Self Employed: Income & Tax
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Self Employed: Income & Tax
For freelancers, contractors & solo business owners

Take control of your self-employed income — without spreadsheets or stress.

The all-in-one finance app for freelancers, contractors, and solo business owners. Track income, taxes, pay stubs, mileage, and more — across all your Apple devices.

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7-day free trial Private by design — no data collection iCloud sync
Self Employed dashboard on iPhone showing year-to-date gross income, expenses, taxes paid and net-to-self cards. Caption: Understand more. Stress less. Take control of your finances.
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Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — and now Apple Vision Pro.

Everything your business needs

One app. Your whole financial workflow.

From the first invoice to year-end filing, Self Employed handles the numbers so you can focus on the work.

Professional Pay Stubs

Log income, taxes, and deductions, then export beautifully formatted PDF pay stubs with your branding and year-to-date totals.

PDF exportYTD totalsYour logo

Income & Expense Tracking

Track business expenses, reimbursements, and personal distributions. Categorized, organized, audit-ready.

ReimbursementsDistributionsTips

Checkbook Management

A full checkbook and register for your business and savings accounts. Record transactions, monitor balances, link transactions across accounts, copy between accounts, and set up recurring charges.

Multiple accountsLinked transactionsRecurring

Spending Breakdown

Visual charts show exactly where your money goes by category, for any time period — income or expenses.

By categoryAny date range

Quarterly Tax Estimates

Automatically calculate federal, state, and self-employment taxes so you're never caught off guard. You set your own rates.

FederalStateSelf-employment

Mileage Tracking

Track business mileage with GPS live-tracking or quick start/end logging, with an Apple Watch app and CarPlay support. Export IRS-ready mileage reports.

GPSApple WatchCarPlayIRS-ready
Pay yourself properly

Pay stubs, tax math, and reports — done in minutes, not weekends.

Enter a pay period and Self Employed does the rest: calculates self-employment, federal, and state tax at your rates, sets aside retained earnings, and produces a pay stub and a report you can hand to your accountant.

  • Set your own tax and retention percentages
  • Filter reports by week, month, year, or custom range
  • Export clean PDFs with your business details
Pay Check screen with pay period dates, income fields and tax rates. Caption: Generate pay stubs, calculate taxes, and track retained earnings. Reports screen with income and taxes totals for the year. Caption: Generate reports and monitor key business details.

Contractor Payments & 1099s

Pay contractors, track payments, generate pay stubs and 1099-NEC forms, and produce payment reports.

1099-NECPayment reports

Product & Service Cost Calculators

Price your products and services with built-in cost, fee, and payment-processor calculators.

Cost per serviceService feesProcessor fees

Year-to-Date Summaries

Real-time insight into total income, taxes paid, net-to-self, and retained earnings at a glance.

Gross & netTaxes paidRetained

Archive & Backup

Archive year-end data, back up and restore locally, with atomic, safe data handling.

Year-end archiveLocal backupsScheduled

iCloud Sync

Your financial data syncs securely across all your devices, always accessible and up to date.

Encrypted by AppleEvery device

Fully Customizable

Custom business profiles with logos, tax settings, addresses, and support for multiple businesses.

Multiple businessesLogosTax settings
Works across all your devices

iPhone. iPad. Mac. Apple Watch. And Vision Pro.

A native app on every platform — not a web wrapper. Your data stays in sync through iCloud, so the numbers on your Mac are the numbers on your phone.

Self Employed dashboard on iPad with the year-to-date cards and tool list in a two-column layout.
iPad — the full dashboard, wide open
Self Employed running on a MacBook Pro.
Mac — a true native Mac app
Apple Watch showing mileage trip categories: Business, Medical, Charity, Personal.
Apple Watch — start a trip from your wrist

Buy once on any plan. Use it everywhere.

Now on Apple Vision Pro

Your business, floating in your space.

Self Employed is one of the very few finance apps built for visionOS. Your dashboard, tax estimates, checkbook, and reports — life-size, in the room with you.

Self Employed dashboard as a large glass window floating in a living room on Apple Vision Pro.
Reports window on Apple Vision Pro with a net income donut chart.
Reports with a live net-income breakdown
Quarterly Tax Estimator window on Apple Vision Pro showing four quarters.
Quarterly Tax Estimator, all four quarters at once

Built for visionOS

Native glass windows and spatial layout — not a mirrored iPad app.

Same data, everywhere

Everything you enter on Vision Pro syncs to iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud.

Included with your plan

No separate purchase. Any plan unlocks the app on every Apple platform.

Membership

Simple, fair pricing.

Pick a plan that fits how you work. Every plan unlocks every feature on every Apple device.

Already own Self Employed? Nothing changes.

If you downloaded the app before memberships were introduced, you keep full access to every feature, free forever. No subscription, no paywall — just update as usual.

Existing users: free forever
Monthly
$4.99/ month
Includes a 7-day free trial
  • Every feature, every device
  • iCloud sync included
  • Cancel anytime
Start free trial
Annual Best value — save 17%
$49.99/ year
Includes a 7-day free trial · about $4.17 a month
  • Every feature, every device
  • iCloud sync included
  • Two months free vs. monthly
Start free trial
Lifetime Pay once, own it forever
$149.99once
One-time purchase · no renewals, ever
  • Every feature, every device
  • iCloud sync included
  • All future updates
Buy lifetime

Start with a free 7-day trial.

The 7-day free trial applies to the Monthly and Annual plans; you won't be charged if you cancel before the trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no renewal. All purchases are processed by Apple. Prices in U.S. dollars and may vary by region. Existing users who installed the app before memberships were introduced keep full access at no cost. See our Privacy Policy and Support.

Independent, by design

Built by a self-employed professional.

Built by a self-employed professional for fellow freelancers and small business owners. No clutter, no fluff — just powerful, intuitive tools for your financial workflow.

Have a question or an idea? Email selfemployedapp@gmail.com — you'll hear back from the person who builds the app.

Download Self Employed today.

Income, taxes, pay stubs, mileage, and more — on every Apple device you own.

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