Comparison

Hours Tracker vs TimeTac Classic

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

TimeTac Classic

This app facilitates employee time management for businesses, allowing for easy recording of work hours, project time, vacations, and absences. It offers features like live tracking, status overviews, offline functionality, and leave management, all while ensuring legal compliance.

Highlights
  • Work hour tracking (live or manual)
  • Project time booking
  • Employee status overview
  • Offline functionality
  • Leave and absence management
  • Data export and API integration
  • Legal compliance (GDPR)
Features
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TimeTac Classic is the ideal employee time management app for medium and large companies. Whether working hours, project time tracking, vacations, or absences, with TimeTac Classic you can record work time easily and quickly via browser, time clock or mobile app. Make attendance tracking, timesheets, and work log creation easier and save valuable time! *** You need a TimeTac Classic account to use the app. Try TimeTac Classic now 30 days for free. *** Please note that your employees can only use the app if you set mobile access in the TimeTac Classic account for the respective user. • Effortless work time management Work hours tracker records time live or subsequently. When you clock in and out, pause or stop the working hours tracking in the app, timestamps are automatically saved in your timesheet, providing a work log overview. In Project Time Tracking, employees can book time for separate tasks, projects or customers. • Transparency in the employee work log Who is currently working on which task, absent, or working remotely or from the office today? In the status overview, you can see live working time and employees' absences. It is especially interesting for managers and facilitates time management for teams. • Offline functionality If the Internet connection is interrupted, the app will still work offline. Attendance tracking data is synchronized as soon as the connection is restored. • Optionally combine mobile time recording with GPS, NFC or geo-fences to be able to document time bookings based on location and project. • Schedule to-dos for employees Plan tasks in advance in project time recording and assign them to your employees. They can then track time directly in the created plan. • Overview of your resources Access various reports in both Working Time Tracking and Project Time Tracking. Keep an eye on the timesheets, clock in and out time and overall attendance of your team. It is possible to record the time spent on a project or task. Efficiently manage time spent on projects, costs, turnover, and the orders' profitability at any time. • Leave Management Efficiently manage all holidays and absences. TimeTac automatically calculates annual leave and holiday entitlement for all employees based on your settings. Thanks to numerous evaluation options, you can always keep an overview of an employee's work log. Requests and confirmation workflows could also be implemented. Reduce your administrative effort and save valuable time! • Data Export and API integrations TimeTac can be integrated directly with your company's software, with numerous standard integrations and a configurable API. • Compliant with the law With TimeTac, you can safely and efficiently fulfil the working time tracking legal requirements and the EU-wide GDPR data protection regulations. • Excellent support Our award-winning service and support teams will help you with the technical implementation of our time management software, including updates and any further maintenance. TimeTac's support team is available for free via e-mail or phone hotline during the entire contract period. ------ More than 3,000 customers and 100,000+ users. Quality Choice and Trusted Vendor Badges from Crozdesk 4.9 out of 5 stars on Google Certified-Cloud-Solution at Cloud-Ecosystem "Very good" rating at trusted. de and the Gold Seal at eKomi ------ *** The range of functions depends on the TimeTac modules used, individual account settings and user permissions within a company account. TimeTac software and the mobile app are regularly maintained and updated so that you have the best experience with our app. We always appreciate your feedback and reviews! Learn more about TimeTac https://www.timetac.com/en/ Privacy Policy https://www.timetac.com/en/company/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
TimeTac Classic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hours Tracker at 74% against TimeTac Classic's 31%. Hours Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (56K vs 9). TimeTac Classic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. TimeTac Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. 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 point the same way: 74% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 31% of TimeTac Classic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, TimeTac Classic every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Hours Tracker versus TimeTac Classic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerTimeTac Classic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.1 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews — better30.9% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better9
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#105 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.214.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB295 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCTimeTac

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings56,010 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews551 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral7.1%
Negative19.4%

TimeTac Classic

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral22.2%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive30.9%
Neutral9.1%
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

TimeTac Classic

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

TimeTac Classic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimeTac Classic free?
TimeTac Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or TimeTac Classic?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while TimeTac Classic averages 4.1 from 9 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or TimeTac Classic have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; TimeTac Classic does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or TimeTac Classic?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and TimeTac Classic every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 26, 2026 and TimeTac Classic on September 25, 2026.

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