Comparison

Time Guard vs AFI Xpense

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

Head to head
About

Time Guard

This app helps you track your work hours, holidays, and flextime with automatic location-based or manual time logging. Receive notifications for exceeding daily or maximum work limits and export your data easily. Supports Apple Watch and calendar sync.

Highlights
  • Automatic location-based time tracking
  • Manual time entry for various work types
  • Holiday and flextime balance management
  • Push notifications for work time limits
  • CSV export of time data
  • Calendar sync
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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Time Guard not just gives you an overview about your achieved working times, current amount of holidays and flextime, but also keeps you informed by Push-Notifications when you reach the amount of daily and maximum allowed working time. Doing so, Time Guard can automatically track your entering and leaving times for locations you define in settings, either based on geo-locations or on iBeacons for an even more fine-grained indoor recognition. Of course you also can track your times manually at any time, especially for holidays, flexdays and illness-days so that your flextime amount and current holiday is always up-to-date. Time Guard includes the following features: - Configure your daily amount of work (constant or individually per day of week), your amount of weekly work, maximum work, fixed & flexible pause, amount of annual holidays, current amount of flextime, monthly or weekly flextime subtraction and flextime scale to configure time period within which flextime will be added. - display effective average working time of the last 6 months - display average working time of last 6 months according to ยง3 ArbZG - Push-Notification when reaching the amount of daily and maximum working time - Configuration of locations by comfortable address-search or by defining iBeacon parameters. - for geolocation-monitored regions you can define an offset in minutes which gets automatically added on arrival and subtracted on departure. - Automatical tracking of times for your configured locations even when the app is not running and without affecting the battery-life negatively. - Overview about single times, daily and weekly working times as list, chart diagrams or in a scrolling calendar view. - Manual tracking of working times, short-time working, block time, holidays, flexdays and illness-days - Adding a note to a single time. - 3D-Touch on Home-Screen Icon for an even faster adding of new entries (iPhone 6s or newer) - 3D-Touch Peek&Pop on time-overview (iPhone 6s or newer) - Overview in Today Extension of Notification Center - Export times as CSV via email - monthly time sheets - Import times (inkl. from Geofency and Hours Tracker) - tap on hour-label in Startscreen to show latest possible leaving time - automatic registration of travel-time between two monitored regions - Apple Watch support - iOS 13 DarkMode - sync time entries one-way down to a selected calendar For new requirements, reporting bugs or any feedback please contact timeguard@iosolutions.de

About

AFI Xpense

Digitally record travel expenses and invoices directly from SAP. This app simplifies business trips by allowing users to capture receipts via their phone's camera, reducing manual data entry and streamlining accounting processes for increased transparency and employee satisfaction.

Highlights
  • Digital expense recording
  • Direct SAP invoicing
  • Receipt capture via camera
  • Automated accounting integration
  • Digital query and approval
  • Traceable documentation
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Travel costs and expenses can now be recorded digitally via a mobile app and/or web applicationand invoiced directly from SAP: with AFI Xpense the days of Excel charts, forms and media disruptions are over. The software makes your business trip so much easier because you can conveniently and digitally record taxi bills, train tickets, hotel and restaurant receipts or expenses of any kind via the camera in the AFI Xpense app. Correct processing is initiated at the same time. Expense rates and special expenses can easily be integrated โ€“ the accounting effort is reduced to a minimum. Queries and approvals are quickly dealt with digitally. Traceability is ensured by accurate documentation. Modern and safe working on the go: you keep control of your expense management and benefit from transparency, high data quality and the central consolidation of accounting data. The logical consequence: an increase in employee satisfaction.

Screenshots

Time Guard4 screens
AFI Xpense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AFI Xpense at Free against Time Guard's $5.99. AFI Xpense also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Time Guard's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

AFI Xpense is free to download; Time Guard costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Guard ships an update weekly, AFI Xpense every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences ยท 2 level
Time Guard versus AFI Xpense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime GuardAFI Xpense
Price$5.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews โ€” better
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size17 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian VollmerAFI Solutions GmbH

Customer experience

Time Guard

Written reviews25 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative4.0%

AFI Xpense

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

None

AFI Xpense

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AFI Xpense free?
AFI Xpense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Guard or AFI Xpense have ads?
Neither Time Guard nor AFI Xpense shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Guard or AFI Xpense?
Time Guard ships an update weekly, and AFI Xpense every 2 months. Most recently, Time Guard was updated on October 20, 2026 and AFI Xpense on October 13, 2026.

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