Timelogger Plus vs SimpleTimeLogger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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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Track your time, build routines, and keep client work organized with Timelogger Plus. Use stopwatches, time reports, and daily, weekly, or monthly goals on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. See how much time you spend on freelance projects, study, household tasks, hobbies, or personal goals. Record a session as you work, add time you forgot to track, and review your progress in one place. TIME TRACKING THAT FITS YOUR DAY • Start and stop a task's stopwatch with a tap. • Run multiple stopwatches when you need to track different activities. • Add or edit time entries, including their start and end times. • Add notes to record what you worked on. • Set reminders for running stopwatches. ORGANIZE TASKS AND SET GOALS • Group tasks into folders for clients, projects, or routines. • Use tags to organize tasks, time entries, and notes. • Choose colors to make tasks and folders easier to recognize. • Set daily, weekly, or monthly time goals for a task, folder, or tag. • Follow goal progress and review past days, weeks, and months. • Archive completed work while keeping its history. UNDERSTAND YOUR TIME AND BILLABLE WORK • Review tracked time, activity, and trends in the dashboard. • Filter your reports by task, folder, or tag. • Set hourly rates for tasks and folders to calculate billable amounts. • Add billable notes for work that does not use a stopwatch. • Generate PDF reports for a chosen date range. • Export entries to CSV for use in spreadsheets and other tools. • Import CSV data and create manual backups. MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES Enjoy a refreshed design with Liquid Glass and layouts that fit the screen you use. On iPhone Duo, move between a compact view and a spacious layout with task lists and details side by side when you unfold the display. On iPad, use the sidebar, resizable windows, and multitasking to keep your work in view. On Mac, start and stop timers from the menu bar without opening the main window. Add desktop widgets for quick access to tasks and running stopwatches. On Apple Watch, start and stop timers for selected tasks from your wrist. Use watch face complications and Smart Stack widgets to check running timers. The Watch app syncs with your paired iPhone. Use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and automate actions with Shortcuts. On iPhone, follow running timers on the Lock Screen and in Dynamic Island with Live Activities. Sync your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud, and choose a light or dark appearance. Some features require Premium, available through in-app purchase. Questions or suggestions? Contact timeloggerapp@gmail.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SimpleTimeLogger
Effortlessly track your work hours with a clean interface. Log time quickly, manage projects and tags, set targets, and monitor your work-life balance. Includes vacation tracking and insightful statistics.
- Quick duration logging
- Project and tag management
- Target hour setting
- Vacation and absence tracking
- Detailed statistics and insights
- Home screen quick actions
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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TimeLogger – Take Control of Your Time. Powerful. Clear. Flexible. TimeLogger is a powerful time tracker with a clean, uncluttered interface – all the complexity stays in the background so you can focus on your work. Smart Time Tracking - Quick Durations: Tap your most-used work durations to log time instantly – no manual clock setting needed - "Finished by" display: See right in the Start/Stop button when you'll reach your target hours - Home Screen Quick Actions: Start or stop tracking and add new entries without even opening the app - Siri Shortcuts: Control TimeLogger with your voice – start tracking, add entries, open statistics, or export as PDF - Midnight time tracking: Flexibly allocate shifts to the start day, end day, or split across both - Add missed entries manually at any time Multiple Jobs - Manage multiple jobs separately – ideal for a second job or a new employer - Each job with its own target hours, vacation allowance, and balance Projects & Tags - Projects: Assign every entry to a project – such as a client or job – and keep track of where your hours go - Tags: Describe the context of your work with any number of tags like working from home or office – independent of the project and always optional - Tag Breakdown: See in statistics the total hours and number of days for each of your tags – for example your working-from-home days for your tax return - Filter: Narrow the calendar and statistics down to a single project Export & Reports - CSV Export: Export your working hours as a CSV file – perfect for further processing in Excel, Numbers & more - PDF Export: Professionally designed Monthly Overview with a totals row showing all your totals at a glance - Individual Export Options: Choose the row layout, separators, units, and additional columns like projects or tags - Project Export: Export a project's hours as a PDF – perfect as proof for an invoice or a report Reminders & Notifications - Reminders to clock in and out, plus alerts when you reach your target hours or an automatic break applies - Configurable separately for each weekday - Naturally stays quiet on vacation, holidays, and sick days Target Time & Work Balance - Set individual target hours for each weekday - Daily and weekly target time tracking with automatic running balance - Running Total Balance: Optionally, the calendar shows your cumulative balance up to each day right alongside it - Missed targets are shown as negative balance in weekly and monthly charts - Support for half workdays (e.g. Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve) - Automatic breaks: Configurable legally or company-required break rules, also loggable manually - Period-based target hours and vacation allowances – ideal when switching between full-time and part-time Vacation & Absence Management - Built-in vacation management: track available, planned, and taken days - Create vacation with a single tap – right from the detail view - Vacation Preview: instantly see how many vacation days a period will use before you confirm - Automatic Public Holidays: Choose your region and official holidays appear automatically in the calendar – works for any region worldwide - Manual entry of other absence types like sick days, special leave, or compensatory time off - Visual statistics with a comprehensive overview of all absences (sickness, vacation, and more) Insights & Statistics - Insights section: Discover patterns in your work behavior - Clear, visual summaries of your time at a glance Widgets & Live Activities - Live Activity & Lock Screen Widgets: daily, weekly, and monthly progress on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island First-Class iPad Support - Sidebar navigation and a thoughtfully designed layout optimized for the big screen Help & FAQ - Answers to common questions right in the app – about Jobs, Projects, Tags, time tracking, balance, and more Questions, feedback, or suggestions? Feel free to email us at TimeLogger@heckel.tech – we'd love to hear from you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimpleTimeLogger at none against Timelogger Plus's 3. SimpleTimeLogger also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Timelogger Plus's advantage is ratings volume (76 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Timelogger Plus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SimpleTimeLogger asks for nothing beyond the download.
SimpleTimeLogger holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timelogger Plus has 76 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Timelogger Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, SimpleTimeLogger weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timelogger Plus | SimpleTimeLogger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (76 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filipe Martins | Tobias Heckel |
Customer experience
Timelogger Plus
SimpleTimeLogger
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
SimpleTimeLogger
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Timelogger Plus
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium Annual$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$24.99
SimpleTimeLogger
No in-app purchases
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