Roadmap: what TallyHour can do and what’s coming
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Here you can see what TallyHour can do now, what I’m still building and what comes after the first release. Target date for the App Store: 1 December 2026.
- Done
- Built, being tested
- Still to build
- After the first release
What’s there now
Tracking hours
- Done: Enter hours per client: from–to, break, description and billable, also for an earlier day
- Done: A note for every job, with formatting, photos and files
- Done: Own work without a client, with a fixed list of descriptions (drag to reorder) and your company name as a badge
- Built, being tested: Rounding to a quarter or half hour, with the default break already filled in
Overviews
- Done: Today: what you did today, with hours, amount, logo and the client’s short description
- Done: Week: Monday to Sunday, browse per week and per day
- Done: History: search, filter, sort, and edit or delete several lines at once
- Done: Export to Excel, optionally with notes, photos and files in a zip
Clients
- Done: Up to 25 active, unlimited inactive, and private or business with an icon in the lists
- Done: Name, short description, contact person, email, phone (neatly formatted), address lookup, chamber of commerce number, rate and VAT
- Done: Distance and travel time from where you are, with a tap to Maps or CarPlay
- Done: Smart search across everything, the latest job and existing jobs, with a warning for duplicate names or email addresses
Settings
- Done: My company: details and logo, with checks on phone, chamber of commerce number, VAT number and website, and fetching the logo from your website
- Done: Clients: private or business by default, own work on or off, distance and travel time on or off
- Done: Animations, “Pick up where you left off” and iCloud status with the devices running TallyHour
- Built, being tested: Hours: rounding and default break settings
General
- Done: Sync through your own iCloud
- Done: A trash with a warning
- Done: Draggable windows in the house style
Still to do before the release
Settings and convenience
- Still to build: Signing off: the client signs for approval on iPhone or iPad
- Still to build: Calendar link
- Still to build: Automatic saving
- Still to build: VAT “exempt” for healthcare
- Still to build: Pick a phone number from Contacts or paste it
- Still to build: Keeping settings in sync through iCloud
- Still to build: Back up and restore to a file
Major parts
- Still to build: Expenses: fixed items, free lines, mileage and receipts
- Still to build: Timesheets: a PDF in your house style, email and print
- Still to build: Reminders when you haven’t entered hours yet
- Still to build: Self-employment: counter for the Dutch hours criterion (1,225 hours) and a warning if you work too much for one client (risk of false self-employment)
- Still to build: Timer, also in the menu bar
- Still to build: First launch, and choosing colour themes
- Still to build: Feedback & suggestions in the app, plus the manual and release notes on declaruur.nl
- Still to build: WhatsApp button, only after purchase
- Still to build: 15-day trial, then € 19.95 once (incl. VAT)
Releasing
- Still to build: iPhone and iPad version, portrait and landscape (I expect the first iPhone prototype in mid-November)
- Still to build: Preparing for the App Store: reviewing the data model, moving iCloud to production, securing the rights to icon, logo and images, and checking Apple’s rules
After the first release
Later
- After the first release: Compressing photos, including existing photos
- After the first release: An iCloud storage chart in iCloud status
- After the first release: Recommending TallyHour: sharing with an image and QR code, and Apple’s review prompt
- After the first release: The foldable iPhone
- After the first release: Polish and Bulgarian versions
- After the first release: Possibly an Android version
- After the first release: As a separate project: voice, with dictation in text fields and voice notes you can share
This is a plan, not a promise: order and timing can change.