Rewind vs Hours Tracker
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
Hours Tracker
Easily track time spent on various activities with a simple, minimalist interface. Monitor progress with daily, weekly, and monthly reports. The free version allows tracking one activity, while a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited tracking and detailed overviews.
- Quickly start/stop activity tracking
- Track multiple activities
- Daily activity overview
- Weekly and monthly progress reports
- Simple, minimalist interface
- Data stored locally on device
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Tracking your activities time has never been easier. Hours Tracker, is a simple and minimal app to track time for multiple activities without any complication. With one click you can start the activity timer or explore your activity's overview and get a report of the time spent on every activity, for the current day, last 7 days or last month. • Hours Tracker Features: - Quickly and easily start or stop your activity tracking - Multiple activities including; Work, Studies, Eat, Fun, Fitness, and Others - Explore your today's activities tracking - Get an overview of your last 7 days and last month activity progress. - Simple and minimalist interface without complications. • Subscription pricing and terms: You can use Hours Tracker for free to track your work activity time and show your today's activity report. To track unlimited activities, and explore the overview of your tracked activities time, you will need only one time payment of 1.99$ for the Pro version. • PRIVACY All your data belongs to you and stays on your device. No sign-in. No servers. No cloud. • Questions? If you have questions or suggestions, contact us at ayoub@overflow.ma Stay focused, Improve your productivity and start tracking your activities time!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rewind at 49% against Hours Tracker's 0%. Rewind also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (246 vs 2). Hours Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, 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. Rewind sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Hours Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rewind holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rewind has 246 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Rewind's written reviews are positive against 0% of Hours Tracker's.
| Parameter | Rewind | Hours Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (246 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 246 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandro Pennisi | Overflow LTD |
Customer experience
Rewind
Hours Tracker
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
Hours Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rewind
- Rewind Pro Free TrialFree
- Rewind Pro$3.79
Hours Tracker
- Version PRO$1.99
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