3D Modelers on Toggl Track pay $18/month — $216/year. Over three years, that's $725. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 15.5 months. The median 3D Modeler earns $45,000/year, so Toggl Track's annual cost is roughly 0.5% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $725 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
3D Modelers face unique challenges: Clients send a 'simple' reference and then expect the asset to deform cleanly when rigged, but clean topology and game-ready edge loops were never in the quoted budget. Poly-count budgets, texture resolution, and UV layout specs change mid-project when the engine target shifts, forcing a retopo that nobody re-quoted. Render-farm time and turntable previews burn hours and electricity that disappear into a flat asset price. Source files (the high-poly sculpt, the working scene) are worth more than the final game-ready mesh, but clients expect every file handed over for the base fee. On top of all that, Toggl Track charges $18/month ($216/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median 3D Modeler earns $45,000/year. Software at $216/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Maya or Blender is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
Toggl Track is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Toggl Track | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $18/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $725 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most 3d modelers are fully switched before the weekend.
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The day opens checking overnight bakes in Marmoset to see whether the normal map caught any nasty seams or skewing, and one of the cavity bakes did, so you fix the cage and re-fire it. Morning proper is blockout on a new prop, a piece of sci-fi machinery the client referenced from a single concept sheet. You sculpt the high-poly in ZBrush, chasing the silhouette first, then panel lines and damage. Around eleven the client messages that the engine target moved from offline render to real-time, which changes everything: the poly budget just dropped by eighty percent and you now need clean retopo and tight UVs. You note the spec change. Afternoon is the retopo grind in Maya, laying edge loops so the mesh deforms and reads at the new triangle count, then unwrapping in RizomUV and packing the islands. Late afternoon you bake the high-poly detail down onto the low-poly and start texturing in Substance, building smart materials so the metal and rust read at the target resolution. Before logging off you set up a turntable render, name the export with the version and date, and update the project tracker noting that the engine-target change added a retopo pass that wasn't in the original scope.
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For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. Toggl Track may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Toggl Track is $18/month — that's $725 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
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.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
Export your data from Toggl Track as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $3,840/year on software — and 3D Modeler face their own version of that math. CA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Santa Barbara metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps 3D Modelers run into with Toggl Track, and what Nexa does instead.
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