Comparison

Timewerks vs Hours Keeper

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

Head to head
About

Timewerks

This app helps freelancers and businesses track billable hours, materials, and expenses. It allows for the creation and sending of professional invoices and estimates directly from a mobile device. Advanced features like PDF invoicing and data synchronization are available through optional modules.

Highlights
  • Track time, materials, and expenses
  • Create and send PDF invoices/estimates
  • Manage multiple projects and clients
  • Built-in stopwatch for time tracking
  • Data backup and restore
  • Sync data with web companion
  • Export data to CSV/TSV
Features
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Track time, materials and send PDF invoices or estimates. *** Apple iTunes "Staff Favorite" *** *** Apple iTunes "New and Noteworthy" *** Timewerks is a time tracking and invoicing application for freelancers, consultants, contractors, lawyers, salespeople, or anyone who needs to track time, materials and send invoices— all from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Timewerks is fully-functional by itself, and allows for 1 invoice. You can enhance Timewerks with the purchase of these additional modules: * Unlock (unlocks an unlimited number of invoices) * Unlock Pro (unlocks unlimited invoices and includes PDF invoicing, invoice logo and built-in data backup/restore) * Full data synchronization with our companion website, mytimewerks.com, and all your iOS devices See www.sorth.com/timewerks for screenshots, video tutorials and our online user manual. Features: * Track multiple projects and clients. * Create, email and print HTML or PDF invoices and work estimates without a computer, complete with your company logo (visit www.sorth.com/timewerks/invoice.html for a sample invoice). * Quickly and easily add timesheet hours and capture notes for each project task. * Track and invoice billable items, materials and expenses. * Built-in data backup and restore: back up and restore your data with one tap (without connecting to iTunes). * Sync data with our web-based companion, www.mytimewerks.com (requires an optional timewerks sync subscription module.) * Accept credit card payments via integration with Credit Card Terminal (sold separately by Inner Fence LLC) * Time your work for each project via a built-in stopwatch (Task Timer). * Customize different rates for different types of tasks or items. * Calculate sales taxes, discounts and support multiple currencies. * Export your data to comma-delimited (CSV) or tab-delimited (TSV) text files via a Wi-Fi connection and a standard web browser. * Enter and view data without a network connection— all records are stored on the device. We welcome your feedback. Please visit www.sorth.com and let us know what features you'd like to see in later versions. Our goal is to make Timewerks the best time tracker and invoicing tool on the App Store.

About

Hours Keeper

Easily track your work hours, calculate earnings, and generate professional PDF invoices for clients. Manage billings and payments efficiently with this intuitive time tracking tool.

Highlights
  • Real-time hours/earning tracking
  • Weekly and monthly timesheets
  • PDF invoice generation
  • Billing and payment tracking
  • Configurable overtime and breaks
  • Data export and sync
Features
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Hours Keeper is a well-designed application that you can use to easily track your hours worked and calculate your earnings. Hours Keeper allows to record your daily working hours for each client, including your overtime and break time. After earnings been calculated, you can generate PDF invoices to sent to your clients and track all the billings and the payments. Designed and developed by polycents! “Easy to use and simple. It’s very useful and is definitely worth every penny. Great customer service from developers!” “Very well executed app, nice clean interface with tones of useful features.” “A great app for those of us that do business on the go. It is packed full of great features that really help out. Great job.” Our Hours Keeper is one of the best tools to track down all the hours you have worked. Once you use the app you will want nothing else to make your hours and earnings tracking easier. KEY FEATURES - Well designed, easy to use, intuitive interface. - Realtime hours/earning tracking for multiple clients. - Weekly and monthly timesheet. - PDF invoices to send to customers. - Earnings reports. - Calendar to map your daily earning for each month. - Billing and payment tracking. - Configurable overtime and break time for time tracking. - Export data as CSV. - Sync data between all your devices. - Passcode protection. # Subscription Details # - Monthly and annual subscriptions are available. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription. - Subscriptions can be managed by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/10725628 Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/10725628 Please write to us before leaving negative reviews, as we can often help with your problem or help you better use the app. If you have any problems or suggestions please send an mail to hourskeeper@support.polycents.com, and you will get the response with solutions in a short time.

Screenshots

Timewerks4 screens
Hours Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Timewerks at 4.7 against Hours Keeper's 4.1. Timewerks also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ads (none vs shown). Hours Keeper's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 300). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timewerks sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Hours Keeper sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timewerks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 300 and 1.4K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Timewerks's written reviews are positive against 57% of Hours Keeper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timewerks ships an update every 5 months, Hours Keeper monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Timewerks versus Hours Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimewerksHours Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (300 ratings) — better4.1 (1.4K ratings)
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews — better57.2% of reviews
Number of ratings3001.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSorth LLCBeesoft Apps

Customer experience

Timewerks

All ratings300 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative15.7%

Hours Keeper

All ratings1,405 ratings
Positive77.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative16.8%
Written reviews552 reviews
Positive57.2%
Neutral7.8%
Negative35.0%

User reviews

Timewerks

From 300 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient time tracking and invoicing
  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 💡 Ability to create and email invoices directly from the app
  • 🚀 Quick and responsive customer support
  • 👍 Comprehensive features for managing clients, projects, and billing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 💡 Limited invoice customization options
  • 💡 Lack of ability to set custom invoice numbers
  • 💡 Missing tax and currency support
  • 💡 No option to create estimates or statements

Hours Keeper

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Easy to use
  • ⏱️ Helpful for tracking hours
  • 📋 Great for invoicing
  • 📊 Useful reporting features

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy after recent updates
  • ⏳ Slow performance and lags
  • 🔄 Data loss and sync issues
  • 🚫 Poor customer support

Bugs and requests

Timewerks

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Issues with invoice formatting and missing line item details
  • Problems with syncing data between devices
  • Glitches when trying to edit existing invoices
  • App freezes or becomes unresponsive at times

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for multiple currencies and tax rates
  • Improve invoice customization options, including adding a company logo
  • Implement a time clock feature with the ability to pause and resume
  • Allow exporting data to spreadsheet or PDF formats
  • Add the ability to create estimates and client statements

Hours Keeper

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Unable to log in or restore data
  • Incorrect time and billing calculations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Customizable invoice templates
  • Ability to add notes to entries
  • Automatic overtime calculations
  • Integration with accounting software

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Timewerks

One-time3
  • Timewerks Data Sync (Monthly)$2.99
  • Unlock Pro$9.99
  • Timewerks Data Sync (Yearly)$24.99
9 purchases

Hours Keeper

Subscriptions5
  • Premium - 1 Month$1.991 Month
  • Premium - 3 Months$6.993 Months
  • Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$13.991 Year
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  • Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$15.991 Year
  • Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Upgrade to Premium$23.99
  • Upgrade to Premium$26.99
  • Upgrade to Hours Keeper Pro$29.99
Show 1 more
  • Upgrade to Premium$39.99

Questions

Is Timewerks free?
Timewerks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hours Keeper free?
Hours Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timewerks or Hours Keeper?
Timewerks is rated higher. Timewerks averages 4.7 out of 5 from 300 ratings, while Hours Keeper averages 4.1 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Timewerks or Hours Keeper have ads?
Hours Keeper shows ads; Timewerks does not.
Which is updated more often, Timewerks or Hours Keeper?
Timewerks ships an update every 5 months, and Hours Keeper monthly. Most recently, Timewerks was updated on September 19, 2026 and Hours Keeper on September 25, 2026.

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