Bonsai by Zoom vs Hubflo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bonsai by Zoom
This app helps freelancers and agencies manage their time, track expenses, and create invoices. It provides an overview of income, expenses, and profit, integrating seamlessly with project and client data for efficient billing and business management.
- Simple time tracking
- On-the-go expense management
- Easy invoicing
- Income, expense, and profit overview
- Project and client integration
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-- Featured on Forbes, Techcrunch, USA Today, The Next Web -- One of the fastest growing apps according to Mattermark Bonsai is the time tracking, invoicing and expense management solution that integrates perfectly within your workflow. FEATURES: • Sleek and simple time tracking • Create and manage expenses on-the-go • Easy invoicing of timesheets and expenses • View your total income, expenses and profit • Seamlessly integrate with our full website features (proposals, contracts, accounting and more) DETAILS: Designed specifically for contract work, our mobile app includes a simple time tracker that integrates with your ongoing projects and clients. Once you’ve tracked your time, you can easily add them to a new invoice for billing. Have expenses that need to be tracked and categorized? Our mobile app let’s you easily take a picture and bill it to one of your projects in seconds. When you’re ready, you can add these to your invoices along with your timesheet. From there, you can see an overview of your freelance business’ income and expenses in your dashboard, saving you time and letting you focus on doing the work you love. Boost your productivity as a freelancer or agency with Bonsai.
Hubflo
Streamline your service business operations with a comprehensive suite of tools. Manage clients, projects, billing, and communication all in one place with a branded client portal. Integrates with popular services for enhanced workflow.
- Branded client portal
- File sharing
- Messaging
- Tasks/Projects management
- Proposals
- Billing
- CRM
- Integrations (Zapier, Gmail, Outlook, Stripe)
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Take your service business to the next level with a branded client portal and powerful and easy-to-use apps. Hubflo brings together all the tools you need to run your back-office and client-facing operations: File sharing, Messaging, Tasks/Projects, Proposals, Billing, CRM, and more. Connect to anything with embeds, Zapier, and native integrations (Gmail, Outlook, Stripe...)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bonsai by Zoom at 4.3 against Hubflo's 3.5. Bonsai by Zoom also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (311 vs 2). Hubflo's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bonsai by Zoom holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bonsai by Zoom has 311 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bonsai by Zoom ships an update every 3 weeks, Hubflo every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bonsai by Zoom | Hubflo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (311 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 311 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zoom Communications, Inc. | Hubflo |
Customer experience
Bonsai by Zoom
Hubflo
Bugs and requests
Bonsai by Zoom
Reported bugs
4 issues- Constant app logout issues
- Time tracking not working properly
- Expense categorization crashing the app
- Inability to edit items on invoices from the app
Requested features
4 requests- Improved mobile app functionality
- Better integration with other tools and services
- More customization options for invoices and proposals
- Enhanced expense tracking and reporting
Hubflo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bonsai by Zoom
No in-app purchases
Hubflo
No in-app purchases








