Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Week Timer

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

Week Timer

Easily track your work hours by checking in and out. Generate detailed reports in text or spreadsheet format for efficient timesheet updates. Features include overtime tracking, customizable tags, and reminders to ensure accurate time logging.

Highlights
  • Check in/out for work hours
  • Generate email reports (HTML/CSV)
  • Overtime tracking
  • Customizable tags for categorization
  • Background timer
  • Backup and restore data
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Check In, Check Out, Select & Send... - It’s that simple. + + + + Macworld.se "Convenient help for reporting your time" Simply check in when you arrive, check out when you leave and track your work time totals on a daily basis. At the end of the week or month select one or more reports and email them to your work so you can update your timesheet in an efficient manner using either the text (HTML) or spreadsheet (CSV) format. Features: (followed by some Tips below!) ▸ Streamlined design to efficiently track your time ▸ Day and week hours overview at a glance ▸ Easy export by email both in text (HTML) and spreadsheet (CSV) format ▸ Tags to easily categorize hours in reports ▸ Lunchtime “set and forget” ▸ Decimal or minute notation in reports so you don't need to convert durations yourself e.g. 08.75 vs 08:45 ▸ Week number support (European & US)* ▸ Timer runs in background ▸ Icon badge on home screen ▸ Overtime tracking on daily, weekly and monthly basis ▸ Predicted check out time ▸ Irregular daily target hours supported ▸ First day of week automatically set based on location, but can be customized ▸ Tap timer to toggle between overtime, time today, and time since last check in ▸ Quickedit for smooth adjustments of your latest check in, just slide up or down ▸ Tag Quick-Switching: switch a tag in 2 simple taps! ▸ Notes so no details are forgotten ▸ Check out reminders, so you don’t forget to go home... ▸ Backup and restore to easily transfer your data to a new device ▸ Photo themes to personalize your app in a beautiful way * Week numbers can be disabled in settings if desired Tips! • Archive any Tags that you no longer use to shorten your tag list • Tap the title bar of the timer to pre-select or quick switch a tag. • Slide your finger to the right on a break or time entry to delete it • Sort your Tags in your preferred order for quick access using the custom button in the tag list view • Did you know you can select more than one week at a time and send it by email? • Customize your screen with your own photo! Check out the website for some more details and screenshots! http://www.dmdesign.se

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Week Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hours Tracker at Free against Week Timer's $2.99. Hours Tracker also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (56K vs 9). Week Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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; Week Timer costs $2.99 up front. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Week Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Week Timer 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 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 73% and 73% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Week Timer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Hours Tracker versus Week Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerWeek Timer
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better9
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#106 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.215.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCDM Design

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Week Timer

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

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

Week Timer

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
None

Week Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Week Timer free?
Week Timer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Week Timer?
Week Timer is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Week Timer averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Week Timer have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Week Timer does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Week Timer?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Week Timer every 6 months. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Week Timer on September 22, 2026.

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