TradesTimer vs Hurdlr
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 FREEMIUM
Free tier with manual tracking; Premium roughly $8.34/mo billed annually. Pricing changes — verify.
Verified 2026-06-08
$0 FREE — FULL APP
Where Hurdlr is strong
- Integrated income and expense tracking
- Automated tax liability estimations
Where Hurdlr falls short for trades
- Does not automatically calculate the duration of time spent at a specific jobsite
- Requires manual input or syncing for income and expense data
What TradesTimer does differently
- Automatically reconstructs jobsite durations via GPS without manual timers
- Zero-configuration setup with no accounts or pre-defined jobsites required
The verdict
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 and this page is stale, email support@tradestimer.com and we'll fix it.
Free. The whole app.
The whole time-tracking app is free — no trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees. (Encrypted cloud backup is on the roadmap.)
- Automatic day reconstruction from background GPS
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit any block
- Rounded billable-hours summary, shareable as plain text
- Automatic mileage log, exportable for taxes
- 7-day summary view
- All location data stays on your device
Your location history stays on your phone.
There is no TradesTimer server storing your location trails. No account. No sign-up. Your GPS history lives on the device that recorded it — for as long as you want it. The only time anything leaves your phone is when you choose to share your billable-hours summary yourself.
The app does not talk to any third-party service with your location. Nothing about where you've been is uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy for the full detail.