Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Time Entry for Business

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

Time Entry for Business

Streamline team time tracking and project management. Log timesheets, manage projects with custom attributes, and generate branded reports. Secure access with role management and device authorization.

Highlights
  • Team time tracking
  • Project management
  • Customizable reports
  • Billable/non-billable tasks
  • Role-based security
  • Device authorization
  • Face ID access
Features
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Time Entry for Business is a team timesheet, time tracking, and project management app for businesses that need to record work hours, approve time, and monitor project activity. Let employees log hours, submit timesheets, separate billable and non-billable work, and organize time by project and task from iPhone, iPad, and Mac. TIMESHEETS & TIME TRACKING • Log business and project time. • Submit and approve timesheets. • Track billable and non-billable tasks. • Organize work hours by project and activity. • Keep team time records in one shared workflow. PROJECTS • Create projects for customers or internal work. • Define approval workflows. • Manage project tasks, budgets, and schedules. • Track progress and time across project activity. REPORTS & CUSTOMIZATION • Create, print, email, and share professional PDF reports. • Import and export CSV files. • Add custom attributes for your time tracking workflow. • Personalize reports with fonts, colors, headers, footers, and logos. TEAM & SECURITY • Manage users, roles, branches, and access lists. • Limit access to relevant projects, branches, and business data. • Authorize individual devices before account access. • Use biometric authentication supported by your device. STARKODE FOR BUSINESS Part of the Starkode business suite for teams working across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Need help? Contact support@starkode.com. SUBSCRIPTION Starkode membership is month-to-month with no long-term contracts or cancellation fees. Cancel anytime from your device. Privacy Policy: https://starkode.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://starkode.com/terms/

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Time Entry for Business4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Time Entry for Business at none against Hours Tracker's shown. Time Entry for Business also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and device support (4 vs 2). Hours Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (56K vs 2) and chart position (#106 vs unranked). 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 Time Entry for Business sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Time Entry for Business holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hours Tracker versus Time Entry for Business: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerTime Entry for Business
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings56K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#106 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCStarkode Limited Company

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings56,484 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews571 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral7.0%
Negative19.3%

Time Entry for Business

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Time Entry for Business

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
4 purchases

Time Entry for Business

Subscriptions4
  • 1 User - Hourly Calculator Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • 3 Users - Clock Management Sap7 Days trial$26.991 Month
  • 6 Users - Clock Counter Plus7 Days trial$49.991 Month
Show 1 more
  • 10 Users - Day Timer Clockify7 Days trial$79.991 Month

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Entry for Business free?
Time Entry for Business is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Time Entry for Business?
Time Entry for Business is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Time Entry for Business averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Time Entry for Business have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Time Entry for Business does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Time Entry for Business?
Hours Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Time Entry for Business every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on October 28, 2026 and Time Entry for Business on October 19, 2026.

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