u/ming_builds

WhoPaid is a small iOS app I made for a very specific freelance problem: remembering which jobs are actually paid, unpaid, or partly paid.

I kept finding payment details scattered across chats, notes, and memory. For small jobs, a full accounting app felt like too much, but doing it mentally was unreliable.

The app is intentionally simple:

• add job/client
• amount
• paid or unpaid
• partial payment notes
• follow-up notes

The part I care about most is making the unpaid list obvious enough that I do not forget to follow up.

I’m looking for honest feedback on whether this is too narrow, or if the narrowness is what makes it useful.

https://code-stack-studio.com/jobbuddy

I’m looking for feedback from people who do freelance work, small job work, or any client work where payment follow-up gets messy.

WhoPaid is a small iOS app for tracking:

• job/client
• amount
• paid vs unpaid
• partial payment notes
• follow-up notes

The problem I’m trying to solve is not full bookkeeping. It is the smaller everyday mess where a client says “I’ll pay later”, the payment note is buried in chat, and you forget what is actually paid vs just promised.

I’m specifically looking for feedback on:

1. whether the app feels fast enough for logging small jobs
2. whether the unpaid/paid flow is clear
3. whether it needs more fields, or if adding more would make it feel too heavy

Product link: https://code-stack-studio.com/jobbuddy

If you test it, the most useful feedback would be what feels confusing in the first 2 minutes.

Not revenue in a fancy accounting sense.

I mean the messy freelance version where you're mentally adding things like:

"that client paid half" "that one said tomorrow" "that small job is done but not paid" "that invoice is sent but maybe not seen" "that one paid but I forgot to record it"

Then you look at your bank account and it doesn't match what you thought you made.

I hate that guessing feeling.

It makes freelancing feel more unstable than it actually is because your brain is constantly doing rough math in the background.

How do you track this without turning it into a full accounting system?

I don't mean obvious scammers.

I mean the normal clients who seem nice, approve the work, say everything looks good, then casually go "I'll send payment later" like it's no big deal.

That phrase stresses me out more than it should.

Because now I'm stuck between:

• not wanting to sound pushy
• not wanting to forget
• not wanting to keep checking chat history
• not wanting to work for free

It's such a small sentence but it creates this weird mental tab that stays open until the money actually arrives.

Do you follow up on a fixed schedule, wait a few days, or just avoid clients who do this?

Not big invoices or formal projects.

I mean the messy stuff

• quick one-off jobs
• someone says "I’ll pay later"
• partial payments
• follow-ups you think you’ll remember
• random notes in chats

I realized the hard part isn’t knowing what to track. It’s staying consistent when the job feels too small to open a full system.

How do you handle this Spreadsheet notes accounting tool or just memory