For freelancers who bill by the hour
Type who you’re working for and press Start. It’s a real clock: it keeps counting when you close the page, and turns into an invoice when you’re done. Free until you’re earning.
Paid straight into your own Stripe. tab never holds your money.
Why this exists
Most tools fix one of them and stop. tab was built to cover all four, because getting paid is the point.
Then you guess later, and guessing means billing less.
gentle check-ins, gap finding, and “2h figma acme yesterday” to fill it in.
Off Upwork, a timesheet is just your word.
a weekly work receipt with links to the actual work. They tap “Looks right.”
Copying hours into a template, then checking the math.
“Close the tab” turns unbilled hours into a checked invoice in one tap.
Late invoices are the norm, not the exception.
a Pay button right in the invoice email, with bank transfer first.
Sources: Remote, Contractor Management Report 2025 · Bonsai, late payment data
How it works
1 · Track
One tap starts the clock and shows what you’re earning as you work. Forgot? Type it the way you’d say it.
2 · Prove
A private link with your notes and links to the real work: Figma, GitHub, Loom. They approve it before the invoice, so there’s far less to argue about later.
3 · Get paid
One tap makes a clean invoice with your logo. Your client pays by bank transfer or card, straight into your own Stripe account.
The details that matter at 6pm on a Friday
9:30-11 acme / homepage or 2h figma yesterday and it’s logged.
“Still on Northwind: checkout flow?” One tap to answer. No “did you forget?” pings outside your working hours.
Stopped the wrong timer? Deleted an entry? Undo. Fix a whole week by typing hours into the timesheet.
See what a fixed-fee job actually pays per hour, live, while you work on it.
Clean PDFs with your brand. Gapless numbers, tax and EU reverse charge handled.
Lost Wi-Fi? The timer keeps going and syncs when you’re back. Mac and iPhone apps are planned.
Your money and your data
Clients pay into your own Stripe account, and Stripe pays out to your bank. tab never holds a cent.
Your clients pay on Stripe’s secure page. tab never sees card or bank numbers.
Every account is walled off in the database itself, and everything is encrypted on the way and at rest.
Sign in with an email link, a passkey, Google or Apple. tab never stores a password.
Export everything any time. Delete your account and its data yourself, straight away.
Made by Brady UX in Maryland. No ads, no selling data, no spying. How tab keeps you safe
Pricing
No card to sign up, no monthly bill, and nothing you use for free moved behind a paywall later. tab takes a small share only of money your clients pay online through tab, automatically, and only after your first $2,000 each month. Stripe’s processing fee is separate, as with any way of taking payments online.
Free: you’re within the first $2,000 this month.
Plus Stripe’s processing, paid to Stripe, not tab (US accounts):
If clients pay by bank transferup to $16
If clients pay by card$58 + 30¢ a payment
For comparison, HoneyBook charges 1.5% on bank payments (source), and Upwork takes a service fee from freelancers on every contract (source).
Switching
Its time tracker shut off on September 8, 2026. tab is built around the timer and brings your old entries with you.
Read the guide From Toggl TrackKeep the simple timer. Billable rates, invoices and getting paid come free, no paid plan.
Read the guide From ClockifyInvoicing without the Standard plan, and clients pay you online instead of by check.
Read the guide From HarvestNo two-project limit on the free plan, and invoices go out with a Pay button.
Read the guide From BonsaiTime tracking and invoicing without a $9 to $19 a month plan.
Read the guide From UpworkUpwork clients stay on Upwork. For the clients you find yourself, proof of the work instead of screenshots.
Read the guideAll switching guides · each one checked against the other tool’s own pages
Questions
Right now. Sign up free at app.tabwork.app with just your email: no password, no card. On your phone, add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
Yes. Tracking, clients, invoices, weekly work receipts and your logo are free with no limits. The only fee is a small share of payments your clients make online through tab, and only after your first $2,000 each month. Payments that don’t go through tab, like a check or a transfer straight to your bank, never cost you anything. Online payments also have Stripe’s own processing fee, as with any payment app.
If your client pays by bank transfer: $5 to Stripe, $0 to tab (inside your free $2,000 that month), so you get $995. By card: $29.30 to Stripe, $0 to tab, so you get $970.70. Paid by check or a bank transfer outside tab: nothing to anyone. Past $2,000 in a month, tab’s 1% is added; on this invoice that would be $10.
Yes. Each account is walled off in the database itself, everything is encrypted on the way and at rest, and tab never stores a password or sees card numbers. You can export everything or delete your account yourself at any time. The details are on the security page.
No. Payments go straight into your own Stripe account and Stripe pays out to your bank. tab’s fee is taken by Stripe at the same moment, so there’s nothing to invoice you for and no card on file.
Never. No screenshots, keystroke counts or activity scores. Your client sees what you worked on and links to the work, and that’s it.
tab is made by Brady UX, a design studio. A clock app for freelancers was Brady’s very first UX assignment, and this is the version he always wanted.
Always. Your entries, clients and invoices are yours, and you can export them as CSV any time.
Public beta
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