Comparison

TimeSheet vs Proactive ESS

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

Head to head
About

TimeSheet

Easily record and track your working hours, including breaks and overtime. Summarize your monthly work and export data via email for PC management or payroll calculations. Customize your work schedule and set hourly wages.

Highlights
  • Record check-in/check-out times
  • Track breaks and overtime
  • Calculate total hours and salary
  • Customize work and break schedules
  • Export data via email
  • Set hourly wages
  • Add memos for notes
Features
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1,540,000 downloads in 2020/05. Ranked #2 in the App Store's Business Category (Norway、Finland 2011/10) We have been chosen as recommended new app on the App Store(USA、Germany、Japan 2011/7) A simple yet functional timesheet Available in : English/Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Italian/Dutch/Swedish/Spanish/German French(French)/Portuguese(Brazil)/Portuguese(Portugal)/Russian/Malay/Vietnamese/Finnish/Norwegian/Turkish/Danish/Thai/Greek/Indonesian/Hebrew/Arabic/Hindi/Polish/Romanian/Albanian/Bosnian/Bulgarian/Croatian/Czech/Estonian/Hungarian/Icelandic/Latvian/Lithuanian ""TimeSheet is a simple application which easily records and keeps track of working hours"" Enabling at-a-glance summaries of working/overtime hours of each month with a simple click on your way in and out of work. Export TimeSheet via e-mail to manage working hours on your own pc or submit to work. It is also convenient for part-time workers to figure out paychecks beforehand. Download now for Free. How to use TimeSheet: - Cutomize it by setting your own working hours and break times. (That's it, and you're ready to go!) - Click on the ""Check-in"" and ""Check-out"" button everday to record. - Check your record on the ""View"" and ""Total"" screens. - You may edit check-in times on the ""View"" screen by choosing the date that you would like to fix. List of Functions: - Recording Time: Check-in/Checkout, Pause/Resume (You can also record breaks) - Setting Regular Hours - Recording Breaks: Set times by the minute ie. ""1 hour lunch break"" - Calculating Total Hours Days worked Hours worked (Total/Average), Overtime (Total/Average) ,Salary(Total) -Set deadline -Setting Hour Wages -Memo For leaving notes such as ""late due to traffic jam"" etc. -E-mail Export your data by the month (Comma Seperated Values) Customer Support: If you have any problems or suggestions regarding operation, go to this site.: https://digitalaccels.com/timesheet

About

Proactive ESS

Features
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Proactive Human Resources is a streamlined, dynamic and flexible fully-managed HR system, utilizing Intellipay. ESS allows you to vastly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your human resources and payroll processes, enabling you to focus on your core competencies. Implementing a Proactive Human Resources System (HR System) provides your company with a business value which can dramatically help HR and line managers to automate routine tasks and processes, resulting in reducing paperwork, improving efficiency and saving time. A good HR software is often the key to helping a company's growth. Some of the key benefits of Proactive HR system is automating the common tasks and processes that would typically provide savings in time of over 50%; such as employees change in personal details, holiday approval, vacations recording, appraisals, training & development, salary & career changes, etc. Key Benefits Keeping Records of financial & administrative employees information Keeping records of employees salaries & their changes Attendances Recording Vacation Approval & Tracking Automatic calculations of deductions Automatic calculation of Overtime Automatic calculation of salaries Printing payslips Electronic registry of employees loans & automatic deduction from salaries Recording of business trips Shifts enabled Appraisal System Training System Integration to Proactive GL (General Ledger System) Employee Portal

Screenshots

TimeSheet4 screens
Proactive ESS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Proactive ESS at none against TimeSheet's 1. Proactive ESS also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. TimeSheet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Proactive ESS asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeSheet ships an update every 4 months, Proactive ESS every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TimeSheet versus Proactive ESS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeSheetProactive ESS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews51.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Accels Inc.Proactivesoft for Applications

Bugs and requests

TimeSheet

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Calculates wrong when working under hours
  • Screens not displaying after iOS 5 update
  • Memo field changes keyboard layout to numerical
  • Check in/out buttons enabled on past days, app crashes when tapped

Requested features

17 requests
  • Add ability to attach photos in memo section
  • Add overtime rate option
  • Add export as PDF doc /spreadsheet
  • Add weekly or fortnight time sheets
  • Add ability to change hours for a specific day
Show 12 more
  • Add ability to set pay periods (weekly, biweekly, monthly)
  • Add ability to set overtime rate and upload to iCloud
  • Add ability to break down time into weeks rather than months
  • Add ability to set pay periods (weekly, biweekly)
  • Add ability to set regular pay and overtime pay
  • Add ability to display total hours worked per week
  • Add badge app icon when checked in to remind to clock out
  • Add ability to select work period start/end dates
  • Add ability to clock in and out more than once per day
  • Add ability to set bank holidays
  • Add ability to track more than 1 employee
  • Add ability to auto email reports at selected intervals (weekly, biweekly)

Proactive ESS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TimeSheet

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99
None

Proactive ESS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeSheet free?
TimeSheet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Proactive ESS free?
Proactive ESS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimeSheet or Proactive ESS have ads?
TimeSheet shows ads; Proactive ESS does not.
Which is updated more often, TimeSheet or Proactive ESS?
TimeSheet ships an update every 4 months, and Proactive ESS every 3 months. Most recently, TimeSheet was updated on November 1, 2026 and Proactive ESS on November 3, 2026.

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