Time tracking for freelancers

Your work lives everywhere. Your timesheet shouldn’t.

Tidst turns finished tasks and calendar meetings into a timesheet waiting to be confirmed — not reconstructed.

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Listens toAsanaClickUpGoogle Tasksmonday.comNotionTodoistTrelloGoogle CalendarOutlook CalendarSuggest an integration
How it works

Work first. Time second.

Tidst is the time tracker. The tools you already use fill in the blanks — in three moves.

Work arrives on its own

Finish a task in Asana, Todoist or Trello, or have a meeting in your calendar. It lands in The Queue with the duration already filled in.

See what it is worth

Hours and billable value for the period, priced under each client’s own agreement — hourly, a fixed price or a retainer.

Nothing runs in the background

No timer to start and none to forget. The work is already recorded where you did it.

Nothing is logged without you

Every item waits until you confirm it. Adjust the duration, the client or the project first if it needs it.

Or just write the line

“2 hours with Nordhavn Brewing about the labels.” Tidst reads the duration, the client and the project out of the sentence.

The Queue

Review The Queue. You decide what gets logged.

Work waits until you have a minute — after lunch, end of day, Friday morning. Nothing is logged automatically: review each item, adjust anything, then log it. And for the work that leaves no trail, there is still a regular timer and manual entries.

Finished tasks and meetings wait here with their durations filled in. Log one, or all of them, when you have a minute.

“2 hours with Nordhavn Brewing about the labels.” Tidst reads the duration, the client and the project out of the sentence.

For the work that leaves no trail: a call, research, thinking time. Pause it, save it, it joins the rest.

The period at a glance: hours, billable value, the busiest day, and each client against what you agreed with them.

Two ways to meet Friday, 4 PM. Only one of them starts from memory.

Freelance work rarely happens in neat blocks. A quick fix here, a client call there, a task finished between two other things.

Without Tidst — the evidence

Reconstructing the week

Sent · Tue 14:32Mail
Re: Revised scope — attached …so that took how long?
Tue 10:00 – 10:45Calendar
Weekly sync — Harbour Arts 30? or 45?
Started Tue 09:02Timer
06:12:44 — ran through lunch
Friday 16:00Timesheet
Tuesday:

A forgotten billable task is basically an accidental client discount.

With Tidst — the same week

Confirming the week

Send the revised scope
Vesterbro Dental · Todoist
1h 00m
Programme page build
Harbour Arts Festival · Google Tasks
3h 00m
Checkout copy, second pass
Bergstrom Ceramics · ClickUp
1h 30m
Update the sprint board
Vesterbro Dental · monday.com
25m

Your work happened somewhere else. Your timesheet doesn’t have to start from scratch.

Integrations

Your tools already know what you did. Tidst listens.

  • Complete a task, it waits in The Queue. Connect the projects you choose to watch — finished work shows up ready to log, no timers running all day.

  • Relevant meetings join The Queue too. They arrive carrying their scheduled duration, so a client call is one tap from your timesheet.

  • Reports by client and project, PDF, Excel and CSV, a billing extract in four formats, and a live report your client can open.

Complete a task, it waits in The Queue. Connect the projects you choose to watch — finished work shows up ready to log, no timers running all day.

AsanaClickUpGoogle Tasksmonday.comNotionTodoistTrello
Google CalendarOutlook Calendar
Tidst
Confirm, then log
ClientProjectRateRounding
ReportBilling extractShared reportPDF · Excel · CSV

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When it’s time to bill

Once the time is logged, don’t start over again.

The hours are already in. What is left is getting them out — as a report, a link, or lines for whatever you invoice with.

Hourly, a fixed price or a retainer — each client’s hours are priced the way you agreed with them.

Share a live report. It updates as you log, and needs no account at their end. Open a real one →

The billing extract turns a period into priced lines, in four shapes — including time only, with no rates.

Or the raw entries as a file, for the accountant who wants a spreadsheet.

The uncomfortable math

What do forgotten tasks cost you?

The work is already done. The only thing missing is getting it onto your timesheet.

75/hr
5days
10min
Could be worth
3,000
per year
250per month
63per week

Assumes 48 working weeks. Tidst remembers supported work signals — not everything you do.

Compare

Other trackers are good. They start from a different place.

Tidst vs Toggl Track

Toggl is a broad, mature platform with team features. Tidst is much narrower — freelancer-first, built around reviewing work you already finished.

Read the comparison →

Tidst vs Clockify

Clockify is timer-first and team-oriented. Tidst skips the team layer and starts from finished tasks and meetings instead of a running clock.

Read the comparison →

Tidst vs Memtime

Memtime automatically records everything you do on your machine. Tidst only remembers work signals from tools you chose to connect.

Read the comparison →

Switching from one of them? Bring your history over — it takes a few minutes.

I make TidstSo these are not independent reviews. Each one says where the others do more — check their pages before deciding, because they change.

One tier. Zero cost.

Free

No trial. No credit card. No locked core features.

  • ✓Unlimited clients and projects
  • ✓Asana, ClickUp, Google Tasks, monday.com, Notion, Todoist, Trello, Google Calendar and Outlook
  • ✓The Queue, timer and manual entries
  • ✓Reports, exports and billing extract

If genuinely new premium functionality is added later, it may become paid. No surprise paywalls on what you already use.

Yes. No. Probably. Absolutely not.

What is The Queue? +

A waiting room for finished work. Completed tasks and Trello cards from the projects you watch, plus relevant calendar meetings, collect there until you review and log them — nothing lands on your timesheet without you.

Does Tidst automatically know how long a task took? +

No. A finished task doesn’t tell Tidst how long it took. Tag it before completing it — an Asana tag like 30min, or a Todoist label like @30min — and Tidst fills the duration in, editable until you log it.

Is Tidst an automatic activity tracker? +

No. Tidst never watches your screen or records what you do. It only listens to work signals from the tools you explicitly connect.

Is Tidst an AI product? +

No. Tidst doesn't use AI to guess durations or predict your time. It reads what you actually finished and waits for you to confirm it. Quick Add, which turns a typed sentence into an entry, runs on a plain parser, not a model.

Do I need a task app at all? +

No. You can sign up with email, create clients and projects, and use the timer and manual entries. The connected tools just make The Queue better at remembering.

Does Tidst work with Asana? +

Yes. Connect Asana on the Connections page and completed tasks from the projects you watch land in The Queue, next to Todoist tasks and calendar meetings. An Asana tag like 30min pre-fills the duration.

Does Tidst work with Google Tasks? +

Yes. Connect your Google account on the Connections page — one connection covers Google Calendar and Google Tasks — and completed tasks from the lists you watch land in The Queue. Tidst suggests a duration from your history, and you confirm before anything is logged.

Is Tidst really free? +

Yes. Everything listed above is free, with no trial period. If genuinely new premium functionality arrives later it may be paid — with no surprise paywalls on what you already use.

You already did the work.Try not to give it away for free.

No trial · No credit card

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