Pay Timer Lite vs Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pay Timer Lite
Track your work hours and automatically calculate your pay. The timer continues to run in the background, allowing you to close the app. Easily back up your earnings history by emailing it to yourself.
- Work time tracking
- Automatic earnings calculation
- Background timer operation
- Local data history
- Email backup of calculations
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Measure the time you work and calculate your earnings. The timer keeps running even when you close the application. So there is no need to keep it open all the time. You can save a history of calculations locally on your device and email them to yourself for backup and further processing.
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Easily track your work hours, including shifts, breaks, and days off. Calculate your expected salary, overtime, and tips. Ideal for freelancers and self-employed individuals to ensure accurate pay.
- Track shifts (night, 24-hour)
- Add days off and breaks
- Tipped worker mode
- Calculate overtime and weekend pay
- Unlimited timesheets
- Set hourly wage and currency
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• Add days off and breaks • Add night shifts and 24 hour shifts • A tipped worker mode: add estimated tips for every weekday • Add overtime, night shift, and weekend pay • Unlimited number of timesheets! • Don't let your employer underpay you! Perfect for freelancers, contractors and self employed workers. Choose your hourly wage and currency. Set your working hours for each day of the week and instantly see your daily, weekly and monthly totals for hours worked and money earned. Add breaks and days off and they will be excluded from working hours calculations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Work Hours & Pay Calculator at 77% against Pay Timer Lite's 31%. Work Hours & Pay Calculator also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). Pay Timer Lite's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Pay Timer Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Work Hours & Pay Calculator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Work Hours & Pay Calculator holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Work Hours & Pay Calculator has 14K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Pay Timer Lite's written reviews are positive against 77% of Work Hours & Pay Calculator's.
Pay Timer Lite ships an update every 12 months, Work Hours & Pay Calculator every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pay Timer Lite | Work Hours & Pay Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (14K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 77.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 14K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Lesya Verbina |
Customer experience
Pay Timer Lite
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Bugs and requests
Pay Timer Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
Reported bugs
2 issues- Break time entries sometimes show incorrect AM/PM times
- Overtime calculations not always accurate
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to set custom pay rates for weekends, nights, and holidays
- Implement a calendar view and the option to copy/repeat weekly schedules
- Include a notes section for each day to track job details
- Allow exporting or archiving of past timesheets
- Add a confirmation prompt before deleting timesheets
In-app purchases
Pay Timer Lite
- Pay Timer Upgrade$0.99
Work Hours & Pay Calculator
- Remove Ads$1.99
Questions
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