Rewind vs Timelogger Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rewind
This app automatically tracks your time based on your location, requiring minimal user input after initial setup. It offers insights into how you spend your time at various locations and can sync data to your calendar. A Pro version unlocks advanced reporting and more location tracking.
- Automatic background time tracking
- Location-based tracking
- Calendar view
- Insightful statistics
- Calendar sync
- Pro version reporting and backup
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The best time tracking solution is the one you don’t even have to think about. Rewind automatically tracks your time based on your location. You just have to set up your important places and you’re done. Use it to track your work time, time you spend with clients, in the gym, at home, in your favourite coffee shop or restaurant. The possibilities are endless. You can even have it push all your time intervals to your calendar (for example iCloud calendar). • Works fully automatically in the background, so you don’t even have to open it • But you’ll want to open it: to check the beautiful and useful calendar view • Insightful statistics • Excel/Number reports (Pro version) • Backup (Pro version) • Free version lets you try it with one location, Pro version let’s you track up to 20 places
Timelogger Plus
This app helps you actively manage and monitor your time across multiple Apple devices. It offers features like stopwatches, goal setting, and detailed reporting, making it ideal for freelancers, managing daily routines, or personal projects.
- Record time with stopwatches
- Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals
- Synchronize across devices via iCloud
- Generate PDF and CSV reports
- Manual time input
- Multiple active stopwatches
- Home and Lock Screen Widgets
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Timelogger Plus is a time tracking app that allows you to actively manage and monitor various tasks on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac securely and updated across all devices using iCloud. It is ideal for freelancing, repetitive daily routines, homemaking tasks, personal projects, or any activity people want to track and control. Timelogger Plus lets you: ▪ Record time using stopwatches; ▪ Define Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Goals; ▪ Synchronize between devices using iCloud; ▪ Generate PDF reports from custom intervals; ▪ Input time manually; ▪ Have multiple stopwatches active; ▪ Set Home Screen Widgets for ease to use; ▪ Set Lock Screen Widgets for ease to use; ▪ Use the Split View on the iPad for ease to use; ▪ Use the Stage Manager on the iPad for ease to use; ▪ Integrate with the Shortcuts application; ▪ Define hourly rates for your tasks; ▪ Define hourly rates for your folders; ▪ Export your entries to CSV; ▪ Create notes; ▪ Create billing notes; ▪ Use Context actions for ease to use; ▪ Add Tags to your Tasks, Entries, or Notes; ▪ Generate Manual backups; ▪ Archive Folders, Tasks, Entries, or Notes; ▪ Analyze your data through a Dashboard; ▪ Choose any Color for your Tasks and Folders; ▪ Filter by Folders or Tasks on the Dashboard views; ▪ Schedule notifications for running stopwatches; ▪ Change to Light or Dark mode; If you have a question, problem, or need help, please send a support request via e-mail. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Timelogger Plus at every 2 weeks against Rewind's every 5 months. Timelogger Plus also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 49%) and device support (4 vs 2). Rewind's advantage is ratings volume (246 vs 72). 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
Both are free to download. Rewind sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Timelogger Plus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Rewind against 4.6 for Timelogger Plus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 246 and 72 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Rewind's written reviews are positive against 76% of Timelogger Plus's.
Rewind ships an update every 5 months, Timelogger Plus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rewind | Timelogger Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (246 ratings) — better | 4.6 (72 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.0% of reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 246 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandro Pennisi | Filipe Martins |
Customer experience
Rewind
Timelogger Plus
User reviews
Rewind
From 246 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Lightweight and minimal battery drain
- 👍 Simple, intuitive interface
- ⏱️ Automatic background location tracking
- 📊 Useful time tracking and reporting features
- 💾 Data export to calendar and spreadsheet formats
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent iOS compatibility issues after updates
- 📍 Inaccurate location detection
- 🔋 Battery drain reported by some users
- ❌ Limited free version (only 1 location)
- 💰 Expensive for functionality offered
Timelogger Plus
From 72 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Exactly what I needed
- 🏆 GOAT of time tracking apps
- 📈 Detailed reporting capabilities
- 🎯 Great for habit tracking goals
- 📱 Seamless cross-device sync
Room to improve
- 💸 Overpriced monthly service (perceived)
- 📉 Busy and crowded circular chart
- 📱 Single Timer not working on iPad
- 🐛 Old task continuing after new task
- 🐛 Mac app font size hard to see
Bugs and requests
Rewind
Reported bugs
14 issues- iOS 16.4+ background update compatibility broken
- iOS 15 compatibility issues - not ending timeframes properly
- iOS 10 calendar sync functionality broken
- Calendar export toggle doesn't persist
- Feedback menu crashes app
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- Location tracking fails after iOS updates
- Inconsistent data between daily and weekly views
- App stops tracking after force close
- Fails to detect location exits
- Duplicate location tracking simultaneously
- Missing saved locations after iOS update
- Calendar access permission not available in settings
- Inaccurate time calculations
- App crashes on first launch
Requested features
14 requests- iPad version
- Ability to track unknown/new locations automatically
- Grouping/categorizing locations (e.g., all Starbucks locations)
- Manual marker placement on map
- Ability to set minimum time threshold before recording location
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- Smaller geofence radius options
- Export notes along with time and location data
- Configurable first day of week (Monday option)
- Category grouping for combined reporting
- Untracked time visualization in pie charts
- Tip/donation option for developers
- Trial period with multiple locations
- Notification when app is force-closed
- Persistent export settings
Timelogger Plus
Reported bugs
18 issues- Single Timer does not work on iPad
- Old task will continue after clicking a new task
- iCloud sync broken
- Apple Watch doesn’t work
- Syncing between Mac, iPhone and iPad is iffy
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- List of apps does not sync in their proper order on the Home page
- Home Screen flickers in and out
- Confusing Interface (Plus version)
- Widgets not available as advertised
- Single Timer feature gone
- iCloud sync is buggy
- Apple Watch app keeps running after session ends
- iCloud integrity check crashes app and deletes tasks
- Timer still running in widget after stopped in-app
- Task on iPad keeps running after stopping on phone
- Refusing to stop a task for whatever reason
- Mac app font size hard to see
- Task name overlaps time info on the right side
Requested features
25 requests- Bar chart instead of circular chart in Time Distribution
- Toggle switch for time and percent in task total time chart
- Larger start timer button
- Add Limits for tasks to goals
- Manual sort of tasks
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- Sort tasks by spend time in reports (not alphabet)
- Show each activity with time and percent in reports
- Ability to set recurring reminders when a timer is running
- Notifications to start timers
- Add an email address for feature requests
- Automatically discard tasks running for very short time
- Ability to link a 'goal' to a combo of tasks from different folders
- Widget for the main screen
- Planning (to-do lists) implemented
- White theme option
- Task name overlap issue fixed
- Other sync options like NextCloud
- Menu in Finder top navigation
- Stop all timers Siri shortcut
- One at a time timer option
- Lock the app function
- Aggregate color-based charts by groups or use text labels
- See timeline and daily distribution of entries by group
- Share text from reminder/meeting to automatically create an entry with text in notes
- Ability to lock minutes to 15 min increments, or 6 or 10 for manual entries
In-app purchases
Rewind
- Rewind Pro Free TrialFree
- Rewind Pro$3.79
Timelogger Plus
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium Annual$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$24.99
Questions
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