Hello guys, today I am going to review some of the best Mac only apps for freelancers. And what these apps do. They are basically time tracking apps. So I have tried a lot like four or five different apps on reading different articles and searching online and recommended by other freelancers, but I think only two of them really works for me. All of them are, you know, they are just okay. So I will start with this app.

De vie me time. It is really easy to use and it can export in different formats, your timesheets, okay. Now, the second one I really like is this first, this one crono plus time tracker and timesheet with billing, invoicing and reporting. The cool thing about this app is that it also exports your timesheet and it also creates invoicing, which is really cool. Okay, so it creates invoice in basic Microsoft Excel format. Let me show you both these apps.

The other one I tried is this one billing Pro, billing Pro, you can see over here by market circle, and I really don't like it, it had a lot of controls and a lot of options. So if you really want to go with a bigger app or a lot of controls, basically I don't like too many controls to deal with. The main thing I really like about apps is that it can create some projects, some tasks in those projects, they can track time for all those tasks and create a timesheet or an invoice according to that time spent on each task or project. Okay, so I think these two billing pro and one other, this one clock, it really failed me they had a lot of options to you know, toggle with. So I don't like wasting time too much time with all these options. Now, if you don't have Microsoft Office, the other option alternative for opening your invoices is this libery office Okay, so you it's free software and you can download it from here.

Now let me show you one by one, both apps. Now the first one is this time and I really love its presentation. Okay, so this colored one purple, this blue one and this yellow one. These are basically my projects. And the next line you can see over here PSD to HTML is the task in that project, okay? So I have three categories.

This top one is basically category, then project then task, so you can right click and add category add project. And once the project is added, you can add a task over here like that. And let's name it landing page revision. You can set your hourly rate and plan Time, time, rounding billable, okay? And you can see over here we have two tasks now you can play this task and record this task and start working on that task. Okay?

And you can then pause it when you like to Okay. Now let me pause this one, it has other views like you can see over here this time sheet view you can see build build and other attributes I really like its presentation. Then we have a working of drafts view on how much how many hours I have worked on the task. Okay, so small design small graphic has seven hours, nine hours 48 I think it is showing me it is closer to 952. Okay, so I don't understand whether this these are a number of ours or the time being shown. Okay, now the cool thing about is that you can export it in different formats like PDF, CSV, CSV for Windows, tml JSON database backup.

I really like the HTML view. Also, you can export it in PDF and send it to your client. Now, what is the benefit of sending these timesheets? Actually, it gives the impression of professionalism to your client, okay? So if you are doing very small task like a small graphic edit, you don't need to record your time, just send them that it cost you $20 or $25. But if you are doing a very large project, maybe it takes you one month to do it, then I think you should use some app like that.

Also, it will help to estimate in the future that how much time did that WordPress theme took Okay, now you can select all these projects over here. I am pressing Shift and click and you can export it in different formats. Right now I'm exporting it in HTML replace And I'm going to go to my documents. And you can see over here it has generated a very nice timesheet with all the rates and total cost. Okay? So this is very nice.

The second app I really like is this Kronos plus. And you can see over here, the only thing I don't like is these icons I don't really understand what is this. So this is basically a project and this is basically a task okay. So if you click on it, it will create a new project. And if you click on it, it will create a new task. And then you can click on it and start this button and it will keep on recording your task a time.

And I think it can also set your hourly rate you can see over here five minutes idle time out if you leave the this app for five minutes and leave your computer idle for five minutes. It will stop recording if you want to show some Or not okay. So this is all about this Cronos app Kronos plus and I really like it and the cool thing about it is it exports and creates a very nice invoice when it is okay so I just accidentally closed it okay now I can create an invoice if I go to this okay so this is how it shows me the graph and if you click on this create invoice it is going to create an invoice in Excel format you can see over here and you can press Save and this invoice will be saved okay, right now I don't have office or anything installed on it so I cannot show you the invoice but I really like it.

It's limited functionality, and I think a normal freelancer.me too many functions. Okay, I think these functions are more than enough for a basic Freelancer if you are working in a very large team or very large organization, which outsource and highest multiple, the freelancers, then they might suggest you their own software. Okay. Okay, so that's it about it. Let's move on to the next lesson.