Comparison

Time Guard vs MakersXChange

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 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 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

MakersXChange

Features
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Your ultimate companion for Simplifier MakersXChange experience! Stay connected, inspired, and informed throughout the event with real-time updates, personalized schedules, interactive maps, speaker info, and networking featuresβ€”all in one place. Key features include: - Get your event ticket - Agenda Overview - Speaker bios & session details - Networking tools to connect with fellow attendees - Access to resources & post-event materials Download the app and make the most of your MakersXChange journey!

Screenshots

Time Guard4 screens
MakersXChange4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MakersXChange at Free against Time Guard's $5.99. MakersXChange also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Time Guard's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads and in-app purchases 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

MakersXChange 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, MakersXChange every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Β· 4 level
Time Guard versus MakersXChange: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime GuardMakersXChange
Price$5.99Free β€” better
Positive reviews84.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyWeekly β€” betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size17 MB454 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian VollmerSimplifier AG

In-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

None

MakersXChange

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MakersXChange free?
MakersXChange is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Guard or MakersXChange have ads?
Neither Time Guard nor MakersXChange shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Guard or MakersXChange?
Time Guard ships an update weekly, and MakersXChange every 5 weeks. Most recently, Time Guard was updated on September 22, 2026 and MakersXChange on June 24, 2026.

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