Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Timecard GPS

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

Timecard GPS

This app helps businesses manage field workers by tracking time, attendance, and GPS location. It allows employees to log job details and breaks, while management can monitor progress and generate reports from a web-based platform. The system aims to increase productivity and reduce labor costs.

Highlights
  • GPS tracking and breadcrumb trails
  • Time and attendance logging
  • Job and task tracking
  • Break and lunch period recording
  • Custom field data collection
  • Over 26 management reports
  • Integration with payroll software
Features
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When it comes to managing field workers and mobile employees, this task can be daunting at times. Numerous job locations, seasonal employees, documenting billable hours, recording breaks are all responsibilities of the employer. How is a company to manage their workforce efficiently and productively without slowing down progress of the workers and/or the project at hand? Timecard GPS is a mobile time and attendance and GPS Tracking application that works on Standard Cell Phones, Smart Phones and Tablets. Field Workers are able to log the following data from a mobile device: * Time * Attendance * Jobs * Tasks * Sub-tasks * Cost codes * Breaks * Lunch period * Custom fields (weather conditions, anyone hurt on job?, etc.) * Supervisor – Team Clock in/out Management is able to view the location of employees on Google maps from Econz web-based software and real-time job information such as: * GPS tracking information * Bread crumb trails * Speed triggers * Mileage * Idle time * GPS smart fence technology * Over 26 reports * Time and attendance * Job progress * Hours worked Companies that use Econz Timecard benefit in the following ways: * Increased worker productivity * Decrease in time-theft by company employees * Manage their workforce more efficiently * Increase profits * Savings on everyday costs such as fuel, overtime and administration * Helps document Federal and State wage-hour laws * Streamline time and attendance Timecard GPS offers more than 20 custom reports and Econz stores all data for a 6 month period, including GPS tracking information. Supervisors can log in/out multiple workers on one device at no additional cost. Econz Wireless offers a web-user log in capability for internal workers, giving Econz Wireless customers a complete time and attendance system. Econz Wireless products also integrate into over 100 accounting and payroll packages such as: * ADP Payroll * Kronos * Paychex * Sage MasterBuilder * Sage Timberline * Foundation * Viewpoint * QuickBooks * Over 100 more packages… Econz Wireless can also do custom builds specific to your Company needs. Please contact our offices to discuss further. If you would like to view our Public SOAP API's please click the link. Econz Timecard is ideal for small organizations of 5 employees or enterprise groups of thousands of workers. With a 30 day money back guarantee get started with Econz Timecard and streamline your company's time and attendance needs! Econz Wireless( est. 1971) - is a Leader in Mobile Data Collection, providing employer solutions for Time & Attendance, Employee Tracking and Wage-Hour Compliance Laws. *Note* Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Timecard GPS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hours Tracker at 4.8 against Timecard GPS's 2.4. Hours Tracker also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 33%) and ratings volume (56K vs 14). Timecard GPS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Timecard GPS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 14, 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 33% of Timecard GPS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Timecard GPS every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hours Tracker versus Timecard GPS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerTimecard GPS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better2.4 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better14
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#93 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.215.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCEconz Wireless

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Timecard GPS

All ratings13 ratings
Positive30.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative69.2%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative60.0%

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

Timecard GPS

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

Timecard GPS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timecard GPS free?
Timecard GPS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Timecard GPS?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Timecard GPS averages 2.4 from 14 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Timecard GPS have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Timecard GPS does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Timecard GPS?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Timecard GPS every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Timecard GPS on June 1, 2026.

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