Introducing Tally
05 Feb 2026
Now that I’m doing contract and freelance work I have to make invoices a lot. This takes me a couple of minutes using a Pages template, but the invoices it makes aren’t very nice looking (to my eyes, at least).
An example invoice made with Pages
I could have just spent ten minutes making a nicer Pages template, but like all good programmers I decided to instead invest a significant amount of time into building a bespoke solution.
So – meet Tally – a simple invoicing app.
I didn’t want to distract myself from focusing on Personal Best too much, so v1 of Tally has a modest feature set:
- Save your business and payment details
- Add your customers
- Make ‘one off’ and ‘day rate’ invoices
- Export invoices as PDFs
Everything automatically syncs over iCloud, and it supports iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
What’s next
I’m going to leave Tally alone now for a few months while I focus on Personal Best, but when I come back to it I’ll start evolving it into a fully-fledged billing platform for freelancers. It’s easy to imagine places this could go, like:
- Other types of invoice, like hourly rates
- Purchases orders, quote, and credit notes
- Marking invoices as paid, late, etc
- Emailing out invoices automatically, including reminders and late notifications based on your payment terms
- Static links for invoices, so you can send a link to your client for them to pay online
- Web and Android support
- Monetisation – v1 of Tally is free, but if I pursue this properly I’ll gate some features behind a paywall
Download Tally
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