Valio

An iPhone hours tracker built around your pay

Most time-tracking software is built for an employer managing a team. If you want to track your own work, the useful question is different: can the app turn the shifts you record into a clear estimate of what those hours are worth? A personal hours tracker should make each punch easy, match the way each job pays you, and leave you with a record you can review or export.

Start with the work, not an employer dashboard

A personal tracker should let you clock in and out or add a shift after the fact, record paid and unpaid breaks, and keep separate jobs from blurring together. You should not need a manager account, a crew schedule, or employee-monitoring software just to understand your own week.

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 Ă— 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

  1. Create a job with its rate, pay period, and the supported rules you use.
  2. Clock in and out, or add the shift manually, including any breaks.
  3. 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.

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