TimeSpace

About this app

What TimeSpace does

The Time-Space Percentage is the most important number on a family child care provider's tax return. It scales every home deduction on Form 8829 — and every hour you fail to record shrinks it. TimeSpace is the offline tracker built to protect that number. Here is the math the IRS lets you do. Every hour children are in your home counts. So does every hour you work on the business when they are not there: cleaning after pickup, planning menus, prepping activities, keeping records. Divide those hours by the 8,760 hours in a year, multiply by the share of your home used for the business, and that percentage turns thousands of dollars of ordinary household costs into legitimate deductions. Providers who track carefully land points higher than providers who estimate in April — and each point is real money. Today, tracking it means a paper log, a spreadsheet, or a twelve-fifty-a-month food-program subscription. TimeSpace replaces all three with two one-tap timers: Kids Here and Working Alone. Tap when the first child arrives, tap when the last one leaves, tap again when you start the evening cleanup. Forgot to tap? Add hours by hand in seconds. Space is a single walkthrough. Enter each room's square footage and mark it regularly used, exclusively used, or not used for the business. TimeSpace keeps your space percentage current and shows how each room moves it. The hardest habit is logging work done after the children leave, and the widely taught rule is to track it closely for at least two months and apply the average all year. TimeSpace turns that rule into a plan: pick your sampling window, get a gentle evening reminder, and watch a progress ring fill as your average firms up. Come tax season, a shared-expense ledger applies your percentage to utilities, insurance, and repairs automatically, and a year-end packet lays out hours, square footage, and scaled expenses the way Form 8829 asks for them — ready to hand to your tax preparer. Everything stays on your device. No account, no subscription, nothing wrapped around it. • One-tap Kids Here and Working Alone timers with manual entry • Room-by-room square-footage walkthrough with exclusive-use rooms • Live Time-Space Percentage that updates with every logged hour • Two-month sampling plan with evening reminders and progress ring • Shared-expense ledger auto-scaled by your percentage • Form 8829-ready year-end packet for your tax preparer • Fully offline, private, no account required