EARLY vs Bear Tracks Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EARLY
This app offers a streamlined approach to time tracking, helping users understand how they spend their hours. It provides insightful reports and customizable features to boost productivity and improve work-life balance.
- One-tap time tracking
- Real-time productivity data
- Customizable reports and charts
- Easy entry editing
- Cross-device synchronization
- Calendar view for reviews
- Integrations with popular tools
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Discover a better way to track your time with EARLY. EARLY will help you own your time and maximise your productivity at work. Instantly start tracking your activities within the EARLY app and unlock actionable insights to optimise your workflow, improve work-life balance, and achieve your goals. What is EARLY? Effortless Tracking • Track time with one tap — spend 90% less time logging your hours. Boosted Productivity • Get precise, real-time data on how you allocate your time to improve focus and reduce distractions. Reports • Visualise and analyse time distribution with customisable charts and reports that reveal trends, patterns, and opportunities for easy improvement. Easy Editing • Quickly adjust, add, or delete entries so that your logs are always accurate. Cross-Device Sync • Seamlessly track time across your devices for consistent, updated logs wherever you are. Calendar • View time entries in a calendar format for easy daily and weekly reviews, where time tracking becomes key to your routine. Integrations • Sync with JIRA, Toggl, Harvest, Zapier, and many more to streamline time tracking within your existing workflow.
Bear Tracks Time
Easily manage your productive time with a simple interface for starting and stopping timers. Organize your work with customizable categories and visualize your daily progress. Import and export your data for comprehensive record-keeping and backups.
- One-tap timer start/stop
- Organize by color, category, emoji
- Visualize daily work
- Edit, merge, delete records
- Weekly, monthly, yearly review
- Data import and export
- Time block intervals
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Bear Tracks Time is a simple solution for managing productive time. Start and stop timers with a single tap or shortcut. Organize timers by color, category, and emoji. Visualize the day's work at a glance. Edit, merge, and delete existing records. Review past work by week | month | year. Full data import and export. Bring in old records or save complete backups to csv. Improve focus with time blocks, dividing productive time into work / break intervals. Subscription Details: - Bear Tracks Time is offered as a $4.00 yearly subscription (or $16.00 one time purchase) which unlocks all app functionality. - Without purchasing you are still able to create, view, modify, and export all of your records. You just cannot create more than three (3) timers, or import data. - Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of the purchase or after the free trial period if offered. - Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. - Privacy Policy: https://www.beartrackstime.com/privacy - Terms of Service: https://www.beartrackstime.com/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bear Tracks Time at 100% against EARLY's 37%. Bear Tracks Time also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). EARLY's advantage is ratings volume (146 vs 4) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. EARLY sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month and Bear Tracks Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bear Tracks Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EARLY has 146 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of EARLY's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bear Tracks Time's.
EARLY ships an update every 4 weeks, Bear Tracks Time every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EARLY | Bear Tracks Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (146 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 146 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timeular GmbH | Mursus, LLC |
Customer experience
EARLY
Bear Tracks Time
Bugs and requests
EARLY
Reported bugs
30 issues- Login flow bugs (user does not exist/already exists)
- App logs out frequently
- App disconnects from internet
- Inputting entries via iOS app is difficult
- Stuck during setup
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- Tracker pairing issues
- App gets stuck during setup
- Cannot create an account (bouncy scroll)
- App logs out and gives constant errors trying to log back in
- UI doesn't load properly
- Hardware die doesn't activate consistently
- App crashes when expanding/editing entries
- iPad app is a scaled iPhone app, not optimized
- Cannot submit more than 1000 characters in iOS app entries
- Tracker not pairing with phone app
- Mac app buggy, Bluetooth buggy, iOS app buggy
- Cannot edit activities properly, glitches out
- Cannot delete activities
- Cannot 'forget' device
- App has to remain open to register task changes
- App complains about connectivity
- Undo button placement issue on iPhone
- Unclear which device handles Bluetooth
- Tracker won't connect to the app
- Cannot pause and restart timers
- App refuses to keep changes to hours/events
- App is cloud-based, no offline access
- App would not save activities
- UI constantly gives errors on iPhone 6S
- Editing tasks locks in incorrect time
Requested features
15 requests- Home screen widgets
- Dark mode
- Apple Watch integration
- Customizable colors
- Set and manage goals
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- Direct tracker connection to services
- More integrations with other apps
- iPadOS app support
- Siri integration/voice commands
- Ability to restart timers
- Offline functionality
- Badge indication on app icon for running timer
- Ability to edit time blocks
- More advanced analytics
- Lifetime subscription option
Bear Tracks Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
EARLY
- Personal Pro$14.001 Month
- Personal Pro$139.001 Year
Bear Tracks Time
- Yearly Subscription$4.001 Year
- Tip$2.99
- Purchase$16.00
