Chrono Plus vs Timemator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chrono Plus
This app helps freelancers and hourly professionals manage tasks, track work hours, and calculate costs. It offers features for task creation, time and cost tracking, and invoice generation, with cross-device synchronization. Visualize project progress with graphs and charts.
- Task and subtask creation
- Time and cost tracking
- Multiple hourly rates
- Built-in invoice generator
- Project visualization
- Cross-device synchronization
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Chrono Plus is a convenient task manager and time tracking tool with a host of handy features. A must-have for any freelancer or professional paid by the hour, it features a sleek, intuitive interface for management of tasks, cost calculation and invoicing. Also available for Mac, Chrono Plus keeps all data in sync across computers and mobile devices. Key Features: • Easy and fast creation of tasks and subtasks • Color marking and search for better navigation • Tracks completion of tasks and projects • Time and cost tracking • Multiple hourly rates • Built-in invoice generator (formatted in MS Excel) • Ability to e-mail invoices to clients or save them to external applications • Project visualization using graphs and charts • Full synchronization between iPhone, iPad and Mac • Mac version is also available * Sync with Mac requires Chrono Plus Pro for macOS, sold separately.
Timemator
Effortlessly track work hours and tasks, organizing them by project or client. Visualize your productivity with insightful reports and automatically calculate revenue based on defined hourly rates. Sync data across devices and work offline.
- Effortless time tracking
- Organize tasks by project/client
- Timeline management
- Insightful productivity reports
- Automatic revenue calculation
- Offline functionality
- iCloud sync
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Track your work hours in one tap, see what you earned, and send clients a clean PDF report. Timemator is a simple time tracker for freelancers and anyone who bills by the hour. Pay once. No subscription. ONE-TAP TIME TRACKING • Start and stop timers for tasks and projects with a single tap • Organize tasks into folders by client or project, with colors • Add notes to sessions so you remember what you worked on • Keep an eye on the running timer in Live Activities and the Dynamic Island HOURS AND EARNINGS AT A GLANCE • Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports with clear charts • Set hourly rates and see your revenue calculated automatically • Breakdown by task and folder, plus your average hours per day CLIENT-READY REPORTS • Export professional PDF reports with time and revenue totals • Export CSV for spreadsheets, invoicing and accounting tools TIMELINE • See every work session of your day on a timeline • Add time you forgot to track, or fix a session in seconds WORKS WHERE YOU WORK • Home Screen widgets for timers, hours and revenue • Apple Watch app to start and stop timers from your wrist • Shortcuts: create a task and start its timer hands-free • Runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch PAIRS WITH TIMEMATOR FOR MAC Sync everything through iCloud with Timemator for Mac, which can track your time automatically based on the files, websites and apps you work with. The Mac app is sold separately. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No data collected: no analytics, no tracking • No account or sign-up needed • Works offline • Your data stays on your devices and syncs through your own iCloud SIMPLE PRICING Try every feature free for 30 days. Then unlock Timemator with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. Questions or ideas? Write to support@timemator.com. We read every message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Timemator at 4.7 against Chrono Plus's 4.1. Timemator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). Chrono Plus's advantage is review sentiment (72% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Chrono Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Timemator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Timemator holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 75 and 169 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Chrono Plus's written reviews are positive against 63% of Timemator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chrono Plus ships an update every 14 months, Timemator every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chrono Plus | Timemator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (75 ratings) | 4.7 (169 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.6% of reviews — better | 63.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 75 | 169 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denys Ievenko | Catforce Studio |
Customer experience
Chrono Plus
Timemator
Bugs and requests
Chrono Plus
Reported bugs
25 issues- Won't sync
- Can't log in
- Ads showing in paid app
- App stopped syncing between devices
- Lost hours of work
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- Invoice feature broken
- Invoice lacks client information
- Invoice is left blank
- Developer has never responded
- Does not allow entering future dates and hours
- Invoice has no option to put dates
- Dragging projects around needs to be improved
- Clunky to add time retroactively
- Cannot edit details about task in mobile version
- All data disappeared
- Crashing on iPhone
- Developer suggestions unhelpful
- Wiped local data when creating sync account
- App opens only to disappear
- Will not upload, print or transfer a report
- Invoice must be customized outside of the app
- Cannot manually edit hours recorded incorrectly
- Sync account on iOS deleted data from OS X version
- Cannot manually change or add time to tasks
- App won't even launch
Requested features
28 requests- Dark mode
- Ability to move projects into folders
- Allow system font usage and bold fonts
- Produce invoice for entire project/folder
- Produce invoices for specific periods
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- Apple Watch app
- More refined data output for desktop
- Ability to enter future dates and hours
- Website with directions/documentation
- Option to put dates on invoices
- Direct iCloud sync
- Better reporting
- Ability to move projects around more easily
- More in-depth invoicing functionality
- Record time on multiple tasks simultaneously
- Write notes/comments on each task/time section
- Ability to comment on each time section
- Segment reports by day, week, month on iPhone
- Start a fresh new timeframe by day, week, and month
- Capture time entries after the fact
- Ability to change font size
- Full Excel export
- Add comment/notes to time entries
- Export times on selected jobs rather than rounded up
- More specific reports
- Ability to reposition tasks and folders
- Due date element with calendar sync
- WBS structure numbers for tasks
Timemator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chrono Plus
- Unlock Pro Features$4.99
Timemator
- Full License$7.99
Questions
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