We just shipped the biggest visual update since Gigtime launched. If you've opened the app this week and wondered whether you're in the right place — you are. Here's what changed, and why.
The honest reason for the redesign
The old home screen was a timer button and a lot of empty space. That made sense when we built it: Gigtime started as the simplest way to log hours. But we kept hearing a version of the same thing from users — the first question when you open a time tracker isn't "is a timer running?" It's where do I stand this week?
So the new home screen answers that. When you sign in you land on a dashboard that shows your week's hours (and how they compare to last week), your billable share, how much unbilled work is sitting there waiting to become an invoice, and what's outstanding from clients. Below that: today's entries, your active projects with their hour-cap progress, and a short list of what's due soon — tasks and overdue invoices in one place.
The timer didn't go anywhere. It's the first thing on the page, with a description field and client and project pickers right there, so starting work is still one click. It just stopped hogging the whole screen.
A calmer coat of paint
The colors changed too. The blue-gray look is gone, replaced by a warm off-white that's easier on the eyes over a long day, with a deeper green for the things you actually click. New typefaces as well: Hanken Grotesk for the interface and Space Grotesk for numbers. That second one matters more than it sounds — the digits are all the same width now, so the running timer doesn't wiggle as the seconds tick by. Small thing. Bothered us for a year.
Dark mode got rebuilt as a first-class theme rather than an afterthought. Every screen, every chart, every status chip has a proper dark version. There's an Auto / Light / Dark switch in the account menu (and in Settings on mobile), and it remembers your choice. Auto follows your device.
The timer learned some manners
Three timer changes, in order of how often you asked for them:
- Pause. Yes, finally. Pause for lunch, resume after, and the entry records the time you actually worked. It syncs across devices like everything else — pause on your desktop, resume from your phone.
- Live earnings. While the timer runs, you can see what the session is worth based on the project's rate. Watching the number climb is better motivation than we'd like to admit.
- Rounding. If you bill in 15-minute increments, there's a new setting that rounds timer entries up to your increment when you stop. It's off by default and never touches entries you type in by hand.
There's also a daily goal now — a ring on the dashboard that fills as you log hours. The default is 8 hours; change it in Settings under Time Tracking. If you've read our take on timers versus manual entry, you know we think the timer should earn its place rather than demand your attention. This is what that looks like.
On your phone
Mobile navigation moved to a bottom bar with a big green start button in the middle — everything you use daily is one thumb-reach away, and starting a timer is the easiest thing on the screen. While a timer runs, the timer page becomes a full-screen focus view: big digits, what you're working on, what it's earning, and a stop button you can't miss.
Smaller things you might notice
Client pages have a new Entries tab, so you can see everything you've logged for a client without building a report. If you bill clients in different currencies, totals now show each currency separately instead of pretending everything is dollars. Invoice statuses are easier to tell apart at a glance. Even the loading screen matches now.
What we didn't do: move things for the sake of moving them. Entries, clients, projects, invoices, and reports all live where they lived before. Your data, your invoices, your settings — untouched.
Rolling out now
The update is live on web and desktop, with iOS and Android close behind. If something looks off, or the new home screen is missing a number you check every morning, tell us — the dashboard will keep getting smarter, and the fastest way to influence it is to complain early.
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