Studio Timer

Studio Timer · My solution to freelance fatigue

Stop worrying, start creating.

Studio Timer takes care of the rest.

It lives quietly in your menu bar and counts the hours you spend in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and eight more creative apps, so you can run your work more like a business.

Free, forever · Version 2.3.0 · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · Notarized by Apple

Highlights

Open an editor. That's the whole setup.

Auto-tracking. The moment you open an editor.
Dashboard. Hours by day, week, or year.
Insights. See when you actually work.
Invoices and sessions. Every log, on file.

Built to disappear

The best time tracker is the one you forget you're using.

Runs in the background

Quietly tracks your time from the menu bar, with no interruptions.

Beautiful insights

Your hours as elegant charts and timelines, by day, week or year.

Private by design

All of your data stays on your Mac, with no account to make.

Made for creators

Built around the creative tools you already work in every day.

Works with

Twelve apps. Verified.

Studio Timer recognizes each app by its bundle ID rather than its name, so it keeps working through the next rebrand.

  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Audition
  • Lightroom
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Logic Pro
  • Avid Media Composer
  • Blender

The math

It pays for itself, and it's free.

$2,600

a year back in your pocket
from one more billed hour a week, at $50/hour

$0

what Studio Timer costs
free, forever, every feature included

Capture those hours and bill them, invoices and all, without paying a cent.

Pricing

All of it. Free.

Every feature is included: tracking, dashboard, insights, projects, the full billing pipeline, invoice generation and exports.

  • Automatic time tracking
  • Dashboard, insights and projects
  • Billing pipeline, invoices and exports
  • Free, forever

Start counting every hour.

Changelog, reviews and the Development Fund live at studiotimer.io.