The Free Freelance Toolkit: 17 Browser Tools for Clients, Proposals, Time Tracking and Getting Paid
17 free browser tools for freelancers: rate calculator, client CRM, proposals, contracts, time tracking and invoices. No account, no subscription.
The Free Freelance Toolkit: 17 Browser Tools for Clients, Proposals, Time Tracking and Getting Paid
Freelancing has a hidden second job attached to it. The work you're paid for — the design, the code, the writing — is only part of the week. The rest is quoting, chasing, invoicing, tracking what you spent, remembering to follow up with the client who went quiet, and working out whether you can actually take on the project starting Monday. None of it is billable, and all of it has to happen. The usual answer is software: a CRM here, a proposal tool there, an invoicing subscription, a time tracker, a spreadsheet holding the parts nothing else covers. Each is $10–30 a month, each wants an account, and collectively they hold your entire client list on someone else's servers. The freelance tools on FWD Tools take the opposite approach. There are 17 of them, most sharing a single Freelance Hub toolbar so moving between them is one click, and every one runs entirely in your browser — your client names, rates, contracts, and invoice history are stored on your own device, not uploaded. …
