Freelancers

Quotewell for Freelancers: Build a price catalog once and turn out branded PDF quotes

Build a price catalog once and turn out branded PDF quotes offline.

Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.

The tool this job usually means renting is PandaDoc / Proposify, at $19–$49/user/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. Quotewell does the job for a one-time $29 — running locally on your own machine.

Fit check

Why it fits how freelancers work

🗂️ Price catalog

Save your services and materials with default price, unit and description — build it once, quote fast forever.

For freelancers, price catalog pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.

➕ Line-item builder

Pull items from the catalog or add one-offs, with fractional quantities, per-line and quote-level discounts, tax and live totals.

For freelancers, line-item builder pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.

🔀 Optional / alternate lines

Show upsells and alternates on the quote, priced but excluded from the total.

For freelancers, optional / alternate lines pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.

Workflow

A typical workflow

STEP 01

Buy once on Whop

One payment of $29 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/quote-estimator-mvp and build it yourself for free.

STEP 02

Build your catalog

Save your services and materials once with default prices, units and descriptions.

STEP 03

Quote and export

Pull items into a line-item quote, apply discounts and tax, then export a branded PDF in one click.

What it costs, honestly

Quotewell is $29, once. PandaDoc / Proposify at $19–$49/user/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. At $19/mo, Quotewell pays for itself in about 1.5 months — then it's free for life.

FAQ

Freelancers ask

Is Quotewell worth it for freelancers?

At $19/mo, Quotewell pays for itself in about 1.5 months — then it's free for life. Quotewell costs $29 once; PandaDoc / Proposify charges $19–$49/user/mo — about $228 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.

Is it really free on GitHub?

Yes — Quotewell is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/quote-estimator-mvp. The $29 buys the 1-click Windows installer and zero setup; building from source is free.

Does my quote data go to the cloud?

Never. Everything is a local SQLite file on your disk, it works fully offline, and there is no telemetry.

Own Quotewell forever — $29