Comparison

Hours Tracker vs WorkTimes

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

WorkTimes

Easily log work hours and track overtime with automated calculations and manual adjustments. Organize logs with custom tags for projects or clients, and export detailed timesheets in PDF or CSV formats. Manage various work statuses like vacation and sick days.

Highlights
  • Automated overtime calculations
  • Manual overtime adjustments
  • Timesheet export (PDF/CSV)
  • Custom tagging for logs
  • Digital clock-in/out
  • Record vacation, sick, and holidays
Features
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With WorkTimes, easily log your work hours and view your overtime at a glance. Designed for employees with regular schedules, WorkTimes streamlines your time tracking—whether daily, weekly, or monthly. OVERTIME MANAGEMENT • Automated Calculations: Instantly compute overtime based on your defined regular hours. • Manual Adjustments: Easily update your overtime figures when you receive overtime pay or need corrections. TIMESHEET EXPORTS Export your timesheet as a PDF or CSV file at the end of any period to share with your employer or for your records. TAGGING • Custom tags: Organize your logs by tagging records for individual projects, clients, or specific activities. • Detailed tracking: Assign durations, decimal values, or monetary amounts to each tag for granular analysis. FEATURES • Manage multiple accounts and jobs • Record work hours, vacation days, sick days, and public holidays • Use the intuitive digital clock-in to start your work effortlessly • Automatic overtime calculation with options for daily, weekly, or monthly tracking • Manual adjustments for precise overtime management • Generate weekly, monthly, and yearly reports • Export timesheets as PDF or CSV • Tag and evaluate work records with detailed insights • Manage, analyze, and export vacation, sick days, and holiday data SUBSCRIPTION WorkTimes is free with a limit of 10 days of recordings per account. Upgrade to track unlimited days with our affordable monthly and annual subscriptions—and enjoy a 7-day trial to explore all features. QUESTIONS? If you have questions or suggestions, contact me at feedback@worktimes.app or via Twitter @WorkTimesApp. Terms: https://worktimes.app/terms Privacy: https://worktimes.app/privacy Help: https://worktimes.app/help

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
WorkTimes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: WorkTimes at none against Hours Tracker's shown. Hours Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (56K vs 73) and chart position (#93 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 WorkTimes sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. 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 4.8 for WorkTimes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 73, 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 79% of WorkTimes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, WorkTimes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Hours Tracker versus WorkTimes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerWorkTimes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)4.8 (73 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews79.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56K — better73
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#93 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.2 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCFlorian Mielke

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

WorkTimes

All ratings73 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral4.1%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative6.9%

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

WorkTimes

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
Show 3 more
  • 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
Show 6 more
  • 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
13 purchases

WorkTimes

Subscriptions12
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • WorkTimes Plus - Upgrade7 Days trial$2.991 Month
Show 9 more
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$9.993 Months
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$12.991 Year
  • WorkTimes Plus - Upgrade$12.991 Year
  • WorkTimes Plus - Upgrade7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$17.991 Year
  • WorkTimes Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • WorkTimes Pro14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • WorkTimes Pro14 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Annual Leave Management$2.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WorkTimes free?
WorkTimes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or WorkTimes?
Hours Tracker and WorkTimes are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 56K and 73 ratings respectively.
Do Hours Tracker or WorkTimes have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; WorkTimes does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or WorkTimes?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and WorkTimes every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and WorkTimes on September 22, 2026.

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