Comparison

Use Your Days vs HourlyTimeTracker

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

Head to head
About

Use Your Days

Easily track your vacation days, personal time, and other earned breaks with beautiful countdowns. Manage accruals, plan ahead with year-end projections, and get reminders to submit requests. Stay organized and ensure you use all your well-deserved time off.

Highlights
  • Track remaining PTO at a glance
  • Countdown to next break
  • Manage accrual schedules
  • Categorize time off entries
  • Set banking caps and rollover
  • Track PTO submissions
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Your PTO is earned. Make sure you use it. Use Your Days helps you track your vacation days, personal time, and all the breaks you deserve, whether your time off is granted upfront or earned gradually, with beautiful countdowns that build excitement for every moment away from work. See exactly where you stand -Track remaining PTO at a glance -Watch the countdown to your next break -Know how many days are left in the year to plan ahead -Track PTO as it accrues each pay period, as a simple annual total, or scheduled lump sum -Support for weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly accrual schedules -Configure accrual rate, lump sum days, rollover amounts, and banking caps -Toggle between days and hours when adding time off -Smart weekday-only counting (skip weekends automatically) -Option to exclude federal holidays from your totals -View a full history of how your available balance was calculated, including accruals, PTO used, rollovers, and lump sums Organize your time off your way -Categorize entries: Vacation, Travel, Mental Health, Family Time, Medical, Personal & more -Add custom emoji icons to personalize each entry -Add notes to remember trip details, reservations, or plans Stay in control of your balance -Set a maximum banking cap for total PTO days -Allow negative balances (borrow against future PTO) with a configurable limit -Automatically roll over unused PTO into the new year -Year-end PTO projections so you know what you’ll have left -See warnings when you try to book more PTO than you have available Track PTO submissions to your employer -Mark each PTO entry as submitted or not submitted -With PTO submission tracking enabled, your available balance reflects only submitted PTO -Perfect for workplaces that require PTO to be submitted as it accrues Never forget to submit PTO -Get reminders when it’s time to submit a PTO request -Choose how far in advance you’re notified -See visual indicators on PTO entries that still need submission -App badge shows how many requests need attention -Tap a notification to jump straight to that PTO entry See your entire year at a glance -Interactive Days Left calendar showing all 12 months -See every PTO day on the exact dates it occurs -Tap any day to preview what’s happening Home screen widgets that inspire -Full dashboard widget showing available PTO based on current accrual -Focused widgets: PTO countdown only, days remaining only, or next event countdown -Small, medium, and large sizes to fit your home screen Sync everywhere with iCloud -Your PTO data and settings sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices -Add time off on your iPhone, see it on your iPad & Mac Designed to delight -Haptic feedback throughout -Beautiful category gradients and modern glass-style UI -Dark mode support Time off is part of your compensation. Use it wisely. Use it fully.

About

HourlyTimeTracker

Features
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Hourly Time Tracker is a no-fuss hours log for anyone paid by the hour. Schedule upcoming shifts, record actual hours as you work them, and let the app split regular and overtime automatically — using your own rules, and telling you exactly why each day is overtime. WIDGET A Home Screen or Lock Screen widget shows today's recorded hours at a glance. One tap records your scheduled hours for today instantly — no app launch needed. SCHEDULE Map out upcoming work days on a monthly calendar. Set hours and start times. Schedule several days at once with the Select Days button — use M-F or Weekend shortcuts, or long-press and drag — and apply one schedule to all of them. Optionally sync scheduled shifts to your iPhone Calendar. RECORD Log actual hours with a tap. Mark days as PTO, Sick, or Holiday from a dropdown. Import existing events from your iPhone Calendar as scheduled or recorded days. HOURS Every pay period is automatically summarised: regular hours, overtime, and paid time off. Each day's overtime shows the reason it counts. Reconcile periods once your payslip confirms them, and send a clean hours report from the app with a fully customisable template. REPORTS Monthly summaries with day-by-day breakdowns, year-to-date totals, PTO planned vs. taken against a yearly allowance, sick-time totals, your upcoming schedule, and unreconciled periods. Export any report to PDF to print, save to Files, or email. OVERTIME RULES Five modes to match how your employer calculates overtime: - Daily threshold — hours past a set daily limit - Daily tiered — two overtime tiers with separate start points - Weekly threshold — hours past a set weekly total - Schedule (Daily) — hours over each day's scheduled amount - Monthly Quota — hours over a required monthly total (paid time off counts toward it, and a shortfall is flagged) Not sure which fits? Every setting has a built-in info button explaining what it does. ICLOUD SYNC All data is stored in your private iCloud account and syncs automatically across every iPhone signed into the same Apple ID. Nothing to configure. PRIVACY Hourly Time Tracker collects no data. Your hours, period records, and settings are stored on your device and in your private iCloud database — they never leave your control and are never accessible to us. SUPPORT THE APP Hourly Time Tracker is free with no ads or paywalls. If it saves you time, the Tip Jar in Settings lets you leave an optional tip to support development.

Screenshots

Use Your Days4 screens
HourlyTimeTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Use Your Days at none against HourlyTimeTracker's 3. Use Your Days also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HourlyTimeTracker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Use Your Days asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Use Your Days ships an update every 10 days, HourlyTimeTracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Use Your Days versus HourlyTimeTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUse Your DaysHourlyTimeTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul HallEasy Chair Apps Lab, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Use Your Days

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

HourlyTimeTracker

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Generous Tip$2.99
  • Heroic Tip$4.99

Questions

Is Use Your Days free?
Use Your Days is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HourlyTimeTracker free?
HourlyTimeTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Use Your Days or HourlyTimeTracker have ads?
Neither Use Your Days nor HourlyTimeTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Use Your Days or HourlyTimeTracker?
Use Your Days ships an update every 10 days, and HourlyTimeTracker every 2 months. Most recently, Use Your Days was updated on September 3, 2026 and HourlyTimeTracker on September 13, 2026.

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