Work Log vs My Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Work Log
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Tap once to start. Tap again to stop. That is the entire app. No account. No subscription. No servers. Your hours never leave your iPhone. A work log for people who bill by the hour, work for more than one client, and have never once managed to keep a timer running. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY DO Every client gets its own stamp button in its own color. Press it when you start, press the same button when you finish. Press a different client and it switches over in that one tap β no confirmation, no menus, no project pickers. While the clock runs you never have to open the app: a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and a small Home Screen widget with today's total. "Start recording" and "Stop recording" also work as Shortcuts and with Siri, so you can put them on the Action button. WHAT YOUR TAPS TURN INTO β’ Home β today's total, this week's total, and this month's estimated earnings β’ Calendar β a month at a glance, each day shaded by how long you worked and dotted with the colors of the clients you worked for, with the monthly total on top β’ Charts β the last 7 days and the last 6 months, stacked by client, plus this month broken down client by client β’ Earnings estimate β give each client an hourly rate and your minutes become an approximate amount β’ CSV export β date, start, end, end date, minutes, client, memo and rate; eight columns any spreadsheet will open β’ JSON backup β export and import your whole history, free and unlimited. The app also keeps copies on the device (at most one an hour as you record and edit, and right before an import or a full delete), restores them automatically if a file is ever damaged, and lets you pick one by date in Settings > Backups on This iPhone BILLABLE HOURS, KEPT PER CLIENT Every client keeps its own color and its own hourly rate. A record you finish after setting a rate keeps that rate, so raising it next month will not move the numbers you already quoted. (A record finished before you set any rate picks up the rate you set later.) IF YOU FORGET TO STOP Turn on the optional reminder and it tells you once a record has been running for more than 12 hours. It stays off until you switch it on. Work that runs past midnight is split across both days in the calendar and the charts. WHAT IT DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO β’ It does not write or send invoices. It hands you a clean CSV and gets out of the way β’ It does not calculate tax, withholding or overtime. The earnings figure is an estimate and nothing more β’ No team, no sharing, no cloud sync, no sign-in, no server, no ads β’ No GPS and no automatic tracking. Nothing is recorded unless you press the button β’ Built for iPhone β there is no iPad layout, and no Mac or Apple Watch app (on iPad it runs in iPhone compatibility mode) WHAT IT COSTS Free to download, with every limit off for 30 days from first launch. After that, recording, editing, the calendar, the charts, the earnings estimate and JSON backup all stay free and unlimited, permanently. Only two things narrow. You can add up to 2 clients β anything you created during the trial stays, and archiving one hides its button without freeing a slot. CSV export covers records started since the 1st of last month. Lifting both is a single one-time purchase. Nothing renews and there is no second tier. iOS 18 or later. English and Japanese. Everything works in airplane mode β the one-time purchase is the only thing that needs a connection. Made by one person, in Canada, for the kind of week where you look up and cannot say where the hours went.
My Time
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My Time-Tracker records your working time where it happens: on a client's project. TRACKING β’ Start and stop with one tap β on iPhones with an Action button even while the device is locked β’ Switch to another project mid-run: the app stops and starts again without a gap β’ If a timer runs past midnight, stopping it creates two entries β so daily totals stay correct β’ Correct any entry afterwards, add a note, or move it to a different project β’ Tags on entries β across clients and projects, βMeetingβ or βTravelβ for instance; a project can add them to new entries automatically ALWAYS WITHIN REACH β’ Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, counting along β’ Widgets for the Home and Lock Screen, plus a control for Control Center; you choose which projects the widget offers to start β’ Apple Watch: start, stop, switch project β and a complication for your watch face β’ On the Mac the app lives in the menu bar: read the state and switch projects without opening a window REPORTS β’ Time by client and project β for a week, a month, a year or all of it β’ Totals by tag, with a filter to match β’ Stacked chart with a fixed color per project β’ Optional daily goal with progress, balance and a forecast for when you are done β’ CSV export for Numbers and Excel β’ Reports: a timesheet as a PDF per company and period (week, month or a range you choose) β with the company name as the title, daily totals and a breakdown by project. Stored exactly as created YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS β’ No account, no server, no analytics, tracking or advertising services β’ Entries live on your device and in your private iCloud database, syncing automatically between iPhone, iPad, Mac and Watch The interface is available in German, English, French and Italian. FREE AND UNLIMITED For free you track time for one client with three projects. The one-time purchase βTime-Tracker Unlimitedβ removes both limits β no subscription. Everything else is included without it: reports, CSV export, widgets, Apple Watch, the Action button and iCloud sync.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: My Time at 4 against Work Log's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Work Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and My Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Work Log | My Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akira Takashima | Olly Klassen |
In-app purchases
Work Log
- ε ¨ζ©θ½γ’γ³γγγ―$5.99
My Time
- Time-Tracker Unlimited$9.99









