Free until September 25 · launch downloads keep it forever
Sterling Job Clock

Know wherethe day went.

Clock in, clock out — one button or one hotkey. Rates turn hours into dollars. Fridays, export the week and invoice it.

Windows 10/11 · $9 once after September 25 · offline, no account

The problem

“What did I even do Tuesday?”

Unbilled hours are the quietest money leak in a small business. Not the big jobs — the forty-minute callback, the material run, the estimate visit. If it isn't written down by Friday, it never gets invoiced. Job Clock makes writing it down a single keypress.

What it does

One timer. Zero ceremony.

Tracking

  • One big button — or Ctrl+Alt+J from inside any program
  • Steps away get noticed: idle time is yours to keep or discard
  • Crash-proof: a reboot never eats a running timer
  • Forgot to clock out? It checks on you after 12 hours
  • Add or fix entries by hand — most work doesn't happen at a desk

Billing

  • Hourly rate per job — totals show dollars, not just hours
  • Per-job weekly summary: exactly what goes on each invoice
  • CSV export by week or by job, with rates and amounts
  • Notes per stretch, so line items write themselves
  • Offline. One file beside the app. No subscription, ever.
Launch pricing

Free this month. Nine dollars after.

Download during launch month and the full app is yours, free, forever. From September 26 it's $9, once. No tiers, no feature locks — you either have Job Clock or you don't, the usual Sterling way.

Until Sep 25
Free
yours forever

Every feature — timer, rates, exports, all of it. Launch-month downloads never expire and never nag.

Download Job Clock
From Sep 26
$9
one payment

14-day full trial, then $9 unlocks it for good. Whatever happens, hours you've already tracked stay viewable and exportable — your records are never held hostage.

Same download

Want the hours to become invoices by themselves? That's BackOffice — the buy-once office suite these tools come from.

Questions

The honest answers

What happens if the computer crashes mid-shift?

Nothing bad. The running timer is written to disk the moment you clock in — when you're back, it's still running, and clocking out covers the whole stretch.

How does idle detection work?

If the mouse and keyboard go quiet for longer than your idle threshold (10 minutes by default), Job Clock notices. When you come back it asks one question: count that time, or not? Your call, every time.

Where do my hours live?

In one JSON file beside the app. Nothing leaves your machine — there's no account and no cloud, and the CSV export is always a click away.

I downloaded during launch month. Do I ever pay?

No. Launch copies are full-featured forever. That's the deal.

Windows says "unrecognized app" when I run it. Why?

[Match whatever you already say for your other apps here — same answer, same signing situation.]

Windows only?

Yes. Windows 10 and 11.