Comparison

Time Guard vs IML Tree Inspection

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

Head to head
About

Time Guard

This app helps you track your working hours, holidays, and flextime with automatic location-based or manual time logging. Receive notifications for daily and maximum work limits, and view your time data in various formats. Export your records easily.

Highlights
  • Automatic location-based time tracking
  • Manual time logging for various day types
  • Configurable work time limits and notifications
  • Overview with lists, charts, and calendar views
  • Export times as CSV
  • Apple Watch and Today Extension 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 Β§3 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

IML Tree Inspection

Features
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This app represents the next evolutionary step in conducting, analyzing and documenting in-depth tree road safety studies. IML Electronic GmbH, as the heir to argus electronic gmbh, has been the world market leader for high-quality measuring devices for non-destructive testing of the stability and breakage of trees for decades. This app now makes examinations using these devices much easier and more comfortable for the tree expert carrying out the work. As a further development of the traditional PiCUS software (PC-based), the app offers the following key features: - direct connection to the measuring devices - Live display and analysis of the measurement data during the examination - Preparation and analysis of the measurement data in accordance with established practice when examining the road safety of trees - Project-based automatic organization and complete documentation of all examinations - Monitoring the development of the condition of a tree over long periods of time - 3D representation of the internal structure of a tree's defects - Export automatically generated reports to minimize the effort required when creating reports - Connection to the IML Cloud to optimize data exchange between teams working in parallel The app is constantly being actively developed to expand the range of functions and improve the user experience.

Screenshots

Time Guard4 screens
IML Tree Inspection4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: IML Tree Inspection at Free against Time Guard's $5.99. IML Tree Inspection also leads on iOS requirement (12.2 vs 18.0). Time Guard's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

IML Tree Inspection 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 every 5 days, IML Tree Inspection every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Time Guard versus IML Tree Inspection: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime GuardIML Tree Inspection
Price$5.99Free β€” better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 5 days β€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.012.2 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size18 MB229 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian VollmerIML Electronic GmbH

In-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

None

IML Tree Inspection

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is IML Tree Inspection free?
IML Tree Inspection is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Guard or IML Tree Inspection have ads?
Neither Time Guard nor IML Tree Inspection shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Guard or IML Tree Inspection?
Time Guard ships an update every 5 days, and IML Tree Inspection every 2 months. Most recently, Time Guard was updated on November 2, 2026 and IML Tree Inspection on October 24, 2026.

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