Free while you’re in school.
Free for a year after.

Sign up with a verified .edu address and you’re on the student tier — the full toolkit, not a trial or a limited student edition of it.

Student tier runs through August 31 of your graduation year. The day after, you move to a one-year grace tier automatically — nobody has to flip a switch, and it’s recalculated fresh every time the app checks, so it’s never off by a day even if a background job never ran.

That grace year runs through the following August 31 — twelve months past the summer you graduate. After that, it settles at the ordinary free tier, for good, unless you upgrade.

60 and 14 days out from your student tier ending, it emails you — a heads-up, not a surprise downgrade.

Student tier and the grace year after it both get everything this site describes — every feature, not a scaled-back student edition. The active-client cap that applies to the ordinary free tier simply doesn’t apply while you’re on either of these.

It also turns on a layer of context the rest of the app doesn’t show anyone else — why set money aside for taxes, what a W-9 actually is, how to chase a client who’s gone quiet on an invoice. It goes away once you’re past needing it, not before.

Once the grace year ends, what’s left is the free tier — for good, unless you upgrade — and free means 3 active clients at a time, not zero.

Archive a client and that slot opens back up. Nothing about an archived client disappears — the cap only counts who’s currently active, and it’s there to prompt an upgrade, not to hide your own data from you.

Every job on this app works whether or not it paid. Mark one credit-only and it counts toward your career history with no invoice attached — the same daily logs, the same client record, just no money changing hands.

Already did some of this before you found the app? Quick-add it in a batch — title, client, role, and roughly which year, since nobody remembers the exact date of a shoot from two years back — and it’s in your history immediately.

By the time you’re job-hunting for real, the client list, the role history, and the dates are already sitting there — not something you’re piecing back together from old texts and a folder of Word docs.

No signal on location doesn’t stop a daily log — it saves to the phone and syncs later, the same as on any paid job.

A public booking page works before you’ve billed a single client — it’s just a link with your availability and roles on it, useful the day you start taking on any kind of work at all.

The same overtime engine prices a paid gig correctly the first time you have one — base hours, tiers, the midnight-wrap case, all of it, whether it’s your first job or your fiftieth.