The Kanban workspace for freelance developers, designers
& creatives
Manage clients, projects, tracked time, and send invoices — all from one intuitive Kanban style project board. Stop juggling expensive apps and start getting paid.
Purpose-built feature set for project based creatives
Flipdesk™ is everything a busy creative needs and nothing they don't.
Kanban Project Board
Drag-and-drop project cards, track time, keep notes, manage todos, gather resources and jump to client folders directly from the card. Your work organized the way you actually think.
Live Time Tracking
One-click time tracking from the project card itself or manually create/edit time entries at will on the calendar overview. Double billing safeguards built in.
Client Management
Full client profiles with unique default hourly rates, payment terms, per-client payment methods.
Skill Set Categories
Custom create color-coded skills — Design, Dev, Video Shoot / Edit, Illustration, and so-on. override default and client rates at the category level.
Invoicing & Payments
Intuitive invoicing customised for each client. Add percentage or dollar amount discounts, collect tax, and send PDF invoices with email embedded payment options. Accept payments via Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, or check.
Reports & Insights
Track your success and understand your pipeline like never before with detailed reports and insights. Export data at will. No more guessing and no more hostage data.
Activity Calendar
Understand your hours, projects and deadlines at a glance. Manually add time entries or let the system auto-populate from intuitive project card time tracking.
Flipdesk™ Bridge
A lightweight desktop companion that enables you to jump straight to local client folders directly from your project cards. Allows you to launch all your favorite local apps from the dashboard — Adobe products, Figma, VS Code, Blender, and more.
Smart Notifications
Browser push alerts for calendar items and overdue invoices. Email settings for project deadlines. Configure notifications with lead time or past due reminders so you get notified when it actually helps.
Personal Health
Track your personal health and well-being with the built-in efficiency metrics including: Highest paying skills, most efficient times of the work day, and slowest paying clients and more. Get a big picture of what serves you best and set daily reminders for breaks and physical activity.
Life Boards
Keep notes, manage personal projects, gather inspiration and set reminders for life's more important things.
Flipsquad
Link up with project collaborators. Build and manage teams, share project cards, track time, and get team based project notifications.
A project management flow that large corporations have enjoyed for decades. Finaly adapted for stand-alone creatives & developers.
Stop force-fitting your workflow into tools built for 50+ member dev teams. Flipdesk™ is taylored to a real-world freelance lifestyle. Created by a veteran freelance developer/designer that spent a lifetime mashing several applications together to keep a high paced worklife and project management flow somewhat tolerable for a visual thinker.
- Drag-and-drop Kanban project cards - walk your projects visually through youre unique process of completion
- "Up & Coming" column to schedule future work without cluttering your space
- Rich project cards — checklists, images, video references, and URLs as you see fit
- Priority levels for a warrented sense of urgency, with visual due-dates and alerts
- Add sticky-notes throughout your workflow for that classic visual feel
- Filter the board by client, skill, or priority in one click
A project management tool that tracks time? What a novel idea!
No 3rd party tracking apps. Track time directly from your projects.
- One-click timers
- Manual time entries using start and end times or just raw minutes
- Calendar overview for time entries, due dates and reminders
- Time entries locked upon invoiced to prevent double billing
- Add unique session notes to every entry for detailed invoice line items or track the same task throughout the day under one entry
From tracked projects to paid invoices — without leaving the app
Auto-load uninvoiced client time entries, adjust, discount, and fire off and invoice in under a minute with attached branded PDF.
- Auto-populate line items from uninvoiced time entries
- Flexible line items — edit descriptions, rates, quantities
- Discounts, tax, and drag-to-reorder line items
- Professional PDF generation and email delivery
- integrate your own email to see your sent invoices in your own outbox
- Schedule recurring invoices
- Configure and send auto reminders
- Accept card payments via Stripe, integrate paypal, Venmo, Zelle, or simply request a check
- Embed payment buttons right in the email or request client unique payment terms/li>
- Time entry hold-overs for later invoices
- Manually ender invoice items for one-time expenses like printing costs, per project terms, etc.
Remove the extra steps
Enable Flipdesk™'s Bridge to configure your clients' local file folders allowing you to jump directly to them from the client's project cards possibly saving your days of uninvoiced time annually from the gruling process of navigating from client folder to client folder. Additionally, configure the app launchpad to pin your favorite local or online apps to the sidebar for quicker access.
- Flipdesk™ Bridge allows you to open any client's project folder directly from their project cards
- App launchpad — pin Adobe products, Figma, VS Code, Blender, editing apps, and more in the sidebar
Why creatives are choosing Flipdesk™
There are plenty of project managers that track time, Time tracking tools that invoice, and invoicing tools that manage projects. And even a couple that can do all three though complicated integrations usually for giant teams at enterprise pricing. Flipdesk™ is the first of its kind to do all three and more without the overbloat and at a rational subscription price point. Flipdesk™ was and is continuously developed for real people with real needs that arent being met by over-engineered tools with over complicated asperations. Flipdesk™ is our gift to you... Enjoy!
Purpose-built
Not a hotel booking system or a team sprint tracker. Each and every feature exists for real creatives.
All-in-one web-based solution
Project board, time tracking, clients management, invoicing, reporting — one tab, one subscription, no more stitching apps together with yet another third party integration.
Simple & effective
Everything you need and nothing you don't. Clean intuitive functionailty, fast load, no onboarding demo calls or step by step videos required.
Mobility
Wed app with mobility in mind. View and edit your board, track time, manage clients and send invoices from any device with an internet connection.
Always improving
Shaped by real creative workflows. Features get shipped because they make freelance life genuinely easier. Get involved with the development process and help shape the future of Flipdesk™.
Stop wrestling with software that wasn't built for you
Freelance creatives have unique needs that typical, over-engineered tools simply don't address. You end up with Trello for your board, Toggl for time, a spreadsheet for clients, and QuickBooks for invoices — four subscriptions, four interfaces, and four logins to forget.
Generic project management platforms promise to do everything and somehow fail at the basics. They're built for agencies running sprints, not a developer billing by the hour or a designer juggling eight clients at once.
Flipdesk™ was built to close that gap. One lean, focused tool where your Kanban board, your time tracker, your client records, and your invoicing all live and play together — connected the way your work actually flows. Less switching. Less copy / pasting. More time doing what you're good at.
"Everything you need and nothing you don't. A workspace designed to make freelance life as easy as possible without sacrificing the functionality you need to grow."
— Flipdesk™Simple, transparent pricing
One plan. All features. Cancel any time. No hostage data.
Start with a full 30-day free trial.
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
- Kanban project board
- Live time tracking & activity calendar
- Unlimited clients & categories
- Professional, branded PDF invoicing
- Embed Stripe, PayPal, & Venmo payment buttons
- Sent invoices live in your own outbox
- Revenue & hours reports
- Flipdesk™ Bridge desktop app
- Dark mode & mobile-responsive
30-day free trial included
All currentplans include every feature. Questions? Contact us.
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