Comparison

Billing Hours vs BookAid

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

Head to head
About

Billing Hours

Effortlessly track your time and expenses for clients and projects. Generate professional invoices, reports, and manage billing periods with ease. Secure your sensitive financial data with a PIN lock.

Highlights
  • Add and manage timed entries and expenses
  • Create custom invoices
  • Email or print invoices and reports
  • Filter entries by date, state, and type
  • PIN lock for data security
  • Unlimited clients, projects, and invoices
Features
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Take the work out of time tracking and billing with this top application designed specifically for independent contractors. Main Features • Quickly add and manage timed entries and expense items by client and project. • Create a professional custom invoice based on your entries and quickly email or print it. • View entries filtered by date range, state, and type and then print or email PDF and CSV reports with the information. • Date ranges can be week, month, or custom pay periods for each client. • Quickly reload entries from your CSV emails. • Use a PIN lock to hide your billing information from prying eyes. • Unlimited clients, projects, invoices, and reports. • 3D Touch App Menu • Invoices in Spotlight Search ___ Do you have any ideas of what you would like to see or need some help, please drop us an email from within the app. And if you like what we are doing, we'd appreciate a good AppStore review.

About

BookAid

Features
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The BookAid app allows you to easily use the BookAid platform via your smartphone. BookAid users can use this app to upload expense notes and invoices, consult their document archive and view their key figures.

Screenshots

Billing Hours4 screens
BookAid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BookAid at Free against Billing Hours's $4.99. Billing Hours's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

BookAid is free to download; Billing Hours costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Billing Hours versus BookAid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBilling HoursBookAid
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBirdsoft LLCClearFacts

In-app purchases

None

Billing Hours

No in-app purchases

None

BookAid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Billing Hours free?
Billing Hours costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BookAid free?
BookAid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Billing Hours or BookAid have ads?
Neither Billing Hours nor BookAid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Billing Hours or BookAid?
Billing Hours ships an update every 2 months, and BookAid every 2 months. Most recently, Billing Hours was updated on October 17, 2026 and BookAid on October 12, 2026.

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