Time Tracking for Freelance Designers
Built for solo freelance designers working on per-project fees with rounds of revisions.
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Where the rate slips
For freelance designers, the danger isn't the work you quoted. It's the work you didn't. The logo package was a fair price for three concepts. It stopped being fair somewhere around the eleventh round of 'can you just try it in blue?'. Project-based pricing hides this completely. The fee is fixed, so the only thing that moves is your real rate, and it moves down.
CronLoom keeps the revision tax on the books. Set the floor rate your work is worth, track the hours against each design project — every revision round, every 'quick tweak' — and CronLoom flags the project the moment its real rate drifts below that floor. Over a few months you'll know exactly which clients and which kinds of work are worth saying yes to, and where your scope terms need teeth.
The leak
The revision spiral
A $2,000 brand project you scoped at 25 hours ($80/hour) turns into 50 hours after open-ended revisions. That's a $40/hour reality. Because the fee never changed, nothing warns you. Set your floor and CronLoom flags the project the moment it drops under, so you can cap revisions, charge for extra rounds, or price the next project for the truth instead of the hope.
The numbers you'll see
What CronLoom shows you
- Every design project whose real rate has slipped below the floor you set, after every revision round.
- Which clients consistently slip below your floor rate.
- How much unbilled revision and admin time really costs you each month.
- Cleaner quoting data: what similar projects actually took, not what you guessed.
Not sure what to charge in the first place? Try the free rate calculator. Already invoicing? See what an hour really pays with the effective hourly rate calculator.
Questions, answered straight
Frequently asked questions
- I charge per project, not per hour. Is tracking still useful?
- Especially then. Per-project pricing hides your real rate. Tracking the hours lets CronLoom compute fee ÷ hours and flag the projects (and revision-happy clients) that slipped below the floor you set.
- Can I see which clients eat my margin?
- Yes. Per-client profitability shows you exactly which relationships let your rate slip below your floor.
- Where is my data stored?
- In the EU. CronLoom is GDPR-compliant, with privacy-friendly EU analytics and no ad-tech.