Just writing down your hours isn't enough to help you make decisions about your business. You need the 10,000-foot view: How regularly do I work really? Which days do I work best? Where are my hidden time sinks? Which of my clients are the least profitable? Freckle helps you find out, with its holistic, info-packed project overviews, powerful reporting features, and the mighty Pulse.

Your true hourly rate is a fraction of what you quote, and there's one reason: Overhead. It's the hippopotamus in the room—very slippery. With Freckle, you can enter time in a hot second—and with no extra effort at all, you can mark it as "unbillable." It's a two-step intervention: Catch the time you'd otherwise miss due to friction with your tools. And track the time you can't bill for. Then you can see which projects and tasks eat up your precious time... and how much you're really earning per hour.

You shouldn't have to spend time to save time. Time entry in Freckle is performance-tuned to respect your time, whether you're entering it by hand, or using our handy timer. You can even track time directly from your GitHub or Beanstalk commit messages. Or use our command-line tool.

Your data stays yours. Getting your data out of Freckle is as easy as putting it in. Download an spreadsheet-friendly CSV file from any report; fetch almost any data as XML with a simple URL, or use our API to pull down exactly what you want, how you want.