Comparison

Time Guard vs Tracklio

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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

Tracklio

Features
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Tracklio โ€“ Your time, your control. Tracklio is your simple and reliable solution for tracking work time. Start sessions with one tap, stay organized, and improve productivity. Features: โ€ข One-tap start/stop tracking โ€ข Daily, weekly, and monthly overviews โ€ข Manage absences (vacation, sick days, holidays) โ€ข Export data as PDF or CSV โ€ข Local data storage for privacy โ€ข Clean and intuitive design Whether at the office or working remotely, Tracklio keeps your time under control.

Screenshots

Time Guard4 screens
Tracklio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tracklio at Free against Time Guard's $5.99. Time Guard's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Tracklio 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 3 days, Tracklio monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Time Guard versus Tracklio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime GuardTracklio
Price$5.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews85.2% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian VollmerBoris Boyarskiy

In-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

None

Tracklio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tracklio free?
Tracklio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Guard or Tracklio have ads?
Neither Time Guard nor Tracklio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Guard or Tracklio?
Time Guard ships an update every 3 days, and Tracklio monthly. Most recently, Time Guard was updated on November 9, 2026 and Tracklio on October 30, 2026.

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