Clocket vs ShiftBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clocket
Easily track your work hours with a simple timer or manual entries. Log breaks, tips, and notes while jobs are color-coded with custom rates. Automatically calculate overtime and round time for accurate pay.
- Start timer or add manual entries
- Log breaks, tips, and notes
- Color-coded jobs with hourly rates
- Automatic overtime calculation
- Time rounding options
- Scheduled clock-in/out reminders
- Export timesheets in multiple formats
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Clocket makes tracking work hours simple. Built for hourly workers, freelancers, and anyone who needs accurate timesheets and earnings calculations. TRACK YOUR TIME • Start a timer or add entries manually — past, present, or future • Log breaks, tips, and notes with every entry • See your earnings grow in real time as you work STAY ORGANIZED • Create color-coded jobs with hourly rates and pay periods • View entries by day, week, month, or pay period • Entries display in a calendar with a detailed list below GET PAID ACCURATELY • Configure daily and weekly overtime with custom multipliers • Round time automatically — start/end times or total duration • Support for weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, and 4-week pay periods NEVER FORGET TO CLOCK IN • Schedule reminders for specific times • Get notified when arriving or leaving a location • Set clock-out reminders after working a set duration UNDERSTAND YOUR TIME • Visual reports break down hours and earnings by job or period • Export timesheets as PDF, CSV, HTML, or plain text • Share via email, messages, or save to any app MAKE IT YOURS • Choose from a variety of app icons • Customize duration formats and first day of week • Add the active timer widget to your home screen Download Clocket and take control of your time. ----- Privacy Policy: https://www.clocket.com/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://www.clocket.com/terms
ShiftBuddy
Easily log work shifts, track hours, and estimate pay without spreadsheets. Manage multiple jobs, currencies, pay rates, and overtime rules. Review your history with calendar views and job statistics, then export professional timesheets.
- Log shifts with start/end times and breaks
- Track multiple jobs, currencies, and pay rates
- Estimate regular, overtime, and double-time pay
- Calendar views and job statistics
- Export timesheets as PDF or CSV
- Optional iCloud sync and Face ID/Touch ID protection
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ShiftBuddy helps you log shifts, track work hours and see estimated pay without keeping a spreadsheet on the side. Record start and end times, breaks, notes and overnight shifts. Manage multiple jobs, currencies, pay rates, raises, overtime and double-time rules, plus presets for recurring shifts. See this week at a glance, browse calendar views, search your full history and compare job stats from the My Jobs dashboard. Set weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly or monthly pay schedules, follow pay-period goals and keep the payday widget close by. Export professional timesheets as PDF or CSV, share them when needed, or back up and import all app data as JSON. Your data is local-first, with optional iCloud sync across devices. No separate ShiftBuddy account is required, and Face ID or Touch ID can add an extra layer of privacy. Built for real shift work: • Log a shift in seconds, then edit, duplicate, copy, share, or save it as a preset. • Track paid and unpaid breaks, notes, overnight shifts, and manual overtime adjustments when your day does not fit a simple formula. • Manage active and previous jobs with colors, currencies, role details, workplace info, pay history, and job-specific settings. • Add pay raises by effective date and named rates for special roles, departments, weekend work, holiday shifts, or different responsibilities. • Let ShiftBuddy estimate regular, overtime, and double-time earnings from your rules, while keeping hours and pay totals easy to scan. Plan around payday: • Set weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay cycles for each job. • See accrued earnings for the current pay period, progress toward a pay-period goal, and a countdown to your next payday. • Use payday reminders and the payday widget to keep upcoming deposits visible without opening the app. Review, search, and report: • Browse day, week, and month calendar views, plus a full history of past weeks and months. • Search saved shifts by date, weekday, job, note, rate name, or amount earned. • Compare jobs with stats such as total hours, earned pay, average shift, longest shift, days worked, effective rate, overtime hours, and recent shifts. • Export a date range or a single job as a clean PDF or CSV timesheet for managers, payroll, invoices, reimbursement, or your own records. • Back up and import your jobs, rates, shifts, breaks, notes, and reminders as JSON whenever you want a portable copy. Your data stays practical and private. ShiftBuddy is local-first, supports optional iCloud sync across your devices, does not require a separate ShiftBuddy account, and can be protected with Face ID or Touch ID. It is designed for iPhone and iPad, whether you work retail, hospitality, healthcare, delivery, security, freelance jobs, student shifts, seasonal work, or any schedule that changes week to week. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShiftBuddy at 5.0 against Clocket's 4.6. Clocket's advantage is ratings volume (6.5K vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). 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. Clocket sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ShiftBuddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShiftBuddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clocket has 6.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Clocket | ShiftBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brogan LLC | Life Utility Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Clocket
ShiftBuddy
Bugs and requests
Clocket
Reported bugs
4 issues- Time entries not saving correctly
- App crashing on launch after updates
- Issues with exporting data
- Inconsistent behavior when changing dates
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to set pay period start day
- Automatic overtime calculation
- Option to round time entries to nearest 15 minutes
- Support for multiple currencies
- Integration with calendar/scheduling apps
ShiftBuddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clocket
- Clock In Plus$3.991 Month
- Clock In Plus7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Clock In Plus7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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- Clock In Plus$35.991 Year
- Clock In Plus7 Days trial$35.991 Year
- Clock In Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Tipping - Single Shot$0.99
- Tipping - Double Shot$1.99
- Plus2 variants$5.99
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- Tipping - Carafe$9.99
- Tipping - Coffee Box$19.99
ShiftBuddy
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Lifetime Access$19.99







