Comparison

Hours Tracker vs P

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

P

Manage hourly wage shift work with this app. Easily track work and leave times, register multiple workplaces, and view aggregated payroll data. Export reports and manage notes, expenses, and paid time off.

Highlights
  • Hourly wage shift work time management
  • Work and leave time tracking
  • Multiple workplace profiles
  • Flexible aggregation periods
  • CSV data export
  • Notes and expense tracking
  • Paid time off management
Features
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P-Time Rec V2 supports hourly wage shift work time management "Work Log" you are using in all over the world. We reorganized for shift work based on "Work Log" Please try using this first. ※Up to the recording of 40 (shift) days, you can use it without function restriction · Usually, just tap on the buttons for work and leave · There is no limit on the number of shift that can be registered on the 1st · It is compiled as "profile" for each work place, profile can be registered without restriction · The aggregation period can be 1 week, 2 weeks, half moon, 4 weeks, 1 month unit can be selected · Payroll method can be aggregated by shift and time zone · Easy to compare with previous year on graph display · Since summary data can be exported as CSV, it is convenient for daily report and monthly report creation · You can record notes and expense books · Round the time can be recorded in 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes (selection) · Three types of time rounding methods · You can set the number of days off for holidays. Paid setting You can check the number of days remaining on your vacation every time you digest. Salary allowance can also be set - Fixed holiday setting. Attendance on regular holiday is automatically calculated by multiplying the premium rate by extra attendance on holidays. · Calculation of allowance is also available. Payment unit can be set for totaling period, daily unit, shift common, shift individually · Break time can be set for each shift. Even if the break time is divided finely

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
P4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hours Tracker at 73% against P's 29%. Hours Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (56K vs 10). P's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and P sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 10, 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 29% of P's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, P every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Hours Tracker versus P: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerP
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.1 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better10
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#101 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.212.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCManabu Hirata

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings56,010 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews558 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral7.3%
Negative19.4%

P

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral28.6%
Negative42.9%

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

P

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
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  • 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
1 purchases

P

One-time1
  • Release of record limit$1.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is P free?
P is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or P?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while P averages 4.1 from 10 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or P have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; P does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or P?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and P every 2 months. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 28, 2026 and P on August 23, 2026.

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