Hours Time Tracking 4+

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Update: I still love this app!! The reporting functionality has been much improved (my needs as a solo user are limited but real) since my last review below and I’ve had only rare crashes. I can’t imagine using any other time tracker at this point. I started with this app a long time ago, was a happy user, then had to abandon it when it started acting up in some of the ways to which other users have attested. I contacted support but didn't see the main issue I was having (overlaps I couldn't get rid of) go away. So I reluctantly switched to a different and app. Finding the replacement program lacking after several months' use, I contacted Hours customer support about my issues to see if there might have been any updates that could have addressed them, and was encouraged to try Hours again. I've been using it continuously since April, and it's now working as advertised. I do still occasionally get unintended overlaps when switching tasks or changing labels for a task -- it seems to happen when my internet connection is slow and the sync lags a bit. But such overlaps are rare and easy to locate and correct. I use the program to track my work as an academic in the humanities, so I can't comment the team features, but for solo time tracking this is the best I've used. I've tried half a dozen time tracking apps over the years. The closest competitor I've worked with is Toggl, but in my view Hours wins handily.

Developer Response ,

Welcome back to Hours and thanks for your kind words! We want tracking your time to be easy and convenient. We are always looking for ways to improve. Thanks for spending your "Hours" with us!

Indispensable

I am a small business owner and custom jeweler; using the Hours app for my own time logs on different projects, as well as when I had employees, logging their time on their own devices or iPads I provided. It is so easy to get reports and collate time and, I would be completely lost on projecting how long orders or new inventory pieces take otherwise. As a jeweler, I need to switch between different projects and pieces. Sometimes every few minutes and the Hours app makes that very simple. I used to write everything down on post-it notes and the weekly assessing and collating of that information took almost a half a day. Now with the Hours app, which I’ve been using for around 10 years, I do not have to do that. I could not do my job as efficiently without the Hours app.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the review! If you like Hours, we think you will love our new App Hours TimeLord! If this is something you are interested in, reach out to us at support@hourstimelord.com for more details!

Great on the phone and old watches. But no support for series 4.

With my phone and old watch, this was a 5-star app; with my only slight disappointment being the lack of ability to set overtime rules. But that’s easy enough to deal with myself after I export my CSV.

BUT: The complication no longer works on the Apple Watch. I upgraded to the Series 4 yesterday, and the Hours complication will not let me add it to new faces. The app synced over, and it works when I launch it manually. The complication even works still on my legacy faces that transferred over when I switched. But I can’t add it to the new faces I’ve been trying to set up. This a problem for me, given my workflow and my unpredictable need for time tracking. My work is fairly interrupt driven and only certain clients and projects need to be tracked. So the ability to switch time tracking with just a couple of taps to the wrist was a godsend.

So, tl;dr, this is a 5-star app on old hardware. But I guess the devs have abandoned it on the meantime, and if you have current hardware, you’re unsupported moving forward. So minus 2-stars on current gear.