For small studios and freelancers
Every booking. Every hold. Every currency.
Holds in your inbox, dates in your head, money in a spreadsheet you dread opening… toqe keeps your bookings and spending in one file and plays them forward.
One licence, yours forever · Mac & Windows · 14-day free trial
Home, on a July morning — what needs a decision, this week's bookings, the month so far, and your next free stretch. toqe has already read all of it.
Bookings · Pipeline
The pipeline knows every job
It starts as an email — a studio wants your days. In toqe that becomes one row, and the row does the remembering: hold, confirmation, invoice, paid, each next to the money it brings.
Bookings · Board
Or drag it like a kanban
The same pipeline sees three ways — status bands, a flat sortable list, or a board with a lane per stage. Drag a card between lanes to restage the job, and flip the scope to Leads to arrange the speculative front: enquiries and holds, before they firm up.
Bookings · Timeline
Detailed timeline view
Bookings stretch across a semester view — a drag shifts the job, its edges resize it, and the money rides along. Holds sit right beside confirmed work, so the shape of autumn is never a surprise.
Bookings · Calendar
The whole year reads at a glance
Every job is really a claim on your days — so the calendar paints them, booked, held, off, and a year of commitments reads in one look. A hold painted onto free days joins the pipeline as a project; a heatmap view shows where the money landed.
Home · Year view
Every month becomes a card
Step back, and the days become months. Each card is a live view of one — its mini calendar, days at the desk, and what it earned. In the app the deck carries yearly goals, pace and time off.
Smart Notifications
toqe is proactive
Because everything lives together, toqe can carry the worry. An overdue invoice, two holds on the same days, cash heading under your buffer, an enquiry gone quiet, or even when you are overspending.
Smart notifications are derived from arithmetic over your data, computed on your machine and visible to no one else. No AI involved.
Home · Widgets
The vitals stay in view
Between decisions, the vitals stay one glance away — the month's earnings, the cash line, your next free stretch — swappable cards computed from the same numbers as everything else.
Everywhere · The rail
The year follows you around
And wherever in the app you're working, the year rides along: one click in the topbar docks a mini-calendar as a rail, with every booking shown in its neat pipeline colour.
Half-time
Still not convinced?
Fair — that was only the bookings half. The money half is where toqe pays for itself: the runway, the tax maths, and invoices that basically write themselves.
Budgeting · Forecast
The runway, day by day
All of it funnels into one question: if nothing else books, when does the money run out? Rates, invoice lag, tax and spending, simulated day by day — the answer stays on screen.
Budgeting
Real spending shapes the forecast
The answer stays honest because your real spending lives here too — fixed costs, everyday spend, savings pockets, the tax set-aside. A change to any of them moves the runway with it.
Budgeting · What if
A four-day week is a sentence away
The same simulation bends to a question: fewer days, a braver rate, that camera you're eyeing — move any of them and the future redraws against the current plan, verdict included. "Can I afford it?" is answered from the future you just sketched, with tax already set aside.
Budgeting · Tax
The set-aside speaks your country
Pick where you pay tax and toqe re-learns the language and the maths — what the tax is called (VAT, IVA, USt, TVA, GST), who collects it (HMRC, the IRS, Agencia Tributaria), and how much of each payment to hold back, estimated from that country's real rates and charges. Ten countries have built-in recipes — the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, the US, Canada and Australia — and everywhere else sets a flat rate. A planning estimate to set money aside — not tax advice, and never a filing figure.
Invoicing
Invoices basically write themselves
toqe already knows every invoice's contents — the days worked, the rate, the studio's details, the reference number. One click assembles a print-perfect A4, in the studio's own currency, and the payment clock starts ticking toward a nudge. Deposits net off the total, pass-through expenses ride beside day rates, long jobs can bill month by month — and a drawn, typed or uploaded signature inks the sheet.
Invoicing · Compliance
E-invoicing, already spoken here
Governments across Europe are phasing in mandatory e-invoices — structured files, not paper shaped like PDFs. toqe picks the right format from your tax country and builds it into every export. No add-on, no per-document fee, no third-party portal.
EN 16931 (European Union): every export carries the EU standard’s structured XML of itself, validated against the official KoSIT rules. Factur-X (PDF/A-3 hybrid): the print-perfect A4 for people, the embedded machine XML for software — veraPDF-clean. XRechnung 3.0 (Germany): billing a public body lifts the profile, Leitweg-ID and all. Facturae 3.2.2 (Spain): Spanish invoices export as Facturae XML, signed XAdES-EPES on the desktop with your own certificate.
Cream & Onyx
Two beautiful themes
Warm paper by day, deep onyx by night, preserving your custom pipeline colorways and calm interface.
Private by design
All the data stays on your machine, in a file you own — no server ever sees it, and nothing is metered. Unlimited projects, attachments and history; it's your disk.
Hours or days, either way
Bookings price as day rate, flat fee or hourly — and a desk timer on Home logs hours straight onto the job.
What if, answered
Four-day weeks instead of five? A 15% higher rate? Sketch the scenario and the forecast redraws — you see the runway move before you change anything real.
Studios on file
Every studio with its rate, currency and contacts — projects inherit them automatically, foreign currencies included.
Google Calendar, alongside
Events from your calendars ride along read-only, and anything landing on booked days reaches your notifications as well.
Bring your history
Drop a spreadsheet or CSV export — from Notion, Excel, anywhere — and years of bookings, studios and spending walk in. No retyping.
Two machines, one document
Connect Dropbox in Settings and every edit follows you between your desk and your laptop — or simply keep the document in any folder your sync client already watches.
Under your password
Optional protection encrypts the whole document (AES-256) — and a recovery key means a forgotten password never strands your data.
Rates that follow reality
Price a job in phases — first two weeks at one rate, then another — and the gross, the forecast and the invoice all split at the right dates.
Compared
Next to the usual suspects
There are plenty of programs out there, but they usually live on the cloud and hold your data hostage or impose ridiculous limits. toqe's data lives locally on your computer, so nothing is metered: projects, attachments and history are only yours to have.
| toqe | Notion | Spreadsheet | Bonsai | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash runway, day by day | ✓ | — | formulas you maintain | — |
| Holds, options and the pipeline | ✓ | boards you build | by hand | — |
| A colour-coded year calendar | ✓ | — | — | — |
| The calendar docked beside any page | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Invoices and payment chasing | ✓ | templates | by hand | ✓ |
| Compliant e-invoices (Factur-X · XRechnung · signed Facturae) | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Tax set-aside with country recipes | ✓ | — | formulas you maintain | US-focused |
| Overdue, clash and buffer alerts | ✓ | — | — | payment reminders |
| Unlimited projects and attachments | ✓ | by plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data in a file you own | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Works offline | ✓ | partially | ✓ | — |
| Price | $39.99 once (founding) | $12+/mo | your time 🤣 | from $19/mo |
One payment. Yours forever.
Run it free for 14 days — the clock only starts when you add your first data. If you can already see your runway, $39.99 keeps it for good — a year of updates included, and the version you have is yours for life. No subscription, no account, no card to cancel later.
toqe for Mac
Apple Silicon & Intel
toqe for Windows
Windows 10 & 11
An iOS app for iPhone and iPad is on its way.
FAQ
Frequently asked:
Is there really no subscription?
Really. toqe is $79.99 once — and while the founding offer runs, the first 25 licences go for $39.99 — and the app is yours for good, with a year of updates included. There is no account to create, no card on file, nothing that renews on its own.
What about updates after the first year?
Your licence includes a full year of updates — features, fixes, everything. After that, the version you have keeps working forever. If you ever want another year of new features, that is a choice you make, never a charge that sneaks in.
Where does my data live?
In one folder on your machine — data, attachments, invoices, backups. Put it in your own Dropbox or iCloud and every machine stays in sync. No server of ours ever sees it. toqe makes continuous backups of your data history in its folder, but make sure you back up the folder and files themselves to secure your data.
Are the invoices real e-invoices (Factur-X, XRechnung, Facturae)?
Yes. Every exported invoice is a Factur-X hybrid — the print-perfect PDF a person reads, with the EU-standard EN 16931 XML embedded inside as PDF/A-3, validated against the official KoSIT rules. Germany lifts the profile to XRechnung 3.0 (with Leitweg-ID) for public-sector clients, and Spanish invoices export as Facturae 3.2.2 XML, signed on the desktop with your own certificate. The right format is chosen automatically from your tax country.
I bill Spanish clients — is toqe ready for Spain’s e-invoice rules?
Spain approved its B2B e-invoicing rulebook in March 2026: over the next few years — the largest companies first, everyone else, freelancers included, roughly two years behind them — invoices between businesses become structured files, and invoices exchanged outside the state platform must carry an electronic signature. That is exactly what toqe produces today: Facturae 3.2.2, signed XAdES-EPES on your own machine. Your certificate is never uploaded anywhere — unlike cloud invoicing tools, which sign on their servers with a copy of your certificate.
One honest footnote: if you are an autónomo established in Spain, Verifactu (from 2027) is a separate obligation about certified billing-record software, not about the invoice file itself — ask your gestor what applies to you. If you bill Spanish studios from outside Spain, Verifactu does not apply to you; the signed Facturae is the part your clients will ask for.
Which countries does the tax set-aside understand?
Ten have built-in recipes — the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, the US, Canada and Australia. Pick yours and toqe estimates what to hold back from that country’s real rates and charges, speaks its terms (VAT, IVA, USt, TVA, GST), and checks your tax ID against the national format. Anywhere else, you set a flat rate. It is a planning estimate, not tax advice.
My studios pay in different currencies. Does that work?
Yes. Each studio keeps its own currency and rates; projects inherit them, and the forecast converts everything into your base currency with live or custom rates you control.
What exactly is the live demo?
The full app in your browser, loaded with sample data — no signup. Play with anything; a refresh puts it all back.
Which platforms?
Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10/11 today. A companion iOS app for iPhone and iPad is on its way.
How many computers can I use it on?
One purchase covers two machines — a desk and a laptop, say. Point both at the same data folder in your own Dropbox or iCloud and they stay in sync.
What happens when the trial ends?
The 14-day clock only starts when you add your first real data — installing toqe and coming back to it a month later costs you nothing. When the trial does end, toqe opens read-only: your forecast and history stay on screen, and a licence unlocks editing. Your data file is yours either way — it is plain JSON on your disk, never held hostage.
Does toqe use AI?
No. Each and every insight and alert is arithmetic over your own numbers, computed on your machine. Nothing leaves the file. There is an optional MCP to enable any models to read and use toqe to draft emails, book dates or give you more advanced insights, but it is set to off by default.