Manage your freelance projects by client, by task, and by the hour.
In Aeto, every project has a client, every task has tracked time, and every logged hour flows directly into your invoice. No copying between apps. No manual reconciliation at billing time.
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Three apps to do one job, and things still fall through the cracks.
Most freelancers manage projects in one tool, track time in another, and invoice from a spreadsheet. When it’s time to bill, you’re reconciling three sources of truth and hoping nothing got missed. Aeto eliminates that entirely.
Add your client.
Every project belongs to a client. Add clients once (contact details, billing info, and notes) and they’re available across every project and invoice you create in Aeto.
Create a project.
Set a project name, type (hourly, flat fee, or unbilled), rate, and deadline. Aeto tracks internal time on flat-fee projects too, so you always know whether a fixed-price job is profitable.
Break it into tasks.
Add tasks to your project: the actual deliverables, including research, drafts, revisions, and calls. Each task is a line item in your work and a future line item on your invoice.
Track time on tasks.
Start a timer directly on a task. Every minute is logged to that task, in that project, for that client. When it’s time to invoice, Aeto knows exactly what was done and for how long.
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Move work forward on the Kanban board.
The Kanban board gives you a visual overview of every project’s status across all clients. Move tasks from To Do through In Progress to In Review to Done as you work. Spot bottlenecks before they become problems.
See the state of your business at a glance.
The Aeto dashboard shows your active projects, hours logged this week, upcoming deadlines, and recent invoices … all on one screen. When a new client asks if you’re available, you have a real answer.
Fixed price doesn’t mean untracked time.
Flat-fee projects let you quote a fixed price to a client while still tracking your internal hours. Aeto calculates the effective hourly rate you’re earning on each project, so you can quote flat fees with confidence instead of guesswork.
Questions about project management in Aeto.
Everything you’re likely to ask before you download the trial.
Yes. Aeto includes a Kanban board that displays tasks across all your projects and clients. Tasks move through To Do, In Progress, In Review, and Done columns.
Yes. Every timer in Aeto is started on a specific task inside a specific project. Time is tracked at the task level, not just the project level, so invoice line items are generated automatically from that data.
Yes. Aeto supports both hourly and flat-fee project types. On flat-fee projects, Aeto tracks internal hours and displays your effective hourly rate so you can evaluate profitability and quote future projects more accurately.
Yes. Aeto is built for multi-client freelance work. Each project is associated with a client, and the dashboard, list, calendar, and Kanban board display work across all clients simultaneously.
Most project management apps do not track time at the task level, and most time trackers do not generate invoices. Aeto connects all three: project management, task-level time tracking, and invoicing in one application.