Time Tracker vs SimpleTimeLogger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Tracker
This app helps you understand where your time goes by combining time tracking with goal setting. Monitor activities, set targets, and gain insights through reports and statistics to build better habits and align your time with what's important.
- Track work, study, exercise, and more
- Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals
- Utilize stopwatch, countdown, or Pomodoro timers
- View time patterns with charts and reports
- Organize activities into categories and tasks
- Home screen widgets and Live Activity support
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Track your time. Set goals. Build better habits. Timelog combines time tracking and goal tracking in one app — so you can see exactly where your time goes and make sure it aligns with what matters to you. TRACK ANYTHING Whether it's work, study, exercise, reading, music, or side projects — start a timer, log your hours, and see your patterns over time. Use a stopwatch, countdown, or Pomodoro timer depending on how you work best. SET MEANINGFUL GOALS Set daily, weekly, or monthly targets and limits for any activity. Track your streaks. Get predictions on whether you'll hit your goals based on your current pace. Stay motivated with reminders. GET CLEAR INSIGHTS See where your time actually goes with charts, statistics, trends, and weekly/monthly reports. Activity patterns, mood tracking, and task breakdowns help you understand not just how much time you spend — but how you spend it. STAY ORGANIZED Group activities into categories. Break them into tasks. Add notes and track your mood. Use it your way — Timelog adapts to how you work, study, or live. DESIGNED FOR YOU - Light, dark, and true black (OLED) modes - Home screen widgets - Live Activity with Dynamic Island - Available in multiple languages WHY TIMELOG? Most habit trackers just count checkmarks. Timelog tracks the time behind the habit — because spending 5 hours a week reading matters more than checking a box. You have more time than you think. Timelog helps you find it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
SimpleTimeLogger
Effortlessly track your work hours with a clean interface. Log time quickly, manage projects and tags, set targets, and monitor your work-life balance. Includes vacation tracking and insightful statistics.
- Quick duration logging
- Project and tag management
- Target hour setting
- Vacation and absence tracking
- Detailed statistics and insights
- Home screen quick actions
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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TimeLogger – Take Control of Your Time. Powerful. Clear. Flexible. TimeLogger is a powerful time tracker with a clean, uncluttered interface – all the complexity stays in the background so you can focus on your work. Smart Time Tracking - Quick Durations: Tap your most-used work durations to log time instantly – no manual clock setting needed - "Finished by" display: See right in the Start/Stop button when you'll reach your target hours - Home Screen Quick Actions: Start or stop tracking and add new entries without even opening the app - Siri Shortcuts: Control TimeLogger with your voice – start tracking, add entries, open statistics, or export as PDF - Midnight time tracking: Flexibly allocate shifts to the start day, end day, or split across both - Add missed entries manually at any time Multiple Jobs - Manage multiple jobs separately – ideal for a second job or a new employer - Each job with its own target hours, vacation allowance, and balance Projects & Tags - Projects: Assign every entry to a project – such as a client or job – and keep track of where your hours go - Tags: Describe the context of your work with any number of tags like working from home or office – independent of the project and always optional - Tag Breakdown: See in statistics the total hours and number of days for each of your tags – for example your working-from-home days for your tax return - Filter: Narrow the calendar and statistics down to a single project Export & Reports - CSV Export: Export your working hours as a CSV file – perfect for further processing in Excel, Numbers & more - PDF Export: Professionally designed Monthly Overview with a totals row showing all your totals at a glance - Individual Export Options: Choose the row layout, separators, units, and additional columns like projects or tags - Project Export: Export a project's hours as a PDF – perfect as proof for an invoice or a report Reminders & Notifications - Reminders to clock in and out, plus alerts when you reach your target hours or an automatic break applies - Configurable separately for each weekday - Naturally stays quiet on vacation, holidays, and sick days Target Time & Work Balance - Set individual target hours for each weekday - Daily and weekly target time tracking with automatic running balance - Running Total Balance: Optionally, the calendar shows your cumulative balance up to each day right alongside it - Missed targets are shown as negative balance in weekly and monthly charts - Support for half workdays (e.g. Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve) - Automatic breaks: Configurable legally or company-required break rules, also loggable manually - Period-based target hours and vacation allowances – ideal when switching between full-time and part-time Vacation & Absence Management - Built-in vacation management: track available, planned, and taken days - Create vacation with a single tap – right from the detail view - Vacation Preview: instantly see how many vacation days a period will use before you confirm - Automatic Public Holidays: Choose your region and official holidays appear automatically in the calendar – works for any region worldwide - Manual entry of other absence types like sick days, special leave, or compensatory time off - Visual statistics with a comprehensive overview of all absences (sickness, vacation, and more) Insights & Statistics - Insights section: Discover patterns in your work behavior - Clear, visual summaries of your time at a glance Widgets & Live Activities - Live Activity & Lock Screen Widgets: daily, weekly, and monthly progress on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island First-Class iPad Support - Sidebar navigation and a thoughtfully designed layout optimized for the big screen Help & FAQ - Answers to common questions right in the app – about Jobs, Projects, Tags, time tracking, balance, and more Questions, feedback, or suggestions? Feel free to email us at TimeLogger@heckel.tech – we'd love to hear from you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimpleTimeLogger at none against Time Tracker's 5. SimpleTimeLogger also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Time Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads 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. Time Tracker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SimpleTimeLogger asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Time Tracker against 5.0 for SimpleTimeLogger. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Tracker has 89 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Time Tracker ships an update fortnightly, SimpleTimeLogger weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Tracker | SimpleTimeLogger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (89 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C.G CodeGamma Software Technologies LTD | Tobias Heckel |
Customer experience
Time Tracker
SimpleTimeLogger
In-app purchases
Time Tracker
- Timelog Plus monthly$1.991 Month
- Timelog Plus yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Timelog Plus yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Timelog Plus$17.99
- Timelog Plus (Lifetime)$35.99
SimpleTimeLogger
No in-app purchases
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