Hours Tracker vs myWork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- Digital timesheet management
- One-click stopwatch recording
- Automatic time tracking
- Overtime calculation
- Project/customer management
- Data export
- iCloud synchronization
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, myWork every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hours Tracker | myWork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (56K ratings) | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 56K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #96 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cribasoft, LLC | Marcel Russ |
Customer experience
Hours Tracker
myWork
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
Hours Tracker
- 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
- 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
myWork
- Full version (Subscription)$1.491 Month
- Full version (Lifetime)$8.99








