Time Heist
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Your Time. Your Money.
You don’t hate tracking time—you hate working for free. When you work for yourself, unbilled minutes aren’t corporate overhead; they are stolen straight out of your pocket. Time Heist puts the money in your menu bar and lets you watch it tick up while you work.
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01 — Why
So most of us don’t. We grind through the week, intend to log our hours, and then try to reconstruct Thursday afternoon from memory on a Friday—rounding down, because guessing high feels a bit like stealing.
That guesswork is an expensive self-inflicted pay cut. An hour you can’t quite account for is an hour you don’t bill. It happens every single week to independent creatives, freelancers, and builders who are extraordinarily good at their craft.
The problem was never personal discipline. The problem is that standard corporate trackers give you nothing back for pressing start.
Time Heist flips the script: it puts a live dollar counter right in your macOS menu bar that climbs second by second while you work.
$40.00 → $440.00 Watching $40 turn into $440 across an afternoon is a far better reason to press start than professional guilt ever was.
02 — Features
Most trackers count abstract hours and leave the math to you. Time Heist does the sum you actually care about—what this session is worth right now—and updates it every second.
Set a default rate per client, override it per project, price an individual task differently, and let your menu bar display money, elapsed time, or both. This is the core premise: a tracker that gives you immediate feedback for pressing start.
A dedicated Unbilled view highlights every hour you’ve tracked but haven’t invoiced yet, sorted oldest first. Alongside it, track what has been billed versus what is actually paid. The work you forgot to bill is the most expensive work you’ll ever do.
See your earnings climb across the week with clean visual breakdowns. Included free inside the app, and drawn automatically into your spreadsheet and Excel exports.
Compare clients, projects and kinds of work side by side—hours, earnings, and what each one really paid per hour once the time you didn’t charge for is counted. A client who fills your week at a good rate and one who fills it with revisions look identical on a timesheet and nothing like each other here. Free, because knowing this is the whole point.
Pitches, business admin, and the fourth round of “minor tweaks” are real work. Mark a whole project or a single kind of task as unbillable once, then track it without charging—and discover exactly how much time you gave away this month, and what your actual hourly rate was after the dust settles.
Transform tracked time into a clean, numbered PDF invoice with a line for every project—or for each task inside it, at its own rate—plus tax calculation. Once an invoice is issued, it is locked in stone: updating client rates later will never quietly rewrite the historical records you already sent. Some countries require domestic invoices to be cleared through a government system, and a PDF cannot be that document—see below before you rely on it.
Set a brand color, choose any typeface installed on your Mac, and drop in your logo—PNG, JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, PDF or SVG, redrawn at print resolution rather than stretched. Show the logo with your business name, the logo alone, or set the name in type. The page redraws as you adjust it, so you are looking at the real invoice and not an approximation of one. Designing it costs nothing; issuing invoices is the part that unlocks.
Tell Time Heist your country and the invoice follows its conventions: the right word for the tax, the fields that country expects, and the reverse-charge wording quoted from the VAT Directive when you bill a business abroad. It writes the document in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese, and exports the EN 16931 structured file where one is wanted. It also tells you plainly where a PDF is not enough on its own.
Bills in tenths of an hour (6-minute blocks) so hours × rate always matches the total shown, backed by clean formulas. Few things sour a good client relationship faster than an invoice that doesn’t add up.
Every time you stop the clock, your timesheet logs itself into your own Google Drive—formatted, filtered, totaled, and charted, with a tab breaking every project down by the kind of work inside it. No Friday panic reconstructing lost days. Your formulas and existing tabs are never touched.
A tab per project, a tab per client, or one flat log to pivot yourself. Or split it into separate spreadsheets—one per client, or one per project filed in a folder per client, so there is a single file to send alongside a single invoice, with none of your other work in it.
.xlsx Workbooks UnlockExports true workbooks with native dates, currency formatting, and embedded charts—not raw text dumps. Opens natively in Excel, Numbers, and Sheets. CSV export is free, always.
Launches with macOS and rests in your menu bar. Hit ⌃⌥⌘T from anywhere to start or stop the clock instantly without breaking your creative flow.
We’ve all done it. Time Heist detects when you step away from your keyboard and asks what to do with the idle gap—keep it, trim to your last keystroke, or discard it. A force-quit or sleep prompt prevents accidental 12-hour midnight sessions.
Fast search across every past client, project, task, and invoice. Archive completed jobs without deleting their history—because old client projects always come back eventually.
The whole app—not just the invoice—is translated into German, French, Spanish and Japanese, and follows your Mac’s region for dates, numbers and currency. Set it once in System Settings and Time Heist follows.
Round to exact time, 6-minute increments, or 15-minute intervals (up or to nearest). Set multi-currency rates per client. Sync automatically on stop or manually on demand.
Your hours, clients, rates and issued invoices live in a database on your Mac. No account, no server, nothing sent to us. CSV export is free forever, and every invoice you have already issued stays readable and printable whether you ever unlock anything or not.
Back up your entire database to a single file at any time and restore it on another Mac. Local-first software shouldn’t mean your records are trapped on one machine.
03 — Pricing
Time tracking is free and stays free forever. The three features that convert logged time into money are unlocked via a single, one-time in-app purchase—with an unrestricted 30-day trial so you can prove it pays for itself first.
$0 forever
$29.99 once
.xlsx workbooks with chartsBefore you buy: thirteen countries clear every domestic invoice through a government system, and a PDF cannot be that document there. The app names your country’s system when you set your region, and again before payment—the detail is here.
When the trial ends, time tracking continues exactly as before. Nothing you have recorded is ever locked away—all issued invoices remain readable and printable, and CSV export works forever.
04 — FAQ
Core time tracking is free forever—unlimited clients, projects and tasks, live menu bar earnings, visual charts, the comparison views that show which work actually pays, and CSV exports. The billing engine (PDF invoicing, Google Sheets sync, and Excel .xlsx exports) is a one-time unlock with a 30-day unrestricted free trial. No recurring subscriptions. If the trial expires, you never lose access to your data or basic tracking.
It is built specifically for solo operators, independent contractors, and boutique founders. There are no multi-user administrative dashboards, employee monitoring features, or team invites—just a friction-free tool for people who work for themselves.
Exclusively on your Mac in a local SQLite database. HoneyWired does not operate a user database or cloud server for this app. If you enable Google Sheets sync, data travels directly from your Mac to your personal Google Drive. We don’t want your data, and we couldn’t look at it even if we tried.
No. Google Sheets sync is completely optional. Time Heist runs 100% offline, and CSV/Excel exports work locally without any external accounts.
No. Time Heist is a time tracker, not employee spyware. It has no idea what apps you open, what websites you visit, or what you type. It records only the sessions you manually start and stop. Idle detection simply checks the system idle timer to help you trim forgotten sessions.
Yours, and only yours. Enter your business name, address, email, tax number and payment instructions once, then set the look: your logo, your brand color, and any typeface installed on your Mac. There is no Time Heist mark anywhere on the page.
Each invoice stores its own snapshot of all of it—details and design both. Redesign your invoice next year and the ones you already sent still look exactly as your client received them.
Time Heist generates clean, print-ready PDF invoices. You attach the PDF to whatever personal email or message you send to your client. You can mark invoices paid or void them inside the app. We intentionally left out payment gateway bloat and automated collection nag-emails so the utility stays lightweight.
In most of the world, yes—the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Singapore, South Africa and India among them. A PDF invoice carrying the right details is a legal invoice, and that is what Time Heist produces.
Thirteen countries are different. Italy, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, South Korea, Türkiye, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Egypt clear every domestic invoice through a government system first—Italy through FatturaPA and the SdI, Mexico through CFDI and an accredited PAC, and so on. There a Time Heist PDF is not a weaker invoice; it is not the invoice. It records what was agreed, and your client still needs the official one. Work you bill to clients abroad is outside those rules and unaffected.
France, Germany, Spain and Belgium are moving to structured invoices sent over an approved network, on dates between 2026 and 2028. Time Heist writes that file—EN 16931 in CII, which all four accept—and you or your accountant send it. It writes the file; it does not deliver it.
The app says all of this itself: it names your country’s system when you set your region, and again before you buy, because invoicing is the paid part and nobody should find this out afterwards.
Void it. The invoice keeps its number and stays in your list marked as canceled—so there is no gap in your numbering for an accountant to ask about—and the hours on it become billable again, ready for a corrected invoice.
Deleting is still there for an invoice raised by mistake that nobody ever saw. The difference matters: one is a record of something canceled, the other pretends it never happened.
Rounding applies when you bill, and nowhere else. The counter in your menu bar, the day’s totals and the comparison views are all exact to the second—nothing you watch is ever rounded, so a figure never jumps or settles back when you press stop.
On the invoice, billable time rounds up to the next six minutes by default—a tenth of an hour, the usual freelance convention, and the reason 0.1 hrs × $150.00 = $15.00 comes out exactly. You can change it to exact minutes, nearest six minutes, or 15-minute intervals, up or to nearest.
It rounds per day rather than per session, so a two-minute check-in doesn’t cost your client a fresh increment every time you touch the timer. If you split a project into separately priced tasks, each task rounds on its own—differently priced work can’t share an increment without the arithmetic going wrong. Every report shows hours worked beside hours billed, so the rounding is always visible to you rather than something a client discovers.
Open the Time Entries window and update it. Adjust timestamps, switch projects, toggle billable status, or edit notes in two clicks. Time Heist refuses any edit that would leave two sessions overlapping—billable or not—so the same hour can never be counted twice.
Yes. Currency is set per client. Time Heist never mixes different currencies into a single misleading number—totals are categorized cleanly by currency across reports and sheets.
Yes. Numbers opens the Excel workbooks Time Heist exports. Point your export folder at iCloud Drive and your timesheet follows you between devices.
A session that runs past midnight is split across both days, so each day’s total is accurate. The raw start and end times are kept in full in the session log.
Not yet. Time Heist is a Mac app, and it is built as one rather than as a phone app that also runs on a desktop. If a companion arrives it will be because Mac users asked for it, not to fill out a feature comparison.
Export a single backup archive from the Data menu and restore it on your new machine. Your entire workspace, history, and rates will be instantly restored.
05 — Privacy & Legal
At HoneyWired, we believe your working hours, your client list, and your rates are nobody else’s business. Time Heist is built so your data never leaves your control.
Last updated: August 15, 2026
We do not collect, harvest, store, sell, or transmit your personal data, project names, hourly rates, or client information. HoneyWired operates no servers for this app.
Your time entries, active clients, rates, and generated invoices reside in a local database on your Mac. Deleting the app removes the local database entirely. Data leaves your device only when you deliberately export a file or trigger a sync to your own personal accounts.
This includes the billing details invoices require—your own business details, and your client’s name, address, email and tax number. Your clients’ details are yours and theirs; they are never transmitted to HoneyWired.
If you enable Google Sheets sync, Time Heist requests only the drive.file scope—the most restrictive permission available. This grants access only to spreadsheets created directly by Time Heist. The app cannot view, read, or alter any other files in your Google Drive. All API tokens are stored in your secure macOS Keychain.
Time Heist’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
There are no third-party analytics trackers, crash-reporting SDKs, or behavioral trackers embedded in Time Heist. There are, in fact, no third-party libraries in it at all.
When exporting spreadsheets or PDF invoices, Time Heist writes only to the exact folder you select via macOS dialogs.
Need a hand, found a bug, or have a feature idea?
Email support@honeywired.com. You will get a response from the developer, not an automated bot.
Please mention your macOS version, the app build number from About Time Heist, and a quick note on what occurred. Time Heist is shaped directly by feedback from independent working pros.
Time Heist is licensed under the standard Apple End User License Agreement (EULA) for use across Macs connected to your Apple Account. Time tracking is free permanently. The Invoicing and Sync expansion is an optional, one-time in-app purchase preceded by a 30-day trial. No recurring subscription charges.
Time Heist provides calculation and recording utilities. You remain solely responsible for reviewing and verifying invoice accuracy before sending them to your clients, and for confirming that the document meets the requirements where you and your client are established. In countries that clear invoices through a national system, a PDF produced here is not that document.
The app is provided “as is”. While we take considerable care over the arithmetic, HoneyWired LLC is not liable for billing disputes, lost income, or losses arising from use of the app. Google Sheets sync depends on a third-party service we do not control.
Connecting Google Sheets is between you and Google, under their terms. You can disconnect at any time from within the app.
This application is licensed under the standard Apple End User License Agreement. By downloading this app, you agree to the Apple Standard EULA.
HoneyWired LLC reserves all rights not expressly granted to you.