Comparison

Qlaqs Time Tracking vs Caato Freelancer Time Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Qlaqs Time Tracking

This app helps freelancers, teams, and small businesses track project and task-based work hours. It offers features like a stopwatch, time picker, calendar integration, and team management via a web center. Users can also manage budgets, generate reports, and export timesheets in various formats.

Highlights
  • Project and task-based time tracking
  • Synchronization with WebCenter
  • Revenue and budget management
  • Automated rounding
  • Email export (CSV, PDF, XML)
  • GPS assistance and reminders
  • Pinlock data protection
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Qlaqs Time Tracking is your project and task-based tool for time tracking, especially for freelancer, teams and small companies. • Track working times according to projects and tasks • Keep your data at a glance using the chart overview • Synchronization* between your smartphone/tablet and WebCenter • Check your success and manage revenues and budgets • Create exact timesheets for customers or employers • Track your working times flexibly on your iPhone, iPad or PC • Benefit from the possibility to manage and track working times in a team via Qlaqs WebCenter* • Assign projects and tasks via the Qlaqs WebCenter and create reports for your team *** Features of Qlaqs Time Tracking *** • Qlaqs can be used for an unlimited number of customers*, projects and tasks • Track your working times in several ways: - Use the stopwatch with its start / stop function - Create working times easy and comfortable with our timepicker - Track and edit your working times via our integrated calendar - Shake your smartphone to start or stop a working time (configurable) - Save a lot of money and use present working times as samples • Keep track of your times (today, week, month) with the favorites selection at the startscreen • Archive-function for a better overall view. Archive customers, projects, tasks and working times • Tag function for charged and not charged working times • Highlighted mark of projects according to their budget • Currency can be defined separately • Register hourly rates and standard additional charges for customers, projects, tasks and working times • Integrated break distraction for project-based standard breaks • E-Mail export of your timesheet (CSV, PDF* or XML*) with individually configurable filter-settings, like time period, customer, project or task • Configurable automated roundings of your project working times • Pinlock to protect your data • GPS Assistance: - The locations of your working times can be recorded on demand - Location-based reminders can remind you to start a working time • Database back-up via - Qlaqs WebCenter Synchronisation - Database back-up local • Integrated feedback-e-mail-feature to contact our developers *Please consider that there could be additional costs for the WebCenter Pro account after finishing the test period

About

Caato Freelancer Time Tracker

Effortlessly track your work hours and billable time for projects and tasks. Organize your work with folders and projects, and generate reports with flexible export options. Ideal for freelancers and small business owners.

Highlights
  • Start and pause time tracking
  • Tracks tasks and detailed time entries
  • Organize with projects and folders
  • Date range filtering with presets
  • Excel and CSV export options
  • iCloud sync
  • Dark mode
Features
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Time tracking should be easy and effortless. That's what Caato Time Tracker 2 is about! It's reliable, easy-to-use and hassle-free. It’s perfect for you as a small business owner, designer, consultant, developer, architect, lawyer or freelance worker for tracking your work time and billable hours as well as your projects and tasks. The new and improved Caato Time Tracker 2 features a date range filter that lets you see just the tracked time you are interested in. Getting the report you need for billing your clients is a matter of seconds with filter presets like “This Month" and our new Excel export (Excel export Pro and Base plan only). Easily stay on top of your time: Caato Time Tracker features a 4-tier hierarchy of folders, projects, tasks, and detailed time entries (Folders and projects Pro and Base plan only). With the date filter you can quickly check how many hours you worked on your projects and tasks in a defined timeframe. Relax and let Caato Time Tracker keep your time: You can always add, delete or edit entries on every level for maximum flexibility. Excel and CSV export options (Base/Pro plan only) enable you to easily build reports with your favourite spreadsheet application or send them directly via email. Time Tracking so simple that you’ll actually use it :) Features ------------------------------------------------------ - Start and pause button - Tracks tasks and detailed time entries including seconds - Arrange tasks in projects and folders (Pro plan only) - Tracks multiple projects at once (Pro plan only) - Syncs to iCloud - iPhone and iPad companion app - Search bar for folders, projects and tasks (Base/Pro plan only) - Date range filter with presets and individual date range picker - Easy Excel and CSV export with formatting options and email feature (Base/Pro plan only) - Setting for automatically converting hours to days - Allows adding/editing of entries in the past and future - Quick and friendly support - Dark mode How you can use Caato Time Tracker ------------------------------------------------------ - Track time for several projects (Pro plan) - Manage your projects with folders (Pro plan) - Track time on several tasks for a project - Track time for your personal projects - Track time for your hobbies Pro plan (monthly or annually subscription) ------------------------------------------------------ Pro lets you: - track time for tasks - arrange tasks in projects and folders - export times in Excel or CSV format - search to quickly find folder/project/task you’re looking for - sync to iCloud Base plan (monthly or annually subscription) ------------------------------------------------------ Base lets you : - track time for tasks - export times in Excel or CSV format - search to quickly find the task you’re looking for - sync to iCloud Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://caatotimetracker.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Qlaqs Time Tracking4 screens
Caato Freelancer Time Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Qlaqs Time Tracking at 5.0 against Caato Freelancer Time Tracker's 4.5. Qlaqs Time Tracking also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium). Caato Freelancer Time Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (93% vs 71%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Qlaqs Time Tracking sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Caato Freelancer Time Tracker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Qlaqs Time Tracking holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Qlaqs Time Tracking's written reviews are positive against 93% of Caato Freelancer Time Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Qlaqs Time Tracking ships an update every 2 months, Caato Freelancer Time Tracker every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Qlaqs Time Tracking versus Caato Freelancer Time Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQlaqs Time TrackingCaato Freelancer Time Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerfinarx GmbHCS Software Consultancy Ltd

Customer experience

Qlaqs Time Tracking

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.4%

Caato Freelancer Time Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Qlaqs Time Tracking

One-time3
  • Coffee Tall$0.99
  • Coffee Grande$2.99
  • Coffee Venti$4.99
10 purchases

Caato Freelancer Time Tracker

Subscriptions10
  • Base Plan - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Base Plan - Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Pro plan - Monthly$4.991 Month
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  • Pro Plan - Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Base Plan - Yearly3 Months trial$8.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly3 Months trial$17.991 Year
  • Base Plan - Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Base Plan - Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly1 Month trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Qlaqs Time Tracking free?
Qlaqs Time Tracking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caato Freelancer Time Tracker free?
Caato Freelancer Time Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Qlaqs Time Tracking or Caato Freelancer Time Tracker?
Qlaqs Time Tracking is rated higher. Qlaqs Time Tracking averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Caato Freelancer Time Tracker averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Qlaqs Time Tracking or Caato Freelancer Time Tracker have ads?
Neither Qlaqs Time Tracking nor Caato Freelancer Time Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Qlaqs Time Tracking or Caato Freelancer Time Tracker?
Qlaqs Time Tracking ships an update every 2 months, and Caato Freelancer Time Tracker every 9 days. Most recently, Qlaqs Time Tracking was updated on October 9, 2026 and Caato Freelancer Time Tracker on October 11, 2026.

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