For freelancers
Plan the work, track the hours, send the invoice. One Mac app.
nokko is a native Mac app for people who bill for their time: projects, a timer and invoices in one place, kept as plain Markdown files on your own disk. Free to download and read; subscribe when you want to edit, or buy it once.
A project tool, a time tracker, an invoicing app, and the copying between them.
Most freelancers run three subscriptions for one job: somewhere the tasks live, somewhere the hours are counted, and somewhere the invoice is written, with the same hour typed into each. nokko is the three in one window. The task, the time logged on it and the invoice drafted from it are lines in the same file.
- Projects, boards, a calendar and a Gantt timeline
- A timer and a Pomodoro, logged into the task's own file
- Invoices drafted from the hours you tracked
- One app, on your Mac, working offline
The morning screen, then the timer.
Today shows what is due, what fits in the hours you have left and what is waiting on a client. Arrange the list by hand and it stays in that order. Start a timer on the task in front of you with one click; the menu bar and a desktop widget keep it in view, and stopping writes a time entry under the task. Idle time is asked about, never logged quietly.
Leave the desk and the same list is on your iPhone, with the timer on the Lock Screen.
The invoice is drafted from the hours, not retyped from them.
Pick a client and a period and the invoice is drafted from the logged hours: rates from the client record, VAT, sequential numbering, your own stationery. Adjust the lines, add a flat one, and print or save a PDF in English, Lithuanian, German, French or Spanish. Totals are recomputed on every read, so a figure can never drift from the lines above it.
The invoice is a file too. Open it in ten years and it still reads.
Rates, billing details and the hours not yet invoiced.
Each client is a record with a rate and billing details, the projects attached to it, and a running count of unbilled hours and amounts. Reports group time by client and by day, exportable when an accountant asks.
Nothing of your business lives in someone else's database.
Every project, every time entry and every invoice is a plain Markdown file in a folder you choose. There is no account to create, no server of ours, and no telemetry. If you stop paying, the app goes back to reading mode and nothing is deleted or locked: reading, exporting and printing never expire, and the files open in any editor regardless.
nokko next to the usual stack.
Capabilities, not prices: the tools are good at what they do, and this table only says where each thing lives.
| Capability | nokko | ClickUp + Toggl |
|---|---|---|
| Free to use | Read everything, forever | Free plans, limited |
| One-time purchase available | Yes | No |
| Your files, on your disk | Yes | No |
| Works fully offline | Yes | No |
| Timeline / Gantt | Yes | Yes |
| Time tracking | Yes | Separate tool |
| Invoices from tracked hours | Yes | In their cloud |
| Native Mac app | Yes | No |
| Sync without a service in the middle | Yes | No |
Swipe sideways for the other columns.
The things people ask.
Does nokko track time automatically?
Can I invoice with VAT and in my own language?
Can I bring my existing projects?
Does nokko take payments or track expenses?
What happens if I stop subscribing?
Free to read, on your Mac and your iPhone.
Download it, open a folder, and read everything your studio has planned. Subscribe when you are ready to edit; the first 14 days are free, and one subscription covers both.