Comparison

SimpleTimeLogger vs Timen

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

Head to head
About

SimpleTimeLogger

Effortlessly track your work hours with a clean interface. Log time quickly, manage projects and tags, set targets, and monitor your work-life balance. Includes vacation tracking and insightful statistics.

Highlights
  • Quick duration logging
  • Project and tag management
  • Target hour setting
  • Vacation and absence tracking
  • Detailed statistics and insights
  • Home screen quick actions
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
Features
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TimeLogger – Take Control of Your Time. Powerful. Clear. Flexible. TimeLogger is a powerful time tracker with a clean, uncluttered interface – all the complexity stays in the background so you can focus on your work. Smart Time Tracking - Quick Durations: Tap your most-used work durations to log time instantly – no manual clock setting needed - "Finished by" display: See right in the Start/Stop button when you'll reach your target hours - Home Screen Quick Actions: Start or stop tracking and add new entries without even opening the app - Siri Shortcuts: Control TimeLogger with your voice – start tracking, add entries, open statistics, or export as PDF - Midnight time tracking: Flexibly allocate shifts to the start day, end day, or split across both - Add missed entries manually at any time Multiple Jobs - Manage multiple jobs separately – ideal for a second job or a new employer - Each job with its own target hours, vacation allowance, and balance Projects & Tags - Projects: Assign every entry to a project – such as a client or job – and keep track of where your hours go - Tags: Describe the context of your work with any number of tags like working from home or office – independent of the project and always optional - Tag Breakdown: See in statistics the total hours and number of days for each of your tags – for example your working-from-home days for your tax return - Filter: Narrow the calendar and statistics down to a single project Export & Reports - CSV Export: Export your working hours as a CSV file – perfect for further processing in Excel, Numbers & more - PDF Export: Professionally designed Monthly Overview with a totals row showing all your totals at a glance - Individual Export Options: Choose the row layout, separators, units, and additional columns like projects or tags - Project Export: Export a project's hours as a PDF – perfect as proof for an invoice or a report Reminders & Notifications - Reminders to clock in and out, plus alerts when you reach your target hours or an automatic break applies - Configurable separately for each weekday - Naturally stays quiet on vacation, holidays, and sick days Target Time & Work Balance - Set individual target hours for each weekday - Daily and weekly target time tracking with automatic running balance - Running Total Balance: Optionally, the calendar shows your cumulative balance up to each day right alongside it - Missed targets are shown as negative balance in weekly and monthly charts - Support for half workdays (e.g. Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve) - Automatic breaks: Configurable legally or company-required break rules, also loggable manually - Period-based target hours and vacation allowances – ideal when switching between full-time and part-time Vacation & Absence Management - Built-in vacation management: track available, planned, and taken days - Create vacation with a single tap – right from the detail view - Vacation Preview: instantly see how many vacation days a period will use before you confirm - Automatic Public Holidays: Choose your region and official holidays appear automatically in the calendar – works for any region worldwide - Manual entry of other absence types like sick days, special leave, or compensatory time off - Visual statistics with a comprehensive overview of all absences (sickness, vacation, and more) Insights & Statistics - Insights section: Discover patterns in your work behavior - Clear, visual summaries of your time at a glance Widgets & Live Activities - Live Activity & Lock Screen Widgets: daily, weekly, and monthly progress on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island First-Class iPad Support - Sidebar navigation and a thoughtfully designed layout optimized for the big screen Help & FAQ - Answers to common questions right in the app – about Jobs, Projects, Tags, time tracking, balance, and more Questions, feedback, or suggestions? Feel free to email us at TimeLogger@heckel.tech – we'd love to hear from you!

About

Timen

Features
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Timen is a free time tracker for people who bill by the hour: freelancers, consultants, and small teams. It works as two halves of one product. This app captures your time wherever work happens, and Timen on the web turns it into invoices, exports, and team reports at your desk. Same account, same data, always in sync. Hours don't get lost at the desk. They get lost on the move: the client call in the car, the site visit, the fix done from a cafe. That's what the phone is for. TIMER Start a timer the moment you start working, with a description, a billable switch, and nothing in the way. Stop it, resume it, or let it run past midnight. Forgot to track? Add a past entry in a few taps. CALENDAR Your week, hour by hour. Review and edit entries day by day, or add time straight onto any date. REPORTS See where your time went: totals and billable hours, grouped by day, project, client, person, or tag. Pick a preset range or set your own, and filter down to exactly the work you're asking about. PROJECTS, CLIENTS, AND TAGS File every entry where it belongs. Create new projects and clients right from your phone, so records stay clean even when the client is brand new. WORKS OFFLINE No signal, no problem. Entries are saved on your device and sync when you're back online, so time tracked on a flight or a job site is never lost. THEN, AT YOUR DESK Open gettimen.com and the hours you tracked are already there. On the web, the same free account does the office work: turn tracked time into client invoices, export your data, invite your team, and review everyone's hours together. Track on the go, bill from your desk. FREE MEANS FREE No tiers, no per-user pricing, nothing locked. Timen is built by the team behind Breeze, and the whole product is free on your phone and on the web. If it saves you time, you can leave a voluntary contribution. It's optional and unlocks nothing, because everything is already included.

Screenshots

SimpleTimeLogger4 screens
Timen4 screens

Verdict

The call

SimpleTimeLogger and Timen are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimpleTimeLogger ships an update weekly, Timen every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SimpleTimeLogger versus Timen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimpleTimeLoggerTimen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTobias HeckelTemplate OU

In-app purchases

None

SimpleTimeLogger

No in-app purchases

None

Timen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimpleTimeLogger free?
SimpleTimeLogger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timen free?
Timen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SimpleTimeLogger or Timen have ads?
Neither SimpleTimeLogger nor Timen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimpleTimeLogger or Timen?
SimpleTimeLogger ships an update weekly, and Timen every 5 days. Most recently, SimpleTimeLogger was updated on September 22, 2026 and Timen on October 9, 2026.

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