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 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
Hurdlr problems, in users' own words
These aren't our words — they're from public threads written by people using Hurdlr (or shopping for a way out). Each quote links to the original discussion.
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 is that answer with the mileage log included: stops with durations for invoicing, drives with distances for taxes, free, and private by architecture — your location history never leaves the device.
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.