Comparison

Hours & Pay Tracker vs Hours

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

Head to head
About

Hours & Pay Tracker

Track work hours, overtime, and earnings with this intuitive time clock and timesheet app. Manage jobs, shifts, and clients, and gain insights into your productivity and income. Customize timesheets with detailed records and export them for payroll or clients.

Highlights
  • Clock in/out with taps or Siri
  • Add/edit hours retroactively
  • Export timesheets (CSV, Excel, PDF)
  • Track multiple jobs and clients
  • Automatic location tracking
  • Sync with Apple Watch
  • Record vacation and sick days
Features
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Easily track your work hours, overtime, and earnings with atWork — the simple time tracker and timesheet app for freelancers, contractors, and hourly employees. See where your time goes, how much you’ve earned, and manage jobs, shifts, and clients all in one place. Create custom timesheets with all the details you need and take control of your productivity and income. EASY TIME TRACKING • Clock in and out with a few taps, or just ask Siri. atWork is your personal time clock for work or any activity. • Forgot to start the timer? Add or edit hours later. No more lost time. • Export timesheets (CSV, Excel, or PDF) for clients or payroll, complete with pay and overtime details. • Track multiple jobs and optionally organize work by client, project, or task for detailed records. • Automatic location tracking lets you set workplaces to clock you in or out when you arrive or leave, and receive notifications. • Sync with Apple Watch to start or stop timers or dictate notes on the go. • Record vacation days, sick days, and public holidays to keep your timesheet accurate and complete. FLEXIBLE & CUSTOMIZABLE • Add notes of any length, define automatic breaks and regular working hours to display your overtime and pay. • Customize your time entries and track as much detail as you want with custom fields — from expenses such as travel or mileage to payment status (paid or pending). • Set daily, weekly, or monthly income goals and watch your progress. • Choose automatic rounding rules for start and end times to simplify reporting and keep entries consistent. • Keep your data safe with automatic backup to iCloud or manually via email. RELIABLE SUPPORT • We’re a small, dedicated team offering 24/7 support. Reach us anytime at support@atworkapp.com. • We read every review and keep improving atWork based on your feedback. With atWork, tracking your hours and pay has never been easier — accurate, flexible, and built for the way you work. Join thousands of professionals who rely on atWork every day: “Easy to use, lots of customizations, export data in multiple file types and it’s FREE! I use it to keep track of time spent on multiple clients and projects.” – sherisworld24 (App Store review) “As a small business, I love being able to track time for each of my clients either live or retroactively. Have used the app for years and been very happy with it.” – Britchick70 (App Store review) Download atWork today and start managing your time like a pro. No more wondering “Where did the time go?” atWork puts you in charge of every hour and every dollar earned.

About

Hours

Easily track your work hours with a live clock-in/out feature or manual log entries. Monitor weekly hours worked and salary earned, with options for multiple jobs, tax deductions, and exportable reports.

Highlights
  • Clock-in/out timer
  • Manual hour entry
  • Weekly work logs
  • Earnings and tax calculation
  • Multiple job tracking
  • Work history export
  • Clock reminders
  • Passcode protection
Features
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Hours is the easiest and most convenient way to keep track of your work hours. Either use the Clock feature to “Clock In” and out, or add your hours manually to the Log. At any time, you can see a weekly overview of the hours worked and salary earned. As one of the leading time tracker apps on the App Store, Hours offers many useful and unique features, including: CLOCK TIMER Keep a live timer during a shift and track hours and earnings by the minute. MANUAL ENTRIES If you don’t want to use the Clock feature, you can also add work hours manually. WEEKLY LOGS On the Log page, you can see weekly overviews of the shifts you have worked, as well as the total hours and earnings for that week. EARNINGS & TAXES* Calculate earnings and deduct taxes. MULTIPLE JOBS* Working more than just one job? Create multiple jobs with different settings. EXPORT* Export your work history in multiple formats. REMINDERS* With Clock Reminders, you will never forget to report your hours. PASSCODE PROTECTION* Keep your work log extra secure with a passcode lock. While the core functionality is complete free to use, some of the more advanced features (denoted with an asterisk above) require a paid subscription. Please see the subscription details below. ------------------------ Subscription Information - The subscription price of $29.99 per year automatically renews every year until cancelled. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Apple ID account settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. About Subscriptions: http://onewave.se/hours/subscriptions.html Privacy Policy: http://onewave.se/hours/privacy.html

Screenshots

Hours & Pay Tracker4 screens
Hours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hours & Pay Tracker at weekly against Hours's monthly. Hours & Pay Tracker also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 73%). Hours's advantage is ratings volume (16K vs 3.8K) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Hours & Pay Tracker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hours sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Hours & Pay Tracker against 4.6 for Hours. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.8K and 16K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Hours & Pay Tracker's written reviews are positive against 73% of Hours's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours & Pay Tracker ships an update weekly, Hours monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hours & Pay Tracker versus Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours & Pay TrackerHours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better4.6 (16K ratings)
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews — better73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3.8K16K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergej SteinbachOne Wave AB

Customer experience

Hours & Pay Tracker

All ratings3,822 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral3.7%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews280 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral6.8%
Negative3.9%

Hours

All ratings15,978 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%

User reviews

Hours & Pay Tracker

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Helpful for tracking hours and earnings
  • 💡 Customizable options
  • 🔒 Secure data storage
  • 👍 Convenient location tracking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
  • 💡 Lack of advanced features (e.g. paid/unpaid time tracking, biweekly pay periods)
  • 💡 Limited customization options (e.g. work week start day, overtime settings)
  • 🔍 Complicated navigation for some users
  • 💰 Paid extensions required for full functionality

Hours

From 16K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💰 Helps track hours and pay
  • 🗓️ Useful for multiple jobs
  • 🔢 Calculates hours and pay automatically

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limits free features to force purchase
  • 🔢 Limited to 5 jobs in free version
  • 🐛 Issues with break time tracking
  • 🔢 Lack of daily/monthly hour totals

Bugs and requests

Hours & Pay Tracker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Location tracking issues after app updates
  • Entries disappearing after app updates
  • Crashing when accessing certain features

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to mark entries as paid/unpaid
  • Option to set custom work week start day
  • Automatic overtime calculation based on user-defined settings
  • Biweekly pay period tracking
  • More export options (e.g. PDF, Word)
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  • Ability to add photos/notes to entries

Hours

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Clock not logging hours accurately
  • Issues with syncing between web and mobile app
  • Paid version features not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow editing of job details
  • Add option to track breaks separately
  • Provide daily and monthly hour totals
  • Expand job limit in free version
  • Add support for multiple currencies

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Hours & Pay Tracker

One-time10
  • Unlimited EntriesFree
  • Espresso$1.99
  • Cappuccino$2.99
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  • Data Export$3.99
  • Special Days$3.99
  • Work Schedule$3.99
  • Workplaces$3.99
  • Latte macchiato$4.99
  • Hot chocolate & croissant$8.99
  • atWork Plus - No Subscription$9.99
4 purchases

Hours

Subscriptions4
  • Personal (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Personal (Yearly)$19.991 Year
  • Personal (Yearly)1 Year trial$19.991 Year
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  • Personal (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Hours & Pay Tracker free?
Hours & Pay Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hours free?
Hours is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours & Pay Tracker or Hours?
Hours & Pay Tracker is rated higher. Hours & Pay Tracker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while Hours averages 4.6 from 16K ratings.
Do Hours & Pay Tracker or Hours have ads?
Neither Hours & Pay Tracker nor Hours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hours & Pay Tracker or Hours?
Hours & Pay Tracker ships an update weekly, and Hours monthly. Most recently, Hours & Pay Tracker was updated on September 27, 2026 and Hours on September 26, 2026.

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