Comparison

Timestamped Field Notes vs Time Guard

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

Head to head
About

Timestamped Field Notes

Efficiently record observations with time-stamped entries, minimizing typing through customizable quick-tap buttons. Export notes in various formats to cloud storage for easy review and analysis.

Highlights
  • Time-stamping of each entry
  • Customizable quick-tap buttons for common events/words
  • Reduced need for typing
  • Export notes to cloud storage (CSV, JSON, plain text)
  • Configurable timestamp precision (minutes/seconds)
  • Support for multiple keyword sets
Features
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When recording observations the last thing you want to be doing is looking down at your device, struggling with typos, entering times. Timestamped Field Notes allows efficient note taking; time-stamping each entry as you make it. Simply tap buttons to record the most commonly recorded events (or most used words), significantly reducing the need for typing. Fallback to the keyboard only when required. Export your notes in chronological order by exporting to cloud storage as CSV, JSON or plain text. Timestamped Field Notes supports timestamps to minutes or to seconds; configurable to display and/or export seconds (although they are always stored in case you change your mind.) Dates and/or Times can be exported. Note: Initially developed for monitoring nesting Peregrine Falcons (recording audibles, location activity, territory behaviors) this application can be configured for other time-stamped note taking endeavors: - Behavioral Event Recording (wildlife species, human subjects; students/teachers/patients/other.) - Personal well-being journal or daily notes log. - Marking key time points in interviews for easier post production (e.g. video editing.) - Interview note taking. Timestamped Field Notes supports multiple keyword sets.

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 §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

Timestamped Field Notes4 screens
Time Guard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Time Guard at every 5 days against Timestamped Field Notes's every 2 months. Time Guard also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 56%) and price ($5.99 vs $9.99). Timestamped Field Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Timestamped Field Notes costs $9.99 and Time Guard $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timestamped Field Notes ships an update every 2 months, Time Guard every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Timestamped Field Notes versus Time Guard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimestamped Field NotesTime Guard
Price$9.99$5.99 — better
Rating4.2 (61 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews84.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings61 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeukadyeSebastian Vollmer

Customer experience

Timestamped Field Notes

All ratings61 ratings
Positive77.0%
Neutral9.8%
Negative13.1%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral22.2%
Negative22.2%

Time Guard

Written reviews26 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral11.5%
Negative3.8%

In-app purchases

None

Timestamped Field Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timestamped Field Notes free?
Timestamped Field Notes costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Timestamped Field Notes or Time Guard have ads?
Neither Timestamped Field Notes nor Time Guard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timestamped Field Notes or Time Guard?
Timestamped Field Notes ships an update every 2 months, and Time Guard every 5 days. Most recently, Timestamped Field Notes was updated on October 20, 2026 and Time Guard on October 26, 2026.

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