Why WorkSnap exists
I bill clients by the hour. For years I tracked that time in someone else’s tool, and it worked fine — until the part I actually needed, hourly rates, moved behind a subscription.
I’ve been freelancing for years and I still bill by the hour, so my income comes from client work, not from this. WorkSnap started as the tool I wanted for myself, and it stayed small enough that running it costs me very little.
Keeping it available to other people who work the same way is something I can simply afford to do — which is the whole reason I can promise it won’t change.
Focus on core, cut the noise
Most time trackers are trying to become project management tools. Tags, sub-tasks, integrations, team dashboards, activity screenshots — each one reasonable on its own, and together a product where starting a timer takes four clicks and a decision.
A freelancer needs a very small number of things: start a timer, say what it was for, mark whether it’s billable, and at the end of the month know what to invoice. WorkSnap does those, and puts its effort into doing them well rather than doing more.
Small is the feature
Every feature I don’t build is a feature I don’t have to maintain, document, keep secure, or charge you for. The narrow scope isn’t a stage WorkSnap is going to grow out of — it’s the reason the core can stay free.
Being one person is a real limitation and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. It’s also why there’s no pressure to grow this into something you’d need to pay for.
What I won’t do
- I won’t add a paid tier and move today’s features into it.
- I won’t build employee monitoring — no screenshots, no activity scoring, no idle detection. This is a tool for tracking your own work.
- I won’t sell your data or run ads.
- I won’t make leaving difficult.