Timelogger Plus vs GrowingTimer
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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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/
GrowingTimer
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How much time do you really spend focused? GrowingTimer is a productivity timer app that records your focus time by category and visualizes your time usage patterns with intuitive statistics. # TRACK TIME BY CATEGORY Create custom categories like coding, exercise, reading, or studying. Record exactly how much time you invest in each activity. # TWO TIMER MODES - Stopwatch Mode: Track focus time freely with no limits - Countdown Mode: Set a target duration (25, 30, 45, or 60 min) and stay focused # VISUAL STATISTICS AT A GLANCE View category distribution with pie charts and analyze daily focus trends with bar charts. Review your growth over 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, or all time. # DYNAMIC ISLAND & LIVE ACTIVITIES Monitor and control your timer in real time from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — without opening the app. # WIDGET SUPPORT Access your timer quickly with a Home Screen widget. # ICLOUD SYNC Your records sync automatically across all your devices. Start building your focus time with GrowingTimer today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GrowingTimer at none against Timelogger Plus's 3. Timelogger Plus's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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. GrowingTimer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Timelogger Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, GrowingTimer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timelogger Plus | GrowingTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (72 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filipe Martins | Choi chul woong |
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
GrowingTimer
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
GrowingTimer
No in-app purchases









