Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck vs ShiftBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck
This app helps hourly employees and freelancers track work hours, calculate pay, and manage expenses. It offers detailed timesheets, overtime calculations, and exportable reports for payroll or accounting.
- Clock in/out for shifts
- Manual entry and editing
- Overtime calculation
- Multiple job/client management
- Expense and deduction tracking
- Paid/unpaid status
- PDF and Excel export
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Track your work hours, calculate overtime, and know exactly how much you earned. Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck is a flexible time tracker, timesheet, and pay calculator for hourly employees, shift workers, freelancers, contractors, self-employed professionals, and anyone who wants a clear record of work hours and earnings. Clock in and out, add hours manually, track breaks and overtime, manage multiple jobs or clients, record expenses and deductions, and keep payments organized in one place. TRACK WORK HOURS • Clock in and clock out for every shift • Add, edit, or correct work entries manually • Record start time, end time, and breaks • Track regular hours and overtime separately • Add multiple work periods on the same day • Review hours by day, week, month, or custom period • Keep a complete work log and timesheet history CALCULATE PAY, WAGES & OVERTIME • Calculate earnings from your hourly rate • Set different rates for regular hours and overtime • Add bonuses, extra pay, and other earnings • See gross and net amounts clearly • Record expenses and deductions • Mark work entries as paid or unpaid • Review daily, weekly, and monthly earnings • Compare hours and pay across multiple jobs Use the app as a paycheck calculator, hourly wage calculator, overtime calculator, time clock, time card, punch clock, shift tracker, or work log. MULTIPLE JOBS, CLIENTS & PROJECTS Manage different jobs, projects, clients, or work profiles from the same app. Each profile can have its own schedule, hourly rate, overtime settings, currency, colors, and work history. If you work more than one job or freelance for several clients, keep every shift, payment, expense, and deduction separate and easy to review. TIMESHEETS, TIME CARDS & WORK LOGS Turn daily work entries into a clear timesheet. Review hours worked, clock-in and clock-out times, breaks, overtime, hourly rates, earnings, gross and net amounts, expenses, deductions, notes, and payment status. EXPENSES, DEDUCTIONS & PAYMENTS Add work-related expenses and deductions and see amounts before and after deductions. Mark entries as paid or unpaid so you can quickly see which work has been paid and which payments are still outstanding. REPORTS & EXPORTS Create professional reports with work hours, overtime, earnings, expenses, deductions, and other selected information. • Export reports to PDF • Export data to Excel • Choose the date range you want to review • Select which information to include • Organize reports by job, client, project, or work period • Share records with employers, clients, payroll, or accounting • Keep an organized archive of work history and payments FLEXIBLE FOR REAL WORK SCHEDULES Track fixed schedules, rotating shifts, irregular hours, split shifts, night shifts, and multiple work periods in one day. Customize schedules, hourly rates, currencies, overtime, breaks, expenses, deductions, and other details to match the way you work. IDEAL FOR • Hourly employees • Shift and part-time workers • Freelancers and contractors • Self-employed professionals • Workers with multiple jobs or clients • Small business owners • Anyone who wants to track work hours and estimate pay WHY USE WORK HOURS TRACKER & PAYCHECK? Your time and pay should be easy to understand. Instead of estimating hours, checking notes, or calculating wages manually, keep work hours, overtime, earnings, expenses, deductions, and payments together in one place. Track every shift. Know how many hours you worked. Calculate your expected pay. Review gross and net amounts. Track expenses and deductions. See what has been paid and what is still unpaid. Export your records whenever you need them. Download Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck and make every worked hour count. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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 ads: ShiftBuddy at none against Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck's shown. ShiftBuddy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck's advantage is ratings volume (226 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck has 226 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck | ShiftBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (226 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 226 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cristina Munoz Castillo | Life Utility Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck
ShiftBuddy
Bugs and requests
Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck
Reported bugs
2 issues- Cannot download PDFs
- PDF download fails after watching ads
Requested features
4 requests- Add option for overtime price and normal hours on the same day
- Add 'duplicate' function
- Add service options (on-call, guard, travel expenses)
- Add option to put overtime price with its hour counter and normal hours with its hour counter also on the same day
ShiftBuddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Work Hours Tracker & Paycheck
- 1 Month Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- 1 Year Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
ShiftBuddy
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Lifetime Access$19.99





