SparkHours vs Track Your Hours
A Track Your Hours alternative for California BBS hours
Here's what Track Your Hours costs, what it can't sign, and what carries over if you move. We checked every figure on their own site on 24 August 2026.
$10 a month · 14-day free trial · No credit card
Switching from Track Your Hours
Already paid them? We won't charge you twice.
Track Your Hours doesn't refund unused time. So when you import, SparkHours reads your paid-through date and doesn't bill you until it passes. Up to two years of remaining time comes with you.
Track Your Hours vs SparkHours at a glance
| Feature | Track Your Hours | SparkHours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $89.95 a year, paid up front | $10 a month, or $100 a year |
| Free to start | 30 days, no credit card | 14 days, no credit card |
| Supervisor signs in the app | No | Yes |
| Weekly supervision checks | Yes | Yes |
| Two license tracks in one account | No | Yes |
| Board forms filled in for you | Yes | Yes |
| Practicum and associate phases | Worked out from your dates | Yes |
| Bringing your hours in | No | Yes |
| Board questions answered in the app | A product help center | Yes |
Every Track Your Hours answer above comes from their own site and help center, checked on 24 August 2026. Prices and policies change, so check theirs before you buy.
The problem
What Track Your Hours does well, and where it stops
Track Your Hours does the basics right. It logs your hours and sorts them into the categories the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) uses. It warns you when a week looks short on supervision. SparkHours follows one board and three license tracks, which is what lets it go deeper on all three.
Inside California, the gap is the signature, and it opens every week. Their help center article was updated on 13 April 2026. It says supervisors "won't be able to electronically sign forms in Track Your Hours." So you download the form, print it, chase your supervisor, and scan it back. The Board asks for at least 104 supervised weeks. That's 104 rounds of print, sign and scan. There's no supervisor account anywhere on their site to shorten it. Two more things need a workaround. A second license track means a second free account on a second email address. Their support has to waive the charge. And the app works your practicum status out from the dates you type instead of asking you. So your own program's rules can't go in.
SparkHours closes every one of those inside one account. Your supervisor signs from an emailed link and never creates an account. LMFT (marriage and family) and LPCC (professional clinical counselor) sit in one login with separate totals. For LMFT and LPCC, practicum and associate run as two phases, and the rules change on your graduation date. Your program can carry its own rules on top of ours. Your Track Your Hours data comes across with you, and the weeks you already logged stay logged.
Side-by-side comparison
Track Your Hours
- Also available: Logs your hours, sorts them by category, and warns you about a short week
- Not included: Supervisors can't sign electronically in the app, in their own words
- Not included: One license track per account, so a second track means a second account
- Not included: Nothing to bring hours in from another tracker
- Not included: Paid a year at a time, up front, with no refund on unused time
- Not included: Cancel and your data goes with the account
SparkHours
- Included: Your supervisor signs from an emailed link. No account, no printing, no scanning.
- Included: All three California tracks: AMFT to LMFT, APCC to LPCC, ASW to LCSW
- Included: LMFT and LPCC tracked together in one login, with separate totals
- Included: Practicum and associate rules applied by date, from your graduation date
- Included: A built-in importer for your Track Your Hours account
- Included: $10 a month, so you can stop after any month and keep your records
- Included: An in-app assistant that answers Board questions against the real handbooks
What SparkHours does differently
Your supervisor signs from an email
Send a week for signature and your supervisor gets a secure link. They read the hours, sign, and the signature lands on the Board's form. They never create an account, and it usually takes under a minute.
Your Track Your Hours data comes with you
The importer takes your email, your password and a date range. Your logged hours arrive with their date, category, site and supervisor. So do your sites, your supervisors and the day your week starts. You retype nothing.
Two license tracks, one login
LMFT and LPCC sit side by side. Each gets its own totals, its own progress and its own forms. One subscription covers both.
Practicum rules, not only associate rules
Enter your graduation date and your associate registration date. The supervision rules and the hour caps switch themselves on the right day. A training program can carry its own rules instead of the defaults.
The Board's forms, filled in
SparkHours fills the weekly log for AMFTs, APCCs and ASWs. It also fills the Experience Verification form, which totals one supervisor and one setting for your application. Both come from the hours you logged and the weeks your supervisor signed.
An assistant that reads the handbooks
Ask what counts, what doesn't, and why a week looks short. The answers come from the Board's own published handbooks. It can see your hours too, so the answer fits your situation.
Full detail on your own track: AMFT, APCC, ASW. If you're still in practicum, how practicum tracking works covers the phase change.
Pricing, side by side
Their multi-year plans cost less per year than ours. The trade is paying it all up front, with no refund. Most people can't time their licensure on day one.
Track Your Hours
Paid up front. 30 days free, no credit card.
- Also available: Two years for $159.95, which works out at $79.98 a year
- Also available: Three years for $199.95, which works out at $66.65 a year
- Also available: Hour logging, category tracking and supervision warnings
- Also available: BBS form export you print and take to your supervisor
- Not included: No refund on unused time, in their own words
SparkHours
Or $100 a year. 14 days free, no credit card.
- Included: Stop after any month, and your records stay put
- Included: All three California tracks: AMFT, APCC and ASW
- Included: Supervisor e-signatures from an emailed link
- Included: The weekly log and the Experience Verification form on every track
- Included: Practicum and associate rules applied by date
- Included: LMFT and LPCC in one account
- Included: The Track Your Hours importer, and your remaining paid time honoured
No credit card to start. Cancel anytime.
Bring the hours you've logged. Keep the time you've paid for.
No credit card required. The importer runs during setup.
Frequently asked questions
Also tracking for...
vs Track Your Hours
AMFT to LMFT
The couples, families, and children subset, the pre-degree caps, and the weekly log for the marriage and family track.
vs Track Your Hours
APCC to LPCC
The post-degree-only rule, the non-clinical cap, and the weekly log for the professional clinical counselor track.
vs Track Your Hours
ASW to LCSW
The psychotherapy subset, the supervisor requirements, and the weekly log for the clinical social work track.
Bring your hours across and keep every week you've logged.
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