Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Hours

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
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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

Hours

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Start and End Work Easily - Start and end your work with just one touch. Select Work Type and Workspace - Choose the appropriate work type and designated workspace (location or project). Comments and Photos - Add comments or photos to your work entries for additional context. Hours Summaries - Employees can view summaries of their work hours. Team Management - Supervisors can monitor team hours, see who started where, view comments and photos, add bonuses, and approve work entries. Automatic and Semi-Automatic Time Tracking - The phone automatically starts and stops work when you enter or leave a designated workspace. Our app supports 11 languages, ensuring a seamless experience for international teams. Hours - Time. Simplified. Download now and start managing your time more efficiently!

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Hours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hours at none against Hours Tracker's 15. Hours also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). Hours Tracker's advantage is chart position (#96 vs unranked). On price, update cadence 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. Hours asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Hours every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Hours Tracker versus Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerHours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings56K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#96 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.214.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCTouch Media OU

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

Hours

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
None

Hours

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hours free?
Hours is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hours Tracker or Hours have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Hours does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Hours?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Hours every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 25, 2026 and Hours on September 10, 2026.

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