What is Hoursmith?

Hoursmith is time-tracking and invoicing software for freelancers, consultants, and small agencies. It takes the work you already do — tracking hours, billing clients, getting paid — and keeps it on a single, simple line:

Clients → Projects → Tasks → Time → Invoices → Payment.

You track time against a project (with a one-click timer or by typing it in), and that time flows straight into an invoice priced at your rate. You send the invoice from your own email address, your client pays by card or bank transfer, and the money lands in your own account.

What makes Hoursmith different

These are the things Hoursmith deliberately does differently. They're true today, not promises:

• Flat-fee pricing, not per-seat. One price covers your whole team — up to 10 members on Studio, up to 25 on Agency. You're never punished for adding a teammate.
• Money lands in your own account. Online card payments run through Stripe Connect direct charges into your Stripe account. Hoursmith never holds or routes your funds.
• Invoices send from your own domain. Bring your own SMTP, Amazon SES, or Resend, and clients see your address — not ours.
• A real API and an MCP server. Drive your whole workspace from code, or from AI tools like Claude and Cursor. See API and MCP.

What Hoursmith is not

We'd rather be honest about scope than oversell. Hoursmith is not:

• A full project-management suite (no Gantt charts, resource forecasting, or dependencies).
• Accounting, payroll, or HR software.
• A CRM or a proposal/estimate tool.
• A bank — it never holds your money; payments go directly to your own Stripe account.

If you need those, Hoursmith plays nicely alongside them. What it does, it does well: turn billable hours into paid invoices.

Who's it for?

Solo freelancers, consultants who bill corporate clients, and small agencies with a handful of contractors. See Who Hoursmith is for for the details, or jump straight to the Quickstart.