Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Gekko Hours

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

Gekko Hours

Effortlessly track your work hours, switch between projects, and synchronize with your digital calendar. Generate invoices and manage team activities for freelancers and entrepreneurs.

Highlights
  • Automatic and manual time tracking
  • Project and activity switching
  • Digital calendar synchronization
  • Invoice generation
  • Team member hour tracking
  • Secure European server data storage
Features
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Track your work day with your smartphone. Switch between projects and activities with the click of a button. Automatically synchronize hours between your digital Apple calendar and your Gekko account. Easy to use and directly added into your company records so you can use your stored hours for invoicing, tax purposes etc. Specifically developed for freelancers and other entrepreneurs Gekko Hours will make it easy to keep track and share your daily activities. The main features of the tool are: ● Use an automatic timer or manual input to keep track of your day ● Automatically synchronize hours in your digital calendar with your Gekko app and assign them to the projects you are working on ● Get an overview of all worked hours over a period of time or use recorded hours to create invoices using the Gekko Invoicing app ● Keep track of working hours of team members by inviting others to your account. Gekko Hours is a free application that can be used either as a stand alone hour tracking tool or as part of all the other tools in the Gekko family. Gekko offers free tools to freelancers and other small entrepreneurs for: ● Sending invoices and payment requests via Gekko Invoicing ● KM tracking and other trip tracking via Gekko Trips ● Expense receipt scanning and managing via Gekko Costs Gekko provides all these tools to freelancers and other entrepreneurs. Gekko will cover any bookkeeping need you might have. And with your free online account on www.getgekko.com, you will get a full overview of everything you and your company does, from quotations to customer management. A complete bookkeeping system accessible from any device. Accounting without hassle. All data you add in Gekko Hours or anywhere else on Gekko will be stored via a secure connection to European servers. All data will be treated confidentially, will never be shared with any other party without your explicit consent and will remain exclusively your property. Gekko stands for safety and privacy. Questions, feedback, problems? We’re here for you: send a message to support@getgekko.com.

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Gekko Hours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hours Tracker at 4.8 against Gekko Hours's 2.5. Hours Tracker also leads on ratings volume (56K vs 4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Gekko Hours's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hours Tracker sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Gekko Hours asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 56K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 67% of Gekko Hours's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Gekko Hours every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Hours Tracker versus Gekko Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerGekko Hours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better2.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings56K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#96 — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.214.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCGekkolab

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

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

Gekko Hours

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Gekko Hours

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

Gekko Hours

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gekko Hours free?
Gekko Hours is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Gekko Hours?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 56K ratings, while Gekko Hours averages 2.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Gekko Hours have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Gekko Hours does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Gekko Hours?
Hours Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Gekko Hours every 6 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Gekko Hours on September 23, 2026.

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