Design the work. Bill the hours. Keep the clients.
Aeto connects project management, time tracking, and invoicing in one Mac app. Spend less time on admin and more time on the work that pays.
30-day free trialNo credit card requiredmacOS 12+Apple Silicon
You’re managing five clients, billing in three spreadsheets, and tracking time in a separate app. Something always gets missed.
Freelance designers rarely have just one project on the go. Managing brand work, websites, and logos across multiple apps is chaotic. Aeto keeps it organized — in your browser, or as a native Mac app if you prefer the menu bar timer.
01 — project management
Organize by client and project.
Add every client once: contact details, billing rate, notes. Then create projects under each client: brand identity, web design, packaging, or whatever. Everything stays organized by who it’s for.
~2h 00m — $280
02 — time tracking
Track time on tasks, not just ‘design work’.
Break projects into real tasks: discovery, concepting, revisions, presentation prep, client calls. Track time on each one. When it’s time to invoice, you have an itemized record of exactly what was done, which makes revision disputes a lot easier to handle.
~1h 20m — $186
03 — billing
Bill hourly or flat-fee.
Invoice hourly projects directly from tracked time. Flat-fee projects let you track internal hours without showing them to the client, so you know if a fixed-price job is profitable and can quote smarter next time.
04 — invoicing
Invoice from tracked time in one click.
When a project milestone hits or a month ends, pull every unbilled hour into a professional invoice. No manual entry, no spreadsheet math. Review, adjust, send.
• THE FIX
Aeto closes every gap. One app, one workflow, nothing left unbilled.
One app. Every part of the job.
Scroll through a few screens of Aeto. Each view is built for a specific beat of the consultant workday.
Kanban board
Every task, every client, on one board.
Drag between To Do, In Progress, In Review, and Done. Status flows straight through to invoicing.
Time tracking
Start the timer. Everything else follows.
One click from the menu bar starts tracking against the exact task you’re working on. No window switching, no lost context.
Invoicing
From tracked time to a sent invoice in seconds.
Select the hours, review the line items, send. No manual entry, no spreadsheet math. You can even adjust the tax at this stage.
Clients
See what’s on tap for each client, individually.
A separate Kanban board, plus see what’s outstanding and what they’ve paid over the lifetime of the relationship
Reports
The state of your business in under a minute.
Revenue, outstanding invoices, active projects, payments received. Everything you need to know about where your business stands. Export to CSV when your accountant comes calling.
Answers to the
questions we get most.
Everything you’re likely to ask before you download the trial.
Yes. Aeto is built for freelancers who manage multiple client projects, track billable hours, and invoice. It connects project management, time tracking, and invoicing in one Mac app so you don’t need separate tools for each.
Yes. Every timer in Aeto is started on a specific task inside a specific project. Hours logged on a brand identity project never mix with hours logged on a web design project, even if both are for the same client.
Yes. Flat-fee projects in Aeto let you invoice at an agreed amount while still tracking internal hours. You see your effective hourly rate on every fixed-price job, which is useful for quoting future projects more accurately.
Yes. If you use the macOS app, the menu bar timer lives in your macOS menu bar and starts with one click, without switching away from your design app. It logs automatically to the right project when you stop.
Not yet. Aeto is web- and macOS-first. An iOS companion app is on the roadmap. Windows isn’t planned at this point.
Yes! Just add the dollar amount to each task to override the hourly rate you established at the client level.
Run your design business from one app.
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No credit card requiredmacOS 12+Apple Silicon