Comparison

Tyme | Time Tracking vs Bear Tracks Time

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

Head to head
About

Tyme | Time Tracking

Effortlessly track your work hours and manage projects with this powerful time tracking tool. Gain instant overviews of workload, deadlines, and budgets, with automatic syncing across all your devices. Visualize your data with detailed statistics and customizable reports.

Highlights
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Project and deadline overviews
  • Detailed statistics and data visualization
  • Home screen widgets
  • Expense and holiday tracking
  • Calendar integration
  • Automated reminders
  • Export and import data
Features
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Tyme is a popular, legally compliant time-tracking tool for teams, freelancers, and self-employed professionals. Tyme lets you track your working hours for clients, projects, and tasks. You always have a clear overview of project performance, deadlines, and workload. With a clear focus on design and aesthetics, Tyme stands out from the crowd of time tracking apps. The goal: to make the stressful daily task of time tracking more enjoyable for you and your team. GDPR-compliant and legally compliant. We’re constantly improving Tyme and gradually adding new features. 1. Always Synced Across All Devices Tyme comes as a package for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and as a web version. Your subscription automatically unlocks Tyme for all your devices. 2. Everything at a Glance The interface is designed to give you an overview of your tracked time, projects, budgets, and deadlines at all times. Unlogged time is displayed. Running timers are always visible and can be started or stopped using shortcuts without opening Tyme. 3. Visualized Data The detailed statistics give you an overview of your personal workload and that of your team. They show booked hours, current revenue, and overtime and undertime hours. Breaks are automatically tracked. 4. Widgets and Live Activities The widgets and live activities help you keep track of the hours logged for the day, week, or month at any time. You can also always see whether a timer is still running and when your workday ends. 5. Sync & Calendar Integration Tyme automatically syncs your data across all your devices and with your team. Thanks to calendar integration, you can view your time entries as calendar entries and edit them directly. 6. Reminders Did you forget to start the timer? Is a deadline coming up? Time for lunch? Have you reached your daily work hours? Did you forget to log your time? Use Tyme’s helpful reminders. 7. Task Types In addition to work hours, track travel expenses, other expenses, fixed amounts, flat rates, vacation time, and absences. 8. Export & Import You can export your tracked time as legally compliant PDF timesheets and project reports, or as CSV or JSON. If you want to bring in data from other apps, Tyme offers a CSV importer and various other importers. 9. Automatic Tracking Not in the mood to start a timer manually? Have your times recorded automatically by specifying where your workplace is. 11. Shortcuts & Automations With over 20 different shortcuts, you can automate your to-dos. Manage your projects and tasks, retrieve your Tyme data, and share it with other apps. 11. Apple Watch App With the Watch App you can stop and start timers and view your hours worked. 12. Pricing Tyme is available as a subscription. You can choose between a monthly and an annual subscription. Before you decide, you can try Tyme for 14 days. The subscription unlocks Tyme for your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and browser. Privacy policy: https://www.tyme-app.com/en/privacy-app/ Terms of use: https://www.tyme-app.com/en/terms-of-use/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Tyme | Time Tracking4 screens
Bear Tracks Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bear Tracks Time at 100% against Tyme | Time Tracking's 48%. Bear Tracks Time also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Tyme | Time Tracking's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (54 vs 4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tyme | Time Tracking sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bear Tracks Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tyme | Time Tracking has 54 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Tyme | Time Tracking's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bear Tracks Time's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tyme | Time Tracking ships an update every 3 weeks, Bear Tracks Time every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tyme | Time Tracking versus Bear Tracks Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTyme | Time TrackingBear Tracks Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (54 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings54 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnit Numberfive oHGMursus, LLC

Customer experience

Tyme | Time Tracking

All ratings54 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive48.4%
Neutral16.1%
Negative35.5%

Bear Tracks Time

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Tyme | Time Tracking

Subscriptions8
  • Tyme Monthly Plan (1 User)3 variants$6.991 Month
  • Tyme Monthly Plan (1 User)14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Tyme Monthly Plan (3 User)$12.991 Month
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  • Tyme Monthly Plan (2 User)$13.991 Month
  • Tyme Monthly Plan (4 User)$24.991 Month
  • Tyme Monthly Plan (6 User)$39.991 Month
  • Tyme Annual Plan (1 User)3 variants$59.991 Year
  • Tyme Annual Plan (1 User)14 Days trial$59.991 Year
3 purchases

Bear Tracks Time

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription$4.001 Year
One-time2
  • Tip$2.99
  • Purchase$16.00

Questions

Is Tyme | Time Tracking free?
Tyme | Time Tracking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bear Tracks Time free?
Bear Tracks Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tyme | Time Tracking or Bear Tracks Time?
Bear Tracks Time is rated higher. Tyme | Time Tracking averages 4.5 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while Bear Tracks Time averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Tyme | Time Tracking or Bear Tracks Time have ads?
Neither Tyme | Time Tracking nor Bear Tracks Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tyme | Time Tracking or Bear Tracks Time?
Tyme | Time Tracking ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bear Tracks Time every 2 months. Most recently, Tyme | Time Tracking was updated on October 15, 2026 and Bear Tracks Time on September 20, 2026.

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