Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Time Continuum

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 Continuum

This app offers a straightforward way to track your work hours and manage multiple projects. It visualizes your time data with charts and provides monthly reports for productivity analysis. Data is securely synced via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Simple time tracking
  • Monthly statistics and reports
  • Visualized results with charts
  • Track multiple projects
  • iCloud data sync
  • No ads
  • No account needed
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All Your Time Sheets: Easy to Create and Meaningful Again. Meet Time Continuum The simplest time tracker, so that you can track your working hours smoothly and comfortably. With our time tracker you will turn your messy and useless time sheets into easy to create and meaningful again. We have the tool you’ve been dreaming of: a simple app for tracking your working hours. No fluff. Our time tracker doesn’t have 1000 features you won’t use anyway. Simplicity is our core feature. >>>What will you get? Monthly Overview Our time tracker provides you with monthly statistics (including exporting reports), so that you can track your working hours and react if your productivity is getting lower. Your Results Visualized Have you ever lost track of your work time? Stop being busy. Keep constant overview over your working hours using colorful charts. Track Multiple Projects Say good-bye to messy time sheets. With our time tracker you track every activity with ease even if you work simultaneously on many projects for many clients. Sync your data with iCloud Now your work times are safe stored in the iCloud. No more loosing data or starting from scratch after you’ve updated to the newest iPhone. Your time sheets are always there for you. Our mission is to give you a simple yet powerful work time tracker, so that you can keep an eye on your working hours smoothly and comfortably. We are providing you with regular updates to assist you on your journey to higher productivity. You can test our time tracker for 7 days after the first installation. After that period use one of the following subscription plans: -> 1 Year – full access for one year. Billed for the whole year up front Includes an extra bonus: 30-day trial. You don’t pay for the first month. Install now and pay in one month. -> 6 Months – full access for six months. Billed every six months up front -> 1 Month – full access for one month, Billed monthly Full access for each plan contains: - unlimited time tracking for all your projects - unlimited projects - all time sheets and projects stored securely in iCloud - unlimited working time reports - no ads for ever, no account needed. Start your journey to a better work style right away. Hit install and start tracking your working hours like a pro. If you need help with our time tracker please visit: http://www.timecontinuumapp.com/support

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Time Continuum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Time Continuum at none against Hours Tracker's shown. Time Continuum also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Hours Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (56K vs 1) and chart position (#114 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 Continuum sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Time Continuum 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Time Continuum monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Hours Tracker versus Time Continuum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerTime Continuum
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings56K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#114 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCBerries in the Basket UG

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings56,010 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews551 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral7.1%
Negative19.4%

Time Continuum

All ratings1 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 Continuum

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 Continuum

Subscriptions4
  • One Month Continuum$7.991 Month
  • 6 Months Continuum$29.996 Months
  • 3 Months Continuum$35.993 Months
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  • 1 Year Continuum1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Continuum free?
Time Continuum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Time Continuum?
Time Continuum is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Time Continuum averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Time Continuum have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Time Continuum does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Time Continuum?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Time Continuum monthly. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 26, 2026 and Time Continuum on July 5, 2026.

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