HourTracker vs CircuitShepherd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HourTracker
Track your work hours across multiple employers with detailed entries for holidays, events, and off-duty time. Generate customizable HTML or PDF reports and manage invoices for contractors. Supports iCloud backup and photo attachments.
- Multiple employer support
- Holiday and event entries
- Off-duty time tracking
- Automatic report generation (HTML/PDF)
- Invoice add-on for contractors
- iCloud backup and restore
- Photo attachments for reports
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HourTracker is a focused time-tracking app for people who work for one employer or many. Log your hours in seconds, keep every employer separate, and turn your work into clean reports — or full invoices — without the clutter. WORK TIME, YOUR WAY (free) • Track multiple employers and switch between them with a tap • Days hold timed events (start–end), duration entries, breaks, day notes and holidays • Custom event categories (e.g. Work, Travel, Training), each with its own rate • Choose your rounding: 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 45-minute steps • Insert your current city into an event with one tap (with custom shorthands, e.g. Helsinki → Hki) SEE YOUR PROGRESS (free) • A whole year of activity at a glance (heatmap) • Hours goals with weekly, biweekly or monthly progress • Charts and statistics for your hours and earnings • "Year in Review" annual recap, exportable as a PDF REPORTS THAT LOOK THE PART • Polished HTML or PDF reports, with pagination and photo attachments • Add your own summaries for overtime and other special hours • Send straight from the app INVOICING & BUSINESS (optional in-app purchase) For contractors and the self-employed: • Create, archive and track invoices, drafts, credit notes and payment reminders • Finnish payment slips with SEPA QR and barcode, plus Finvoice 3.0 e-invoicing • Recurring invoices and expenses, expense tracking and a finance overview • Payslips with annual summary and holiday bonus • Client and supplier registers, client statements and a price/product library EVERYWHERE YOU WORK • iPhone, iPad (optimized) and Mac • Home-screen widgets, plus an Apple Watch app to start and stop timers from your wrist • iCloud keeps your data up to date across all your devices • Encrypted backup & restore, plus import from the previous HourTracker PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays in your own iCloud. An optional Face ID / passcode lock keeps the app private. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Full English and Finnish interface. Need reports or invoices in another language? The built-in translation editor lets you translate documents into virtually any language that uses standard characters. HourTracker keeps the simple things simple — and gives professionals everything they need when the job grows. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
CircuitShepherd
Automate electronic circuit design with AI-driven parameter optimization. Define schematics and design goals, and the software finds optimal part values in real-time. Save time on calculations and iterations with this intuitive tool.
- Automated parameter optimization
- AI-driven circuit engineering
- Real-time design goal finding
- Intuitive user interface
- Schematic definition
- Part value calculation
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CircuitShepherd provides you with analog-design superpowers by doing automated parameter optimization it in realtime! It's a novel Electronic Design Automation software for AI driven electronics circuit engineering. You define an arbitrary schematic including specific design goals and CircuitShepherd will find the right part values for you. This is achieved by combining traditional circuit simulation techniques with AI driven parameter estimation algorithms and finally a simple and intuitive user interface. It’s easy to learn, fast to use and it will save you a lot of time by automating your daily calculation and iteration tasks. CircuitShepherd is free to use immediately (with very basic features). The full version with all features enabled is available via in-app purchase (subscription-based). Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.circuitshepherd.com/privacy-policy-iOS.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CircuitShepherd at Free against HourTracker's $6.99. CircuitShepherd also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). HourTracker's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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
CircuitShepherd is free to download; HourTracker costs $6.99 up front. HourTracker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month and CircuitShepherd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HourTracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
HourTracker ships an update every 5 days, CircuitShepherd every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HourTracker | CircuitShepherd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oskari Rauta | Josef Woess |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
HourTracker
- Invoices (1 month)$17.991 Month
- Business (1 month)$29.991 Month
- Invoices (3 months)$44.993 Months
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- Business (3 months)$49.993 Months
- Invoices (6 months)$69.996 Months
- Business (6 months)$89.996 Months
- Invoices (1 year)$89.991 Year
- Business (1 year)$129.991 Year
- 26 weeks$59.99
- 52 weeks$99.99
CircuitShepherd
- full version$6.991 Month
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