--- title: "Free tools for freelancers: calculators & templates" description: "Free tools for freelancers, no sign-up: a rate calculator, late-fee and invoice generators, a tax set-aside calculator, and proposal and contract templates." canonical: "https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools" last_modified: "2026-10-27" --- # Free tools Source: https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools Free tools for freelancers, no sign-up: a rate calculator, late-fee and invoice generators, a tax set-aside calculator, and proposal and contract templates. ## Tool pages - [Freelance rate calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/freelance-rate-calculator): Free freelance rate calculator. Turn your income goal, expenses, time off and billable hours into the minimum hourly and day rate you should charge. - [Late fee calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/late-fee-calculator): Free late fee calculator for invoices. See what an overdue invoice has earned and copy a fair late-fee clause for your payment terms. - [Rate increase letter](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/rate-increase-letter): Free rate increase letter template for freelancers. Fill in a few details and copy a kind, firm note that raises your rate and keeps the client. - [Freelance contract template](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/freelance-contract-template): Free freelance contract template with eight plain-language clauses: scope, payment, deposit, ownership, revisions, termination, liability, governing law. - [Invoice generator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/invoice-generator): Free invoice generator for freelancers. Add line items, discount and tax, and copy a clean itemized invoice. No account, nothing saved. - [Tax set-aside calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/tax-set-aside-calculator): Free tax set-aside calculator for the self-employed. See how much of each client payment to save for US federal, self-employment and state tax. - [Scope of work template](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/scope-of-work-template): Free scope of work template. Turn a loose brief into a clear list of what’s included and what isn’t, ready to paste into any proposal. - [Freelance proposal template](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/proposal-template): Free freelance proposal template. Fill in the client, project, your name and fee, and copy a clean proposal with goal, scope, timeline and price. - [Billable hours calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/billable-hours-calculator): Free billable hours calculator. Log the week’s tasks, mark what’s billable, and see billable hours and the amount to invoice add up as you type. - [Time zone meeting planner](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/time-zone-meeting-planner): Free time zone meeting planner. Pick your city, an hour and a date, compare up to three other cities, and see who is in working hours. - [Project profitability calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/project-profitability-calculator): Free project profitability calculator. Set the fee against your hours and costs to see the hourly rate a project really earned you. - [Markup and margin calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/markup-and-margin-calculator): Free markup and margin calculator. Enter a cost and the margin or markup you want, and get the selling price, the profit and the other percentage. - [Deposit and milestone calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/deposit-and-milestone-calculator): Free deposit and milestone calculator. Split a project fee into a deposit and equal milestone payments that always add back to the full fee. - [Time duration calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/time-duration-calculator): Free time duration calculator. Enter a start time, an end time and any break, and get the time worked in hours and minutes and in decimal hours. - [Working days calculator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/working-days-calculator): Free working days calculator. Count the business days, calendar days and weekend days between two dates before you agree a deadline. - [Password generator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/password-generator): Free password generator. Make a strong random password in your browser, pick the length, letters, numbers and symbols, and see its strength. - [UUID generator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/uuid-generator): Free UUID generator. Make up to 50 random version 4 UUIDs at once in your browser, ready to copy as a list for test data, imports or record IDs. - [Hash generator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/hash-generator): Free SHA-256 hash generator. Hash any text with SHA-1, SHA-256 or SHA-512 and an optional salt, right in your browser, and copy the hex digest. - [Base64 encoder and decoder](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/base64-encode-decode): Free Base64 encode and decode tool. Turn text into Base64 and back in your browser, with emoji and accented letters kept intact, then copy it. - [JSON formatter](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/json-formatter): Free JSON formatter and validator. Pretty-print JSON at 2 or 4 spaces or minify it, and see exactly why it fails when it is not valid. - [URL encoder and decoder](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/url-encode-decode): Free URL encode and decode tool. Percent-encode a query value or a whole URL, or decode one back to readable text, right in your browser. - [Slug and case converter](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/slug-and-case-converter): Free slug and case converter. Turn a title into a URL slug, or switch text between kebab, snake, camel, Pascal, title, upper and constant case. - [Color converter](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/color-converter): Free color converter. Type or pick a hex color and get its RGB and HSL values, with a live swatch and a copy button for each format. - [Lorem ipsum generator](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/lorem-ipsum-generator): Free lorem ipsum generator. Make placeholder paragraphs, sentences or words to fill a layout before the real copy arrives, and copy them in one click. - [Word counter](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/word-counter): Free word counter. Paste a caption, bio or post to count its words, characters and sentences, with reading time and a 280-character check. - [Unix timestamp converter](https://www.meadowdesk.com/tools/unix-timestamp-converter): Free Unix timestamp converter. Turn epoch seconds or milliseconds into a date in your time zone and UTC, or a date and time back into a timestamp.