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Every client, brief and invoice. One calm place.

FreeSlate takes a project from first enquiry to paid invoice. Briefs your clients sign, revisions you can count, deadlines you can see and money you can actually chase. No more digging through emails to remember what was agreed.

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The Free in FreeSlate is for freelance. It is a paid app: try everything for 14 days, then buy it once to keep it.

Today in FreeSlate: what needs you, most urgent first, and your week
Brief signedSophie at Vesper Wines
Invoice paidSonder Type
Made for designers inBrandWebApp and UX/UIPrint and packagingFashion and textilesProductIllustrationand any other design work you do for clients
Sound familiar?

The work is the fun part. It's everything around it.

Most freelancers run their studio from a mix of email threads, notes apps and spreadsheets. It works until a client remembers the brief differently to you.

"Can we just try one more version?"

Round four of three. Scope creep is the quiet killer of freelance profit, and it's hard to push back without the numbers in front of you.

"Which brief did we agree on again?"

The brief lives in an email from March, the changes in a message thread, the deadline in your head. Nobody is quite sure what was signed off.

"I'll pay it next week, promise."

Chasing invoices is awkward, so it slips. Meanwhile you're never quite sure what's owed, what's overdue and what's actually landed.

How it works

One clear path, from brief to paid.

Every project moves through the same six stages, so you always know where things stand, and so do your clients.

Brief

Build the brief, share it, get it signed.

Concept

Mood boards and first ideas.

Feedback

Know exactly who you're waiting on.

Revision

Rounds counted against the brief.

Delivery

Final files and a clean handover.

Invoice

Send it, track it, get paid.

Follow a project from start to finish
Briefs clients sign

Agree it once. In writing.

Build a proper brief in minutes, started from a template for brand, web or packaging work. Sign it, send your client a link to read and sign it in their browser, and log every change of scope with its cost.

  • Goals, audience, direction, deliverables and terms in one document
  • Versions and signatures, so everyone knows what was agreed
  • Clients sign from a link, with no account or app to install
The signature block of a brief, signed by designer and client
Signed by both sides
Scope protection

Know the moment a project drifts.

FreeSlate counts every revision round against what the brief allows, tracks time against each project's budget and flags anything late, over budget or unpaid.

  • Revision rounds counted per project
  • Red flags for overdue work, late invoices and blown budgets
  • Time tracking that shows your real hourly rate
A client red flag: over the revision limit, past the deadline and over the time budget
One extra round: raise an amendment fee
Get paid

See the money. Chase it without the awkwardness.

Invoices in your currency with VAT, GST or sales tax worked out for you, reminders by email, and a clear view of what is earned, owed and overdue.

  • Multi-line invoices, printed or emailed in seconds
  • Overdue invoices surface on your dashboard automatically
  • A monthly target, and how much to set aside for tax
Money this month: earnings against target, owed, next payment and tax to set aside
Tax set aside every month
See every feature
At your desk and on the move

Your whole studio, on every screen.

The same projects, briefs and invoices on your computer and your iPhone, kept in step through your own Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. It works offline too.

  • Install it on a Mac or PC and open it like any app
  • A proper iPhone layout with tabs at the bottom
  • Light and dark mode that follow your device
The FreeSlate dashboard on a computer
FreeSlate on an iPhone
Your data

Private by design. Not by promise.

FreeSlate has no servers holding your work. There is nothing for us to lose, sell or leak.

On your device

Everything is saved where you use it, and it all works offline.

In your own cloud

Sync computer and phone through your own Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive.

No tracking

No accounts, no analytics, no advertising. Ever.

How your data is handled
The designer's toolkit

Checklists that remember what you'd forget.

Eight interactive checklists and four plain-English glossaries, built in and kept up to date with the latest standards and store rules.

415
Checklist items

From client onboarding to launch day, for web, app, UX/UI and print.

267
Glossary terms

The words clients ask about, explained in plain English.

WCAG 2.2
Accessibility

Checks written against the current standard and the European Accessibility Act.

2026
Store rules

App Store and Google Play requirements, kept current.

Browse the whole toolkit

Pricing
Pay once.
Keep it.

No subscription and no per-client fees. Try everything free for 14 days, then buy FreeSlate once and it's yours.

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Spend your time on the design, not the admin.

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FreeSlate. The Free is for freelance: a paid app for freelance designers, bought once.