Comparison

PunchClock XT vs Time Guard

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

Head to head
About

PunchClock XT

Effortlessly track your work hours and breaks with a single click. Analyze your time, manage holidays, and export your data via email or cloud storage. Gain insights into your productivity with this intuitive time management tool.

Highlights
  • One-click clock-in/out
  • Break time tracking
  • Time analysis
  • Holiday management
  • Email export
  • Dropbox export
Features
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Time tracking is just a click away. You just clock in every morning with PunchClock XT and start tracking time. After clocking out and setting your break-time everything is saved and can be exported via email or Dropbox. The new features and possibilities make it an easy task to analyze your time at work and your holidays.

About

Time Guard

This app helps you track your work hours, holidays, and flextime with automatic location-based or manual time logging. Receive notifications for exceeding daily or maximum work limits and export your data easily. Supports Apple Watch and calendar sync.

Highlights
  • Automatic location-based time tracking
  • Manual time entry for various work types
  • Holiday and flextime balance management
  • Push notifications for work time limits
  • CSV export of time data
  • Calendar sync
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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Time Guard not just gives you an overview about your achieved working times, current amount of holidays and flextime, but also keeps you informed by Push-Notifications when you reach the amount of daily and maximum allowed working time. Doing so, Time Guard can automatically track your entering and leaving times for locations you define in settings, either based on geo-locations or on iBeacons for an even more fine-grained indoor recognition. Of course you also can track your times manually at any time, especially for holidays, flexdays and illness-days so that your flextime amount and current holiday is always up-to-date. Time Guard includes the following features: - Configure your daily amount of work (constant or individually per day of week), your amount of weekly work, maximum work, fixed & flexible pause, amount of annual holidays, current amount of flextime, monthly or weekly flextime subtraction and flextime scale to configure time period within which flextime will be added. - display effective average working time of the last 6 months - display average working time of last 6 months according to §3 ArbZG - Push-Notification when reaching the amount of daily and maximum working time - Configuration of locations by comfortable address-search or by defining iBeacon parameters. - for geolocation-monitored regions you can define an offset in minutes which gets automatically added on arrival and subtracted on departure. - Automatical tracking of times for your configured locations even when the app is not running and without affecting the battery-life negatively. - Overview about single times, daily and weekly working times as list, chart diagrams or in a scrolling calendar view. - Manual tracking of working times, short-time working, block time, holidays, flexdays and illness-days - Adding a note to a single time. - 3D-Touch on Home-Screen Icon for an even faster adding of new entries (iPhone 6s or newer) - 3D-Touch Peek&Pop on time-overview (iPhone 6s or newer) - Overview in Today Extension of Notification Center - Export times as CSV via email - monthly time sheets - Import times (inkl. from Geofency and Hours Tracker) - tap on hour-label in Startscreen to show latest possible leaving time - automatic registration of travel-time between two monitored regions - Apple Watch support - iOS 13 DarkMode - sync time entries one-way down to a selected calendar For new requirements, reporting bugs or any feedback please contact timeguard@iosolutions.de

Screenshots

PunchClock XT4 screens
Time Guard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Time Guard at weekly against PunchClock XT's monthly. Time Guard also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 66%). PunchClock XT's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

PunchClock XT costs $1.99 and Time Guard $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PunchClock XT ships an update monthly, Time Guard weekly. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PunchClock XT versus Time Guard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPunchClock XTTime Guard
Price$1.99 — better$5.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.0% of reviews84.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTim WilbrinkSebastian Vollmer

Customer experience

PunchClock XT

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive66.0%
Neutral26.0%
Negative8.0%

Time Guard

Written reviews25 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative4.0%

In-app purchases

None

PunchClock XT

No in-app purchases

None

Time Guard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PunchClock XT free?
PunchClock XT costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Guard free?
Time Guard costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do PunchClock XT or Time Guard have ads?
Neither PunchClock XT nor Time Guard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PunchClock XT or Time Guard?
PunchClock XT ships an update monthly, and Time Guard weekly. Most recently, PunchClock XT was updated on September 22, 2026 and Time Guard on September 22, 2026.

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