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HoneyBook Alternative: Free Time Tracking & Invoicing for Freelancers
HoneyBook is a full client experience platform, proposals, contracts, scheduling, invoicing, and payments all in one place. For creative businesses that sell through a proposal process, it makes sense. But HoneyBook doesn't include time tracking, and at $36/month for a single user, it's a significant ongoing cost if you're mainly paying for the invoicing piece. Track and Invoice is built specifically around billing: tracking your time, billing client expenses, and sending invoices, with no monthly fee to start.
HoneyBook vs. Track and Invoice
Track and Invoice Starter | HoneyBook Starter | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription fee | $0 | $36 |
| Users | Unlimited | 1 |
| Time tracking | ||
| Invoicing | ||
| Expense tracking | Via Finance add-on | |
| Products & services catalog | ||
| Client portal | ||
| Online payment processing | ||
| CC processing fee | 3.5% | Fees starting at 2.9% + 25¢ |
| ACH / bank transfer fee | ACH bank transfer (1%, capped at $10) | 1.5% |
| Quotes & estimates | ||
| CRM / lead management |
Who should choose Track and Invoice
Freelancers and small service businesses whose billing centers on hourly work, designers, contractors, coaches, landscapers, who need time tracking and invoicing in the same place. Track and Invoice also works well for businesses that invoice for a mix of services and goods on the same invoice, something HoneyBook isn't set up for. If you're not sending proposals or signing contracts through your billing tool, the free Track and Invoice Starter plan covers everything you need without a monthly commitment.
Who should choose HoneyBook
HoneyBook makes the most sense when the proposal-to-contract-to-invoice flow is central to your business. Photographers, wedding vendors, event planners, and similar creative professionals who book clients through a structured proposal process will get the most out of it. The CRM and pipeline features are also genuinely useful if you're managing a significant volume of leads and want to track where each one stands.
Why Track and Invoice is different
The gap that comes up most often is time tracking. HoneyBook is designed around the client relationship, managing the process of landing and onboarding clients, but it doesn't have a built-in way to log hours against projects and pull that time into an invoice. For anyone billing by the hour, that's a meaningful missing piece.
Track and Invoice is built the other way: start with the work, track your time and expenses, and invoice the client when the project is done. The free Track and Invoice Starter plan includes unlimited clients, unlimited invoices, and time and expense tracking, with online payment processing available so clients can pay directly from the invoice.
Built for the way you work
Running a small business means you feel every dollar, every subscription, every "upgrade to unlock this" moment, every tool that costs more than it should for what it actually does. We felt all of it. Before building Track and Invoice, we were evaluating the same software you're looking at right now, and kept running into the same problem: either the price was hard to justify, or the product was too generic to actually fit the way we worked.
So we built our own. Not to disrupt anything, just to have something functional, honest, and priced like it was made for people who watch what they spend. It turned out other small business owners, freelancers, and solopreneurs were looking for the same thing, so we made it available to them too.
Track and Invoice is straightforward by design. It does time tracking, expense tracking, and invoicing well, without burying those features behind a learning curve or a paywall. If that's what you need, we think you'll feel right at home.
Free Starter plan. Built for service businesses.
No credit card required.