Geofency - Time Tracking10.9 - App Store

GEOFENCY enables fully automatic location-based time recording on iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Watch, where manual clock-in and clock-out becomes an absurdity of the past. Arrival and departure times are automatically recorded as soon as you enter or leave an interesting place - it works like magic! Of course all very energy efficient, thanks to the latest Geofencing & iBeacon technologies! With the integrated Webhook and Apple HomeKit automation features, you can trigger your smart home as you arrive or leave a place (e.g. switch on the lights when coming home)!

Ideal for automatic monitoring of working hours, client visits, lunch breaks or the stays on your favorite places! GEOFENCY offers the easiest and most effective way to MONITOR your DURATION OF STAYS on interesting places. Unpleasant manual time recording was yesterday!

. Are you tired of having to write down working hours again and again?
. Fed up leaving the office absently, missed to check the clock?
. Can't you remember when you came or left your favorite places?

Let the iPhone take over this nerve-racking time monitoring for you!

With GEOFENCY this is now possible in a smart and clever new way! Simply mark your points of interest on a map and leave the rest to Geofency!

GEOFENCY automatically tracks the times when you enter or leave your points of interest. Simply carry your iPhone in your pocket or bag with you. You will automatically receive extensive statistics and graphics over time!

Automatic Location-based Time Tracking - The (GEO)FANCY way!

FEATURES
. Automatic location-based time tracking - 24/7 time recording for your points of interest!
. Graphical visualization of your dwell times - with zoom!
. Rich statistics: Single-, Day-, Week- & Month-Summaries.
. Map-View: Manage your points of interest directly on a beautiful fullscreen map view.
. Add new locations in seconds - With just one tap!
. Runs completely in the background while trying to maintain good battery life!
. Automatic recognition when you enter or leave a place or region.
. Tags: To group places into tags.
. Home Automation: Integrates with Webhooks and Apple HomeKit to trigger automations when arriving at or leaving a place - from turning on lights to running complex smart home scenes!
. Journaling feature: Automatic recognition of frequent visited places - to know exactly when you've been where and how long!
. Calendar-Export: Export events automatically into your calendar (iCloud, CalDAV & Exchange) - view your data comfortable even from Mac or PC!
. Widgets: Time Clock widgets to quickly clock in or out from the Home- or Lockscreen.
. Apple Watch App!
. Export feature: Send time recordings via e.g. email in an Excel-friendly format!
. Export time data and use it directly in Excel or Numbers!

BENEFITS
Simple to use daily timesaver! You don't have to fiddle around with time recordings on yourself. Free your mind and just don't bother about manual time tracking anymore!

PRIVACY
100% Private: Only YOU can see your data. We will never collect or share any information about you. We respect and care about the privacy of our users!

REQUIREMENTS
For the best and most accurate monitoring results, Wi-Fi, carrier and location services should always be enabled for Geofency. iBeacon monitoring requires at least Bluetooth 4.

BATTERY USE
Continued use of GPS in the background can significantly reduce battery life. Geofency was designed to use GPS very sparingly and never in the background. The app relies mostly on cell tower + Wi-Fi locations. This has been carefully chosen to get the best battery life.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY
. "I had no idea that my iPhone could do such things!"
. "Beautiful, polished and elegant designed. Extremely simple to use."
. "Perhaps the most overall effective app available."

Find out more on our landing page: www.geofency.com
Sample-Scripts for easy webhook integration: www.geofency.com/geo.zip

Version History Version 10.9

NEW
• Siri knows your places: ask about your last visit, time spent or clock-in status by place name or role, such as Home or Work. New, renamed and deleted places update automatically. With Apple Intelligence, Siri understands "this place" and "this visit" in the open view.
• New "Visits" action: Siri and Shortcuts list visits by place, tag or role for the last visit, today, this week, month or year. "Find Visits" filters by place, time or notes. Open places from Spotlight, Siri and Shortcuts.
• Manual clock-in and clock-out teach Siri your routine so it can suggest these actions at the right place and time.
• Tags now sync through iCloud, including colors, symbols, order and assignments to places.
• "Requirements" checks location permissions, Precise Location, Wi-Fi, mobile network, notifications and Background App Refresh, with guidance on Low Power Mode and direct access to the settings that need attention. Bluetooth guidance appears when you use iBeacon places.
• Search in Settings opens the matching screen or highlights the setting. The new offline FAQ offers 40 answers in all 20 app languages, from tracking and backups to merging places and integration troubleshooting. Search understands synonyms, multiple words and typos.
• Feedback includes an editable email preview and optional diagnostics without location history or private connection details. Ask for help directly from a FAQ answer; on Mac, the Help menu opens the FAQ and feedback.
• Diary adds a "Last 14 Days" filter. New Danish, Finnish and Norwegian localizations.

IMPROVEMENTS
• Faster first iCloud sync. Redesigned settings show sync status, last sync, item counts and upload progress. Clear notices explain account, storage and connection problems. Uploads resume automatically when iCloud is busy; "Sync Now" lets you retry. Switching iCloud accounts turns sync off with a notice.
• HomeKit shows whether each entering or leaving automation is active, being set up or needs attention, with a reason and a retry option. Scene tests show progress and identify scenes and accessories that did not respond, with a link to the Home app.
• Place-action menus show provider names and app icons, with improved app, App Clip and website handling.
• Clearer time sheets and a compact export summary. "Text (TSV)" explains compatibility with Excel and Numbers; export is disabled when the selection contains no events.
• Improved welcome screens, a new app icon, refined iPhone and iPad layouts, and optimizations for iPhone Duo.
• Reorganized Settings with "Privacy & Security" and "Places", plus a redesigned tip jar with a thank-you after each tip.
• Updated translations, including Siri prompts and answers in Japanese, Turkish and Brazilian Portuguese.

FIXES
• Fixed Siri clock-out and status requests without a place name, and clock-in/out actions performing the opposite action.
• Fixed empty coordinates in synced places, older iCloud data overwriting restored backups, and deleted records returning after the device clock was set back.
• Fixed stalled iCloud uploads and repeated tag migrations. Unreachable iCloud now reports an error and keeps sync off instead of being treated as empty.
• Fixed stale place lists and sidebar counts after widget or iCloud changes.
• Fixed duplicate counting of overlapping places with the same role in Balance and excessive time for ongoing visits in "Time Spent".
• Fixed HomeKit crashes, duplicate automations and automations not following place changes.
• Fixed file imports from Files, Mail and AirDrop. Importing into the Manual category now creates manual places.
• Webhooks require a valid URL; disabled entering or leaving requests no longer produce failure notifications.
• Improved backup error handling and stability during background processing, contact matching and map transitions. 10.9 18h ago What’s New in Geofency 10.8.2

A small update with a few useful improvements and an important fix for PDF exports.

New
• Claim This Place — For places eligible to be claimed, the place menu now includes a direct link to Apple Business Connect. If you own the location, you can easily claim it with Apple.

Improved
• Localized altitude display — The altitude meter now follows your device’s locale, including its preferred number formatting.
• Widgets & Live Activities — Improved stability and reliability.

Fixed
• PDF export — Fixed a rare crash that could occur when exporting the hours list as a PDF.

Enjoying Geofency? A quick rating or review on the App Store helps support continued development. Thank you! 10.8.2 Sep 22 What’s New in Geofency 10.8.1

Geofency 10.8.1 adds iOS 27 support, new points of interest, richer place information, EV charging support with EVRadar, a fresh welcome experience, and several improvements to make exploring your places even better.

New

• 11 new Point of Interest categories are now available with iOS 27, including airport terminals, scenic viewpoints, rest areas, picnic areas, visitor centers, and more
• EV Charging & EVRadar — you can now open EV charging stations directly in EVRadar, my new app for quickly finding EV charging stations
• New Welcome Screen — a fresh introduction to Geofency and its key features
• Radius at a glance — the place radius is now displayed directly in Place Details
• Countries & Continents — detailed Place Information is now available for countries and continents

Changed

• Redesigned About screen with a cleaner, more modern look, including direct access to the Geofency landing page and Privacy Policy

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with POI search offsets in Mainland China
• Fixed an issue where custom POIs could appear with the wrong color in map annotations

If you’re enjoying Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store is a great way to support continued development. Thank you! 10.8.1 Sep 16 What’s New in Geofency 10.8

Geofency 10.8 brings a fresh new look, more powerful tagging and map tools, richer exports, and a number of thoughtful improvements throughout the app.

New

• A new app icon — simplified, fully vector-based, and created using Apple’s new Icon Composer format
• Tag Symbols & Emojis — personalize your tags by assigning a symbol or emoji to each one
• Tags in Place Details — your assigned tags are now displayed directly in the new Place Details view
• Backup & Restore — custom POI icons are now safely included in your backups
• Activity Details — explore detailed information about your activities for the current day
• Enhanced HTML Export — exports now contain more information and feature a beautiful new hero image
• 3D Flyover — explore well-known landmarks in immersive 3D Flyover mode
• Smarter Nearby Search — hide photos with a new filter or simply paste an Apple Maps URL to find the corresponding location
• Advanced Map Filters — combine filters using OR, AND, and NOT to precisely control what is displayed
• Report POI Issues — point out problems with points of interest directly from Geofency
• Spotlight Search — tags are now included when searching Geofency with Spotlight

Changed

• 3D Pitch Control — moved directly into the map for easier access, including when viewing the map in fullscreen

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where a Place ID could unexpectedly be reset
• Fixed toolbar layout issues on iOS 18 in Place Details and Event Details

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick App Store rating is a great way to support future development. Thank you for your support! 10.8 Aug 31 What’s New in Geofency 10.7.2

This update brings smarter navigation, more flexible search, richer details, and improved diary summaries — making Geofency even more convenient to use every day.

New

• Smarter Route Planner — the Route Planner now automatically adapts its size and layout to make better use of the available space
• Work & Home Office Rules can now be assigned to multiple locations, making it easier to manage recurring work routines
• Show Info is now available directly in Nearby Search and the Cluster View
• More powerful Nearby Search with additional filtering and sorting options to help you find places faster
• New optional setting to show exact times in the list view

Enhanced

• Richer Place & Event Details now provide more detailed information about your places and events
• Smarter AI Diary Summaries now take overnight stays into account, providing a more accurate picture of your day

Fixed

• Fixed a crash that could occur when reopening the app on Event Details since the previous update

If you’re enjoying Geofency, a quick App Store rating is a great way to support continued development. Thank you! 10.7.2 Aug 11 What’s New in Geofency 10.7

This update makes Geofency even more personal, intelligent, and insightful. From Apple Intelligence-powered diary summaries to richer activity tracking and powerful new organization features, Geofency helps you better understand your day than ever before.

New

• Bring your memories to life with photos and videos now displayed throughout your diary, activity view, places list, and directly on the map
• Place and Event detail views with beautiful photo strips, quick action chips, and informative status chips for faster access to important information
• Place Roles — assign roles such as Home, Office, School, or Home Office to your places for smarter organization, better statistics, and richer insights
• Personalized daily diary summaries generated by Apple Intelligence
• Work & Life Balance statistics provide a clear overview of how your time is divided between work and personal life
• Daily step counts from Apple Health can now be shown directly in your diary
• Sleep tracking data can now be integrated into your diary, giving you a more complete picture of each day
• Completely redesigned Places list with a cleaner, faster, and more modern interface
• Navigation support for HERE WeGo and Waze
• New visualization showing when a place is being monitored by another device via iCloud
• New Coordinates sheet for viewing and copying coordinates in any supported format
• POI information now syncs seamlessly across all your devices with iCloud
• Filter your diary using custom date and time ranges
• Edit place names directly from the Fine Tune settings
• Configure Live Activities directly from the context menu

Improved

• Geofency now lets you choose whether to keep your custom place name when changing a POI category
• The map filter reset button has been moved to the toolbar for quicker access
• More robust error handling during backup and restore operations

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where muted POI information could automatically reappear after selecting the place on the map
• Fixed navigation bar layout issues in Nearby Search on iOS 18

If Geofency has become part of your daily routine, I’d really appreciate an App Store rating. Your support helps shape future updates—thank you! 10.7 Aug 1 What’s New in Geofency 10.6

• New: Introducing Manual Places — flexible locations for manual check-ins without geo-monitoring, perfect for Home Office and Shortcuts automations triggered by NFC tags or Wi-Fi
• New: Apple Intelligence support to more accurately find the best Wikipedia article for a place
• New: Configure Webhooks for multiple places at once using multi-selection
• New: Set up separate arrival and departure notifications directly in Place Settings
• New: Restore a place’s configuration anytime with the new Restore Defaults option
• New: Filter the map by multiple tags simultaneously for more powerful map exploration
• New: Start route planning directly from the main places list
• New: Access HomeKit automations and Webhooks directly from Place Settings
• New: View travel distance and estimated travel time directly on the map

• Improved: Route planning on iOS 26 now features a more compact options layout, leaving more room for the map
• Improved: Nearby Search category filters now feature a modern Liquid Glass design
• Improved: Enhanced stability and reliability of Time Sheet exports
• Improved: Better VoiceOver accessibility throughout the app

Enjoying Geofency? Your App Store rating helps support ongoing development and is greatly appreciated. 10.6 Jun 26 What’s New in Geofency 10.5

• New: Bring your workouts into the diary for an even more complete picture of your day
• New: Easily enable and customize workout integration in Settings
• New: Tap any workout in the diary to discover beautiful statistics and detailed insights
• New: Interactive charts for speed, elevation, and heart rate help you analyze your workouts at a glance
• New: See how your activities are distributed with a workout type chart
• New: Parts of the Day chart reveals when you spend time at your favorite places throughout the day

• Improved: Better performance and increased stability throughout the app

Enjoying Geofency? Your App Store rating helps support ongoing development and is greatly appreciated. 10.5 Jun 18 What’s New in Geofency 10.4

• New: HomeKit integration for monitored places, available directly in Place Settings
• New: Suggested categories bar in nearby search for faster place discovery
• New: Swipe left and right in the fullscreen photo browser to navigate between photos
• New: Beautiful hero views for Webhooks, iBeacons, and HomeKit automations

• Improved: Webhook SSL certificate validation setting is now included in backup and restore
• Improved: More reliable Contact and Place matching

• Fixed: Thumbnail caching issue in the cluster picker
• Fixed: Detail view header date could be off by one day when local time zones were enabled
• Fixed: Missing circular clipping for certain map preview images, such as metro stations

Enjoying Geofency? Your App Store rating helps support ongoing development and is greatly appreciated. 10.4 Jun 12 What’s New in Geofency 10.3

• New: Wikipedia integration for points of interest — discover background information, history, and interesting facts about sights and landmarks
• New: Tap a photo in the photo browser to instantly zoom it to fullscreen
• New: Look Around is now available from several context menus throughout the app
• New: SSL certificate validation for webhooks (enabled by default for new webhooks)
• New: Webhook help with searchable descriptions for all webhook properties
• New: Enhanced webhook test response view with improved readability and copy-to-clipboard support
• New: Added the “isTest” parameter to distinguish test webhooks from regular events
• New: HTML exports now include up to three place photos and all assigned categories
• New: Curated POI collections such as Sightseeing, Family-Friendly, Culture, Wellness, Outdoors, Essentials, and Accommodation

• Improved: Cleaner and more readable statistics summaries

• Changed: Stability improvements throughout the app

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 10.3 Jun 5 What’s New in Geofency 10.2

• New: Activity view with rich statistics and beautiful insights into your daily routines and movement patterns
• New: Tap the diary banner to open the new activity view with additional statistics
• New: GitHub-style heatmap view for visualizing your activity over time
• New: Open place statistics directly from the diary context menu
• New: Edit place names directly within the diary
• New: Optional 24-hour time format for the diary, configurable in Settings
• Fixed: Regression when changing settings

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 10.2 May 29 What’s New in Geofency 10.1

• New: Diary view — a chronological journal of your visited places, stays, and notes for a more streamlined overview
• New: Search places and notes directly within the diary
• New: Statistics banner with beautifully presented insights and activity summaries
• New: Thumbnail images are now tappable and open the photo browser
• New: Context menu actions and swipe gestures in the diary
• New: Context menu actions in nearby search and cluster view
• New: Diary help tip

• Changed: Improved event preview with added location details

• Improved: Faster and more reliable thumbnail loading

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 10.1 May 22 What’s New in Geofency 10.0

• New: Incognito mode lets you pause recording for a custom period of time
• New: Time sheets can now be exported as PDF files
• New: Map pin clustering improves visibility and keeps the map organized
• New: Map pin clusters can now be assigned to a Tag
• New: In clustering mode, nearby places can now be merged together
• New: Thumbnail images in nearby search
• New: Places can now be shared directly from nearby search using a swipe gesture

• Changed: Chronicle sort order in the time sheet

• Improved: Nearby search headers
• Improved: Increased stability while the app runs in the background

• Fixed: Regression when assigning Tags

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 10.0 May 13 What’s New in Geofency 9.9.1

• New: Nearby search now also supports addresses
• New: Faster way to add places via nearby search
• New: Redesigned, more polished nearby search

• Fixed: Possible crash during suggested search
• Fixed: Rare crash when creating a new tag and assigning a place

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 9.9.1 Apr 29 What’s New in Geofency 9.9

• New: Route planner with support for alternative routes
• New: Share routes directly from the route planner
• New: Pan and zoom in the photo browser
• New: Turkish language support

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 9.9 Apr 22 What’s New in Geofency 9.8

• New: Photo browser for points of interest
• New: Share POI photos directly from the photo browser
• New: Zoom gesture in the POI photo browser
• New: Hindi language support
• Improved: More reliable detection of business categories for points of interest
• Fixed: POI info view now correctly applies the GCJ-02 offset
• Fixed: Improved coordinate formatting for Asian languages

If you enjoy using Geofency, a quick rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you for your support! 9.8 Apr 8 What’s New in 9.7.2

• Full support for China mainland’s GCJ-02 coordinate system with automatic detection and option to disable
• New languages: Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Ukrainian, Russian
• POI filters now show index labels when sorting by name
• Updated for iPhone 17e 9.7.2 Apr 1 New
• Support for UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates

Changed
• Dynamic creation of the More menu
• Optimized search performance and behavior

Fixed
• Search bar glitches on iPad running iOS 26

Enjoying Geofency? Please consider leaving a rating on the App Store 9.7.1 Feb 10 The visual analysis in the bar charts has been completely revised and modernized.

New:
• Butter-smooth, page-wise scrolling in the bar charts
• Month view: days from the next month are greyed out when the chart starts on the 1st
• Shorter, easier-to-read month and year ranges in the chart (when starting on the 1st)
• “Today” button in the bar chart to quickly jump back
• Accessibility support and haptic feedback when selecting bars

Changed:
• Bar chart reimplemented using the newer scrolling API
• Centered callout after zooming to a location
• Stability and performance improvements

Enjoying Geofency? Please consider leaving a rating on the App Store 9.7 Jan 20 • Fixed an issue where the Look Around view could appear at locations where Look Around is not available.

If you enjoy using Geofency, please consider leaving a review on the App Store — it really helps! 9.6.2 12/17/2025 Changed
• On iPad, the sidebar now starts hidden for a cleaner layout.

Fixed
• Look Around now reliably responds to touch input on iOS 26.
• Corrected the interface theme after opening Look Around in satellite views.
• Resolved a rare keyboard-related crash on iPhone running iOS 26. 9.6.1 12/15/2025 Geofency 9.6 – What’s New

New
• Coordinates can now be shown as Plus Codes (Open Location Code / OLC) for easier sharing.
• Added a new Zoom option in the location’s context menu on the map.

Improved
• Shortcuts: “Time Spent” now correctly sums the durations of all tagged events instead of just the last one.
• The map now features a more dynamic view finder.
• All satellite map views are now consistently displayed in dark mode for better contrast.
• Refined map selection: labels are now placed beneath the circular overlay for improved clarity.

If you enjoy using Geofency, please consider leaving a rating or review on the App Store — it really helps! 9.6 12/09/2025 New:
• The map now automatically restores the last camera position.
• Quickly return to your last map position with the new viewfinder toggle button in map controls.
• Shortcuts for Last Visit, Time Spent, and Time Away now support tags for even smarter automation.

Improvements:
• Zoom-to-fit for locations now respects the monitoring radius.
• Enhanced city detection for more accurate location insights.
• Modernized reverse address lookup on iOS 26 for improved results.
• Webhook requests are now more stable and reliable.

Fixes:
• Tags view state restoration is now working correctly.
• Dynamic background on the “Now” field in the event editor. 9.5.3 11/14/2025 Version 9.5.2

This update adds a useful new shortcut and further refinements under the hood:

• New: Shortcut to check your time away from a place
• Changed: Added localization for App Shortcut phrases
• Changed: General stability and performance improvements
• Fixed: Webhook requests are now fully thread-safe 9.5.2 10/22/2025 This update brings fresh shortcut options and visual refinements for upcoming major iOS releases:

• New: Shortcut to check when you last clocked in or out at a place
• New: Shortcut to view time spent at a specific or most recent location
• New: Added support for App Shortcuts integration
• Changed: Enhanced HUD visuals with Liquid Glass effects on newer iOS versions
• Changed: General stability and performance improvements
• Fixed: Background opacity issue in Live Activities on watchOS
• Fixed: Facebook page links now open correctly in the Facebook app 9.5.1 10/16/2025