Comparison

Hours Tracker vs World Clock

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

Head to head
About

Hours Tracker

Easily track your work hours, pay, tips, and mileage with timers, automatic breaks, and location-based reminders. Features include overtime calculations, customizable reports, and data export. Manage multiple jobs and entries with advanced customization options.

Highlights
  • Timers with breaks and pauses
  • Track pay, tips, and mileage
  • Location-based clock in/out reminders
  • Automatic overtime calculations
  • Customizable reports and filtering
  • Time rounding options
  • Data export via CSV and text
Features
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QUICK AND EASY time entry and editing make time tracking painless • Record time using timers, complete with support for Breaks and Pauses, including automatic breaks • Track your pay, including Tips, Mileage, and flexible ± time and earnings adjustments • Pick any time to start, stop, break or pause the timer (7 minutes ago, 10 minutes from now, whatever you need) • Set job locations to get clock in and out reminders when you arrive or leave or fully automate your time tracking (geofencing) • Manually enter time entries with minimal effort thanks to smart, adaptive defaults • Enter comments of any length with your time entries and optionally include them in your exports • Control timers, dictate comments, and apply tags using your Apple Watch ADVANCED FEATURES and customization set HoursTracker above the rest • Automatic daily and weekly overtime earnings calculations • Built-in reports by Day, Week, and Month and support for most common pay period schedules • Robust tagging and filtering allow you to build your own custom views • Reminders when you've worked your target number of hours per day (even takes time rounding into account) • Automatic time rounding: up, down, or to nearest (including 6 min) • Easily copy an existing job or time entry to save time and effort • Reminders you to clock in on your selected work days • Today Widget for at a glance time and pay monitoring • CSV and formatted text export via e-mail or the iOS Share Sheet • Passcode lock (with Touch ID & Face ID support) helps keep your HoursTracker data private • Cloud-based backup/restore with one re-usable backup slot included free (free account sign up is required) • Web-based reporting access, including charts, graphs, desktop exports, and rolling backups available with optional subscription • Customize your HoursTracker experience in the Preferences section under the More tab. Choose only one or many jobs clocked in at a time, opt-into prompts for comments, choose an elapsed time format (hours:minutes, or decimal hours), and more "Free Edition" stores up to 3 jobs and 21 days of entries. For unlimited entries, subscribe to "Premium" (up to 5 jobs) or "Unlimited" (unlimited jobs). Or, erase older data and continue to use the "Free Edition" until you're ready to buy. Visit our website at http://www.hourstrackerapp.com to learn more, and follow @HoursTracker on Twitter or facebook.com/HoursTracker to hear about upcoming features first. hourstrackerapp.com/privacy hourstrackerapp.com/terms www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

World Clock

This app provides the local time, sunrise, and sunset for over a million locations worldwide. It's useful for international business calls, staying in touch with friends and family abroad, and planning outdoor activities. The app supports multiple languages and offers immediate updates for Daylight Saving Time changes.

Highlights
  • Local time for over 1 million locations
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Daylight Saving Time updates
  • Customizable location names
  • Day and nighttime indicators
  • Supports iPhone and iPad formats
Features
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Time & Sun is a world clock that tells you the local time in over a million places around the world, from the biggest cities to the tiniest villages. If you're in business, this app's essential for calling other timezones at the precise local time. You might have to call across the US when it's 10am in New York, then have a teleconference with overseas colleagues at 3.30pm Paris time. Use Time & Sun to make sure you phone at the exact local time, and don't miss a vital call from abroad. This app also gives the sunrise and sunset times for every location – handy for outdoor enthusiasts, or if you're lying on a beach and want to plan your evening. With today's global economy and affordable holiday travel, there have never been so many people globe-trotting at any one time. Simply tell Time & Sun where you are, and you can check if friends and family are awake to call or Skype. Time & Sun has every location available in Google maps. It also recognises place names in other languages used by Google maps; for example, if you enter "Лондон", which is the Russian name for London, you will get the results in Russian! Features of this app include: • Support for all iPhone and iPad formats • Immediate Daylight Saving Time Changes worldwide • Find the exact time in over 1,000,000 cities, towns and villages • Ability to rename locations, e.g. change your home town to “Family” • Day and nighttime clock indicators – white clock faces for day, black for night • Times of sunrise and sunset in every location worldwide • Easy to use and accurate – always! • Customizable and adjustable Terms of Use: https://www.theorytestrevolution.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.theorytestrevolution.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
World Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hours Tracker at 73% against World Clock's 32%. Hours Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (56K vs 1.3K). World Clock's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and World Clock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 1.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 32% of World Clock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, World Clock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hours Tracker versus World Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerWorld Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.4 (1.3K ratings)
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews — better31.6% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better1.3K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#116 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB23 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCAndriy Gordiychuk

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings56,250 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews566 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral7.2%
Negative19.3%

World Clock

All ratings1,331 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral3.6%
Negative11.2%
Written reviews253 reviews
Positive31.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative64.0%

User reviews

Hours Tracker

From 56K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 📊 Detailed time tracking and reporting
  • 💰 Accurate pay estimates
  • 🔍 Helpful for tracking multiple jobs/projects
  • 🔒 Secure data backup

Room to improve

  • 💸 Subscription pricing model
  • 🔓 Limited free version
  • 🐛 Occasional data loss or sync issues
  • 🔍 Difficulty organizing/managing multiple jobs
  • 🖥️ Lack of iPad/desktop version

World Clock

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⏱️ Convenient widget
  • 🕰️ Helpful for keeping track of time zones
  • 🌇 Useful sunrise/sunset information
  • 💻 Clean and simple interface

Room to improve

  • 💰 Requires payment to add additional cities
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • 🔍 Limited customization options
  • ⚠️ Incorrect time zone information in some cases

Bugs and requests

Hours Tracker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Apple Watch app not syncing properly
  • Inconsistent location-based clock in/out
  • Issues with manually editing time entries

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to set different pay rates for weekdays, weekends, and holidays
  • Option to mark entries as 'paid' for invoicing
  • Integration with payroll/accounting systems
  • Customizable pay period and tax settings
  • Improved data export/reporting features

World Clock

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not working after iOS updates
  • Unable to add or remove cities
  • Incorrect time zone calculations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Support for 24-hour clock format
  • Ability to add unlimited cities without payment
  • Improved widget functionality
  • Sync with calendar for meeting scheduling

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Hours Tracker

Subscriptions6
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Show 3 more
  • Premium Annual1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual7 Days trial$47.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual1 Year trial$47.991 Year
One-time9
  • Migrate from HoursTracker ProFree
  • Nice Tip$0.99
  • Amazing Tip$1.99
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  • Cloud Subscription Add-On$4.99
  • Pro Edition (from Personal)$5.99
  • Personal Edition Upgrade$8.99
  • Ridiculous Tip$9.99
  • Pro Edition Upgrade$14.99
  • Cloud Subscription Add-On$29.99
3 purchases

World Clock

Subscriptions2
  • Full Version3 Days trial$0.996 Months
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$1.491 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited cities in World Clock Widget$0.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is World Clock free?
World Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or World Clock?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while World Clock averages 4.4 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or World Clock have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; World Clock does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or World Clock?
Hours Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and World Clock every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on October 14, 2026 and World Clock on October 13, 2026.

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