Monotime vs a spreadsheet
A spreadsheet never forgets an hour. It just won’t tell you anything you didn’t ask it — what a client earned you this month, who hasn’t paid, whether a fixed price is still worth it. Monotime tells you, from the same rows. No formulas, no second tab.
| a spreadsheet | Monotime |
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| price | Free, and already open. | From €10 a month, after 14 days free. No card to try it. |
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| logging time | A row: date, client, project, hours. | A row too — or a timer, or a Google Calendar event that turns into an entry. |
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| what it earned | A formula on every row, and a SUMIF for every total. | Worked out on every entry from the project’s rate, the client’s or your default — and added up per client and month. |
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| who’s paid | A second tab, kept by hand. | Not paid, invoiced, paid — and how many days late, counted from each client’s payment terms. |
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| fixed prices | The Earned column stops meaning anything — the hours don’t change what it pays. | The rate your hours really earn, beside the one you planned. Retainers count the hours against what’s included. |
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| other currencies | A conversion in every total. | A currency per client or project, and totals in yours — at the ECB rate on the entry’s date. |
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| making it yours | Any column, any formula. It bends to however you work. | Less so. It does one job: your hours, what they earned and who’s paid. |
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| your data | A file you own. | Yours too. Export everything to CSV whenever you like — during the trial too. |
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The tab you’d keep by hand.
Who’s due an invoice, straight from what you logged: last month’s hours, a client past the amount you set, an instalment on its billing date.
One client, by the hour, paid on time? Keep the sheet.
It’s free, and it’s enough. The guide has a template and the formulas that turn hours into earnings.
Bring your spreadsheet.
The Excel or Numbers file itself, or a Google Sheet via File → Download. See which column Monotime reads as what, and what it would bring in — the file never leaves your browser.