For the self-employed without employees
You work for yourself. Your hours, recorded with a tap.
No boss asks for them and no law requires them, but you still want to know how long you really work. Tap as you start and finish; Tiemio adds up the day, the week and the month, free.
In short
When you work for yourself, nobody keeps your hours but you. They end up in notes, in your calendar or nowhere, and at the end of the month you cannot say how much you really worked. The daily record that companies keep for their employees does not apply to you, so there is no form to fill in: only the question.
In Tiemio you choose I'm self-employed and get your own record, free, and seen by nobody but you. Tap Start work and Finish work on your phone, even with no signal; Tiemio adds up each day, shows the month as a calendar and gives you the month as a PDF or a spreadsheet. If you also work for a company, it sits beside your own hours in the same app.
A day of a self-employed physiotherapist
08:30
Leire starts her rounds
Leire treats patients at home. Before the first visit, in the car, she taps Start work on My own hours. Later, in a basement flat with no signal, her taps are saved on the phone and sent when the signal comes back.
14:00
Lunch, recorded as a break
Between two visits she taps Pause, and Resume after lunch. The day shows the time worked and the break, without her writing anything down.
Thursday
Her own hours, and a clinic's
On Thursday afternoons Leire also works at a clinic that employs her. She finishes her own hours and starts at the clinic in the same app; one clock runs at a time, and the clinic never sees her own hours.
Friday
A forgotten finish
Leire forgot to finish on Friday evening. On Monday she opens the day, sets the real finish time and gives a reason. The change counts at once, and the original tap stays beside it.
End of month
The month, added up
The calendar shows each day shaded by hours worked. Leire downloads the month as a PDF: every day's start, finish and breaks, and the total. Now she knows how much she really works.
Your own hours, without and with Tiemio
Notes and memory
Pieced together when you need them
- Each day's hoursRemembered at the end of the week
- With no signalWritten down later, if at all
- A forgotten finishA guess
- Your monthAdded up by hand
- Working for a company tooTwo places, two methods
- The costYour time
With Tiemio
Recorded at each tap, on your phone
- Each day's hoursRecorded at each tap
- With no signalSaved on the phone, sent later
- A forgotten finishFixed by you, the original kept
- Your monthTotalled, as a PDF or a spreadsheet
- Working for a company tooBoth in one app, one clock at a time
- The costFree
What you get for your own hours
Your own record, free and private
Choose I'm self-employed when you sign in, or Record my own hours later on My employers. Your hours are yours: no employer, no invitation and no one else can see them, and you pay nothing.
The month at a glance
The calendar shades each day by the hours worked, so a long week or a missing day stands out. Today's hours and the week's total are one tap away.
Your month as a PDF or a spreadsheet
Download any month: each day's start, finish and breaks, and the totals. The document says it is your own record, and anyone you give it to can check it is genuine at tiemio.com/verify.
What the law asks of the self-employed
For your own hours, nothing. For an employee, a daily record from the first one.
- are who the daily record covers, not you
- Employees
- are who the daily record covers, not you
- employee: from then on, their record is compulsory
- 1st
- employee: from then on, their record is compulsory
- how long an employee's record is kept
- 4 years
- how long an employee's record is kept
The daily working-time record (article 34.9 of the Workers' Statute) covers employees: each one's start and finish, every day, kept for four years. As a self-employed person working on your own, you are not an employee, so the law does not ask you to record your own hours. Your record in Tiemio is for you, and its documents say it is not a working-time record under article 34.9.
That changes the day you hire someone: from the first employee, you keep their daily record like any employer. In Tiemio you then create your business beside your own record, and your employees' hours are kept apart from yours.
Key point
No law asks for your own hours: you record them to know them. The day you hire, your employee's record is compulsory.
Checked against the law in force on 28 October 2026. This page explains the rules; it is not legal advice.
All the questions about the working-time recordWho must record, what, for how long, the fines, and proposed changes to digital record keeping.Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. Recording your own hours as self-employed costs nothing, with no trial and no card. Only a business that employs people pays, per person it employs.
Who can see my hours?
Only you. Your own record is not part of any company: no employer, invitation or API key reaches it, and Tiemio does not show it to anyone.
Can I track time per client or project?
No. Tiemio records your working hours: when you start, pause and finish, by day, week and month. It does not split them by client or project, and it does not make invoices.
I also work for a company. Can I use both?
Yes. Add the company on My employers with the code it gives you. Your own hours and the company's appear side by side on My work, one clock runs at a time, and the company sees only its own records.
What happens if I hire someone?
Create your business in Tiemio and invite them with a code. Their hours go on your business's record, as the law requires, and your own hours stay in your separate record.
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