What pitch deck designers need from their software, from sources outside Toggl Track and outside Nexa:
Disclosure: the publisher of this page makes Nexa, and this comparison rests on each product's published feature list, not hands-on testing. The one test that matters for deck work is cheap, so run it yourself. Take a finished deck, log the investor feedback rounds against the original quote, and see whether the tool shows you when the quote was blown. Toggl Track is built for that test. It has estimated-vs-actual time reports, project and client profitability reports, and billable rates, so a deck quoted on a fixed fee shows how many hours the late rounds added. Its 30-day trial needs no credit card, so you can check this on a real project. It also has background tracking, phone and desktop apps, and team planning. It does not list the paperwork the Graphic Artists Guild's sample agreement assumes. That means a kill fee billed by project stage, a signed record of who owns the deck and source files (17 U.S.C. §204(a) requires a signed writing), or income by client and by quarter to reconcile 1099-NEC forms and estimated tax payments. It lists invoicing, but not those terms.
Nexa covers more of that paperwork and less of the time analysis. Quotes, estimates and proposals convert to invoices. Clients can sign estimates in the pay portal, which gives you a signed record to keep with each project. Payment plans and invoices can bill a partial fee, such as half the fee when a founder postpones a raise before the final stage. Bookkeeping includes 1099 summaries, expenses and profit and loss, which help with income by client and with setting money aside for quarterly estimates. It also has time tracking, missions (projects) and jobs with costing and profit. Its limits matter for this trade. Its listed features have no estimated-vs-actual report like Toggl Track's, so revision creep is harder to see in hours. Nothing in either tool logs each feedback round against quoted scope and turns the extras into line items, so you would keep that log by hand with either one. Nexa has no integration library and no sync with accounting software. It has no hosted support or onboarding, and its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. Card payments go only through your own Stripe account.
Over three years, Toggl Track at $12 a month costs $432. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99, and runs on one device. Adding Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings the three-year total to $458.64, slightly more than Toggl Track. If your pain is revision creep, meaning you already quote by the project and need to see where the late rounds ate the margin, stay with Toggl Track. Do the stage-based kill fee, the signed rights terms and the 1099 records in whatever invoicing and filing habits you already have. If your pain is the paperwork, because clients cancel mid-project and you chase signatures and year-end 1099 totals, a solo designer on one machine could reasonably move to Nexa. Accept that you would lose the hours-versus-quote view and do that comparison by hand.
Our read for pitch deck designers: Stay with Toggl Track if catching revision creep against your quote is your main problem, since its estimated-vs-actual reports have no listed equivalent in Nexa; Nexa only fits better for a solo designer whose bigger gap is signed estimates, partial-fee invoices and 1099 records.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Toggl Track costs pitch deck designers $144/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 23.3 months it has cost less than Toggl Track, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Toggl Track bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for pitch deck designers: Stay with Toggl Track if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $432 for Toggl Track over three years.
Time tracking, invoicing, client records and scheduling are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Toggl Track solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $12/month — $144 a year, from Toggl Track's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $153 less.
If Toggl Track raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Toggl Track | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $12/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $432 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Toggl Track come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Toggl Track lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Toggl Track's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Toggl Track is the better call if you need simple time tracking specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Toggl Track's product page lists agencies and professional services teams, software and IT teams, law firms, and accounting and finance teams. It also names three sizes of customer: freelancers and solo users, growing teams, and large organizations. (toggl.com)
What people outside Toggl Track and outside Nexa say:
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do the creative work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every pitch deck designer: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to the creative work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
An inquiry becomes a proposal becomes a signed project — with the scope and the deposit locked in.
The work itself — tracked against the project: hours, milestones, revisions, and expenses, so nothing bills late or goes uncounted.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on the creative work. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A pitch deck designer's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Toggl Track plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Pitch Deck Designer earns $45,000/year. At $144/year, Toggl Track is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for pitch deck designers. You own it like you own your Figma.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small pitch deck designers business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling into a large team with dedicated admin staff, a bigger platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
Time tracking, invoicing, client records and scheduling are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
Every deck starts as therapy. A first-time founder gets on a call and word-vomits their startup for forty minutes, and my job is to find the one-sentence problem and the inevitable-feeling solution buried in there before I ever touch Figma. I map the classic investor arc on paper: problem, solution, why now, market size, product, traction, business model, team, the ask. Then I push back gently when they insist on a deep-dive technical slide that belongs in the data room, not the pitch. By midday I'm in Figma building the story visually, designing the traction slide to make their early numbers feel like momentum, and charting projections that are ambitious but not laughable, because a VC has seen a thousand fake hockey sticks. Afternoon is the market-size slide, where I help them frame TAM honestly instead of the 'if we capture 1% of China' fallacy. Late in the day the founder texts that they just got a warm intro and the meeting moved up, so the deck I planned to refine over the week now ships tomorrow, which means a rushed traction update and a final pass to make sure the ask slide states a clear number. I export a presenter PDF and a separate send-ahead version, because the emailed deck needs to stand alone without them narrating it.
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The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a pitch deck designer's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a pitch deck designer — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.
For solo pitch deck designers and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Toggl Track may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Toggl Track has features like Simple time tracking and Desktop and mobile apps that some businesses rely on. For most solo pitch deck designers, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $12/month, Nexa pays for itself in 23.3 months. After that: $144 saved every year.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
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