Comparison

Hours Tracker vs myWork

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

myWork

Effortlessly track your work hours with a one-click stopwatch and automatic recording. Manage multiple projects, calculate overtime, and export your timesheets with ease. Prioritizes data privacy with local storage.

Highlights
  • Digital timesheet management
  • One-click stopwatch recording
  • Automatic time tracking
  • Overtime calculation
  • Project/customer management
  • Data export
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Discover with myWork how easy it can be to maintain your digital timesheet. With just one click the recording is started and you can concentrate on what really counts - your work! myWork is designed so that it can be stopped during recording and does not drain your battery. The next time you start the app, you'll return to the corresponding place and see at a glance how much work time you've already recorded. Main functions: - Create and manage multiple, independent jobs / projects / customers - Versatile working time models for exact overtime calculations. - Stopwatch function for daily recording of working time - Quick, manual recording of activities such as holidays, public holidays, illness, short-time work and much more... - Location-based automatic starting and stopping of time recording - Automatic pause function - iCloud synchronization - Apple Watch Support - Overview of the most important data such as planned working time, overtime, earnings and much more directly at the start - Intelligent search and filter function - Template based and easily configurable export of your times - Creating a standard job for quick startup - Integrated vacation days management - Clear presentation of year, month and week views - Memo function during recording - dark mode Of course, data protection is a top priority! With the exception of the optional synchronization and backup features, all data remains local to your device. No servers, no transfer to third parties! You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. • Auto-renewable subscription • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Privacy policy and terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ You have further questions? - I would be happy to receive an e-mail.

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
myWork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: myWork at none against Hours Tracker's shown. myWork also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 73%) and device support (4 vs 2). Hours Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (56K vs 15) and chart position (#96 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 myWork sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 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 4.9 for myWork. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 15, 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 89% of myWork's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, myWork every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Hours Tracker versus myWork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackermyWork
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews89.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56K — better15
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#96 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.215.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCMarcel Russ

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

myWork

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

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

myWork

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
2 purchases

myWork

Subscriptions1
  • Full version (Subscription)$1.491 Month
One-time1
  • Full version (Lifetime)$8.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is myWork free?
myWork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or myWork?
myWork is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while myWork averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or myWork have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; myWork does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or myWork?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and myWork every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 25, 2026 and myWork on September 24, 2026.

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