Hours Tracker vs MVSOC
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
MVSOC
This application extends physical security management capabilities to mobile devices. It allows for real-time monitoring of security personnel, incident reporting, and patrol route management. Enhance operational efficiency and data capture for security and compliance functions.
- Real-time officer location monitoring with GPS
- Incident report creation and data recording
- Automated patrol route management
- Dispatch reception and acknowledgment
- Access to standard operating procedures
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D3 Security Management Systems Inc. is a software company which develops and supports the most advanced Incident Reporting, Investigation, Case Management, Computer Aided Dispatch, Security Post Orders and Security Guard Tour Patrol Systems on the market. D3 Security’s products are designed to manage Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions of organizations. D3 Security’s MVSOC (Mobile Virtual Security Operation Center) is a real-time physical security software technology designed to manage officer presence and capture all of the data from day-to-day security operations. The data is then used to identify incident hotspots, allocate resources, manage assets and facilities, and optimize physical security operations. Extend vSOC’s functionality to your mobile devices to increase productivity and efficiency. This application enables you to access all of the Guard Tour functionalities on your mobile Apple devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad). D3 MVSOC automatically collect officers latitude/longitude after they login with GPS background feature turned on. This way supervisor would be able to monitor officers location in front end using geofence feature. Features: . Collect officer lat/lng with GPS on in background, so supervisor can monitor officers location in front end using geofence feature . To check MAP feature, login MVSOC, click 'IR' icon located in bottom, then '+' sign in upper right to create a new IR . Click '^' besides 'General' in the bottom, user can select 'MAP' from the list to check current location. . Create incident reports, and record information from the scene . Perform one or more patrol routes with a series of predetermined checkpoints . Receive and acknowledge dispatches . Access organization’s standard operating procedures and instructional documents. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Requirements: Internet Connection via Wi-Fi or Cellular Data, GPS on in background Instruction to set up for the first time use: 1. Launch MVSOC and follow the setup wizard 2. Use the Admin account username and password to get the Web Service URL, or manually set the URL 3. Login MVSOC 4. Select a site from the site list For further information, please visit www.d3security.com or contact support@d3security.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hours Tracker at 4.8 against MVSOC's 3.0. Hours Tracker also leads on ratings volume (56K vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). MVSOC's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. MVSOC asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hours Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, MVSOC every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hours Tracker | MVSOC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (56K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #114 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Cribasoft, LLC | D3 SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC. |
Customer experience
Hours Tracker
MVSOC
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
MVSOC
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
MVSOC
No in-app purchases









