Watch your money tick up
while you work.
Papermeter turns every focused second into real, after-tax income you can see. Instead of pushing through boring hours, you get the small hit of momentum that makes deep work feel rewarding — the kind of pull that quietly outruns procrastination.
One-time $9 unlock · No account · Works offline · Installs to your phone
Keep earning visible — even while you're deep in another app.
Pop Papermeter out into an always-on-top window. Answer email, sketch in Figma, pair with an AI — the counter keeps ticking in the corner so you never lose the reward loop.
Desktop — earning $127 while asking Claude for help with a client brief.
Same magic, pocket-sized.
Left: your normal phone — inbox, DMs, and every little thing pulling you off task. Right: the same phone with Papermeter floating in the corner, quietly reminding you that this ten minutes is worth real money.
Floating widget uses Document Picture-in-Picture on Android Chrome & desktop. iOS shows the meter full-screen with the screen-lock kept awake.
Hours feel abstract. Motivation dies fast.
When the reward for focused work is a payment three weeks away, your brain doesn't feel it. So you switch tabs. You reorganise your desk. You do the small stuff instead of the deep stuff — even though you want to be doing the deep stuff.
Make the reward visible, right now.
Papermeter makes the payoff immediate. You see the number climb second by second, after tax, in your currency. Momentum stops being a mood you have to summon and starts being a thing on the screen.
Three screens. That's the whole app.
Set the job
Client, rate, target hours, tax rate. Fifteen seconds.
Enter Focus Mode
One giant number. Ticks up in real time, after tax. Nothing else asking for attention.
Cash out honestly
End the session and it's logged with time, gross, tax reserved, and net. Your ledger stays clean.
Small on purpose. Sharp on purpose.
Focus Mode
One huge number, ticking. Built to be glanceable — the reward stays visible without pulling you off task.
Floating widget
Pop the meter into an always-on-top window so you can see earnings while you work in another app.
Keeps ticking in the background
Timestamp-based, so numbers stay honest even when your screen locks or you switch tabs.
After-tax by default
Set your rate once. Papermeter reserves for tax automatically so what you see is what you actually keep.
Day & night mode
A dark, quiet interface for late sessions. A calmer light theme for daytime deep work.
Yours, on your device
No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. Session history stays on the device it was made — clear it and it's gone.
Anyone who bills by the hour and needs momentum to earn it.
- —Freelance designers, developers, writers, editors, translators
- —Consultants and coaches tracking billable focus time
- —Anyone who works better with a visible reward loop
- —People who love a good deep-work session — and people who have to fight for one
Turn the next hour into money you can see.
$9, once. Yours forever on every device you install it on. Unlock travels with your code; your session history stays on the device it was made.
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