Work Hours & Pay Calculator vs Nine2Five
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Easily track your work hours, including shifts, breaks, and days off. Calculate your expected salary, overtime, and tips. Ideal for freelancers and self-employed individuals to ensure accurate pay.
- Track shifts (night, 24-hour)
- Add days off and breaks
- Tipped worker mode
- Calculate overtime and weekend pay
- Unlimited timesheets
- Set hourly wage and currency
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• Add days off and breaks • Add night shifts and 24 hour shifts • A tipped worker mode: add estimated tips for every weekday • Add overtime, night shift, and weekend pay • Unlimited number of timesheets! • Don't let your employer underpay you! Perfect for freelancers, contractors and self employed workers. Choose your hourly wage and currency. Set your working hours for each day of the week and instantly see your daily, weekly and monthly totals for hours worked and money earned. Add breaks and days off and they will be excluded from working hours calculations.
Nine2Five
Track your real-time earnings, overtime, and payday countdown. Visualize your budget coverage and projected yearly income. Ideal for hourly workers and freelancers to manage their finances.
- Live earnings ticker
- Overtime tracking
- Payday countdown
- Budget coverage visualization
- Work history log
- Projected yearly earnings calculator
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Nine2Five offers a 7-day free trial. After the trial, a subscription is required to access all features: $2.99/month, $24.99/year, or $59.99 lifetime. Know exactly how much you've earned — down to the penny — while you work. Nine2Five is the pay clock calculator built for hourly workers, freelancers, and anyone paid by the hour. Clock in when your shift starts and watch your earnings tick up in real time. No more guessing, no more waiting for your paycheck to see if the hours add up. **LIVE EARNINGS TICKER** See your take-home pay grow second by second as you work. Set your hourly rate, configure your deductions, and Nine2Five handles the math automatically. **OVERTIME TRACKING** Set your OT threshold and multiplier. Nine2Five tracks your hours for the week and automatically switches to your overtime rate the moment you hit it — the app even turns amber so you know you're in OT. **PAYDAY COUNTDOWN** Always know how far away your next paycheck is. Nine2Five supports weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly pay periods, with a customizable payday so the countdown is always accurate for your schedule. **BUDGET COVERAGE** Add your monthly bills and watch them get covered as you earn. Nine2Five shows exactly which expenses your paycheck has covered so far — rent, car payment, groceries and more — so you can see your money working in real time. **WORK HISTORY** Every session is logged automatically. Review your hours and earnings by day, week, or month. Add manual entries for days you forgot to clock in. **FUTURES CALCULATOR** See your projected yearly earnings based on your last 30 days. Set a savings goal and find out exactly what hourly rate you need to hit it. Whether you're working a 9-to-5, picking up shifts, or freelancing on the side — Nine2Five keeps your earnings visible, your budget covered, and your goals in sight. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Nine2Five at none against Work Hours & Pay Calculator's shown. Nine2Five also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Work Hours & Pay Calculator's advantage is ratings volume (14K vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Work Hours & Pay Calculator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nine2Five sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nine2Five holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Work Hours & Pay Calculator has 14K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Work Hours & Pay Calculator ships an update every 2 months, Nine2Five fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Work Hours & Pay Calculator | Nine2Five |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (14K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lesya Verbina | Benjamin Slapelis |
Customer experience
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Nine2Five
Bugs and requests
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Reported bugs
2 issues- Break time entries sometimes show incorrect AM/PM times
- Overtime calculations not always accurate
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to set custom pay rates for weekends, nights, and holidays
- Implement a calendar view and the option to copy/repeat weekly schedules
- Include a notes section for each day to track job details
- Allow exporting or archiving of past timesheets
- Add a confirmation prompt before deleting timesheets
Nine2Five
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
- Remove Ads$1.99
Nine2Five
- Nine2Five Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Nine2Five Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Nine2Five Lifetime$59.99
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