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For freelancers & independent contractors

Track time, bill clients, and file taxes with one tool

A one-click timer, client profiles, branded PDF invoices in five templates, multi-currency billing, and tax-ready exports. Free for solo use.

🇪🇺 GDPR compliant · EU servers · No surveillance

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Freelancer workspace overview
I-FRL-HEROHourvio dashboard for a freelancer showing active clients, tracked hours per project, and an unbilled total ready for invoicing.

Built for solo work, priced for solo budgets

We built Hourvio for freelancers and independent contractors who are the whole finance team, the whole delivery team, and the whole admin team at once. Every hour has to hit the right client, invoices have to go out looking professional, multi-currency work has to settle without a spreadsheet on the side, and at the end of the year the tax authority expects a clean record. A tool that only does one of those pieces leaves the other three to you.

Hourvio covers the whole chain in one workspace. A one-click timer captures billable hours against a client, the weekly grid handles batch logging when the clock is not running, invoices pull unbilled time into a branded PDF with your letterhead applied, and tax-ready exports to CSV and Excel close out the year without retyping anything.

The Free plan is genuinely free for up to five users, which means solo freelancers pay nothing for the basics. Invoicing, PDF generation, and the five templates unlock on Professional when the business is ready for them. Everything runs on European servers in Germany. No screenshots, no webcam monitoring, no keystroke logging. You are the whole company, and nobody should be watching.

One-click timer

Start, stop, or continue a timer from any view. Long-running alerts catch the ones you forgot to stop, and manual entry covers the hours the timer missed.

Client profiles

Store tax ID, VAT number, banking details, payment terms, and default currency once per client. Every invoice auto-populates from the client record.

Invoices from tracked time

Pull unbilled billable hours into an invoice filtered by client, project, or date range. Every line item traces back to a real time entry.

Five PDF invoice templates

Pick one of five branded invoice layouts with configurable colors, fonts, and margins. Upload a letterhead PDF for first and continuation pages.

Multi-currency billing

Each invoice sets its own currency from three supported options (USD, EUR, CHF). Bill EUR in Berlin and USD in New York from the same workspace.

Tax-ready exports

Summary, detailed, weekly, and audit reports export to CSV and Excel with active filters preserved for clean year-end tax filing.

Free for solo use

The Free plan covers up to five users with timer, weekly grid, calendar view, calendar sync, and basic reports. Nothing to pay to get started.

  1. Create your workspace (free)

    Sign up and create a workspace in a couple of minutes. The Free plan covers up to five users with timer, weekly grid, calendar view, Google and Outlook calendar sync, and basic reports. No credit card, nothing to pay to get started on the work.

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    Workspace setup
    I-FRL-01Workspace setup screen for a freelancer with brand color, default currency, and tax ID fields.
  2. Add clients

    Create a client profile for every person you bill. Store tax ID, VAT number, banking details, payment terms, default currency, and contact person once, and every project and invoice for that client picks up those values automatically.

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    Client profile
    I-FRL-02Client profile form showing tax ID, VAT number, banking details, payment terms, and default currency fields.
  3. Track time

    Run the one-click timer against a client project, type into the weekly grid after a focus block, or add manual entries for work you already did. Every entry carries a description, a billable flag, and the rate that was effective at creation, so nothing gets lost between the work and the invoice.

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    One-click time tracking
    I-FRL-03Timer running against a single client project with description and billable rate editable inline.
  4. Generate invoices

    Pull unbilled billable hours into a branded PDF invoice filtered by client and date range. Pick one of five invoice templates, apply your letterhead, edit the line items if you need to, and finalize. The PDF is snapshotted and hashed so every future reprint matches the original exactly.

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    Invoice from tracked time
    I-FRL-04Invoice editor with tracked time imported as line items, PDF template picker, and a preview panel.
  5. Export for taxes

    At the end of the quarter or the year, run the summary or detailed report for the period, pick the columns you need, and export to CSV and Excel. Active filters are preserved, so the file matches exactly what you saw on screen for the tax authority or your accountant.

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    Tax-ready exports
    I-FRL-05Detailed report for a tax year with an export menu open showing CSV and Excel options.

Timer, grid, and manual entry

One-click timer, weekly grid, manual entries, and back-dating with descriptions and billable flags for every entry, on the Free plan.

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    Time tracking
    I-FRL-03Timer running against a freelance project with the weekly grid underneath showing the current week's entries.

    Branded PDF invoices

    Five invoice templates, five matching timesheet templates, custom letterhead, payment tracking, and multi-currency billing from three supported options (USD, EUR, CHF).

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      Invoicing
      I-FRL-04Invoice editor showing a branded PDF with letterhead applied, line items imported from tracked time.

      Reports and tax exports

      Summary, detailed, weekly, audit, and attendance reports with CSV and Excel exports, column selection, and active-filter preservation for tax filing.

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        Reports and exports
        I-FRL-05Summary and detailed report views side by side with CSV and Excel export options for year-end filing.

        Your data stays in Europe

        We host every workspace on European servers in Germany, and we never watch your team work. Security is a default, not an upsell.

        GDPR by default

        Every workspace is GDPR-compliant on day one. No toggles, no add-ons, no separate EU edition.

        EU servers in Germany

        We run on servers in Germany. Your data never leaves the European Union.

        SSO and SAML

        Bring your identity provider. We support SAML 2.0 and OIDC for single sign-on on the Business tier.

        Multi-factor authentication

        Protect every account with TOTP-based MFA. Enforce it workspace-wide on the Business tier.

        Audit logs

        Every admin action is logged with actor, timestamp, and context. Export and review at any time.

        Isolated infrastructure

        Customers on the Professional and Business plans run on their own database and application server. Not shared multi-tenancy.

        We trust your team. Hourvio has no screenshots, no webcam monitoring, no keystroke logging, and no mouse tracking. Ever.

        Track time and bill clients the European way

        Join the Early Access list and we will email you the moment your workspace is ready. The Free plan is waiting.