Hours vs iboChron
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hours
Easily track your work hours with a live clock-in/out feature or manual log entries. Monitor weekly hours worked and salary earned, with options for multiple jobs, tax deductions, and exportable reports.
- Clock-in/out timer
- Manual hour entry
- Weekly work logs
- Earnings and tax calculation
- Multiple job tracking
- Work history export
- Clock reminders
- Passcode protection
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Hours is the easiest and most convenient way to keep track of your work hours. Either use the Clock feature to “Clock In” and out, or add your hours manually to the Log. At any time, you can see a weekly overview of the hours worked and salary earned. As one of the leading time tracker apps on the App Store, Hours offers many useful and unique features, including: CLOCK TIMER Keep a live timer during a shift and track hours and earnings by the minute. MANUAL ENTRIES If you don’t want to use the Clock feature, you can also add work hours manually. WEEKLY LOGS On the Log page, you can see weekly overviews of the shifts you have worked, as well as the total hours and earnings for that week. EARNINGS & TAXES* Calculate earnings and deduct taxes. MULTIPLE JOBS* Working more than just one job? Create multiple jobs with different settings. EXPORT* Export your work history in multiple formats. REMINDERS* With Clock Reminders, you will never forget to report your hours. PASSCODE PROTECTION* Keep your work log extra secure with a passcode lock. While the core functionality is complete free to use, some of the more advanced features (denoted with an asterisk above) require a paid subscription. Please see the subscription details below. ------------------------ Subscription Information - The subscription price of $29.99 per year automatically renews every year until cancelled. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Apple ID account settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. About Subscriptions: http://onewave.se/hours/subscriptions.html Privacy Policy: http://onewave.se/hours/privacy.html
iboChron
Easily track your work hours, breaks, and earnings with this time tracking tool. It offers automatic calculations for overtime and target hours, with data stored locally and exportable via CSV. Features include reminders, project management, and NFC login.
- Track work hours via login/logout slider
- Automatic calculation of breaks, overtime, and earnings
- Export work time data as CSV
- Reminders for login/logout
- NFC Tag login support
- Project management
- Data backup and restore
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iboChron offers you the perfect ability to track your working hours easy and fast. Login / Logout via the login slider or record your working hours with breaks included. Get an overview of your earnings, overtime, target time, working hours, holidays or leave days. Share your working hours via email as CSV or use the share option of your iOS device. iboChron is the perfect tool for freelancers, self employed workers or employees. All your data are stored locally on your device! Features - Track your working hours via login / logout slider - Overview / calculation of your daily login / logout time - Easy and fast login via Siri Shortcuts support (Login / Logout / Logout Time) - Automatic calculation of breaks, working hours, overtime, target time and earnings - Overview of your leave days, holidays, overtime, working hours (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly) - Export your work time as CSV / PDF via email, share your work time in Excel, Numbers, ... (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly) - Never forget to login / logout - iboChron learns from your behaviour and reminds you to login / logout every single day (Notifications) - Show working hours in decimals - Option to calculate earnings variable (0 - 100 %) - Management of several projects - Add notes to each work time entry - Add additional earnings to each work time entry - Manage working time account - Protect your data via Face ID / Touch ID - Login / Logout via NFC Tags (NFC Tags are required - only iPhone 7 or newer supports third party NFC, this is a limitation by Apple) - Login / Logout & overview via the today widget - Create backups / restore backups - Overview of annual leave days / yearly income - Notifications for login / logout / breaks - Use Themes to personalize iboChron (including dark mode) - Support for Lock Screen Widgets - Calendar for better overview For feedback or feature requests please use the feedback section in the app or send an email to support@ibochron.de. If you like the app, please rate it in the App Store to support future development. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: iboChron at free against Hours's freemium. iboChron also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 73%) and device support (4 vs 2). Hours's advantage is ratings volume (16K vs 41) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Hours sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and iboChron sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Hours against 4.7 for iboChron. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours has 16K ratings behind it against 41, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Hours's written reviews are positive against 86% of iboChron's.
Hours ships an update monthly, iboChron every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hours | iboChron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (16K ratings) | 4.7 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 85.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16K — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | One Wave AB | Tobias Hauss |
Customer experience
Hours
iboChron
Bugs and requests
Hours
Reported bugs
3 issues- Clock not logging hours accurately
- Issues with syncing between web and mobile app
- Paid version features not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Allow editing of job details
- Add option to track breaks separately
- Provide daily and monthly hour totals
- Expand job limit in free version
- Add support for multiple currencies
iboChron
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hours
- Personal (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Personal (Yearly)$19.991 Year
- Personal (Yearly)1 Year trial$19.991 Year
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- Personal (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
iboChron
- iboChron PRO – Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- iboChron Pro - yearly subscription7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Themes for iboChron$2.99
- Show worktime in widget$2.99
- A small cup of tea (tip)$3.99
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- Data Export (CSV)$3.99
- Unlimited Entries$3.99
- Breaks & Time Management$5.99
- A normal cup of tea (tip)$7.99
- Bundle - All Features$9.99
- A pot of tea (tip)$17.99
- iboChron PRO Lifetime$34.99







