Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Toggl Track

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
Currently charting
Read full description

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

Toggl Track

Effortlessly track your time from any device with a single tap. Organize entries with projects and tags, analyze your productivity with reports, and boost focus with Pomodoro mode. Seamlessly syncs across all your platforms.

Highlights
  • Cross-device time tracking
  • Detailed reports and export
  • Project, client, and tag organization
  • Calendar event integration
  • Pomodoro focus timer
  • Smart suggestions and auto-complete
  • Siri and widget integration
Features
Read full description

Did you lose track of your time again? We can help. With a single tap, track and save your time with Toggl Track — anywhere you go. Toggl Track has you covered across all of your devices. Start tracking your hours in a browser, then stop it later on your phone or on your Apple Watch. All your tracked time is safely synced between your iPhone, Watch, desktop, and browser. Is the app FREE? Yes, Toggl Track on iOS is completely free for you to use. --- FEATURES: • Reports Discover what's taking up your time and get a snapshot of your day or week with Reports. Analyze your Reports in the app or export them to send the data to your clients (or analyze them further on our web app to see where your hours are going). • Sync Keeps your time seamlessly synced, safely saved, and ready to track on your account, on any device. • Customize your time entries with projects, clients, and tags Organize and add more details to your time entries by adding projects, clients, and tags. See exactly where your work hours are going. • Calendar Instantly create time entries based on your calendar events! Connect your calendar app to Toggl Track to see all of your calendar events and time entries in the app itself. • Pomodoro mode Enjoy better focus and productivity by trying out the Pomodoro technique with our Pomodoro mode. Automatically track your time in 25-minute increments, with notifications, a full screen mode, and countdown timer to really help you stay focused and on task. • Suggestions The more you track, the better the data. The app will give you suggested time entries based on your tracking habits and previous time entries. • Shortcuts Use @ and # to quickly add projects and tags to time entries you track. • Auto-complete Easily find your older time entries and track time on them again. • Manual Mode Want more control? Add and edit all of your tracked time manually and make sure that every second of your time is accounted for. • Siri Toggl Track is compatible with Siri! Track a new time entry, stop it, or access your reports — all that with just a few words. • iOS Widgets Start (and stop) tracking from your iPhone Home Screen. • What if I'm offline? No problem! You can still track your time through the app, and once you're back online, it will sync seamlessly with your account (and the rest of your devices). Your time is not going anywhere. --- Yep, that's Toggl Track — a time tracking app so simple that you'll actually use it and get stuff done! See where your time goes, focus on important tasks, and boost your productivity. Whether you’re in an office or en route to one, stuck on a space mission to Mars, or just want to see how much time you're wasting on projects that aren't bringing you money — track your time anywhere you go.

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Toggl Track4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Toggl Track at none against Hours Tracker's 15. Toggl Track also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (86% vs 73%). Hours Tracker's advantage is chart position (#93 vs unranked) and ratings volume (56K vs 9.5K). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Toggl Track asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Hours Tracker against 4.8 for Toggl Track. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 9.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 86% of Toggl Track's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Toggl Track every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hours Tracker versus Toggl Track: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerToggl Track
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)4.8 (9.5K ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews86.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56K — better9.5K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#93 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.2 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB134 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCToggl OÜ

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings55,880 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews546 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative19.6%

Toggl Track

All ratings9,525 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,948 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral5.0%
Negative8.8%

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

Toggl Track

From 9.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Intuitive interface
  • 🚀 Seamless syncing across devices
  • 💡 Helpful pomodoro timer
  • 👍 Detailed time tracking and reporting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues between mobile and desktop
  • 🐛 Buggy calendar view
  • 🐛 Inconsistent UI updates
  • 🐛 Difficulty editing past time entries
  • 🐛 Laggy performance on some devices

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

Toggl Track

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to delete old time entries
  • Incorrect time assignment across devices
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved Apple Watch app functionality
  • Integration with other productivity tools
  • More advanced reporting and analytics
  • Customizable time tracking views
  • Pause feature for time tracking

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
Show 6 more
  • 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
None

Toggl Track

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Toggl Track free?
Toggl Track is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Toggl Track?
Hours Tracker and Toggl Track are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 56K and 9.5K ratings respectively.
Do Hours Tracker or Toggl Track have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Toggl Track does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Toggl Track?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Toggl Track every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Toggl Track on September 24, 2026.

Other comparisons