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Features · in full

Everything Throughly does, in depth.

Every part works on its own — with or without AI.

01 · Time

One tap, and the clock's running.

Start a live, server-clocked timer against a project, a ticket, or ad-hoc — and drop into Focus. It follows the work, syncs the moment you sign in, and rolls straight into an invoice.

  • Focus mode
  • Work item · ticket · ad-hoc
  • Every device
  • Feeds invoicing
app.throughly.app/time
Live · Focus modeWebsite Rollout 1
02:14:07
tracking · Reproduce API endpoint timeout
16h 32m tracked today €1,280 invoice draft
02 · Projects

Run the work, across the flow.

Open → in progress → done. Group by project or epic, filter, and watch velocity and burndown. Every card carries its project, due date and owner.

  • Drag the flow
  • Epics & sprints
  • Velocity & burndown
  • Due dates & owners
app.throughly.app/board
Board · the flowSprint 3 · 89%
Open7
Fix login 500 error
Export layout glitch
In progress4
Self-serve portal
Sync engine
Done9
PDF renderer
Mobile parity
03 · Help Desk

A help desk with a portal your users never log into.

A shared inbox with SLA, priority and assignment — plus a branded ticket portal you can embed in your own app, no Throughly login for your users. Email and in-app replies unify into one thread per person.

  • Branded & embeddable
  • No login for users
  • Email + in-app, one thread
  • SLA & assignment
app.throughly.app/help-desk
#170OpenHigh
Optimize dashboard widget
↙ Customer · Felix FischerHi, the analytics widget is slow to load past 90 days.
↗ Agent · replyReproduced & optimising now — I'll confirm the moment it's live.
↙ Customer · Felix FischerPerfect — loading instantly now. Thank you!
SLA · 2h to first response · assigned
04 · Knowledge base

A knowledge base you can open up.

A wiki with WYSIWYG or Markdown and ⌘K search — publishable as a login-less, org-branded portal that reads like a magazine, while it stays wired into every process your team, tickets and agents touch.

  • Wiki + ⌘K search
  • Login-less portal
  • Editorial reading themes
  • Wired into everything
wiki.throughly.app/architecture
Engineering · Architecture

How the platform fits together

Knowledge base · 6 min read · updated Aug 2026
Throughly is built as one local-first suite, not a stack of six tools bolted together. Every module — time, projects, the help desk, documents and invoicing — shares one data core, so a tracked hour, a ticket and an invoice all speak the same language. That shared core is what lets a support reply pull the customer's project, or an invoice draw straight from finalized time. The wiki is where the reasoning behind those connections lives: the architecture decisions, the runbooks, the onboarding a new hire reads in week one. Write it in Markdown or the WYSIWYG editor, organise it into categories, and reach any page with ⌘K. Publish a category as a login-less portal and it reads like a magazine — org-branded, searchable, and readable on any device — for your team, or for your customers. Nothing here is locked away in a separate documentation tool; it stays wired into the same work it describes.
05 · Documents

Your files, on a real drive.

Documents that mount as a network drive over WebDAV — open and save straight from Finder or Explorer. Versioned, searchable, filed by area, with a confidential shelf that even agents can't open.

  • WebDAV mount
  • Versioned
  • Filed by area
  • Confidential shelf
app.throughly.app/documents
WebDAV · mounted on your machine
Master Services Agreement.pdf240 KB
dashboard-redesign.png1.2 MB
§Q3 statement.pdf98 KB
🔒Board deck — confidentialagents blocked
06 · Invoicing

Invoicing that bills itself.

Tracked hours become a clean, branded invoice in a click — your rates and tax, in English or German. Send it, watch it get paid, reconcile it. An agent can even draft one for you — write-only.

  • From tracked time
  • EN/DE & tax
  • Sent · paid · reconciled
  • Agent draft (write-only)
app.throughly.app/invoices
INV-3845-0130 · Northwind LabsSent
Update notification job · 8.0h × €90720.00
Implement email template · 5.0h × €110550.00
Test notification job · 9.0h × €110990.00
Subtotal · VAT 20%2560.00 · 512.00
Total · from tracked hours€3,072
07 · Reports

Numbers that add up.

Hours by project, finance, work items, help desk and scrum — filter by period, export to CSV, and reconcile against what you billed.

  • Time · finance · scrum
  • Hours by project
  • Filter & export
  • Reconciles
app.throughly.app/reports
Hours by project · this month
55.35htracked · 5 projects · exportable
ERP Pilot 4Inventory 2CRM RedesignWebsite 1Dashboard 5
08 · AI agents · opt-in

Operable by your AI agents.

Turn on the MCP layer and Claude, Cursor or Copilot act inside Throughly — logging time, running the board, triaging the desk, writing the wiki, drafting invoices — walled off from your money and confidential docs. Off by default.

  • Over MCP
  • Opt-in, off by default
  • Walled off from finance
  • You approve
See how your agents work, step by step →
claude · cursor · copilot → throughly (MCP)
AI agent · over MCP
7 tickets sorted by SLA · 3 replies drafted
09 · Local-first

Works offline, on every device.

The whole suite works offline on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and the web — track time on a plane, answer a ticket on the train. It syncs the moment you sign in.

  • Offline-first
  • iPhone · iPad · Watch · web
  • Syncs on sign-in
  • Your data, local
throughly · offline-first · syncs on sign-in
The whole suite, in your pocket
􀟜 iPhoneiPadApple WatchWeb
✈ works offline → ↻ syncs the moment you sign in
10 · Self-host

Yours to self-host, on-prem.

Run Throughly on your own box, fully isolated from the outside world — no phone-home, no telemetry, offline licensing. Your data never leaves your walls. Free for a team of up to five.

  • On-prem
  • No phone-home
  • Offline licensing
  • Free for ≤ 5
Get the self-hosted edition →
your-box:~ · throughly-selfhosted
$ docker compose up -d
✓ throughly up on your own hardware
✓ no phone-home · no telemetry · offline licence
🔒 your data never leaves your walls
And the rest

Everything else in the box.

Team security console

Grant access by team, not by person. Projects, wiki and documents each scope to All or Selected, Viewer or Editor — and finance sits behind its own capability, so a project editor without the finance grant still can't see the money. One console, deny-by-default.

⤢ take a look

Unified inbox

Email and the customer portal land in one thread per person — a reply you send from Throughly and a message they send from your app are the same conversation, not two.

→ Help desk

Bookkeeping & VAT

Hand invoices and expenses over to your accountant, generate an advance VAT return, and keep financial documents — bank statements, contracts — filed, with a confidential shelf for the sensitive ones.

⤢ take a look

Expenses

Capture an expense, categorise it, attach the receipt, and hand it over with the rest of the books.

⤢ take a look

Vendors & customers

Keep your counterparties once, wired into invoices, projects and the help desk.

⤢ take a look

Timesheet import/export

Bring time in from CSV or Excel and export it back out — for payroll, a client, or your own records.

→ Time

English & German

The app and your invoices, in English or German.

Native apps

Native iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch apps — the whole suite in your pocket, offline, synced the moment you sign in.

→ Local-first

⌘K everywhere

Jump to any project, work item, ticket or page in a keystroke — or narrow with a scope like p: roadmap.

⤢ take a look

Versions & releases

Cut a release, attach its shipped work items, and track progress per version.

⤢ take a look

Git commit links

Push to your repo and commits attach themselves to the matching work items — by message, or linked by an agent — each pointing back to the diff.

⤢ how it links

Modules on or off

Switch whole areas of the suite — Projects, Time, Financials, the Help Desk, the Wiki, Documents, the drive — on or off per organization. The navigation only shows what's turned on, so a support team and a consultancy run two different-looking apps from the very same core.

⤢ take a look
throughly

Your time, projects, support & invoices — one suite you own, end to end.

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