Hello and welcome to the StempelUhr!

Working time

The most important thing for the StempelUhr is the working time and the target working time.

You can record your working times in three different ways: Manually, automatically (via the location) or with start/stop via the start page or shortcuts.

Personally, I would recommend working from home with start/stop and monitoring the office via the locations.

A work schedule is a time-based setting of the target working time. There can of course be no overlaps. Here you can adjust the planned working hours over time if the working hours in the employment relationship change.

The planned working time is always adjusted automatically. If you change the current work schedule, the changes also apply to all previous dates and overtime.

There are various models for the work plan:

hours per week

Here you simply enter how long you work per week and mark the working days. The program then simply distributes the working time over all days. This is the standard setting for flexible working hours.

Daily target hours

Here you specify how many hours you want to work on each individual day.

Note: Vacation will fill up these hours. If your employment contract has more complex regulations or the target hours should not apply to a vacation day, you must change this under "Absence types".

Alternating days

Here you specify how many days you have to work per week. Please note that this mode only makes sense if the number is actually correct.

This mode is the most complicated and can lead to calculation errors. Feel free to try it out, you can change the work schedule at any time and everything will fit again retroactively.

Fixed daily working hours when worked

You define a fixed number of hours for a single day, but these target hours are only used if you have created a working time entry on this day.

Manual daily hours

You define the working hours per day in the daily view. This gives you full control over your target working hours.

Monthly hours / Fixed weekdays

You mark the fixed working days and set the hours per month.

Monthly hours / Flexible weekdays

You specify how many hours you work per month. The app no longer shows overtime in the daily and weekly view.

Automatic pauses

There is an "Automatic breaks" item in the work schedule. Here you can enter a break that you have to take according to the work schedule.

However, the break is normally only checked if a time is entered either automatically or with Start/Stop.

If you want the break to always be checked for today, simply activate the "Check at application start" checkbox under "Work schedule".

Example: You work from 7 am, take a 15-minute break at 9 am and a 30-minute lunch break at 1 pm. In this case, you must set the following:

• After 3 hours 15 minutes break (desired time 9:00)
• After 6 hours 45 minutes break (desired time 13:00)

The time clock cannot take the breaks into account individually because the constellations are different. The breaks must therefore be entered in stages.

Locations

The locations in the StempelUhr have several functions. The app can automatically clock in when a natural location is selected. You can also calculate statistics and information for tax purposes with StempelUhr Pro.

An absence is nothing more than a replacement of working time for the calculation of overtime. In addition, the absences can of course provide better tracking for absence days.

Possible settings

Title

The title is simply the text that is used in all views and exports. In addition, the automatically created holidays contain an additional name so that you know that it is a special holiday.

All day

This value decides whether the entire planned working time should be filled in. If you have to work 8 hours and enter a vacation for one day, 8 hours of work are recorded for the day.

hours

You can only edit hours if you uncheck Full day. Here you can now set yourself how many hours are booked as work

Reduce target hours

For some absence types, it makes sense to reduce the target hours. Depending on whether you enter all-day or a manual hours value above, this will be deducted from the target hours. However, the maximum value that can be reached is 0. This prevents overlapping absences from generating minus hours.

For example, if you work 8 hours and set public holidays to reduce target hours, 0 of 0 hours will be displayed in the event of a public holiday on that day.

Icon

The icon is displayed in certain screens of the app as a reference for the absence. This means that you can already see on the weekly overview page, for example, if a weekday contains an absence.

Half days

Everyone here has a different idea of what is meant by half days. From version 7 the app holds two options for you:

Half days within the quota

In some countries that Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve together only deduct one day of vacation from the quota. This practice is also supported by StempelUhr.

To set this, open the work plan under Setup and scroll all the way down. If this rule applies to you, you can activate the button provided there and then click on Save at the top.

If you have already created a vacation quota under Vacation, only half a vacation day will be deducted for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve - in other words, a whole vacation day together.

Half days in the time calculation

You can also enter half vacation days in the StempelUhr - for example, if you only need the morning or afternoon off. This is quite common in Switzerland or Austria, but has also been requested by German customers.

To enter a half day of vacation, select the appropriate buttons below the period of absence.

Attention: This setting is only available for absence types that have been created as all-day in the settings. Please be careful, combining the two logics can lead to 0 days in the quota.

No, unfortunately not.

As I have been constantly expanding the app since 2015, it is already so big that I don't have enough time to maintain two apps.

To do this, simply create an absence type hours reduction and enter 0 hours. The all-day tick must be removed!

If you now take a day off to reduce overtime, you can simply mark the day as overtime reduction.

Changes to the total overtime can only be made in the Pro version under Settings » Overtime account

The only reason I know of is the Reduce transparency setting.

You can find these settings under "Settings " Accessibility " Reduce transparency".

This setting must be deactivated for the backgrounds to work in the stamp clock!

Sometimes we no longer need a subscription and want to cancel it. Here is a simple step-by-step guide:

Step 1: Open the Settings on your iPhone or iPad

• Find the app with a gear icon.
• Tap on it to open it.

Step 2: Tap on your profile picture

• At the top of the settings you will see your name and a picture.
• Tap on it.

Step 3: Go to Subscriptions

• You will see a list.
• Tap on the word "Subscriptions".

Step 4: Select the subscription you want to cancel

• You will see all your subscriptions.
• Tap on the subscription you no longer want.

Step 5: Cancel the subscription

• At the bottom you will see the option "Cancel subscription".
• Tap on it.

Step 6: Confirm the cancellation

• A window will open and ask you if you really want to cancel.
• Tap on "Confirm" or "Yes".

And that's it! Your subscription is now canceled. It will run until the end of the paid period and will then no longer be renewed.

Since version 5.0 there are quotas within the absence types under Settings.

Here you can have the carryovers calculated and correct them on the info icon in the respective year.

Half days are currently not yet supported, I am currently considering how exactly to implement it so that it works internationally.

The data is only saved on the device! If iCloud Backup is activated, this data is also backed up. If you now switch to a new device, the data is automatically transferred.

Users must perform backups themselves.

In the Pro version, there is an auto-backup that saves the file to an iCloud Files folder when the app is closed. Please note that you are also responsible for checking the functionality here.

Tags are a function that you can use for your own purposes.

You can use keywords to filter the export to display only certain working times.

As a freelancer, for example, you can mark projects and later evaluate how long you have worked on certain projects, cost centres or activities.

The radius for standard applications in the city is currently reduced to 250 meters. It can be increased to 2000 meters with three clicks on the word Radius.

In version 6, you can tap the word radius once and then an input appears. Here you can enter the value directly in meters.

Currently, the data is only stored on the device.

I have iCloud Sync on the roadmap and you are welcome to vote in favour of it in the app settings.

I haven't dared to do this yet, as I have to migrate the data of several thousand users.

Family Sharing is currently not enabled, as this decision cannot be reversed once activated.

As an individual developer, I am not entirely sure what the implications of this might be for my app and future decisions.

I know that some people liked the old widget. Unfortunately, this widget has been removed by Apple as of iOS 18. The StempelUhr has two different widgets on offer that you can switch to.

AI Generated

Starting with version 8, you can see the new features for each version right in the app. See Setup → What's New in the App

7.5.2 and 7.5.1

Bugfixes

7.5.0

• New Languages: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Catalan, Croatian, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, Slovenian, Czech

7.4.0

• Rest period with manual value
• Switch off stamp reminder
• Insert pause – Pulls last pause as fallback
• Export templates
• Location and keyword can also be selected for the Timer Toggle shortcut
• New export shortcut: Keyword "Automatic exports"
• Hourly wage and salary added at the work plan level
• Correction of translations
• Correction of transparency setting for Liquid Glass

7.3.3

• Crash error corrected and wording in rest time injury adjusted

7.3.2

• New error correction for absence calculation

7.3.1

• New languages: Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil)
• Error correction for absence calculation

7.3.0

• Rest periods according to §5, display and export
• Complications with time format (1:30)
• Correction of half absences in the list
• Some corrections that should eliminate all crashes
• Correction of colors when a tint color was selected
• New languages:
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Portuguese

7.2.0

• iOS26 Design
• Archiving of keywords
• Pause insertion now considers the desired time from settings
• iPhone SE – Space on the homepage is better distributed

7.1.0

• Absences in the statistics now correctly show working days
• Inform user-defined notifications based on the current timer (e.g. worked 6 hours in a row, regardless of whether you had perhaps already worked 2 hours before a break)
• Correction of the export if you had filtered for no longer existing values in keywords or tags

7.0.0

Apple Changes with Recent WatchOS

With this update, the Watch app has been adapted to the new watchOS 10 framework. Unfortunately, there are some limitations that cannot be avoided:

• Complications are automatically updated only about every 20 minutes.
• Not every timer start or status change can be shown directly on the complication.
• When the Watch app is open, the data will update—however, this can also vary depending on the system status.
• This behavior is a result of Apple’s new approach for Watch apps and complications starting with watchOS 10, which unfortunately is not ideal for my app.

I am working to provide the best possible user experience within these limitations. Thanks for your understanding and support!

Half Absence Days

I have now addressed both requests that have been brought up repeatedly over the past few years. It is now possible to specify the start time for full-day absences, for example at 12 noon. If someone is only absent for half a day, this will affect their allowance and working time calculation.

I have further improved the allowance calculations and added half-absence days to the work schedule. For example, you can now set up that Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve only deduct half a day each from your allowance.

Monthly Working Hours, Fixed Daily Working Time When Working, and Freestyle Work Schedule

There are now four new work schedule types:

Fixed Daily Working Hours, When Worked

You define a fixed number of hours for an individual day, but these target hours are only applied if you have created a time entry for that day.

Manual Daily Hours

You set your working times per day in the daily view, giving you full control over your target working hours.

Monthly Hours / Fixed Weekdays

You mark the fixed working days and set monthly hours.

Monthly Hours / Flexible Weekdays

You define how many hours you work per month. The app no longer shows overtime in the day and week view.

Start/Stop for the Control Center

You can now add the StempelUhr to the Control Center and toggle start and stop.

Average Working and Break Times in the Statistics

In the statistics tab, there is now “Average Worked Hours” and “Average Break Time”.

Backup Extended to Milliseconds

When exporting—and if "Ignore Seconds" is not activated—milliseconds are now also included in the ISO format.

Custom Maximum Working Hours

You can now set yourself when too much work has been done. The default is 10 hours, and 15 minutes before reaching this, you get a notification. If you change this value, it will also affect the statistics.

Improved Search Function: Search Time Entries

If you have many locations or tags, the view will change and you will enter a selection window with search functionality.

Auto-Transfer of Tags and Locations

There is now the option in both settings screens to enable this automation. For tags, there is also the option: Skip break.

If you activate this setting, the entries will be carried over to the next time entries.

Attention: For locations, the standard location will be overwritten. For most of you this will probably be irrelevant.

Bugfixes

• Corrected calculation of the number of days for tags and locations.
• Corrected absence calculation at day start for night shift work.
• Fixed export of total overtime (was illogical for periods before and after recording).
• Corrected rounding in time formatting.
• Fixed multiple crash issues.
• Fixed pie charts for when many tags are present so that the legend doesn't shrink the pie chart excessively.
• "Forgot to clock in?" reminder is now scheduled correctly. Previously, if the app was completely closed, notifications could no longer be scheduled.

6.3.1

• Correction of overtime change on a day with absence (was a calculation error)
• Calculation of office days based on working time not planned working time

6.3.0

• Real Excel export, as Excel no longer supports CSV
• Monthly statistics tidied up
• Select day start for night shift
• Switch off standard notifications
• Absences in the statistics can be switched off alternatively
• Calendar sync is now live and should no longer create duplicate entries
• Automatic public holiday no longer imports as often
• Crashes at app start corrected

6.1.1

• Timer merging on the day view corrected

6.1.0

• New languages: French, Polish, Swedish
• Color in "Enjoy your day widget" corrected

6.0.0

• New background
• New background transparency modes
• App icon adapted for dark home screen
• Direct start of timers with certain keywords from the start page
• Search time entries without location
• Export file contains the time period in the file name
• Average weekly working time on the monthly view
• Average start/end times on the statistics page
• Overtime changes are shown in the daily view
• Quotas are added to the backup
• Radius selection with text field added
• Color coding in PDF export for weekends and absences
• Day of the year and calendar week in the export
• Dark mode settings directly in the app
• Apple System colors for the Pro widget
• Live Activity settings are also taken into account on the lock screen
• Calendar sync settings such as name in calendar etc.
• Copying the work schedule
• Start and end time can now also be entered in decimal mode as a decimal number (under the calendar)
• Notification offset for breaks can be customized
• Select location for the entire day

5.2.3

• Correction of overtime display in the overtime account

5.2.0

• Annual overview
• Default keyword
• Hours per location in export
• Time zone is also saved
• Archiving of locations
• Reduce spacing and margins in PDF
• Inclusion of contingent settings in monthly overview
• Default location preselected for new timers
• Overtime in the overview is cached
• Exports for granularity timers without time entries no longer crashed
• iPad import mask corrected

5.1.2

• Fixed an error with calendar synchronization

5.1.0

• Interactive widgets in iOS17 and for use on the Mac
• Live Activity settings (switch off and show date instead of time)
• New shortcuts with parameters such as location, keyword, comment
• Automatic change from default location (for manual stamping)
• Title bar for CSV export with time period and document title
• Siri suggestions corrected
• Pause insert AM/PM removed
• Default break time reset to 30 minutes
• Number of working days on the monthly overview
• Suggestions for shortcuts and direct Siri voice commands
• Editing date of time entries are displayed
• Tags are also copied when days are copied
• Display of public holiday import in all regions
• Correction of live activity background

5.0.5

• Save work plan corrected
• Correction of errors for live activities
• Correction of minor errors

5.0.4

• Colors can be set
• Added back the now button for time selection
• Error in work plan editing corrected
• Corrected week numbers in USA
• Average working time ignores today
• Support for ARM Macs (Designed for iPad) added again

5.0.3

• Fixed widget color
• Error when selecting keywords corrected

5.0.2

• Location maintenance simplified
• Correction for all persons who have switched off 24h format
• Correction for crashes caused by live activities

5.0.1

Corrects a few errors that have crept in.

Version 5.0.0 will change the absences to UTC. If everything goes well, you won't notice anything. You will only benefit if you have created absences abroad and the time zone is no longer correct.

Please check the absences, errors will be displayed.

5.0

• Absences changed to UTC
• Live activities
• New daily timeline for a better overview
• New timer editing page
• Absences can be assigned colors
• Places can be assigned colors for statistics
• End of working time is now smarter and always fits.
• New Pro widget
• Settings with SwiftUI, all views are new
• New holiday import
• Monitored locations are marked in the view
• New export page and some new fields
• Background blur can be removed
• Lockscreen widget support
• Bug fixes and performance improvements