Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Hourly

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

Hourly

Easily track your work hours by clocking in and out. View your monthly time with a calendar and calculate your total pay based on your set hourly rate. This simple and free tool helps you manage your work time.

Highlights
  • Clock in and out
  • Daily hour tracking
  • Monthly calendar view
  • Hourly pay calculation
  • Total pay calculation
Features
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• Clock in and out to set your hours for the day. • View your hours for the month with the calendar view. • Set your hourly pay and easily calculate your total pay. • Simple, Easy, all for free!

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Hourly3 screens

Verdict

The call

Hours Tracker and Hourly both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 25% of Hourly's. Hours Tracker also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and ratings volume (56K vs 35). Hourly's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). On rating, 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

Hours Tracker is free to download; Hourly costs $1.99 up front. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Hourly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Hours Tracker against 4.7 for Hourly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 25% of Hourly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Hourly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Hours Tracker versus Hourly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerHourly
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.7 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better35
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#93 — better#117
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.214.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCAlan Easterling

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Hourly

All ratings35 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

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

Hourly

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
1 purchases

Hourly

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hourly free?
Hourly costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Hourly?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Hourly averages 4.7 from 35 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Hourly have ads?
Both Hours Tracker and Hourly show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Hourly?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Hourly weekly. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Hourly on September 18, 2026.
Which is more popular, Hours Tracker or Hourly?
Hours Tracker currently peaks at #93 in the App Store charts, and Hourly at #117. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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