Comparison

Timelogger Plus vs Hours Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Timelogger Plus

This app helps you actively manage and monitor your time across multiple Apple devices. It offers features like stopwatches, goal setting, and detailed reporting, making it ideal for freelancers, managing daily routines, or personal projects.

Highlights
  • Record time with stopwatches
  • Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals
  • Synchronize across devices via iCloud
  • Generate PDF and CSV reports
  • Manual time input
  • Multiple active stopwatches
  • Home and Lock Screen Widgets
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Timelogger Plus is a time tracking app that allows you to actively manage and monitor various tasks on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac securely and updated across all devices using iCloud. It is ideal for freelancing, repetitive daily routines, homemaking tasks, personal projects, or any activity people want to track and control. Timelogger Plus lets you: ▪ Record time using stopwatches; ▪ Define Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Goals; ▪ Synchronize between devices using iCloud; ▪ Generate PDF reports from custom intervals; ▪ Input time manually; ▪ Have multiple stopwatches active; ▪ Set Home Screen Widgets for ease to use; ▪ Set Lock Screen Widgets for ease to use; ▪ Use the Split View on the iPad for ease to use; ▪ Use the Stage Manager on the iPad for ease to use; ▪ Integrate with the Shortcuts application; ▪ Define hourly rates for your tasks; ▪ Define hourly rates for your folders; ▪ Export your entries to CSV; ▪ Create notes; ▪ Create billing notes; ▪ Use Context actions for ease to use; ▪ Add Tags to your Tasks, Entries, or Notes; ▪ Generate Manual backups; ▪ Archive Folders, Tasks, Entries, or Notes; ▪ Analyze your data through a Dashboard; ▪ Choose any Color for your Tasks and Folders; ▪ Filter by Folders or Tasks on the Dashboard views; ▪ Schedule notifications for running stopwatches; ▪ Change to Light or Dark mode; If you have a question, problem, or need help, please send a support request via e-mail. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Hours Tracker

Easily track your work hours, overtime, and time off with this intuitive app. It supports multiple jobs, offers customizable settings, and allows for quick data entry with note templates. Export your records in various formats and share them easily.

Highlights
  • Easy time tracking
  • Overtime calculation
  • Vacation and sick day tracking
  • iCloud synchronization
  • PDF/CSV export
  • Multiple job support
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
Features
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Capture your working hours – anytime and anywhere. Handwritten timesheets are a thing of the past. Whether after work or using the clock-in/out feature, myTime is the perfect companion when complex or expensive time tracking systems is unnecessary or if you simply want to check your times. Easily record your hours, calculate overtime, manage vacation and sick days, add notes, and more – all in one place. Thanks to iCloud sync, your data stays up to date across iPhone and iPad. Working multiple jobs? No problem. Track hours for each job independently and customize settings such as daily hours, start/end times, and breaks – tailored to your needs. Create reusable note templates to speed up data entry. Export your records as PDF or CSV files for use in Excel, Numbers, or other tools. Share via email, iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, and more. With Siri and Shortcuts support, you can clock in and out even faster. And the backup feature ensures your data stays safe – locally or in iCloud. myTime features at a glance: • Easy time tracking • Track home office, vacation, sick days, and more • Overtime calculation • Vacation day tracking • iCloud synchronization • Document export (PDF/CSV) • Clock in/out • Siri integration • Shortcuts support • Multiple job support • Backup and restore • Note templates • Easy data sharing • Clear overview • Choose between hours/minutes or decimal time • Light and dark mode • …and much more QUESTIONS? Have questions or feedback? Feel free to contact us at myTime@rock-dog.net Further Information: You can try the basic version with limited functionality free of charge during the calendar year of the first installation. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Timelogger Plus4 screens
Hours Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

Timelogger Plus and Hours Tracker both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 96% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 76% of Timelogger Plus's. Timelogger Plus's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (72 vs 19). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timelogger Plus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Hours Tracker sells 20 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timelogger Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Timelogger Plus's written reviews are positive against 96% of Hours Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timelogger Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, Hours Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Timelogger Plus versus Hours Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelogger PlusHours Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (72 ratings) — better4.4 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews96.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFilipe MartinsHeiner Gerdes

Customer experience

Timelogger Plus

All ratings72 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral1.4%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative19.6%

Hours Tracker

All ratings19 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral10.5%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive96.5%
Neutral3.5%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Timelogger Plus

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Single Timer does not work on iPad
  • Old task will continue after clicking a new task
  • iCloud sync broken
  • Apple Watch doesn’t work
  • Syncing between Mac, iPhone and iPad is iffy
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  • List of apps does not sync in their proper order on the Home page
  • Home Screen flickers in and out
  • Confusing Interface (Plus version)
  • Widgets not available as advertised
  • Single Timer feature gone
  • iCloud sync is buggy
  • Apple Watch app keeps running after session ends
  • iCloud integrity check crashes app and deletes tasks
  • Timer still running in widget after stopped in-app
  • Task on iPad keeps running after stopping on phone
  • Refusing to stop a task for whatever reason
  • Mac app font size hard to see
  • Task name overlaps time info on the right side

Requested features

25 requests
  • Bar chart instead of circular chart in Time Distribution
  • Toggle switch for time and percent in task total time chart
  • Larger start timer button
  • Add Limits for tasks to goals
  • Manual sort of tasks
Show 20 more
  • Sort tasks by spend time in reports (not alphabet)
  • Show each activity with time and percent in reports
  • Ability to set recurring reminders when a timer is running
  • Notifications to start timers
  • Add an email address for feature requests
  • Automatically discard tasks running for very short time
  • Ability to link a 'goal' to a combo of tasks from different folders
  • Widget for the main screen
  • Planning (to-do lists) implemented
  • White theme option
  • Task name overlap issue fixed
  • Other sync options like NextCloud
  • Menu in Finder top navigation
  • Stop all timers Siri shortcut
  • One at a time timer option
  • Lock the app function
  • Aggregate color-based charts by groups or use text labels
  • See timeline and daily distribution of entries by group
  • Share text from reminder/meeting to automatically create an entry with text in notes
  • Ability to lock minutes to 15 min increments, or 6 or 10 for manual entries

Hours Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Timelogger Plus

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$24.99
20 purchases

Hours Tracker

Subscriptions6
  • myTime Pro$0.991 Month
  • myTime Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • myTime Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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  • myTime Pro$8.991 Year
  • myTime Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • myTime Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time14
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Add Year$1.99
  • Medium Coffe$2.99
Show 11 more
  • 2025$2.99
  • 2027$2.99
  • 2030$2.99
  • 2028$2.99
  • 2029$2.99
  • Large Coffee$3.99
  • Clock In / Clock Out$6.99
  • Cloud Synchronization$6.99
  • Export (CSV, PDF) + Years$7.99
  • Unlimited Jobs$7.99
  • Pro Version$49.99

Questions

Is Timelogger Plus free?
Timelogger Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timelogger Plus or Hours Tracker?
Timelogger Plus is rated higher. Timelogger Plus averages 4.6 out of 5 from 72 ratings, while Hours Tracker averages 4.4 from 19 ratings.
Do Timelogger Plus or Hours Tracker have ads?
Neither Timelogger Plus nor Hours Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timelogger Plus or Hours Tracker?
Timelogger Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, and Hours Tracker weekly. Most recently, Timelogger Plus was updated on September 11, 2026 and Hours Tracker on September 21, 2026.

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