Hurdlr vs TradesTimer
What Hurdlr is
Hurdlr is a self-employed finance app that tracks mileage, income, expenses, and tax estimates.
Best for: Solo entrepreneurs and freelancers who need a single platform to manage business profitability, tax obligations, and integrated expense tracking.
Pricing at a glance
$8.34 Free and paid plans
Free tier with manual tracking; Premium roughly $8.34/mo billed annually. Pricing changes — verify.
Verified 2026-06-08
$0 for five days Five-day app trial
Pro (US$6.99/month or US$49.99/year) provides continued tracking, timeline review, and encrypted cloud backup. Local store prices vary.
Hurdlr strengths
- Integrated income and expense tracking
- Automated tax liability estimations
Considerations for self-employed tradespeople
- Does not automatically calculate the duration of time spent at a specific jobsite
- Requires manual input or syncing for income and expense data
Experiences with Hurdlr
These quotes come from public discussions about Hurdlr. Each quote links to its source.
It’s not picking up all of my miles especially when I’m double apping. It seems to work fine when I’m only doing UE but when I’m doing both UE and DD I have problems
Missed miles are missed deductions, and you usually find out at tax time. Drive detection that runs from plain background location — not app integrations — has fewer moving parts to silently fail.
Why I built a Hurdlr alternative
Hurdlr bundles mileage with income and expense tracking for gig workers — a finance dashboard that happens to log drives. Useful if your problem is quarterly taxes. My problem on the tools was simpler and worse: knowing how long I'd actually been at each jobsite by Friday.
TradesTimer records stops and trips for review before billing. It stores history on your phone and includes a travel log with estimated distances.
What TradesTimer does differently
- Automatically reconstructs jobsite durations via GPS without manual timers
- Zero-configuration setup with no accounts or pre-defined jobsites required
Which app fits your needs?
Hurdlr is a powerful financial management tool for tracking the money side of a business, whereas TradesTimer is a specialized utility for solo tradespeople to capture billable hours and mileage via GPS reconstruction without any manual input.
Page last verified 2026-06-08. If Hurdlr has changed pricing or features since then contact us at support@tradestimer.com to request a correction.
Five days to try it. Pro to keep tracking.
The upcoming paid release includes five days of tracking without payment details or automatic charges. Continue with Pro, including encrypted backup. Exports remain available after the trial.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Canada: CA$9.99/month or CA$69.99/year. Both plans include the same features.
- Continued automatic tracking and timeline review
- End-to-end encrypted cloud backup
- Restore your full history on a new phone
- A backup stored separately from your phone
US prices are shown in USD; Canadian prices are shown in CAD. Your local App Store or Google Play price may differ. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled through the store where you purchased.
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
If you enable Pro backup, TradesTimer encrypts your history before uploading it. Your recovery code unlocks the backup. See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.