Business software suite for freelancers

How does a freelancer end up with five subscriptions?

Freelancing starts with few tools, and more get added. You pick up a free CRM to keep track of follow-ups. You add an invoicing app because the CRM cannot bill. A time tracker joins so you can show the hours. A notes or task app comes in somewhere along the way.

Within a year, a solo business can run on four or five separate logins. Each has its own price rises and its own renewal date. Each also has its own copy of the same client, typed in by hand. By the third tool, one of those copies is wrong.

These are good apps on their own. The problem is the handoffs between them. The client you just invoiced has a separate entry in your CRM. The hours you tracked do not turn into an invoice by themselves. You do the copying between the tools yourself.

What does one suite mean here?

Lyto puts the whole freelance back office behind one login. Pipeline is a light CRM and Sum handles invoicing and costs. Tally tracks time and Workstream holds tasks. Solve is a support inbox and Pulse does reporting. Workspace holds the sign-in and billing. All seven are in every plan, so there is no invoicing tier to upgrade to.

The shared customer record underneath them matters more than the count of apps. A client exists once. Log billable hours against them in Tally, and the invoice in Sum uses the same data. Win the work in Pipeline, and they are already the client you invoice and support.

Where does Lyto stop?

Lyto is built for teams of one to ten people, so a freelancer is at the small end of its range. Some freelancers need a large sales CRM, sector-specific accounting or many niche integrations. For them, a specialist tool will go further than the Lyto app. Lyto gives up some depth in each app so you pay for and maintain one product.

What does a normal month look like?

A lead comes in and you add them in Pipeline. They sign, and you create the project tasks in Workstream. You log hours against the client in Tally as you work. At month end, Sum builds the invoice from those hours. If the client emails a question, it opens in Solve with their invoices in view.

What does it cost a solo freelancer?

One seat costs €10 per month billed annually, or €13 month to month. That seat includes all seven apps. The 14-day free trial needs no card. If you do not subscribe, the workspace becomes read-only on day 14 and nothing is deleted. Cancelling a paid plan is one click inside the app.