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 time spent on various activities with a simple, minimalist interface. Monitor progress with daily, weekly, and monthly reports. The free version allows tracking one activity, while a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited tracking and detailed overviews.

Highlights
  • Quickly start/stop activity tracking
  • Track multiple activities
  • Daily activity overview
  • Weekly and monthly progress reports
  • Simple, minimalist interface
  • Data stored locally on device
Features
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Tracking your activities time has never been easier. Hours Tracker, is a simple and minimal app to track time for multiple activities without any complication. With one click you can start the activity timer or explore your activity's overview and get a report of the time spent on every activity, for the current day, last 7 days or last month. • Hours Tracker Features: - Quickly and easily start or stop your activity tracking - Multiple activities including; Work, Studies, Eat, Fun, Fitness, and Others - Explore your today's activities tracking - Get an overview of your last 7 days and last month activity progress. - Simple and minimalist interface without complications. • Subscription pricing and terms: You can use Hours Tracker for free to track your work activity time and show your today's activity report. To track unlimited activities, and explore the overview of your tracked activities time, you will need only one time payment of 1.99$ for the Pro version. • PRIVACY All your data belongs to you and stays on your device. No sign-in. No servers. No cloud. • Questions? If you have questions or suggestions, contact us at ayoub@overflow.ma Stay focused, Improve your productivity and start tracking your activities time!

Screenshots

Timelogger Plus4 screens
Hours Tracker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Timelogger Plus at 76% against Hours Tracker's 0%. Timelogger Plus also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (72 vs 2). Hours Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timelogger Plus has 72 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Timelogger Plus's written reviews are positive against 0% of Hours Tracker's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Timelogger Plus versus Hours Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelogger PlusHours Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (72 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings72 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFilipe MartinsOverflow LTD

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 ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
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
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  • 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
1 purchases

Hours Tracker

One-time1
  • Version PRO$1.99

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 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Timelogger Plus or Hours Tracker have ads?
Neither Timelogger Plus nor Hours Tracker shows ads.

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