Comparison

Time Guard vs Clocktower Time Tracker

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

Clocktower Time Tracker

Features
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Log your day in a swipe and watch your billable total add up. Clocktower is a visual time tracker for people who bill for their hours: drop your hours as a stack of colored blocks, assign each to a project, and see the total in real time. LOG WITH JUST A SWIPE Swipe up to drop a time block, then tap a project to assign it. No forms, no fiddly start and stop. Add a note if you want one. BUILT TO INVOICE Give each project its own hourly rate and Clocktower turns tracked hours into billable totals automatically. When it is time to bill, filter by project and date range and export a clean timesheet. REMINDERS SO NOTHING SLIPS Turn on daily reminders to log your hours. Your timesheet stops being a guess at the end of the week. KNOW WHERE THE HOURS WENT Reports break your time down by project and by week, with earnings shown in your own currency. START A TIMER IN A TAP Running late on logging? Start a live timer from the app, the home screen widget, or the Lock Screen, and it lands in the right block. ON EVERY DEVICE Clocktower runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and your hours sync privately through iCloud across all of them. There is no account to create and no sign up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Clocktower has no ads and no tracking. Your time data stays in your own iCloud, not on our servers. Clocktower is free to track up to five projects. Clocktower Pro unlocks unlimited projects. Clocktower Pro is available as an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one time lifetime purchase. Subscription prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://clocktowerapp.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://clocktowerapp.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Time Guard4 screens
Clocktower Time Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clocktower Time Tracker at Free against Time Guard's $5.99. Clocktower Time Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Time Guard's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support 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

Clocktower Time Tracker is free to download; Time Guard costs $5.99 up front. Clocktower Time Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Time Guard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Guard ships an update weekly, Clocktower Time Tracker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Time Guard versus Clocktower Time Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime GuardClocktower Time Tracker
Price$5.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews84.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size17 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian VollmerLauri Kieksi

In-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Clocktower Time Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Clocktower Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Clocktower Pro Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Clocktower Pro (Lifetime)$49.99

Questions

Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clocktower Time Tracker free?
Clocktower Time Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Guard or Clocktower Time Tracker have ads?
Neither Time Guard nor Clocktower Time Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Guard or Clocktower Time Tracker?
Time Guard ships an update weekly, and Clocktower Time Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, Time Guard was updated on September 22, 2026 and Clocktower Time Tracker on October 1, 2026.

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