Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Daily

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

Daily

Effortlessly track your time on Mac by periodically logging your activities. This app helps combat procrastination by keeping you focused on your tasks. A companion mobile app allows you to view and edit your timesheets remotely.

Highlights
  • Periodic activity logging
  • Automatic timer toggling
  • Procrastination combating
  • Remote timesheet editing
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Daily makes tracking time on your Mac effortless by periodically asking what you are doing. This way, toggling timers when switching tasks is a thing of the past. Plus, it combats procrastination by refocusing you on your intended task. It is rated 4.6 out of 5 by thousands of professionals globally. This companion app lets you view and edit timesheets when not behind your Mac. It seamlessly synchronizes with your Mac using iCloud and can be used for free as part of your existing Daily license. Terms of use: https://dailytimetracking.com/terms Privacy policy: https://dailytimetracking.com/privacy Support: https://dailytimetracking.com/support

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Daily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daily at none against Hours Tracker's shown. Daily also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 73%). Hours Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (56K vs 9) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Daily sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. 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 complicate that: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 86% of Daily's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Daily every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Hours Tracker versus Daily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerDaily
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better4.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56K — better9
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#105 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS16.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCNiels Mouthaan

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Daily

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews356 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.8%

User reviews

Hours Tracker

From 56K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 📊 Detailed time tracking and reporting
  • 💰 Accurate pay estimates
  • 🔍 Helpful for tracking multiple jobs/projects
  • 🔒 Secure data backup

Room to improve

  • 💸 Subscription pricing model
  • 🔓 Limited free version
  • 🐛 Occasional data loss or sync issues
  • 🔍 Difficulty organizing/managing multiple jobs
  • 🖥️ Lack of iPad/desktop version

Daily

From 9 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Effortless time tracking
  • 👍 Unobtrusive reminders
  • 🚀 Accurate time logging
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
  • 👍 Helpful for invoicing and billing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional data loss or sync issues
  • 🔍 Limited reporting and export options
  • 🔍 Difficult to edit or correct entries
  • 💰 Subscription-based pricing model

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

Daily

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Prompts not appearing at the expected intervals
  • Inability to delete or modify existing entries

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create tasks on the fly
  • Chronological view of daily activities
  • Improved data visualization and analytics
  • Sync across multiple devices
  • Apple Watch integration for easier time tracking

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
4 purchases

Daily

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Quarterly$19.993 Months
  • Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily free?
Daily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Daily?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Daily averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Daily have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Daily does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Daily?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Daily every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 25, 2026 and Daily on September 13, 2026.

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