Comparison

Hours Keeper vs Orbit

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

Head to head
About

Hours Keeper

Easily track your work hours, calculate earnings, and generate professional PDF invoices for clients. Manage billings and payments efficiently with this intuitive time tracking tool.

Highlights
  • Real-time hours/earning tracking
  • Weekly and monthly timesheets
  • PDF invoice generation
  • Billing and payment tracking
  • Configurable overtime and breaks
  • Data export and sync
Features
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Hours Keeper is a well-designed application that you can use to easily track your hours worked and calculate your earnings. Hours Keeper allows to record your daily working hours for each client, including your overtime and break time. After earnings been calculated, you can generate PDF invoices to sent to your clients and track all the billings and the payments. Designed and developed by polycents! “Easy to use and simple. It’s very useful and is definitely worth every penny. Great customer service from developers!” “Very well executed app, nice clean interface with tones of useful features.” “A great app for those of us that do business on the go. It is packed full of great features that really help out. Great job.” Our Hours Keeper is one of the best tools to track down all the hours you have worked. Once you use the app you will want nothing else to make your hours and earnings tracking easier. KEY FEATURES - Well designed, easy to use, intuitive interface. - Realtime hours/earning tracking for multiple clients. - Weekly and monthly timesheet. - PDF invoices to send to customers. - Earnings reports. - Calendar to map your daily earning for each month. - Billing and payment tracking. - Configurable overtime and break time for time tracking. - Export data as CSV. - Sync data between all your devices. - Passcode protection. # Subscription Details # - Monthly and annual subscriptions are available. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription. - Subscriptions can be managed by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/10725628 Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/10725628 Please write to us before leaving negative reviews, as we can often help with your problem or help you better use the app. If you have any problems or suggestions please send an mail to hourskeeper@support.polycents.com, and you will get the response with solutions in a short time.

About

Orbit

Effortlessly track your time and generate invoices for clients and projects. This app simplifies managing work hours, project budgets, and creating custom invoices, allowing you to focus on your tasks.

Highlights
  • Time tracking across projects
  • Automatic invoice generation
  • Customizable invoices
  • Time entry rounding
  • Widgets for quick access
  • Crew plans for teams
  • Shortcuts support
Features
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Effortless time tracking & invoicing! Ranked as "the best time tracking & invoicing app" by its developers, Orbit makes keeping track of clients, projects, worked hours, and invoices simple. Orbit's goal is for you to focus on the tasks you want while the app takes care of the rest. Are you a designer? Welcome! A small team of developers? Cool, so are we. A consultant? Perfect! A project manager? We're not judging, welcome to you as well! Ever wondered how much time you worked last week? We've got you covered. Quickly needing to check on the budget of a project? We've got you covered. Dreading to manually create invoices for all those hours you've worked? Guess what, we've got that covered as well! Recent additions: • Shortcuts support • Extra-large widgets showing you useful details right on the home screen of your iPad • Quick Note support integrating with the system Notes app • Support for the always-on display on the Apple Watch Obligatory feature bulleted list: • Easy setup • Time tracking across projects & sync with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and the Mac • Automatic invoice generation from all your logged time entries • Optional rounding of time entries and line items • Ability to create custom invoices for expenses or material cost • A nice overview of how you spend your time • Shortcuts support to allow for automation and integration with other apps • Time tracking widgets • Crew Plans for small teams to track time & invoice together • A strong focus on privacy. No ads, no tracking of metadata, and no selling of personal data. You can try Orbit using our tourist mode, before creating an account or subscribing to any of our premium plans (we also offer free trials for those). If you cancel your subscription, you'll still be able to see all of your data in our read-only mode (unless you ask us to remove it of course). Privacy policy: https://timeinorbit.com/privacy Terms of use: https://timeinorbit.com/terms

Screenshots

Hours Keeper4 screens
Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Orbit at free with in-app purchases against Hours Keeper's subscription. Orbit also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.5 vs 4.1). Hours Keeper's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 34). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Hours Keeper sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Orbit sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orbit holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Keeper has 1.4K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Hours Keeper's written reviews are positive against 64% of Orbit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hours Keeper versus Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours KeeperOrbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (1.4K ratings)4.5 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.0% of reviews63.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better34
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeesoft AppsTriple Glazed Studios

Customer experience

Hours Keeper

All ratings1,405 ratings
Positive77.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative16.8%
Written reviews554 reviews
Positive57.0%
Neutral7.9%
Negative35.0%

Orbit

All ratings34 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral12.1%
Negative24.2%

Bugs and requests

Hours Keeper

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Unable to log in or restore data
  • Incorrect time and billing calculations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Customizable invoice templates
  • Ability to add notes to entries
  • Automatic overtime calculations
  • Integration with accounting software

Orbit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Hours Keeper

Subscriptions5
  • Premium - 1 Month$1.991 Month
  • Premium - 3 Months$6.993 Months
  • Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$13.991 Year
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  • Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$15.991 Year
  • Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Upgrade to Premium$23.99
  • Upgrade to Premium$26.99
  • Upgrade to Hours Keeper Pro$29.99
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  • Upgrade to Premium$39.99
10 purchases

Orbit

Subscriptions10
  • Monthly Founders Subscription1 Month trial$7.991 Month
  • Monthly Crew Plan (2 Members)7 Days trial$15.991 Month
  • Monthly Crew Plan (3 Members)7 Days trial$23.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • Monthly Crew Plan (4 Members)7 Days trial$31.991 Month
  • Monthly Crew Plan (5 Members)7 Days trial$39.991 Month
  • Yearly Founders Subscription1 Month trial$79.991 Year
  • Yearly Crew Plan (2 Members)1 Month trial$159.991 Year
  • Yearly Crew Plan (3 Members)1 Month trial$239.991 Year
  • Yearly Crew Plan (4 Members)1 Month trial$329.991 Year
  • Yearly Crew Plan (5 Members)1 Month trial$399.991 Year

Questions

Is Hours Keeper free?
Hours Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Keeper or Orbit?
Orbit is rated higher. Hours Keeper averages 4.1 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Orbit averages 4.5 from 34 ratings.
Do Hours Keeper or Orbit have ads?
Hours Keeper shows ads; Orbit does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Keeper or Orbit?
Hours Keeper ships an update monthly, and Orbit monthly. Most recently, Hours Keeper was updated on October 23, 2026 and Orbit on October 23, 2026.

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