SimpleHours vs CLOC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleHours
Effortlessly track your time spent on tasks with a simple tap interface. Switch between tasks instantly and view past data with easy navigation. Organize your work by project and export your time logs for analysis.
- Quick time tracking with tap interface
- Task switching
- Daily data navigation
- Project categorization
- CSV data export
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Nobody wants to spend time tracking what they spend time on. SimpleHours makes tracking your time as quick and painless as possible, so you can spend time on more important things. Just tap on a line to start the timer for one task. Tap on another line to switch the timer to another task. Swipe left or right to view information from other dates. Tasks can be categorized by project, if that's relevant for your workflow. Data can be exported and emailed in CSV format, for import into a desktop spreadsheet.
CLOC
Organize your work and track your time with this productivity manager. Create projects, add tasks, and visualize your progress with graphical charts. Features include a live timer widget, a unique planner, and a mini timer for easy control.
- Live Timer Widget
- Project organization with deadlines
- Graphical productivity charts
- Swipe-based task planner
- Mini timer for easy control
- Upcoming task calendar view
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Simply tap on circle (+) button to start your journey! Add tasks, projects to start tracking your time. Projects list helps you organize your works and check for deadlines, we also designed a special graphical chart about your productivity for each project! Use CLOC whether you are tracking personal time or as a professional such as a freelancer, developer, designer, contractor or part of a Team. Features: - Live Timer Widget: While this feature is premium on other apps, you can have it totally free and enjoying your time tracker! - Projects: They can have deadline so you can see the progress of remaining days or get reminder notifications. try to add tasks to projects so you can get graphical charts on it. - Planner: We designed a whole new planner UX where you can swipe a task to a time capsule to assign a date to it, simultaneously you can see your upcoming days in three color time capsules, a yellow one means you have more than 8hrs task on that day and red one means more than 8hrs tasks to do! - Upcoming: With access to a calendar you can easily watch your upcoming tasks or back to past days and see how you done well. - Mini timer: When you start tracking a time, instead of a full screen timer view, now you will experience a mini timer view, like a player bar where you can easily control the timer everywhere in the app! If you have any feature request, we'll be happy to have a chat with you, please contact us, and if you have any feedback, kindly write a review on the App Store. ~ Watercolor vectors in intro screens designed by Freepik
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CLOC at 4.8 against SimpleHours's 4.0. CLOC also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CLOC holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CLOC has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SimpleHours ships an update every 9 months, CLOC fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleHours | CLOC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ethan Shayne | unitedreams inc. |
Customer experience
SimpleHours
CLOC
In-app purchases
SimpleHours
No in-app purchases
CLOC
No in-app purchases
