An alternative to Hours Tracker: Time Tracking
Hours Tracker: Time Tracking is one of the longest-running hours apps on the iPhone, with a high rating from tens of thousands of people. If it works for you, there may be no reason to switch. This page puts its published facts next to what Pocket Timesheet is being built to do, so you can judge for yourself.
Hours Tracker: Time Tracking: the facts
- Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 56,553 ratings on the US App Store; free to download; first released on November 6, 2009, last updated October 9, 2026. Sold by Cribasoft, LLC. [1]
- In-app purchases listed: Premium at $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and Unlimited at $6.99 a month or $47.99 a year. [2]
- Of 146 one- and two-star reviews among its 500 most recent US reviews (May 2022 to October 2026), about 54% mention price or subscription and about 29% mention features being locked or limited. [3]
Where Hours Tracker: Time Tracking is stronger today
- It’s available today. Pocket Timesheet isn’t released yet.
- It has been on the App Store since 2009 and has tens of thousands of ratings; Pocket Timesheet has none.
- It is actively maintained: its last update was in October 2026.
The biggest theme in its recent low-star reviews is price: about half of them mention the subscription. Its paid tiers are listed as monthly or yearly subscriptions. Pocket Timesheet is designed around a free app with no limit on entries, and a Pro upgrade that can be bought once instead of renewed.
Pocket Timesheet isn’t on the App Store yet. Join the waitlist below and you’ll get one email when it launches. Until then, the free calculators on this site work in any browser, with no account.
What Pocket Timesheet is building
A clock-in button and manual entry, breaks marked paid or unpaid, shifts past midnight, weekly and daily overtime, and an estimate of gross pay for the pay period. The free version has no cap on how many shifts you log, and makes a PDF timesheet of the current period.
Pro adds several jobs, custom pay rules and periods, history export, reminders, a Live Activity and widgets, and a backup file in your own iCloud Drive. Shifts stay on your phone; there is no account.
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Questions
Is Hours Tracker: Time Tracking free?
It’s free to download. The App Store lists Premium and Unlimited subscriptions, monthly or yearly, as in-app purchases; the prices above are as listed on November 6, 2026.
When is Pocket Timesheet available?
It’s in development and not released yet. Join the waitlist on this page for one email at launch.
Will Pocket Timesheet be a subscription?
Pro is planned as a choice between a yearly subscription and a one-time purchase, and the free version has no entry limit. Prices will be published at launch.
Can I move my data from Hours Tracker to Pocket Timesheet?
Importing from other apps isn’t part of the first version. You can start fresh and keep the old app for your past records.
How were the complaint numbers worked out?
We read the 500 most recent US reviews from Apple’s public review feed on November 5, 2026, took the one- and two-star ones, and tagged them by keywords such as “subscription” or “price”. The shares are approximate.