Comparison

Live Time vs ClockIn

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

Head to head
About

Live Time

Easily track your time spent on various projects and activities. Record start and end times, categorize tasks, and associate them with projects, resources, or fees. Generate detailed reports for your company or team via email.

Highlights
  • Intuitive time tracking
  • Project management
  • Activity categorization
  • Resource association
  • Fee tracking
  • Emailable HTML/CSV reports
Features
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Easy, fast and intuitive application for iPhone / iPod touch and iPad to manage your time. Imagine: - You are far from your company and you want to track your time... or simply inform your company how are you using the time and resources(machines, staff, etc)... you can email you activity reports… so you don’t have to wait your return to deliver them. With LIVE TIME can do it! - You want to manage your activities and projects tracking your time (day by day or month by month) perhaps tracking how each activity have been cost or how much you will earn. With LIVE TIME can do it! - Do you always forget at what time you started or finished an activity. LIVE TIME remember it for you. - You started an activity and you forgot to indicate the end time? LIVE TIME sends you a reminder. Using a simple “user interface” you can “clock in”(when you start the activity) or “clock out” (when you finish it) 

Each movement (in or out) can be related to: - A project: you can create new projects to connect with your tracked activities;
 - A type of activity: you can specify the type of task, such as preparation time, working, traveling, book keeping time, etc...;
 - A resource: a member of your team, your self or even a machine. - A fee: each project ore ven each activity can have a fee and each second can be converted in money. And finally, email eveything in HTML format and/or CSV (Microsoft Excel © compatible and all common spreadsheets) to your company or to each member of your team. 

 Easy, fast and intuitive... With LIVE TIME you can do it!

About

ClockIn

Easily track earnings for multiple jobs, including overtime, tips, and adjustments. Estimate take-home pay with tax considerations and support for various pay period formats. Generate reports and export data for analysis.

Highlights
  • Track pay for multiple jobs
  • Calculate overtime and tips
  • Estimate take-home pay
  • Support for various pay periods
  • Generate reports and summaries
  • Export data to CSV
  • Automatic break calculation
Features
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Clean, simple and effective hourly wage tracking for employees paid by the hour or those who are self employed. • Track pay for multiple jobs, including overtime, breaks, tips and other adjustments. • Estimate take-home pay for a pay period, accounting for tax, overtime and pre or post tax adjustments. • Support for many of the most common pay period formats, such as weekly, bi-weekly, last working day, last Friday or monthly. Pay periods can also automatically be set to finish on the most week-day if a period ends on the weekend. • Reports and summaries for each pay period. Clearly see how much you earnt along with all tips, deductions and other adjustments. • Customise your ClockIn experience in the preferences menu. • Export your data to CSV for your own records or to perform your own analysis in other software packages. • Backup your data and restore ClockIn – Hours and Pay from a backup made on a different device. • Automatic overtime can be set for each job individually, for example if your pay is doubled after eight hours of work in one shift, this can be calculated automatically. You can also set a threshold and rate for overtime in a period. For example if each hour over 40 in a week is paid at a certain rate. • Automatic breaks can be calculated, for example automatically adding a 30 minute break if the shift is longer than six hours. • Pre-tax and post-tax adjustments can be made both to periods and individual shifts. The Free Edition of ClockIn – Hours and Pay can store up to three jobs, and 30 shift entries. The Pro Upgrade, available as an In App Purchase, removes the limits allowing the user to store an unlimited number of Jobs and Shifts, as well as removing advertising inside the App.

Screenshots

Live Time4 screens
ClockIn4 screens

Verdict

The call

Live Time and ClockIn both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Live Time's written reviews are positive against 0% of ClockIn's. Live Time also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Live Time sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and ClockIn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Live Time against 4.6 for ClockIn. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Live Time has 51 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Live Time's written reviews are positive against 0% of ClockIn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Time ships an update monthly, ClockIn every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Live Time versus ClockIn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive TimeClockIn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (51 ratings)4.6 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings51 — better9
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB8 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperBonazzi S.r.l. con Socio unicoJames Woodcock

Customer experience

Live Time

All ratings51 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral9.8%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive82.6%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.9%

ClockIn

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Live Time

One-time4
  • Enable accounting field$0.99
  • Multi-project feature$0.99
  • CSV email attachment$1.99
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  • Multi-worker feature$2.99
1 purchases

ClockIn

One-time1
  • ClockIn - Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Live Time free?
Live Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClockIn free?
ClockIn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Live Time or ClockIn?
ClockIn is rated higher. Live Time averages 4.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while ClockIn averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Live Time or ClockIn have ads?
ClockIn shows ads; Live Time does not.
Which is updated more often, Live Time or ClockIn?
Live Time ships an update monthly, and ClockIn every 3 months. Most recently, Live Time was updated on October 20, 2026 and ClockIn on September 17, 2026.

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