Hours Tracker vs TimeTiles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hours Tracker
Easily track work hours, calculate pay and overtime, and export timesheets. This app helps freelancers and hourly workers manage their schedules and ensure accurate compensation with a clean interface and helpful reminders.
- Seamless time tracking with easy clock in/out
- Customizable break deductions
- Detailed shift notes
- Smart pay and overtime calculation
- Live earnings dashboard
- Organized work history logs
- Custom CSV timesheet exports
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Track your work hours, keep a clear shift log, and see your estimated earnings. Hours Tracker brings your jobs, breaks, overtime, and timesheets together on iPhone. CLOCK IN AND OUT Start a shift with one tap, then clock out to save your hours. Add past shifts manually, deduct unpaid breaks, and attach notes. FIND YOUR SHIFTS IN CALENDAR Browse previous entries by date, review a day’s work, and add or edit shifts from the new Calendar tab. Your weekly dashboard and History keep the bigger picture close. SET YOUR RATES AND OVERTIME Set an hourly rate, default break, and daily or weekly overtime rules for each job. Adjust individual entries when needed. MAKE IT YOURS Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance. Set your currency symbol, week start, and repeating reminders. A guided setup and quick-start screen help you begin. FREE TRACKING Track one job with unlimited entries, Calendar, History, in-app clock-in and clock-out, and basic CSV export. Filter exports by date and job. HOURS TRACKER PREMIUM • Unlimited jobs, with separate rates and overtime rules. • Full CSV and Excel-compatible XLS exports, including optional breaks, notes, and estimated pay columns. • Interactive Home Screen widgets to clock in and out. Choose a job for each widget. EARLY SUPPORTERS KEEP PREMIUM FREE Users who downloaded an earlier production version receive all Premium features free forever. Use Restore Access if needed after reinstalling. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Choose weekly or yearly Premium. Both include a seven-day free trial for eligible customers. US prices are $4.99 per week or $34.99 per year, billed upfront; local App Store prices apply elsewhere. A trial automatically converts to the selected paid subscription unless canceled. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Introductory-offer eligibility is determined by the App Store. Earnings are estimates based on your logged hours, rates, and overtime settings. They do not include tax or other deductions. Terms of Use: https://digitalsprout.org/hourstracker/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://digitalsprout.org/hourstracker/privacy-policy
TimeTiles
Visually track your daily activities with custom tiles and timers. Understand where your time goes without complex systems. Offers privacy and ease of use with home screen widgets.
- Customizable activity tiles
- One-tap timer start/stop
- Home screen widget support
- Daily, weekly, monthly views
- Goal and streak tracking
- Calendar heatmap progress
- Data export (CSV, JSON)
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TimeTiles is a simple, visual time tracker built for the way your day actually works. Create tiles for the things you care about — deep work, study, business, cooking, fitness, chores, hobbies, or anything else — then start and stop timers with a tap. TimeTiles helps you see where your time goes without spreadsheets, complicated setup, or another productivity system to manage. Designed for iPhone and home screen widgets, TimeTiles makes time tracking fast, private, and easy to stick with. Features include: Track multiple parts of your day with custom tiles Start and stop timers quickly from the app or widgets View your daily total at a glance See patterns with week, month, and year views Build consistency with goals and streaks Review your progress with a calendar heatmap Edit sessions, start times, durations, and notes Export your data with CSV and JSON Sync privately with iCloud No account, no ads, no data selling TimeTiles Pro unlocks unlimited tiles, deeper history, goals, streaks, advanced calendar insights, session editing, multiple timers, and export. Your time data stays yours. TimeTiles is built to be local-first, private, and focused on helping you understand your day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hours Tracker at none against TimeTiles's 1. Hours Tracker also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). TimeTiles's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads 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. TimeTiles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hours Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
TimeTiles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Hours Tracker | TimeTiles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DigitalSprout | PhD Tutorials LLC |
Customer experience
Hours Tracker
TimeTiles
In-app purchases
Hours Tracker
No in-app purchases
TimeTiles
- TimeTiles$4.99









