Planner app for freelancers
See your freelance tasks and your calendar together.
Give each client a project, block their hours beside your Google Calendar, and send a booking link when someone needs a call.
30 minutes. You choose the day and the time.
- Installs from your browser
- iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows
Today
Tomorrow
Where the week goes
Client work, calls, admin and your own projects
01Several clients at once
Give each client a project, split into dated steps.
Give each client a project and split the job into steps with dates. Put clients in one folder and your own projects in another.
- A project per client
- Steps with their own dates
- Folders to keep them apart
Home
- MoveAll done
- Japan trip5 open
- Mum's birthday3 open
Work
- Job applications4 open
- Chapter 42 open
02The calls
Send a booking link instead of five emails about times.
Copy your booking page's link from the calendar panel and paste it into your reply. Hours already busy on your Google Calendar aren't offered, and the call lands on your calendar when they choose a slot.
- Copy the link from the calendar panel
- Busy hours aren't offered
- Bookings land on your calendar
Your calendar, Wed 30 Sep
- 8am - 8:30amSchool run
- 12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch with Mei
- 6:30pm - 7:30pmGym
03The work
Fit each client's work around the calls.
Drag a task into a free hour beside your Google events, or tap Plan my day and it fills the gaps inside your work hours. Ask for a 15-minute break after a long stretch.
- Tasks beside your events
- Plan my day fills the gaps
- A break after 60, 90 or 120 minutes
Mon 28
Tue 29
Wed 30
Thu 1
Fri 2
04The deadlines
See how many days are left on each deliverable.
Give the deliverable a day to work on it and a separate deadline. It shows "In 6 days" until it's due.
- Do-date and deadline, separate
- A countdown on the task
- Group by deadline
Tue 29 Sep
- Book the vanDeadline Sat 3 OctIn 4 days
Wed 30 Sep
- Send back the reply slipDeadline Fri 2 OctIn 3 days
Sat 3 Oct
- Fill in the tax formDeadline Mon 5 OctIn 6 days
Mon 5 Oct
- Renew the passportDeadline Thu 29 OctIn 30 days
05The admin
Invoices and tax on repeat, with a reminder.
"Send invoices every fri 4pm" comes back each Friday. Switch on Keep reminding me so it rings again if you're mid-call.
- Weekly jobs set once
- Keep reminding me: three more rings, 5 minutes apart
- Snooze it for an hour
- Buy groceries for the weekToday
- Write the cover letterToday
06Your own projects
Keep a slot for the work nobody pays for yet.
Block time for the portfolio and repeat it every week. Turn on Block my Google Calendar and clients see it as busy.
- A weekly block that repeats
- Busy on Google if you want
- Tick it off when it's done
Planner
Google Calendar
Your booking page, Tue afternoon
- 1pm
- 1:30pm
- 3:30pm
- 4pm
- 4:30pm
- 5pm
- 5:30pm
And the rest
And the small stuff, between clients
Goes well with
Plan next week around the calls.
Put each client's next deadline in, and send your booking link.
30 minutes. You choose the day and the time.
Before you start
Questions
One that shows every client's deadlines in one place and fits the work around the calls you've already said yes to. Look for projects per client, time blocks beside your calendar and a booking link. That's what Palby Planner is built around.
No. It doesn't keep timesheets, bill clients or send invoices, so keep the tool you use for that. It plans the week: client work, deadlines and your own admin.
They see what you put on Google Calendar. Switch on Block my Google Calendar and your planned hours show there as busy, so a client checking your calendar sees the time is taken.
Yes. Make a booking page and send its link. It reads your Google Calendar, so a busy hour never shows, and the booking lands on your calendar.
Yes. Put clients in one folder and your own projects in another, and use a filter when you only want one.
Not yet. Palby Planner installs from your browser on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, and opens from its own icon like any other app.