Miru
Miru is open-source software for teams that track billable hours and handle invoicing, expenses, payments, and reporting. Team members can record time with timers or manual entries, submit work for weekly approval, and use rates set for each person. Miru can turn tracked or approved work into invoices, with support for expenses, taxes, and discounts, and can send invoices to clients. Reports show paid, pending, overdue, and projected revenue, plus project and team analytics. Miru includes expense billing and a client portal, but does not offer recurring invoices. The MIT-licensed Rails application can be self-hosted, while the desktop timer is available for macOS Apple Silicon and Intel, Linux x64, and Windows x64. Its iOS and Android apps are in beta. The free self-hosted plan includes every feature and unlimited members; customers running it themselves are responsible for operations, backups, upgrades, and security maintenance. Miru Cloud is listed at $1.00 USD per month, billed Or $10/member/year.
Who it is for
Miru suits agencies, consultants, freelancers, startups, and service teams that track billable hours and send invoices. Self-hosting may suit teams prepared to manage operations, backups, upgrades, and security maintenance.
What is good
- Tracks time with timers or manual entries.
- Supports weekly approvals and team-member rates.
- Creates invoices with expenses, taxes, and discounts.
- Reports paid, pending, overdue, and projected revenue.
- Free self-hosted plan includes every feature and unlimited members.
What to know first
- Recurring invoices are not available.
- iOS and Android apps are in beta.
- Self-hosters manage operations, backups, upgrades, and security maintenance.
- Hosted data encryption is described, but SOC 2 Type II is in progress.
Verdict
Miru combines billable-time tracking, invoicing, expense billing, and revenue reporting, with hosted and self-hosted options. Consider the beta status of its mobile apps and the additional operational responsibilities of self-hosting.
Miru plans and pricing
All plansCompared on time billing software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Invoice generation
- Yes
- Time capture
- mixed
- Billable rates
- Yes
- Time approval
- Yes
- Expense billing
- Yes
- Recurring invoices
- No
- Client portal
- Yes
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