Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Hours and Pay 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
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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 and Pay Tracker

Easily track your work hours and earnings with this intuitive time logging app. Record daily hours, set custom rates, and manage overtime for multiple jobs. Export reports and secure your data with password protection.

Highlights
  • Clock in/out with breaks
  • Manual time entry
  • Customizable overtime rates
  • Export to CSV/PDF
  • Password protection
  • Reports by time period and job
Features
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Hours and Pay Tracker lets you easily track your time and earnings. It is a perfect app for hourly employees, freelancers, or anyone interested in organizing their work in a better way. The app allows you to record your daily working hours for each client. You can specify hourly rate for a job, daily and weekly overtime rates, taxes, deductions, pay periods and more. You can clock into multiple jobs simultaneously. Your earnings and hours are calculated automatically. The job dashboard lets you easily clock in, clock out and start or end breaks. You can also add manual work entries in case you forgot to start the clock. The app displays all your work entries in a well designed, easy to use, intuitive interface. You can filter your time log by days, weeks, months or jobs. Export your work entries to CSV or PDF format and send them to your clients. The app lets you customize time format, currency, clock in and clock out reminders, comments for entry and many other options. You can also lock the app and keep your data safe by enabling password protection. Features: - Simple and easy to use interface - Clock in, clock out, breaks - Manual time entry - Daily and weekly overtimes - Custom pay periods - Export time log to CSV or PDF - Reminders - iCloud backup and restore - Reports by days, weeks, months and jobs - Entry comments - Password protection - Custom time formats, currency, rounding time, taxes and deductions If you have any problems or suggestions, then please contact us at support@svgapps.com. Information about the auto-renewable subscription - You can purchase either a monthly subscription ($0.99/month) or an annual subscription ($9.99/year). - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - For more information on how to cancel your subscription, please review - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Privacy policy: http://www.svgapps.com/privacy-policy - Terms of use: http://www.svgapps.com/terms

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Hours and Pay Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hours Tracker at 56K against Hours and Pay Tracker's 177. Hours Tracker also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Hours and Pay Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.2). On price, ads, 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 Hours and Pay Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 177, 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 62% of Hours and Pay Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Hours and Pay Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hours Tracker versus Hours and Pay Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerHours and Pay Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.6 (177 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better177
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#106 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.212.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB26 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCSVG Apps

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Hours and Pay Tracker

All ratings177 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%

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 and Pay 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
2 purchases

Hours and Pay Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hours and Pay Tracker free?
Hours and Pay Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Hours and Pay Tracker?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Hours and Pay Tracker averages 4.6 from 177 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Hours and Pay Tracker have ads?
Both Hours Tracker and Hours and Pay Tracker show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Hours and Pay Tracker?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Hours and Pay Tracker every 2 months. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Hours and Pay Tracker on September 13, 2026.

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