15 New Tools To Supercharge Your Freelance Work (2018)

Freebiesbug
4 min readJun 7, 2018

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Freelance life is an everlasting time-challenge. Find work, manage projects and get paid can be a nightmare if you don’t have strategies and the right tools in place.

Luckily, there are plenty of tools that may come in handy for optimising tasks and be more productive. New ones have been rolling out in 2018 and we’ve picked the most interesting solutions that are definitely worth a try.

1. Flowmagic

Flowmagic is a simple way for freelancers to keep track of their work and time. Workflow, time tracking and invoices, all in one place.

2. Manta

Manta is a flexible invoicing app for Mac to create beautiful invoices. It’s geared toward people who need to make invoices from time to time such as freelance designers, developers, photographers, writers and many more.

3. Wirize

Wirize is a ready-made checkout payment built on Stripe. It lets freelancers collect one-time payments and sell digital services in minutes (No code or website required)

4. ElioPay

ElioPay makes it easy to accept online payments via credit cards, PayPal and cryptocurrencies. It lets you create ready-made payment forms that you can share or embed in your own website.

5. Scrumpy

Scrumpy is a simple, beautiful and agile project management software designed for teams who manage multiple projects. A great alternative to Trello.

6. Codegiant

Codegiant provides pretty yet powerful tools for agile project management. It includes issue tracking, hosted Git repositories, continuous integration and documentation in a single platform. Slack Integrations, API integrations are also in place.

7. Atina

Atina is a flexible project management tool that can be used for tracking tasks, handle deadlines and much more.

8. Pulse.red

Pulse.red is a time tracker for those who appreciate simplicity. No useless infographics; stay focused on the main things and track your project’s time.

9. Todost

Todost is a simple, open-source app that lets you create beautiful to-do lists in minutes. It uses cookies to track tasks, so no registration is required.

10. Effortless

Effortless is a combination timer and a task list that helps you get things done. The timer will keep you on task, and the simplicity will leave your task-list tidy, avoiding any distractions.

11. Agenda

Agenda is a date-focused note taking app for planning and documenting your projects. With its unique timeline, Agenda gives you a complete picture of past, present and future, driving your projects forward.

12. Timeline.io

Timeline.io lets you provide, collect and review client feedback for all of your projects. Transform feedback into powerful momentum for your web and design projects.

13. Folk

Folk lets you make the most out of your network. Easy to set up, easier to use, Folk is a contact manager that leverages powerful integrations to help you manage the most important relationships for you.

14. Buy Me A Coffee

Buy Me A Coffee is a free, fast and beautiful way to accept donations and share exclusive contents online. Set up your page in less than a minute, and get the support your work deserves.

15. What is my day rate?

Why is calculating a day rate hard? This day rate calculator should make it a little simpler.

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