Chrono Plus vs Bear Tracks Time
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.
Bear Tracks Time
Easily manage your productive time with a simple interface for starting and stopping timers. Organize your work with customizable categories and visualize your daily progress. Import and export your data for comprehensive record-keeping and backups.
- One-tap timer start/stop
- Organize by color, category, emoji
- Visualize daily work
- Edit, merge, delete records
- Weekly, monthly, yearly review
- Data import and export
- Time block intervals
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Bear Tracks Time is a simple solution for managing productive time. Start and stop timers with a single tap or shortcut. Organize timers by color, category, and emoji. Visualize the day's work at a glance. Edit, merge, and delete existing records. Review past work by week | month | year. Full data import and export. Bring in old records or save complete backups to csv. Improve focus with time blocks, dividing productive time into work / break intervals. Subscription Details: - Bear Tracks Time is offered as a $4.00 yearly subscription (or $16.00 one time purchase) which unlocks all app functionality. - Without purchasing you are still able to create, view, modify, and export all of your records. You just cannot create more than three (3) timers, or import data. - Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of the purchase or after the free trial period if offered. - Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. - Privacy Policy: https://www.beartrackstime.com/privacy - Terms of Service: https://www.beartrackstime.com/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bear Tracks Time at 5.0 against Chrono Plus's 4.1. Bear Tracks Time also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). Chrono Plus's advantage is ratings volume (75 vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Chrono Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bear Tracks Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bear Tracks Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chrono Plus has 75 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Chrono Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bear Tracks Time's.
Chrono Plus ships an update every 14 months, Bear Tracks Time every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chrono Plus | Bear Tracks Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (75 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 75 — better | 4 |
| 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 — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denys Ievenko | Mursus, LLC |
Customer experience
Chrono Plus
Bear Tracks Time
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
Bear Tracks Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chrono Plus
- Unlock Pro Features$4.99
Bear Tracks Time
- Yearly Subscription$4.001 Year
- Tip$2.99
- Purchase$16.00
Questions
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