacy-friendly analytics on EU servers, with no ad-tech and no cross-site tracking.
- Am I locked in?
- No. There are no contracts and no lock-in. Your data is yours to export in full at any time, so you're never stuck.
- Who is CronLoom for?
- Solo freelancers and independent professionals: developers, designers, consultants, writers, anyone billing for their own time. It's built for one person who wants to know their real profitability, not for agencies or teams managing seats.
- Can I import my data from Toggl, Harvest or Clockify?
- Yes. CronLoom supports CSV import, so you can bring time entries across from Toggl, Harvest, Clockify and similar tools. See our comparison pages for migration notes per tool.
- What makes CronLoom different from other time trackers?
- Most trackers stop at "you worked 32 hours." CronLoom starts there. You set a floor rate — the line you decided is worth your time — and CronLoom keeps score against it: it flags the clients and fixed bids whose real rate has slipped below it, ranks who actually pays you, and projects where the month lands. It's the difference between recording your time and knowing what it's worth.
Every hour, accounted for.
Start tracking in under a minute. CronLoom keeps score from your first entry.
Get started freeNo credit card required.