Is there a free plan?

No permanent free tier is planned. CronLoom is free during early access, then one flat plan at $9 a month, or €10 including VAT in the EU, with every feature included. No tiers, no add-ons, nothing held back.

Can I sign up already?

Not yet. CronLoom has not opened to the public. Join the waiting list and we will email you once you can create an account. No card and no payment details are involved.

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?

In the EU, a flat €10 a month or €100 a year, VAT included. Everywhere else, $9 a month or $90 a year, plus any tax that applies where you are. 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?

CronLoom runs on servers in Germany and sends its email from France, both in the EU, and CronLoom is GDPR-compliant. The website measures reach with Plausible, without cookies and on our own EU servers. The privacy policy lists every service involved.

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.

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, by converting the export first. CronLoom imports its own CSV, which carries rates and fixed fees as well as hours. Export your history from Toggl, Harvest or Clockify, then run the prompt from Settings on that file in your own ChatGPT or Claude. CronLoom never sends your export to a model. Upload what comes back: CronLoom checks it against the format, can refuse it unless the row count and total hours match the original, and shows a preview before anything is written. Vendor files are not read directly.

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. 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.

Time tracking for solo freelancers

Every hour,
accounted for.

CronLoom tracks your hours and works out what they were worth: the real rate per client, whether a fixed bid still adds up, and where the month lands.

Join the waiting list See your numbers

Free during early access. No credit card, no contracts. Then $9 a month flat, €10 with VAT in the EU, and we email you once you can sign up.

Find your floor rate

drag to try

You want to take home $5,000 /month

Of a 40-hour week, you can bill 24 h

Assume you bill about 60% of the week until you have measured your own. 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.

Join the waiting list

Set it once. CronLoom keeps score from then on, no spreadsheet.

Fixed bids

Every hour you log lowers what a fixed bid pays.

CronLoom keeps that rate on the project card, current with every entry, and marks the bid once it slips under your floor. You find out while the project runs, not when it is billed.

€4,000 fixed price, €85 floor

After 20 h: €200.00 an hour
After 47 h: €85.11 an hour
After 56 h: below floor €71.43 an hour

A fixed bid, priced hour by hour while the project runs. Example data.

Hosted In the EU on EU infrastructure

Price $9 · €10 in the EU flat, VAT included in the EU, and the price you sign up at is the one you keep

Export PDF & Excel everything you tracked, whenever you want it

Owner One person independent, built in Germany

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 quarter

Northwind Studio

project

$92 /h

Acme Corp

hourly

$78 /h

Bright Studio

hourly

$61 /h

Delta Agency

retainer

$38 /h

The vertical line is your effective rate ($57/h). A client left of it pays less per hour than your average.

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. 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. That leaves time to do something about it. Income that won't sit still is the freelancer's worst month-end surprise.

Jun 1 today Jun 30

goal $11k

$8,420

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 plan at $9 a month, €10 with VAT in the EU. The calculator above sets your floor. CronLoom keeps score from then on.

Open the free rate calculator →

The CronLoom dashboard: hours and revenue this month, weekly and monthly goals, and budgets per project

Join the waiting list Set your floor today. CronLoom keeps score from your first entry. No credit card.

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.

CronLoom analytics on the web: revenue trend, projected income, effective hourly rate and billable ratio

CronLoom mobile stats: hours, revenue, effective rate and projected income — Stats · iOS

CronLoom mobile timer running against a client project — Timer · iOS

In sync between web and iOS
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? Export there, convert the file to CronLoom's own CSV with the prompt in Settings, and import it here.

Start the timer

One click to start, or bring your history across as CronLoom's own CSV. Set your rate per client once and forget it.
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.
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, €10 incl. VAT in the EU, one person
Hosting	US	US	US	EU, GDPR-compliant
Ownership	VC-backed	Bending Spoons, 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

The honest Toggl alternative → vs Harvest → vs Clockify →

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 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, decimal hours, per-row currency and billable flags, ready for your accounting tool or your next invoice.

Offline on iOS

The iOS app keeps tracking offline, so a train or a basement never costs you an entry.

One plan

All of it, for $9 flat. €10 with VAT in the EU.

Every feature on this page is in the one plan. No tiers, no add-ons, nothing held back.

See pricing

Owned by the person who builds it

The price you sign up for is the price you keep.

When a conglomerate buys a tool you depend on, you can set your watch by what happens next. Layoffs, then a renewal you never agreed to. CronLoom cannot run that play. There is no parent company here to run it.

Acquired & repriced

A real, reported renewal:

$12 → $120+ /mo

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:

$9 /mo · €10 with VAT in the EU · flat

No per-seat tax, you're one person
No surprise 10× renewal, no conglomerate owner
Hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant
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

Join the waiting list The price we announce is the price you keep.

One plan. Everything included.

No seats. No tiers. No surprise bill at renewal.

CronLoom

Everything a one-person business needs

Free during early access

$9 /month plus tax

the announced price when billing launches · or $90/year

In the EU: €10/month or €100/year, VAT included.

Unlimited time tracking, projects & clients
Floor-rate flagging, profitability & income analytics
Project budgets & weekly goals
Multi-currency support
CSV & billing-ready exports
iOS app with offline support
Smart reminders & weekly summaries

Join the waiting list

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 a month (€10 with VAT in the EU) once billing launches is what keeps an independent tool running.

Free during early access, the whole product, no credit card
No contracts or lock-in, export your data anytime
The price we announce is the price 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 a month, or €10 including VAT in the EU, with every feature included. No tiers, no add-ons, nothing held back.
Can I sign up already?: Not yet. CronLoom has not opened to the public. Join the waiting list and we will email you once you can create an account. No card and no payment details are involved.
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?: In the EU, a flat €10 a month or €100 a year, VAT included. Everywhere else, $9 a month or $90 a year, plus any tax that applies where you are. 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?: CronLoom runs on servers in Germany and sends its email from France, both in the EU, and CronLoom is GDPR-compliant. The website measures reach with Plausible, without cookies and on our own EU servers. The privacy policy lists every service involved.
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, by converting the export first. CronLoom imports its own CSV, which carries rates and fixed fees as well as hours. Export your history from Toggl, Harvest or Clockify, then run the prompt from Settings on that file in your own ChatGPT or Claude. CronLoom never sends your export to a model. Upload what comes back: CronLoom checks it against the format, can refuse it unless the row count and total hours match the original, and shows a preview before anything is written. Vendor files are not read directly.
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. 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.