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Jobber
Jobber is a minimalistic work time management program for the command line.
Quick Tour
Initialize New Database
Create one or more clients:
▶ jobber init
Create Company
Create (your) company.
▶ jobber create company
Create Workers
Create one or more workers:
▶ jobber create worker
Create Clients
Create one or more clients with the create command and add some information like address, VAT and a payment rate:
▶ jobber create client
Jobs
Create a job:
▶ jobber create job
Track Your Work
Then track your work with simple shell commands like:
▶ jobber start
or
▶ jobber end
Or be more precise and add a time:
▶ jobber start 12:15
List Work
▶ jobber list work
Job ID: ▶ 0
Worker: My Self (me)
Client: Late Capitalism Ltd. (lc)
Subject: work to do
Rate: $80.00 / hour
Interval: 15 min
Billing: -
Work: 60:00 hrs
Revenue: $4,800.00
╭─────┬──────────────────────┬───────┬───────────┬──────────────────────────────┬───────────╮
│ Pos │ Start │ End │ Duration │ Subject │ Tags │
├─────┼──────────────────────┼───────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│ 0 │ 2025 Wed Jun 4 21:30 │ 21:45 │ 15 min │ last year │ - │
│ 1 │ 2026 Mon May 4 21:30 │ 21:45 │ 15 min │ last month │ - │
│ 2 │ Thu Jun 4 14:00 │ 16:00 │ 2:00 hrs │ meeting in room #1 │ meeting │
│ │ │ │ │ second line │ │
│ 3 │ 16:15 │ 19:45 │ 3:30 hrs │ whole day │ - │
│ 4 │ 18:00 │ 18:15 │ 15 min │ work in the middle │ - │
│ 5 │ 21:30 │ 21:45 │ 15 min │ work in the middle but │ - │
│ │ │ │ │ with a very long subject │ │
│ │ │ │ │ which shall be wrapped │ │
│ │ │ │ │ automatically when displayed │ │
│ 6 │ 22:00 │ 23:30 │ 1:30 hrs │ work in the evening │ - │
│ 7 │ Fri Jun 5 10:00 │ 19:30 │ 9:30 hrs │ too long │ - │
│ 8 │ Sat Jun 6 02:00 │ 02:00 │ 24:00 hrs │ way too long │ - │
│ 9 │ Sun Jun 7 06:00 │ 07:00 │ 1:00 hrs │ one hour │ meeting │
│ 10 │ 09:45 │ 19:30 │ 9:45 hrs │ long work │ - │
│ 11 │ Tue Jun 9 01:00 │ 09:00 │ 8:00 hrs │ eight hours │ - │
╰─────┴──────────────────────┴───────┴───────────┴──────────────────────────────┴───────────╯
Use jobber show work to view a work unit.
Use jobber start to start work.
Calendar View
▶ jobber calendar
06/2026
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Week │
│ - - - 7.5 9.5 22 39 │
│ 7 12.75 - 8 - - - - 20.75 │
│ 14 - - - - - - - - │
│ 21 - - - - - - - - │
│ 28 - - - - │
│ Jun 2026: 59.75 hrs │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Job: 0
Create an Invoice
▶ jobber create invoice
Database has been updated.
Successfully created invoice 0 of job 0.
Use jobber show invoice 0 to take a look.
On the first page it shows the list of jobs and on the following daily time sheets listing the working hours more exactly.
Generate PDF Invoices using typst template
▶ jobber export invoice 0
The output can look like this (depending on the template):
ANSI Color Support
Jobber supports ANSI Codes which colorize the output in the terminal for better readability.
Use jobber --no-ansi to turn them off.