Is this your project list?
The client and project app for freelancers and consultants. $9/month flat — you and up to four helpers included, unlimited clients and projects.
1 month free. No card.
Your free month
It fits, because somebody makes it fit.
Tell us how you run things. We build the rest.
First
Start the free month
Your email and your business name. That is the whole signup. 1 month free. No card.
Then
Write to us in the app
Talk to Anda is a screen in the app, and a real person reads it. Say what is missing, how you colour your calendar, which screens you never use. Several of the screens on this page began as one customer writing to say what she was missing.
Rather not start with an empty calendar? Send your client list, a spreadsheet, or a photo of your paper diary to contact@tendmatehq.com, and we set it up for you before you log in. Included in the price.
By the end
An app that fits your business
What you ask for gets built, free, and it arrives for everyone. Your job types, your colours, only the screens you use. $9 a month after, you and up to four helpers included.
One price. That is the whole pricing page.
$9per month, flat
1 month free. No card.
- You and up to four helpers. More are $1 a month each.
- Unlimited clients, unlimited visits. No appointment caps.
- Phone and laptop, always in sync — and it works with no signal.
- Your schedule fills itself in from how often each client is due.
- Setup done for you, free — send your client list or a photo of your spreadsheet.
- One-click export, no contract, cancel any time.
Already in another app, or in a spreadsheet?
Send it to us as it is: an export, the sheet, or a photo of your diary. We bring your clients, how often each one is due, your prices and your history across before you log in. It is free, and your old app keeps working while you decide.
Founding members keep $9/month for good. We expect to settle at $12.
Before you start
Questions people ask
Does it text or email my clients?
Not yet, and if you want it, ask: a feature a customer asks for gets built, and it is free. Emails to your clients would cost you nothing. Text messages would be a small package, because the SMS providers charge for every message sent, not us. Today TendMate keeps the schedule and the records, and you message your clients the way you already do. For somebody who asked for a price it keeps the message you sent and what they replied.
Can my clients book online?
Not yet. Your work is the same clients coming round again and again, so the calendar fills itself in from how often each one is due, and a new enquiry is written down as a lead with the day to come back to them. If your clients want to book themselves, say so: a calendar you share with your free days, where a client picks one, is the kind of thing we build for the person who asks, at no extra cost. We will work out together what suits your business best.
What does a helper see?
The schedule, the addresses and the notes for the work she is sent to, on her own phone. Not your prices, your expenses or your totals. You choose, screen by screen, what each helper can open.
What if I have more than four helpers?
Contact us. Extra seats are $1 a month each, and we add them for you. Tell us how you run them too: if you want them in teams, or there is something that would make managing them easier, that is exactly the kind of thing we build for you, free.
Does it work without signal?
Yes. Everything you need is on the phone already, and it catches up when you are back in range.
I already have a spreadsheet, or another app. What happens to it?
Send it to us: a spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from another app, or a photo of your paper diary. We bring your clients, your schedule and your history across before you log in, and that is included in the price.
What happens after the free month?
$9 a month, flat, for you and up to four helpers. No card is taken during the month, so nothing is charged unless you choose to carry on. Cancel any time and export everything, clients, visits and history, in one click.
Your projects are in one place and your money is in another.
Not because you like it. Because freelance software is either an invoicing tool with the clients bolted on, or a project tool with the money left out, and the ones that do both are priced for an agency.
So the brief is in a document, the deposit is in a bank statement, and what a client still owes you is a sum you do at the end of the month. That is the whole problem we are solving.
Today, and after
Why a project list stops telling you the truth
The next date
On the spreadsheet
Nearly every list we have seen has the same flaw: it holds the due date and not the money. The fee was agreed in an email, the deposit arrived in April, the second payment is somewhere in a spreadsheet — and the moment a project slips a month, none of them agree about what is still owed.
In TendMate
The fix is small and it changes everything: keep the fee and what has arrived on the project itself. The fee is a fact, the deposit is a fact, and what is owed is arithmetic:
Balance due = Fee − Paid so far
Monthly retainer = 28 · Quarterly = 90 · Project by project = no interval
Take half up front, the rest on delivery, a retainer every month — each one is written on the project, so the card tells you what is owed without a spreadsheet beside it. A client on a monthly retainer is placed a month on from the last delivery, and everyone else is booked project by project.
What you get
The fee, the deposit and the balance, on the project
Every project carries its fee and what has been paid so far, so the balance is on the card and not in your bank app. Mark it paid when the rest arrives.
A statement at the end of the month
Pick a client, pick a month, and the app writes up what was delivered and what is settled — a PDF on your own letterhead that you download and send yourself.
You and your subcontractor, flat
$9/month covers you and up to four helpers. More helpers are $1 a month each. No cap on clients or projects. A helper sees the work — the brief, the deliverables, the due date — and not your fees, your deposits or your totals.
It works on the train
Everything you need is on the phone already, so a tunnel with no signal is not a problem. It catches up when you come back out.
Your data stays yours
Export everything — clients, projects, history — in one click, any time. No contract, cancel whenever, and take your data with you.
Built for you if…
- You design, build, write or advise for a handful of clients at a time, and each project has a fee and a due date.
- You take a deposit to start and want to see the balance without adding it up.
- You have a retainer or two, and would rather they placed themselves each month.
- You bring in a subcontractor sometimes and need to share the brief without sharing the fee.
- You want something genuinely simple — not “simple” with forty settings.
1 month free. No card. Your email and your business details — that is the whole signup.