MSR Timesheets vs SimpleTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MSR Timesheets
This app allows employees to log their time and efforts across various projects. It provides real-time status updates, enables submission of timesheets with attachments, and offers quick access to project details and customer information.
- Submit timesheets with attachments
- Access historical time data
- View project briefs and customer info
- Track timesheet status
- Navigate projects with easy swipe
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Timesheet App tracks employees’ time and efforts in all their assigned projects, with real-time status updates. Key Features: - Submit timesheets with attachments. - Access previous data. - Fetch project brief and customer information. - Track Timesheet status. - Swift access to respective project through easy swipe.
SimpleTime
Effortlessly track your daily activities, from work and studies to personal projects. Organize tasks, view your day at a glance, and gain insights with automatic statistics. Securely back up your data and export it for further analysis.
- Instant time tracking
- Structured tasks and subtasks
- Daily view and timeline
- Automatic statistics and charts
- iCloud backup
- CSV export
- Private and secure data
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SimpleTime tracks where your time goes. One tap starts it, one tap stops it. No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your hours stay on your device – and in your iCloud, if you want. TRACKING • One tap starts and stops – in the app, from the Home Screen, from Control Center, from iPhone search, or with Siri • Tasks with subtasks, nested as deeply as your work is • Forgot to start? Add time afterwards and edit it whenever you like • Colour, symbol, favourites, and an order you set yourself YOUR DAY • A list or a timeline from 0 to 24, with a marker for the current time • Notes on any entry • How today compares to yesterday, right at the top INSIGHTS • Pie charts by task and by productivity • Day, week, month, year • Statistics: comparison with the previous period, trend, spread across the day, longest and shortest entry • Every task with its own numbers – first entry, longest, this week, this year • Share any chart as an image REPORTS AND EXPORT • A PDF report whose sections you choose and arrange yourself • CSV for Excel and Numbers • Backup plans: automatically to iCloud Drive, a folder in the Files app such as Dropbox or Google Drive, your own server, or the device – password-encrypted if you want WIDGETS AND SIRI • Today, running task, and week on your Home Screen • The running time on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • A switch in Control Center that starts and stops tracking • Siri and Shortcuts: start, stop, or ask what’s running ON EVERY DEVICE • iPhone, iPad, and Mac, kept in sync through iCloud • 41 languages, independent of your device language • VoiceOver and Dynamic Type throughout YOUR DATA • App lock with Face ID, Touch ID, or a code of your own • You choose where your data lives: only on this device or in your iCloud • Privacy on one page: every permission and all your data at a glance • No account, no ads, no selling of your data – all we receive are anonymous crash reports and usage statistics, and you can turn them off • Erase everything at once – on the device, in iCloud, and in the backups SIMPLETIME PRO Everything above stays free. Pro adds: • Apple Watch: start and stop from your wrist, start earlier, keep an eye on your day, week and goals – with the running time on your watch face • Reviews: your week, month and year as cards – to page through and share • Places: tasks start on their own when you arrive – after a waiting time, if you like • Year at a glance: every day of the year as one picture, with your streaks • Goals per task – for the day, the week, or the month • Focus filter: your work focus turns on, the list shows only work, the clock is already running • A quick-start widget you fill yourself • Seven accent colours or one of your own, plus sixteen app icons • Extra sections in the PDF report: trend, daily spread, comparison, goals Pro comes monthly, yearly, or once and for good. New subscribers get a free week, and with Family Sharing up to six people can use Pro. Prices are shown in the app. Monthly and yearly renew automatically until you cancel, which you can do at any time in your App Store settings. Whatever comes later is included. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://simple-time.app/privacy/ Made for anyone who wants to know where their time actually goes – at work, at university, in training, or for themselves.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MSR Timesheets at none against SimpleTime's 3. MSR Timesheets also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). SimpleTime's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. SimpleTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. MSR Timesheets asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MSR Timesheets against 5.0 for SimpleTime. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleTime has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MSR Timesheets ships an update every 5 weeks, SimpleTime every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MSR Timesheets | SimpleTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TRACKEX LLC | Luca Efinger |
Customer experience
MSR Timesheets
SimpleTime
In-app purchases
MSR Timesheets
No in-app purchases
SimpleTime
- SimpleTime Pro – Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- SimpleTime Pro – Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- SimpleTime Pro – Lifetime$44.99
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