Who is Timescanner for?
Whether you bill by the hour or at a fixed price, knowing exactly where your time goes changes everything.
Discover how Timescanner helps different professionals get clarity on their work time.
Freelancers who need instant visibility on their clients
You're billing 3 clients this month. How many hours did you spend on each? If you can't answer in 10 seconds, you're leaving money on the table.
Here's what end of month looks like for most freelancers: open the calendar, scroll back through four weeks, count hours per client manually, write them down, wonder if you forgot anything. Two hours of administrative work just to generate a number you're not even sure is right.
With Timescanner, you name your events with a simple convention — [Acme Corp] Website review, [Sarah's Bakery] Brand call — and the hours calculate themselves. Open the app, select the month, and your billing breakdown is ready. Per client, per project, in seconds.
There's another problem most freelancers don't see coming: scope creep. A project that was supposed to take 20 hours quietly becomes 35. You don't notice until you're already deep in. Timescanner shows you the accumulation in real time, so you can flag it before it costs you.
→ Billable vs non-billable hours: the ratio killing your real rate
→ From chaotic end-of-month to a 15-minute invoice
Agencies that need bulletproof fixed-price quotes
A fixed-price project is just a time-based project where you guessed the time. Guess wrong, and your margin disappears.
The problem isn't that agencies don't estimate carefully — it's that they estimate from memory instead of data. "Last time we did a similar project, it took about three weeks." About three weeks is not a number you can build a margin on.
Timescanner gives you a queryable history of every project your team has worked on. How long did the last website redesign actually take? How many hours did the copywriting phase absorb? How much of the client management time was unbilled?
With real data from past projects, your next quote isn't a guess — it's a data point. Set the price based on what you know, add your margin on top, and stop absorbing overruns silently.
→ How to price a fixed-fee project without losing money
→ Why project estimates are always wrong (and how to fix them)
Freelancers who want to switch from daily to hourly billing
The daily rate is a trap: work more than planned, earn the same. The hourly rate is liberating — you sell your real time, and you decide when to offer hours for free.
But switching to hourly billing requires one thing most freelancers don't have: reliable time data. You can't charge by the hour if you don't know how many hours you actually spent.
Timescanner solves that. Every event in your calendar, tagged with the client's name, becomes a billable data point. At the end of the month, you have an exact count — per client, per project, with a breakdown of billable vs non-billable time.
The transition is also psychological. Many freelancers undercharge because they don't trust their own numbers. When you can see, in black and white, that you spent 47 hours on a project, it's much easier to send the invoice for 47 hours without second-guessing.
→ How to calculate your real freelance hourly rate
→ Retainer vs. hourly: which model actually pays more?
They use their calendar. We do the rest.
"I used to spend my Sunday evenings reconciling hours across 4 clients. Now I open Timescanner and my invoices are ready in 2 minutes."
Nicolas
Freelance frontend developer
"We finally have reliable data to build our fixed-price quotes. No more finger-in-the-air estimates."
Maria
Product designer, agency
"I realized my real daily rate was 40% lower than what I thought. Timescanner forced me to raise my prices — and my clients didn't even flinch."
Théo
Freelance data analyst
"The team adopted it in one day. No training, no new tool to learn. Just their calendar."
Marie-Pierre
Product manager
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