Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Shift Tracker

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

Shift Tracker

Easily track your work hours, breaks, and overtime. This utility app offers a minimalist design for quick entry and exit logging. It automatically calculates your income and organizes your work entries for easy access and sharing.

Highlights
  • One-tap clock in/out
  • Automatic break calculation
  • Overtime and income calculation
  • Home screen widget support
  • Organized entry history
  • Exportable work entries
Features
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The easiest clock utility! Minimal design to easily keep track of your entries. Simply tap "Enter" and go to work, the app will automatically calculate your breaks, and finally "Exit". Even faster with the Home Widget The app will calculate your workhour overtime and monthly income automatically. Keep your entries organized and accessible. Flexible settings: - Choose how many hours you work every week - Choose how long is your break - Choose how you want to round your entries (it will round up your entries and round down your exits) Export your entries and share them with clients, employers or yourself. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: • Length: weekly, yearly • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase • Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period • When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Shift Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hours Tracker at 73% against Shift Tracker's 20%. Hours Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (56K vs 74). Shift Tracker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 Shift Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. 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 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 74, 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 20% of Shift Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Shift Tracker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hours Tracker versus Shift Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerShift Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.3 (74 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better74
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#90 — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.214.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCDaniel Zanchi

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Shift Tracker

All ratings74 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative13.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

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

Shift Tracker

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

Shift Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly premium$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Yearly premium$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shift Tracker free?
Shift Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Shift Tracker?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Shift Tracker averages 4.3 from 74 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Shift Tracker have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Shift Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Shift Tracker?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Shift Tracker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Shift Tracker on August 26, 2026.

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