What to look for in an iPhone hours tracker
The right iPhone hours tracker depends on what you need to do with the record. A basic timer may be enough if you only need a total. If you also need to understand expected gross pay, compare a pay period, keep jobs separate, or share a clear record, check how the app handles those jobs before choosing it.
Track your own shifts, not a team
See Valio Hours Tracker for iPhone for current app screenshots, supported features, pricing, and availability.
In Valio, you can clock in and out or add a shift after the fact, record paid and unpaid breaks, and keep separate jobs from blurring together. There is no employer dashboard, crew scheduling, or employee monitoring.
Match the pay period you actually use
A calendar month is not a useful summary when your paycheck covers a different window. Valio supports weekly, every-two-weeks, twice-a-month, every-four-weeks, and monthly pay periods. Each job has its own cadence, rate history, and overtime week, so a change today does not rewrite a closed period.
Track more than hours × rate
Straight multiplication is the easy case. Real shifts can cross midnight, pass a daily or weekly overtime threshold, or include a night, weekend, holiday, or consecutive-day premium. Valio lets you configure supported rules and decide how overlapping premiums are handled. Common starting points are editable assumptions, not a determination of what law or contract applies to you.
- Daily and weekly overtime tiers with a workweek that is configured separately from the pay period.
- Night, weekend, holiday, and consecutive-day rules using multipliers, percentages, hourly additions, or replacement rates.
- Overnight shifts and breaks recorded as part of the shift rather than reconstructed on payday.
- PDF and CSV exports when you need a portable record for a client, employer, or your own files.
A simple recurring workflow
- Create a job with its rate, pay period, and the supported rules you use.
- Clock in and out, or add the shift manually, including any breaks.
- Review the expected gross earnings and export the pay-period record when needed.
Know the boundary between an estimate and payroll
Valio estimates gross earnings from the hours, rates, and rules in your record. It does not run employer payroll, calculate taxes or deductions, or decide which legal rule applies. Your pay stub can therefore differ for legitimate reasons, as well as because a shift, rate, or premium needs a second look.
Valio is a personal record-keeping and expected-pay tool, not payroll or legal advice. Review the assumptions you enter against your agreement and authoritative local guidance.