Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Pull to Refresh

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

Head to head
About

Hours Tracker

Features
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Clock in with one tap, see where your hours go, and turn your time into invoices — all in one simple app. TiKC is a no-fuss hours tracker for anyone who works by the hour: freelancers, contractors, tutors, carers, shift workers, or anyone who just wants to know where their day goes. TRACK IN ONE TAP Start and stop a timer instantly See your running timer on the Lock Screen with Live Activities Forgot to clock in? Add entries manually afterwards SEE YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE Daily totals and durations for every entry Insights show your full 24-hour picture and time by activity GET PAID FOR YOUR TIME Group entries by project, each with its own hourly rate Track your income as you work Create invoices from your tracked hours and export or share them in seconds FREE Unlimited clock-ins Unlimited manual entries TIKC PLUS — everything in Free, plus: Projects Insights Income tracking Invoicing No accounts, no clutter, just your hours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.matthollyhead.dev/privacy-policy/

About

Pull to Refresh

This app locks your most time-consuming applications until you complete physical exercises. Earn back minutes for your apps by doing push-ups, sit-ups, or other movements, with the camera accurately counting your reps. Your exercise data can be saved to Health.

Highlights
  • App time allowance setting
  • Exercise-based rep counting
  • Pose detection for accurate reps
  • Health app integration
  • Optional public leaderboard
  • Strict mode for enhanced blocking
Features
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Pull to refresh. Actually pull. Pick the apps that eat your day, give them an allowance, and when it runs out they lock. To get back in, you do reps. The camera counts them on your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps. Instagram, TikTok, X, games — whatever you actually lose hours to. 2. Set the allowance. So many minutes a day, a few minutes an hour, or nothing at all. 3. Run out, and they shut. 4. Do a set. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups or jumping jacks. 5. Spend what you earned, on whichever app you were reaching for. THE COUNTING IS HONEST Reps are scored from your body's joint positions, not from your phone shaking in a pocket. A rep only counts on a full movement — down to depth and back — so half-reps score nothing, and the app tells you why instead of leaving you guessing. Shaking the phone pays exactly zero. Time is measured in real use of those apps, not on a clock. Put the phone down mid-scroll and the minutes you paid for wait for you — for at least half an hour, and four times as long as the unlock for bigger ones, up to 22 hours. NO VIDEO LEAVES YOUR PHONE Pose detection runs on the device. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no account to make. iOS hands the app opaque tokens rather than names, so it can tell that you picked an app — never what you do inside it. What does leave goes through Apple: rep counts and badge progress to Game Center once you say yes, your name and numbers to the iCloud board if you join it, and a copy of your history to your own iCloud. IT COUNTS TWICE Finished sets can be saved to Health as workouts, so reps done here go to your Move ring and show up in Fitness with everything else. RACE SOMEONE Signed in to Game Center, you get its leaderboards — this week and all time — and nine badges to earn, under your Game Center name. Nothing is sent until you say yes. On iOS 26 and later, start a Rep Race with a friend from Game Center: the biggest single set done during the race wins. Not on Game Center? Join the iCloud board under any name you like; leaving deletes your row. PRO Free covers a whole working loop: one group of apps on a daily allowance, every exercise, rep counting, Health and the leaderboards. Forever. Pro makes the lock harder — it never makes it softer: - Strict mode. A rule you cannot switch off the moment you want to. Changing it costs a cooling-off period first, which is exactly when you would have caved. - Minutes per hour. Short check-ins instead of one long sitting. - As many rules as you like, with different limits for different apps. - Your whole history, with streaks. Money never buys screen time here; reps do. Pro is a subscription, renewing until cancelled, or a one-off payment for good. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. WORTH KNOWING Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. You will be asked to grant it on first launch, and the camera when you do your first set. Deleting the app removes every lock, whatever you have bought — this is a speed bump you chose, not a cage. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/privacy

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Pull to Refresh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pull to Refresh at every 3 days against Hours Tracker's every 2 weeks. Pull to Refresh also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hours Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Pull to Refresh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Pull to Refresh every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hours Tracker versus Pull to Refresh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerPull to Refresh
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatt HollyheadIvan Chernoknizhnikov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hours Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly subscription3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual subscription$3.991 Year
2 purchases

Pull to Refresh

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Yearly$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pull to Refresh free?
Pull to Refresh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hours Tracker or Pull to Refresh have ads?
Neither Hours Tracker nor Pull to Refresh shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Pull to Refresh?
Hours Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pull to Refresh every 3 days. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on October 19, 2026 and Pull to Refresh on October 18, 2026.

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