Time Guard vs PenaltyPay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Time Guard
Effortlessly track your work hours, holidays, and flextime with automatic location-based or manual time logging. Receive notifications for daily and maximum work limits, and gain insights into your working patterns. Export your data for comprehensive record-keeping.
- Automatic location-based time tracking
- Manual time entry for holidays and sick days
- Configurable work time limits and notifications
- Overview of working times via lists and charts
- Export times as CSV
- Apple Watch and Today Extension support
- Sync with calendar
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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
PenaltyPay
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With PenaltyPay, you have everything under control as a treasurer and can easily manage penalties. Suitable for soccer, volleyball, e-sports, bowling clubs and many more! - Create or join different teams. - Pay online directly to the team account using various payment options. - Manage your members and appoint treasurers. - Create different types of penalties such as crates, rounds or similar. - Create tags to differentiate penalties. - Personalize the app and use the colors of your team. - Organize penalties in your penalty catalog. - Assign penalties to users or create new ones. - Divide invoices or amounts equally among all users. - Multilingual: German and English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PenaltyPay at Free against Time Guard's $5.99. PenaltyPay also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Time Guard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). On in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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PenaltyPay is free to download; Time Guard costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Time Guard ships an update every 3 days, PenaltyPay every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Guard | PenaltyPay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free โ better |
| Positive reviews | 85.2% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Vollmer | Jannik Kolthof |
In-app purchases
Time Guard
No in-app purchases
PenaltyPay
No in-app purchases
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