Comparison

Hours Time Tracking vs WorkHours

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

Head to head
About

Hours Time Tracking

Easily track your work hours with a simple timer or bulk entry. Manage personal time, freelance projects, or team efforts with a visual timeline and smart reminders. Sync across devices and generate invoices for professional use.

Highlights
  • Simple timer for real-time tracking
  • Bulk timesheet entry
  • Visual timeline for corrections
  • Smart reminders
  • Cross-device sync (iOS, Apple Watch, Web)
  • Invoice generation for professionals
  • Siri integration
Features
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Hours Time Tracking let's you track time as an individual, freelancer, contractor, employee or as part of a team. Activate a simple timer to track where you spend your hours, use the visual timeline to correct mistakes or use the bulk timesheet entry to create a timesheet after the fact. Flexibility makes this the ideal time tracker tool to track all of your hours easily and quickly. Whether you are tracking personal time or tracking your hours as a professional such as a freelancer, developer, contractor or part of a Team for employee time tracking, the Hours app is the perfect choice for an easy time tracker. Multiple hours tracking options: Hours Personal - easily track time for personal use. Hours Professional - enables freelancers, contractors and entrepreneurs to track time on projects and invoice for their time. Hours Teams - enables collective tracking for team members working on a project. "The Perfect iPhone Time Tracking App" - Forbes "Surprisingly pleasant to use…well-thought-out interface" - TechCrunch “The world’s easiest way of tracking your time.” - 9to5Mac Best New Apps - Apple With a visual timeline, smart reminders, reporting, and an easy to use interface crafted by an Apple Design Award winning team, Hours lets you: - Choose between the Professional, Team and Personal version based on the features you need - Easily create simple timers that track tasks real time or use our timesheet option for after the fact time entry - Start/stop/switch timers with one tap - Edit the visual timeline to quickly identify and correct mistakes - Sync your time across multiple devices including Apple Watch and Hours Web - Invoice for your time with the Professional and Team versions - Use Siri to start and stop time tracking Please email us if you have any questions or suggestions to improve the app: support@hourstimetracking.com Hours offers an "Hours Pro" monthly subscription for $7.99 per month and an “Hours Pro” yearly subscription for $59.99 annually. When you purchase a subscription, it will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account and will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Hours also offers an "Hours Personal” subscription for $19.99 annually. When you purchase a subscription, it will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account and will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. To manage your subscription, (including upgrading, downgrading and deactivating auto-renewal), go to the Account Settings screen after purchase. Instructions are available at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 Privacy Policy: https://hourstimetracking.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://hourstimetracking.com/terms-of-service/

About

WorkHours

Easily track your working hours, overtimes, and earnings with this intuitive time tracker. Features include automatic overtime calculations, reminder notifications, and detailed reports. Sync data across devices and back it up to the cloud for seamless management.

Highlights
  • Record work time using timers
  • Track earnings and overtime
  • Reminder notifications
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Cloud backup
  • Built-in reports
  • Export data to PDF, CSV, Text
Features
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Track your hours, overtime and earnings in one tap. WorkHours makes clocking in effortless and shows exactly what you've earned today, this week or this month. Made for hourly workers, freelancers, contractors, remote workers and students – anyone who works flexible hours. TRACK TIME YOUR WAY • Start and stop timers with a tap or a swipe • Add or fix entries by hand – set any start, end or length • Add breaks, notes, tasks and expenses to entries • Copy an entry to log a repeat shift in seconds • Round times automatically • Reminders so you never forget to clock in or out KNOW WHAT YOU'VE EARNED • Hourly rates in your currency • Automatic daily, weekly and monthly overtime rates • Dashboard with your hours and earnings at a glance • Reports by day, week, month or any custom period • Export to PDF, CSV or text and share by email or any app ALWAYS WITHIN REACH • Live Activity and Dynamic Island show your running timer • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Watch app with complications – control timers and add entries from your wrist MAKE IT YOURS • Give each job its own color • Light or Dark theme and alternative app icons • Lock the app with a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID SYNC AND BACKUP WorkHours Cloud syncs your data across devices in real time and keeps it backed up, so moving to a new iPhone is painless. Manual backups are included too. FREE AND PREMIUM WorkHours is free to use with a limited number of entries and jobs. Premium unlocks unlimited entries, jobs and all features. Try it free for 3 days, then choose a monthly or yearly subscription. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage subscriptions and turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase • Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription Terms of Use: https://www.whtracker.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.whtracker.com/privacyPolicy Questions or ideas? We'd love to hear from you: support@whtracker.com

Screenshots

Hours Time Tracking4 screens
WorkHours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WorkHours at 85% against Hours Time Tracking's 70%. WorkHours also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Hours Time Tracking's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (7K vs 1.2K). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hours Time Tracking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and WorkHours sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WorkHours holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Time Tracking has 7K ratings behind it against 1.2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Hours Time Tracking's written reviews are positive against 85% of WorkHours's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Time Tracking ships an update every 3 weeks, WorkHours every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hours Time Tracking versus WorkHours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours Time TrackingWorkHours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (7K ratings)4.7 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.3% of reviews84.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7K — better1.2K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.2 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHours, LLCDEVAPPS d.o.o.

Customer experience

Hours Time Tracking

All ratings7,034 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews474 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral7.2%
Negative22.6%

WorkHours

All ratings1,220 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews317 reviews
Positive84.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative8.8%

User reviews

Hours Time Tracking

From 7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent, simple, and user-friendly
  • 👍 Intuitive time tracking
  • 👍 Tracking multiple projects and people
  • 👍 Amazing app, does it all
  • 👍 Best way to track time across devices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy on macOS Big Sur
  • 🐛 Rounding errors in reporting
  • 💰 Subscription is too expensive
  • 🔒 Requires account, no standalone mode
  • 🔒 Lost data after update

WorkHours

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Intuitive and efficient
  • 💰 Helps with billing and invoicing
  • 🎨 Visually appealing design
  • 🗓️ Useful for tracking multiple jobs/projects

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Requires subscription after free trial
  • 🔍 Difficult to find/access past entries
  • 🕰️ Lacks flexibility in time entry (e.g. typing vs scrolling)
  • 🔧 Limited customization options
  • 🔀 Issues with syncing/consistency across devices

Bugs and requests

Hours Time Tracking

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Timers randomly deleting
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Inability to edit/delete timers in free version
  • Overlapping time blocks
  • Subscription renewal issues

Requested features

6 requests
  • Break timer that subtracts time
  • Calendar view for time tracking
  • Ability to add notes to time blocks
  • Notification when timer runs for too long
  • Customizable color palette
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  • Integration with Outlook calendar

WorkHours

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Entries sometimes disappear or get duplicated
  • Calculation errors in reported hours and earnings

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to mark jobs as paid
  • Implement calendar view for better visualization
  • Allow adding expenses and mileage
  • Provide more flexible overtime/pay rate options
  • Enable batch/recurring time entry for regular schedules

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hours Time Tracking

Subscriptions3
  • Hours Pro Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Hours Personal Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Hours Pro Yearly1 Month trial$59.991 Year
7 purchases

WorkHours

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Month subscription$3.491 Month
  • 1 Month subscription$4.991 Month
  • 1 Year subscription3 Days trial$18.491 Year
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  • 1 Year subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Upgrade Personal to Pro$3.99
  • Upgrade to WorkHours Personal$5.99
  • Upgrade to WorkHours Pro$8.99

Questions

Is Hours Time Tracking free?
Hours Time Tracking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WorkHours free?
WorkHours is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hours Time Tracking or WorkHours?
WorkHours is rated higher. Hours Time Tracking averages 4.5 out of 5 from 7K ratings, while WorkHours averages 4.7 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Hours Time Tracking or WorkHours have ads?
Neither Hours Time Tracking nor WorkHours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hours Time Tracking or WorkHours?
Hours Time Tracking ships an update every 3 weeks, and WorkHours every 2 months. Most recently, Hours Time Tracking was updated on October 26, 2026 and WorkHours on October 27, 2026.

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