DeskTime vs TimeCamp Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeskTime
This app automatically tracks how employees spend their time online and offline, boosting productivity. It allows for project-based time tracking, cost calculation, custom reporting, and managing employee time off. The mobile version includes a timer and remote team performance viewing.
- Automatic time tracking
- Project-based time tracking
- Cost calculation
- Customizable reports
- Vacation and time-off planning
- Mobile timer
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DeskTime is fully automatic time tracking software that has proven to boost employee productivity by 30% within the first weeks of using it. See how you and your employees spend their time online and offline, track time by projects, and automatically calculate their costs based on workers' hourly rates. Additionally, generate custom reports for in-house use or your customers, plan employee vacations and time offs, calculate overtime pay, and store your team member's contact information in one place. The iOS app with mobile timer feature allows you to manually start and stop a timer on the app, fill in your idle time gaps, get a remote view of the office and see how teams are performing, what projects/programs they're working on, who's been late and more. Key Features: - mobile timer - see who's working, slacking, late, or absent in real-time - assign idle time gaps - view your profile - view and change your settings Let us know what you think, send feedback and questions to support@desktime.com
TimeCamp Planner
Manage tasks and projects with a free collaboration tool. It offers communication features to streamline teamwork and project organization.
- Task management
- Project management
- Collaboration tools
- Communication features
- Simple interface
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Planner is a free task and simple project management software with communication and collaboration features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TimeCamp Planner at 3.0 against DeskTime's 2.3. TimeCamp Planner also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 6). DeskTime's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 13%). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TimeCamp Planner holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 24 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of DeskTime's written reviews are positive against 13% of TimeCamp Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DeskTime ships an update every 6 months, TimeCamp Planner every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeskTime | TimeCamp Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (6 ratings) | 3.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DeskTime | TimeCamp S.A. |
Customer experience
DeskTime
TimeCamp Planner
In-app purchases
DeskTime
No in-app purchases
TimeCamp Planner
No in-app purchases
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