SimpleTime vs HourLedger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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. TRACKING • One tap starts and stops – in the app, from the Home Screen, from Control Center, 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 • Backups in iCloud Drive, automatic and password-encrypted if you want WIDGETS • Today, running entry, week, and quick start • On the Lock Screen and in Control Center • Siri and Shortcuts: “Start work” is enough ON EVERY DEVICE • iPhone, iPad, and Mac, kept in sync through iCloud • 40 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 • Privacy on one page: every permission and all your data at a glance • No accounts, no servers of ours, no ads, no tracking • 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, 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. 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://www.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.
HourLedger
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Hour Ledger is the time tracker for freelancers, consultants, agencies and everyone who bills by the hour. Start the timer when you begin, stop it when you're done — and at the end of the month you know exactly what you worked on, for whom, and what it's worth. No account, no subscription, no ads. TRACK TIME THE WAY YOU WORK • One tap starts the timer on the project you're working on • Forgot to start it? Add entries manually at any time • Split an entry in two when one session covered two things • Move an entry to another project if you picked the wrong one • Mark work as billable or non-billable • Add a short description so you remember what you actually did CUSTOMERS & PROJECTS • Store customers with address, email, phone and website • Set a default hourly rate per customer and override it per project • Give a project a budget and get warned before you run over it • Internal projects without a customer, for your own work • Colors and SF Symbols make every customer and project instantly recognizable • Archive finished projects without losing their history TASK TYPES Categorize your entries — design, development, meetings, research, admin, or whatever fits your business. Assign the task types you need to each project so every engagement stays organized the way you work. DASHBOARD Today at a glance: hours logged, every entry in order, and the running timer always visible at the top of the screen. REPORTS • Group by project or by customer • Switch between hours and billable value • Chart view or list view • Last 7 days, last 30 days, last month, everything, or a custom date range • Expand any customer to see the projects underneath CSV EXPORT FOR INVOICING Export any date range to CSV — customer, project, start, end, duration, amount and description. Ready for your spreadsheet, your accountant or your invoicing software. ON THE MAC Hour Ledger lives in the menu bar. Start and stop the timer without leaving the app you're working in, and see at a glance whether the clock is running. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC A native app on every platform, with iCloud keeping everything in sync. Start the timer on your iPhone, review the week on your iPad, export from your Mac. Prefer to keep things local? Turn iCloud sync off in Settings and your data stays on the device. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Hour Ledger collects nothing. No analytics, no trackers, no ads, no developer servers. Your time entries, rates and customer data live on your device and in your own iCloud account — nowhere else. MADE FOR HOW YOU BILL Pick your currency and app language (English, German, French, Spanish) in Settings. Buy it once. Track your hours. Get paid for all of them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HourLedger at none against SimpleTime's 3. SimpleTime's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. HourLedger asks for nothing beyond the download.
SimpleTime ships an update every 5 days, HourLedger fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTime | HourLedger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luca Efinger | Michael Kettler |
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
HourLedger
No in-app purchases









