Track Your Hours vs HourJourney
Track Your Hours and HourJourney both track supervised hours toward California BBS licensure, and both fill out the official BBS weekly logs for you. Track Your Hours is older and covers other states. HourJourney only does California and bills monthly. The differences that actually matter are below.
The short answer
Pick Track Your Hours if your hours might count toward licensure in another state, or if your agency already standardized on it.
Pick HourJourney if you are a California AMFT, APCC, or ASW. It checks your supervision ratios against BBS rules the same week you log them, and it bills monthly, so you stop paying the month you finish.
Both fill out the official BBS weekly logs, and both give you 30 days free with no card. Neither one owns your hours. The BBS only reads the signed forms you submit with your application, so you can switch tools whenever you want.
Pricing compared
HourJourney
$4.95/mo
or $49/year for trainees
$7.95/mo or $79/year for associates
- Monthly billing, cancel anytime
- Stop paying the month you finish
- 30-day free trial, no card
Track Your Hours
$89.95/yr
$159.95 for 2 years
$199.95 for 3 years
- Multi-year prepay discounts
- No monthly option
- 30-day free trial, no card
Prepay Track Your Hours for 3 full years and it averages about $5.55 a month, cheaper than HourJourney's associate plan. That math only works if you actually track for all 3 years. Most associates cannot say in advance whether they will finish in 20 months or 40, and prepaid time you do not use is gone. On HourJourney, a trainee pays $49 a year, and an associate who finishes in 2 years pays about $158 across two annual payments.
Pricing verified August 2026. Track Your Hours pricing from trackyourhours.com/pricing.
Feature by feature
| Feature | HourJourney | Track Your Hours |
|---|---|---|
| California LMFT/LPCC/LCSW support | ||
| Official BBS form auto-fill (37A-525, 37A-638, ASW log) | ||
| Real-time BBS supervision ratio validation | Unclear | |
| Dual AMFT + APCC tracking on one account | Unclear | |
| Pre-degree / post-degree auto-classification | ||
| Progress dashboard with projected completion date | ||
| Edit history / audit trail | ||
| Monthly billing, cancel anytime | ||
| 30-day free trial, no credit card | ||
| States beyond California | ||
| CAMFT affinity partnership |
“Unclear” means the feature is not documented on the Track Your Hours public site as of August 2026.
Where each one wins
Track Your Hours: track record and reach
It has tracked supervised hours longer than anyone else, and CAMFT partners with it. It also supports states beyond California, so if you might finish your hours in another state, it is the safer pick.
HourJourney: California depth
Every rule in it comes from current California BBS publications. The AMFT, APCC, and ASW tracks each carry their own requirements, and a dual AMFT + APCC registrant can track both on one account.
HourJourney: ratio checking while you log
The supervision engine checks each week against BBS ratio rules when you log it. Log 12 direct hours with one hour of supervision and you find out that week, while there is still time to fix it.
HourJourney: pay only while you need it
Monthly billing means the subscription ends when your hours do. You never have to guess your own timeline to pick a 2-year or 3-year prepay.
Switching mid-licensure
A common worry: “I already have a year of hours in Track Your Hours. Am I stuck?” No. The BBS never sees your tracker. It sees the signed weekly logs and experience verification forms you submit with your application. That means:
- Your old hours stay valid. Keep the weekly logs already generated and signed. They do not need to be re-entered anywhere to count.
- Start new weeks in the new tool. A clean boundary, like a new supervisor or a new site, makes the paperwork simplest, since BBS weekly logs are organized per supervisor per setting anyway.
- Submit both sets together. The BBS accepts weekly logs generated from different tools as long as each form is complete and signed.