Comparison

ClockOn Take Your Time vs Time Guard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ClockOn Take Your Time

This app is designed for shift workers to easily track their working hours and overtime. It allows for quick time entry, automatic overtime calculation based on defined shifts, and seamless integration with your device's calendar. Recorded times can be emailed and shared as iCal files.

Highlights
  • Quick time recording
  • Automatic overtime calculation
  • Customizable shift definitions
  • Calendar integration
  • Email export of work times
  • iCal file sharing
Features
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ClockOn - the best time recording app! Perfect for varying working hours in shift work. ClockOn takes your time in only two seconds! In the "Shifts" module you can enter your normal daily working hours and rest periods. Using this information overtime is calculated for each day. Any number of shifts can be defined. Come on time, but often have to work longer? Then it is sufficient to stop the time at the end of the day - the start time is filled in automatically. The recorded working times and overtime can be sent to an e-mail address specified in the settings. Use ClockOn to enter your roster into your calendar easily. You can choose your default calendar or another calendar. You can also create shift cycles, such as an β€žearly weekβ€œ or a β€žlate shift weekβ€œ. Such a shift cycle can then be added with one click in the calendar. If you like, you can send your roster to your partner by email with an attached iCal file.

About

Time Guard

This app helps you track your work hours, holidays, and flextime with automatic location-based or manual time logging. Receive notifications for exceeding daily or maximum work limits and export your data easily. Supports Apple Watch and calendar sync.

Highlights
  • Automatic location-based time tracking
  • Manual time entry for various work types
  • Holiday and flextime balance management
  • Push notifications for work time limits
  • CSV export of time data
  • Calendar sync
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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Time Guard not just gives you an overview about your achieved working times, current amount of holidays and flextime, but also keeps you informed by Push-Notifications when you reach the amount of daily and maximum allowed working time. Doing so, Time Guard can automatically track your entering and leaving times for locations you define in settings, either based on geo-locations or on iBeacons for an even more fine-grained indoor recognition. Of course you also can track your times manually at any time, especially for holidays, flexdays and illness-days so that your flextime amount and current holiday is always up-to-date. Time Guard includes the following features: - Configure your daily amount of work (constant or individually per day of week), your amount of weekly work, maximum work, fixed & flexible pause, amount of annual holidays, current amount of flextime, monthly or weekly flextime subtraction and flextime scale to configure time period within which flextime will be added. - display effective average working time of the last 6 months - display average working time of last 6 months according to Β§3 ArbZG - Push-Notification when reaching the amount of daily and maximum working time - Configuration of locations by comfortable address-search or by defining iBeacon parameters. - for geolocation-monitored regions you can define an offset in minutes which gets automatically added on arrival and subtracted on departure. - Automatical tracking of times for your configured locations even when the app is not running and without affecting the battery-life negatively. - Overview about single times, daily and weekly working times as list, chart diagrams or in a scrolling calendar view. - Manual tracking of working times, short-time working, block time, holidays, flexdays and illness-days - Adding a note to a single time. - 3D-Touch on Home-Screen Icon for an even faster adding of new entries (iPhone 6s or newer) - 3D-Touch Peek&Pop on time-overview (iPhone 6s or newer) - Overview in Today Extension of Notification Center - Export times as CSV via email - monthly time sheets - Import times (inkl. from Geofency and Hours Tracker) - tap on hour-label in Startscreen to show latest possible leaving time - automatic registration of travel-time between two monitored regions - Apple Watch support - iOS 13 DarkMode - sync time entries one-way down to a selected calendar For new requirements, reporting bugs or any feedback please contact timeguard@iosolutions.de

Screenshots

ClockOn Take Your Time4 screens
Time Guard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Time Guard at none against ClockOn Take Your Time's 1. Time Guard also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 2). ClockOn Take Your Time's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On review sentiment, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

ClockOn Take Your Time costs $1.99 and Time Guard $5.99 up front. ClockOn Take Your Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Time Guard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClockOn Take Your Time ships an update every 4 months, Time Guard weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Β· 3 level
ClockOn Take Your Time versus Time Guard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClockOn Take Your TimeTime Guard
Price$1.99 β€” better$5.99
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews β€” better84.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperprausesoftwareSebastian Vollmer

Customer experience

ClockOn Take Your Time

Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

Time Guard

Written reviews25 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative4.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ClockOn Take Your Time

One-time1
  • ClockOn full Version$4.99
None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClockOn Take Your Time free?
ClockOn Take Your Time costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ClockOn Take Your Time or Time Guard have ads?
Neither ClockOn Take Your Time nor Time Guard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClockOn Take Your Time or Time Guard?
ClockOn Take Your Time ships an update every 4 months, and Time Guard weekly. Most recently, ClockOn Take Your Time was updated on September 21, 2026 and Time Guard on September 22, 2026.

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