Comparison

Rewind vs Timelogger Plus

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Automatic background time tracking
  • Location-based tracking
  • Calendar view
  • Insightful statistics
  • Calendar sync
  • Pro version reporting and backup
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Track your time, build routines, and keep client work organized with Timelogger Plus. Use stopwatches, time reports, and daily, weekly, or monthly goals on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. See how much time you spend on freelance projects, study, household tasks, hobbies, or personal goals. Record a session as you work, add time you forgot to track, and review your progress in one place. TIME TRACKING THAT FITS YOUR DAY • Start and stop a task's stopwatch with a tap. • Run multiple stopwatches when you need to track different activities. • Add or edit time entries, including their start and end times. • Add notes to record what you worked on. • Set reminders for running stopwatches. ORGANIZE TASKS AND SET GOALS • Group tasks into folders for clients, projects, or routines. • Use tags to organize tasks, time entries, and notes. • Choose colors to make tasks and folders easier to recognize. • Set daily, weekly, or monthly time goals for a task, folder, or tag. • Follow goal progress and review past days, weeks, and months. • Archive completed work while keeping its history. UNDERSTAND YOUR TIME AND BILLABLE WORK • Review tracked time, activity, and trends in the dashboard. • Filter your reports by task, folder, or tag. • Set hourly rates for tasks and folders to calculate billable amounts. • Add billable notes for work that does not use a stopwatch. • Generate PDF reports for a chosen date range. • Export entries to CSV for use in spreadsheets and other tools. • Import CSV data and create manual backups. MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES Enjoy a refreshed design with Liquid Glass and layouts that fit the screen you use. On iPhone Duo, move between a compact view and a spacious layout with task lists and details side by side when you unfold the display. On iPad, use the sidebar, resizable windows, and multitasking to keep your work in view. On Mac, start and stop timers from the menu bar without opening the main window. Add desktop widgets for quick access to tasks and running stopwatches. On Apple Watch, start and stop timers for selected tasks from your wrist. Use watch face complications and Smart Stack widgets to check running timers. The Watch app syncs with your paired iPhone. Use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and automate actions with Shortcuts. On iPhone, follow running timers on the Lock Screen and in Dynamic Island with Live Activities. Sync your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud, and choose a light or dark appearance. Some features require Premium, available through in-app purchase. Questions or suggestions? Contact timeloggerapp@gmail.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Rewind4 screens
Timelogger Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

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 1). Rewind's advantage is ratings volume (249 vs 76) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 — 249 and 76 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Rewind's written reviews are positive against 76% of Timelogger Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rewind ships an update every 5 months, Timelogger Plus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rewind versus Timelogger Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRewindTimelogger Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (249 ratings) — better4.6 (76 ratings)
Positive reviews49.0% of reviews76.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings249 — better76
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB18 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSandro PennisiFilipe Martins

Customer experience

Rewind

All ratings249 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive49.0%
Neutral10.3%
Negative40.6%

Timelogger Plus

All ratings76 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative19.6%

User reviews

Rewind

From 249 App Store ratings

What 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 76 App Store ratings

What 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

2 purchases

Rewind

One-time2
  • Rewind Pro Free TrialFree
  • Rewind Pro$3.79
3 purchases

Timelogger Plus

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$24.99

Questions

Is Rewind free?
Rewind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timelogger Plus free?
Timelogger Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rewind or Timelogger Plus?
Rewind is rated higher. Rewind averages 4.6 out of 5 from 249 ratings, while Timelogger Plus averages 4.6 from 76 ratings.
Do Rewind or Timelogger Plus have ads?
Neither Rewind nor Timelogger Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rewind or Timelogger Plus?
Rewind ships an update every 5 months, and Timelogger Plus every 2 weeks. Most recently, Rewind was updated on October 21, 2026 and Timelogger Plus on October 19, 2026.

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