Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Punch Time 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

Punch Time Clock

Easily track work hours, manage shifts, and generate detailed timesheets. This app offers simple clock-in/out functionality, retroactive adjustments, and professional PDF/CSV exports for record-keeping or invoicing.

Highlights
  • Effortless time tracking
  • Comprehensive timesheets
  • Professional PDF/CSV exports
  • Flexible shift management
  • Organize with tags
  • Overtime calculations
Features
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Introducing Punch Time Clock, the essential time-tracking app for shift workers, freelancers, remote workers, small-business owners, students and salaried employees. With Punch, managing your hours has never been easier. # KEY FEATURES • Effortless Time Tracking Clock in, take breaks, and clock out with a simple tap. Forgot to clock out? No problem—easily make retroactive adjustments. • Comprehensive Timesheets View detailed timesheets showing your hours worked and estimated earnings. Perfect for tracking your work history. • Professional PDF Exports Export timesheets as professionally formatted PDF or CSV files. Share them with employers, invoice clients, or keep them for personal records. • Flexible Shift Management Create new shifts from scratch or edit existing ones. Add personal notes to each shift for better task or project tracking. • Organize with Tags Categorize your shifts using Tags to filter timesheets by job, client, project, and more. Stay organized and efficient. • Overtime Calculations Automatically calculate daily and weekly overtime for Weekly and Biweekly pay schedules to ensure accurate tracking of your work hours. # WHY CHOOSE PUNCH TIME CLOCK? • User-Friendly Interface – Designed for simplicity and ease of use, so you can focus on your work, not your timesheets. • Reliable & Secure – Built with the latest technology to keep your data safe. • Customizable Experience – Tailor Punch to fit your unique needs with flexible settings and features. Take control of your work hours with Punch Time Clock. Download now and transform the way you track time—effortlessly and accurately. # UPGRADE TO PUNCH PRO Punch is completely free, with no limits. Upgrade to Punch PRO with a one-time purchase for advanced features like pay estimates, timesheet exporting, notes and tagging. Privacy Policy - https://trentmorris.com/punch/privacy Terms of Use - https://trentmorris.com/punch/terms

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Punch Time Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Punch Time Clock at none against Hours Tracker's shown. Punch Time Clock also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Hours Tracker's advantage is chart position (#105 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Punch Time Clock sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 Punch Time Clock. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56K and 35K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 69% of Punch Time Clock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Punch Time Clock every 4 days. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Hours Tracker versus Punch Time Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerPunch Time Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)4.8 (35K ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better69.3% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better35K
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#105 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCTrent Morris

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Punch Time Clock

All ratings35,261 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews469 reviews
Positive69.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.0%

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

Punch Time Clock

From 35K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🕰️ Helpful for tracking work hours
  • 💰 Useful for estimating pay
  • 📤 Ability to export data

Room to improve

  • 🚫 Limited currency options
  • 🤔 Clunky manual entry process
  • 🔢 Inaccurate pay calculations
  • 🚫 Lack of Apple Watch support

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

Punch Time Clock

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Export feature not working
  • Crashes when using certain functions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to add notes to entries
  • Option to customize pay periods
  • Support for multiple pay rates
  • Sync data to cloud storage

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
4 purchases

Punch Time Clock

One-time4
  • Nice Tip$1.99
  • Amazing Tip$4.99
  • Pro Upgrade$7.99
Show 1 more
  • Ridiculous Tip$19.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Punch Time Clock free?
Punch Time Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Punch Time Clock?
Hours Tracker and Punch Time Clock are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 56K and 35K ratings respectively.
Do Hours Tracker or Punch Time Clock have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Punch Time Clock does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Punch Time Clock?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Punch Time Clock every 4 days. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 25, 2026 and Punch Time Clock on September 25, 2026.

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