Comparison

Working Hours 4b vs HourLane

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

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About

Working Hours 4b

Easily track and calculate your work hours, including regular time, overtime, breaks, bonuses, and expenses. Generate reports and view statistics for monthly, weekly, or custom periods. Supports multiple work profiles and cloud synchronization.

Highlights
  • Log regular and extra hours
  • Track paid/unpaid breaks
  • Record bonuses and expenses
  • Monthly, weekly, and custom period calculations
  • Calendar view with detailed intervals
  • Work profiles for different schedules
  • Data export (TXT, CSV, PDF)
  • Cloud and device synchronization
Features
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Tired of tracking your work hours on paper and wrestling with a calculator at the end of the month? Working Hours 4b takes care of it for you — a complete, easy-to-use time-tracking app built for employees, freelancers, and anyone who needs to keep accurate records of their working hours and earnings. TRACK EVERY DETAIL Log your work hours with a simple, intuitive interface. Each entry can include: • Regular hours • Extra time: early entry and overtime • Breaks (paid or unpaid) • Bonuses, expenses and meal vouchers, sorted into categories (Car, Food, Fuel, Hotel, Parking, and more) • Custom tags to label and filter your history any way you like • A custom icon, note, and photo attachment (e.g. receipts) CALCULATE YOUR EARNINGS Instantly see how much you've earned — monthly, weekly, biweekly/fortnightly (14 or 15 days), annually, or over any custom date range. SMART CALENDAR Enter, edit, and review your work intervals directly from the calendar. View each month's details broken down by hours and earnings: • Regular hours • Extra: early entry and overtime • Paid and unpaid breaks • Bonuses and expenses • Total hours and earnings Use the Paid/Unpaid indicator to track which intervals have already been paid — so you never miss a payment again. Work intervals can span up to 48 hours, giving you full flexibility to log day shifts, night shifts, and everything in between. TRAVEL & MILEAGE Log travel separately from your shifts and let the app calculate your earnings automatically, by cost-per-hour or cost-per-distance (km/mi). WORK BANK Don't want to cash out your extra hours right away? Store them in your personal Work Bank and convert them back into paid time — or paid time off — whenever you need it. WORKING PROFILES Do many of your shifts follow the same pattern, with only small variations? Save reusable working profiles, name them however you like (e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Night shift, Day shift), and apply them to any date in seconds. Profiles aren't set in stone — edit or adjust them at any time, even while adding a new interval. HOLIDAYS & LEAVE Add holidays and sick leave to your calendar and keep a running count at any time. STATISTICS & EXPORT Review your statistics for any custom date range, then export your data as Plain Text, CSV or PDF and share it however you like. Visualize your earnings and hours with clear graphs — annual totals month by month, and monthly totals day by day. REMINDERS Never forget to log your hours. Set a reminder time and choose the days of the week — Working Hours 4b will notify you right on schedule. MULTIPLE JOBS & CLIENTS Working more than one job, or managing several clients? Add multiple jobs, each with its own color and notes, so every entry stands out at a glance on your calendar. MADE TO FIT YOU Set your preferred currency, hours format, minute-rounding rule, and which day your week starts on — the whole app adapts to how you work. Available in over 50 languages. CLOUD & DEVICE SYNC Your data is securely saved to the cloud using your chosen sign-in method, and kept in sync across all your devices in real time. This app offers optional in-app purchases: • Remove Ads — disable ads throughout the app • Multiple Jobs — unlock the ability to add more than one job COMMUNITY & SUPPORT Found a bug or have an idea for a new feature? Join the community: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/working.hours.4b X: https://x.com/workingHours4b Or reach out directly via the Contact section in the app's settings. Terms and conditions: https://workinghours4b.com/terms-and-conditions

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HourLane

Features
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HourLane logs your working hours and turns them into totals, a pay estimate and timesheets ready to send. No account, no ads: nothing leaves your phone unless you decide so. LOG IN TWO TAPS • "Add a time slot" adds your typical day in one tap. • Start now / Stop to clock in to the minute, with rounding if you want it. • Night shifts: an end before the start simply ends the next day. • Agenda by day, 3 days, week, fortnight, month or list, with an hour-by-hour view for the day, 3 days and week. • An evening reminder, if you want one, so you never forget your day. ONE SCHEDULE PER ACTIVITY • Each schedule has its colour, its pay and its own settings: typical day, currency, first day of the week, hours in hundredths, hidden amounts, export header. • You decide whether its events count as working hours, and you can leave out or count any single entry. • Projects for one schedule or shared by all. SYNCED WITH YOUR CALENDAR, IF YOU WANT • Link a schedule to a calendar of the phone: what you log in HourLane shows up there, what you add in the calendar comes into HourLane. • Nothing is deleted without asking you: an event erased from the calendar is shown to you first. • No pay amount is ever written in a calendar. • Or keep a schedule in the app only. SHARE YOUR SCHEDULE • Link a schedule to an online calendar of the phone and share it: the people you invite see your hours live in their own calendar, never your pay. • The app opens the right sharing page and prepares the message. PROJECTS, CLIENTS AND HELP WITH INVOICING • A project and a client for each entry, each with its own rate. • Amounts to bill at the hourly rate or as a flat amount, extras or discounts, tracked as to bill, billed or paid: what you need to prepare your invoices. HourLane is not invoicing software. • Expenses and mileage attached to the entry. TIMESHEETS AND PAY • Week, month, year or any dates, for the schedule you choose; totals by project and by client, year by day or by month. • Export to PDF, CSV, XLSX, or a summary in a message. • Hourly or salaried pay, overtime tiers (paid, banked or both), night premium, bonuses, net estimate from one of your payslips. • Amounts are estimates; your payslip is the reference. YOUR DATA IS YOURS • No account, no ads, no tracking. • A dated copy every week in the folder of your choice (cloud, phone), daily local copies, 30-day trash. SUBSCRIPTION • Monthly or yearly subscription. Without a subscription, your data stays readable and exportable. Payment is charged to your App Store account when the purchase is confirmed. The subscription renews automatically at the same price and for the same period unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before that end. You can manage or cancel the subscription in your App Store account settings after the purchase. Terms of use: https://www.hourlane.app/eula Privacy policy: https://www.hourlane.app/privacy

Screenshots

Working Hours 4b4 screens
HourLane4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: HourLane at none against Working Hours 4b's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Working Hours 4b sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and HourLane sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Working Hours 4b ships an update weekly, HourLane every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Working Hours 4b versus HourLane: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorking Hours 4bHourLane
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (361 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings361 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size165 MB61 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSorin-George BudescuAlexandre Thil

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Working Hours 4b

Subscriptions7
  • Premium Month$0.991 Month
  • Premium Month2 variants$1.991 Month
  • Premium Media Month$2.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Premium Year$6.991 Year
  • Premium Year$11.991 Year
  • Premium Year$17.991 Year
  • Premium Media Year$22.991 Year
One-time2
  • Multiple Jobs$2.99
  • Ads Remove$5.99
1 purchases

HourLane

Subscriptions1
  • Hourlane (monthly)3 Days trial$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Working Hours 4b free?
Working Hours 4b is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HourLane free?
HourLane is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Working Hours 4b or HourLane have ads?
Working Hours 4b shows ads; HourLane does not.
Which is updated more often, Working Hours 4b or HourLane?
Working Hours 4b ships an update weekly, and HourLane every 6 days. Most recently, Working Hours 4b was updated on November 1, 2026 and HourLane on October 26, 2026.

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