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So what has changed in Easy Hours 8.5?

• Breaks are in! Time entries can now be classified as Breaks or Billable. Breaks are now clearly identified wherever time entries are displayed. The Jobs Dashboard and Today Widget will indicate whether you are actively Billing or on Break. Breaks show up on Dashboards and can be exported just like any other time entry.
• Break reminders. Take a break for coffee or lunch and rest assured that Easy Hours will remind you to get back to work. Break reminders can be 15, 30 or 60 minutes. Once the Break Reminder fires, you can opt to Snooze the reminder for another minute or Start your clock.
• When adding or changing time entries, Easy Hours will present you with a list of the entries that overlap. Choose Insert to split the existing time entry with your change. Or, Replace the existing time entries. Choose wisely!
• Only allowed to work a certain number of hours per week? Weekly Reminder to the rescue. Set it up on the Job Settings screen.
• Weekly and Daily Clock Out Reminders now support the option to Snooze the reminder for another minute or Stop the clock.
• Spring cleaning the UI resulted in a fresh new use of the job colors.
• Example Job is gone! You’re welcome!
• Also included are a ton of improvements under the hood too numerous to list.

If you are an existing customer, please take a few moments and post an updated review to the App Store or Play Store.

And if you want to give Easy Hours a try, download Easy Hours Lite on the App Store or Play Store!

Easy Hours Lite is now available.

You heard it here first, there is a now a free version of Easy Hours that contains many of the awesome features that Easy Hours has always had.

Why would you upgrade from Easy Hours Lite to Easy Hours?

• No Ads!
• Unlimited Jobs!
• Unlimited Tags!
• Automatic Time Tracking for Jobs!
• iCloud & Google Drive Sync & Backup!
• Today Extension
• And you can easily Import Easy Hours Lite data into Easy Hours.

So what else has changed in Easy Hours 8.0?

• Change / Add Time: You can now enter your desired duration (in hours / minutes) or you can use the date pickers and we’ll figure out the rest.
• Personalize Currency: Want to use a currency that is not your device default? We have you covered. We support nearly all with the exception of Federation and Galactic credits.
• Personalize Start & End times: You can now personalize the default start and end times for time entries.
• Charts: You can now save your favorite Chart to your Camera Roll or Gallery.
• 3D Touch & App Shortcuts: Take advantage of 3D touch & app shortcuts on a compatible OS by pressing on the App Icon and jump to your favorite dashboard.
• Split Time: Add Break is now called Split Time to clearly articulate its intent. As a bonus we will automatically copy over both memos and tags from your original time entry.
• Easy Hours is now optimized for iOS 10 and Android Nougat and has tons of improvements under the hood: date formatting, performance improvements, battery optimizations, etc.
• Rate the App: We added a Like button to the Help screen along with a count of customers that have rated the current version of the app. Our ratings and reviews are reset on every release. We are a small indie app shop and your glowing review would ensure that we continue to innovate and support your needs without needing to nag you.

If you are an existing customer, please take a few moments and post an updated review to the App Store or Play Store.

And if you want to give Easy Hours a try, download Easy Hours Lite on the App Store or Play Store!

Tag! You're It! Here is what's new in Easy Hours 7.5, codename Triple Chocolate Delight.

• Tags: Organize your times like never before with Tags. Tag your times with keywords such as "paid", "holiday" or "lunch break". Multiple Tags can be applied to a time entry and you can re-use Tags.
• Filter: More powerful filtering that works hand in glove with Tags. Filter using Jobs, Tags or any combination of both. Sharing uses Filters just like you would expect.
• Colors: New job and report colors, there is something in this release for everyone.
• We also squashed a few bugs that escaped the last time.

We would love to hear from you. As always send us your feedback and let us know how we are doing.

An appeal to our customers: Our ratings and reviews are reset on every release. We are a small independent development shop and your glowing review would ensure that we continue to innovate and support your needs. Please take a few moments and post an updated review to the App Store or Play Store.

400+ commits, 1600+ files, 3 months – thats what it took to get Easy Hours 7.0 out the door.

Here is a sampling of what’s new in Easy Hours 7:

• Jobs: Timesheets / Today Dashboards / Archive replaced by the new Jobs dashboard. Start / stop timers, search for jobs, archive / restore jobs, view a daily, weekly or monthly report by job.
• Landscape: Unlike some of our competitors, yes, we support landscape! Go on and rotate your device, we dare you!
• Colors: Theme colors replaced by Job Colors and Report Colors. New colors will be introduced with every release, so there is something in it for everyone.
• Today Widget on Android: Start / stop timers right from the comfort of the Today Widget. See your daily earnings without launching the app!
• Today Extension on iOS: Start / stop timers right from the comfort of the Notification center. See your daily earnings without launching the app!
• Jump to date: Tired of having to swipe through multiple weeks to get to a date 6 months or a year ago? We are too! Tap the date range header on any Dashboard to try our new Jump to date feature.
• Geo-fencing: You can now modify the range of your geo-fence right from the Job Location screen.
• Sounds: This one was really for us, if it ends up being a distraction it can be easily turned off by navigating to Personalize.
• 3D Touch on iOS: For those with a iPhone 6S / 6S Plus, 3D Touch gesture support has been incorporated to make usage more fun and exciting!
• New logo, color scheme, streamlined navigation and improved labeling.
• App Update checker: We will now nag you to download the update from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store if you have auto download of app updates turned off or don’t proactively apply updates (you know who you are).

What started out as an effort to implement a customer requested feature, ended with a complete overhaul and re-design of Easy Hours. Easy Hours is now easier, faster and more powerful than ever. We are incredibly proud of our efforts and excited to share it with you.

We would love to hear from you. As always send us your feedback and let us know how we are doing.

An appeal to our customers: We are a small independent development shop and your glowing review would ensure that we continue to innovate and support your needs. We would really appreciate it if you would take a few moments and post a review to the App Store or Play Store.

With a new spring season we needed some new features in Easy Hours 6.5, Wildberry release. Along with a few suggestions from our great customers we have added some other cool items:

• Charts! Visualize your times like never before with our new Chart Dashboard. We include stacked bar charts, line charts, and pie charts. It uses the existing Job Filters and Date Ranges. Swipe left and right to move between chart time periods.
• New shortcuts for :00, :15, :30 and :45 makes changing time Easier and Faster.
• Do you need to geofence a hard to locate area? Satellite view to your rescue. Tap the satellite button on the map to toggle it.
• Improved support for iOS 9, and Android 6 (Marshmallow)
• If a Job Filter is currently saved, new Jobs are automatically added to the Job Filter.
• A bunch of bug fixes and stability improvements.

We would love to hear from you. As always send us your feedback and let us know how we are doing.

We’re Easy! Quick on the heels of our Midnight Madness run, we’ve come back with bug fixes and shortcuts that should make your time with us Fast and Easy. With shortcuts for Now, Morning, Noon and Evening adding or changing time is Easier and Faster.

Please also check out our newest app: Easy Drive – Fastest Route for your Commute now available on the App Store and Play Store.

We would love to hear from you. As always send us your feedback and let us know how we are doing.

When we first designed Easy Hours – back when it was known as HandFreeTime – we started out with our own schedules in mind. Each day was a maximum of 24 hours and would start and end at midnight. This works great for a many people but there are lots of schedules where midnight is not a good stopping point. Because of this we have redesigned how this works.

Time entries can now span multiple days. Easy Hours will no longer automatically stop the clock at midnight. Time entries will always count against the day they start.

To make it even easier to add time entries we have added it to many more screens: Timesheets, Dashboards, etc. Use the + to access Add Time. And speaking of Add Time, editing Time Entries is new and improved. Moving a time entry to another Job is as easy as changing the time itself.

Adding jobs is in even more places. Its in the same + menu as Add Time.

The app is also now optimized for high resolution screens and tablets including iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad, 7 and 10 inch Android tablets, 5 and 6 inch Android phones.

Please also check out our newest app: Easy Drive – Fastest Route for your Commute now available on the App Store and Play Store.

We would love to hear from you. As always send us your feedback and let us know how we are doing.