SparkHours vs Track Your Hours

3,000 hours is too long a road for a tool with blind spots.

Track Your Hours (TYH) got you off spreadsheets. SparkHours picks up where it stops: electronic signatures, dedicated ASW experience tracking, and progress projections.

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Switching from Track Your Hours

Switch without losing time or money.

Import your existing hours in minutes. SparkHours gives you free access through your TYH paid-through date. You only start paying when your TYH subscription expires.

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Feature comparison at a glance

Track Your Hours and SparkHours compared for ASW hour tracking, feature by feature
Feature Track Your Hours SparkHours
Price $89.95/yr $10/mo or $100/yr
Free to start 30 days 14 days
E-signatures No Yes
Supervision alerts Yes Yes
BBS form PDF export Yes Yes
Fieldwork phase tracking No Yes
Progress projections No Yes
Competitor data import No Yes
AI licensing assistant No Yes

Green check: SparkHours does this. Grey check: so does the other product. Cross: it doesn't.

The problem

What TYH can't do that ASWs need

At 3,000 hours, the LCSW path stretches roughly three years. That's three years of weekly supervisor signatures. Printed, signed with a pen, scanned back in, filed somewhere. Do that every week for three years and you've spent dozens of hours on a process that should take seconds.

There is no separate BBS fieldwork phase on the LCSW track. BBS experience on the LCSW track begins as an ASW, or under the 90-Day Rule when its conditions are met. School field placement can remain in your records, but it is not a separate BBS licensure phase. TYH doesn't have dedicated ASW experience tracking, so you're on your own figuring out which rules apply to your ASW experience.

SparkHours handles both. Your supervisor signs digitally via a secure link. No account needed on their end. ASW experience is tracked automatically with the correct rules.

Side-by-side comparison

Track Your Hours

  • No electronic signatures. Three years of printing and scanning.
  • No dedicated ASW experience tracking
  • Annual billing only. $89.95/yr, no monthly option.
  • BBS questions? Read the handbook yourself

SparkHours

  • Supervisor signs via secure link in under a minute. No account needed.
  • Dedicated ASW experience tracking with the correct rules
  • One-click download BBS forms with e-signatures ready for submission
  • $10/mo (or $100/yr) with a 14-day free trial. Cancel anytime, no contract.
  • AI assistant answers your BBS licensing questions in seconds

What SparkHours adds for ASWs

Digital supervisor signatures

Submit your weekly log and your supervisor gets a secure email link. They review the hours, sign electronically, done. That's every week of your ASW hours with no printing, no scanning, and nobody to chase down the hall.

Dedicated ASW experience tracking

Tell us your graduation date and when you registered as an associate. SparkHours figures out the rest: correct supervision rules, correct hour caps, correct BBS forms for your ASW experience.

TYH data import

Your existing TYH hours come over during setup. No manual re-entry. SparkHours also honors your remaining TYH subscription, giving you free access until that paid-through date.

Pricing, side by side

Track Your Hours

$89.95/yr

Annual commitment. 30-day free trial.

  • Hour logging and category tracking
  • Supervision alerts
  • BBS form export
  • No e-signatures

SparkHours

$10/mo

Cancel anytime. Free to start.

  • Hour logging and category tracking
  • Supervision alerts
  • Electronic supervisor signatures
  • One-click BBS form download with e-signatures
  • Dedicated ASW experience tracking
  • Competitor data import
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Frequently asked questions

SparkHours has a built-in Track Your Hours importer that runs during setup. Your hours transfer over automatically. No CSV files, no copy-pasting. SparkHours also checks your TYH paid-through date and gives you free access until it expires. No gap, no double billing.

No. SparkHours detects your TYH paid-through date during the import and waives billing until then. Your subscription starts after your Track Your Hours subscription runs out.

They can't. TYH has no e-signature feature. You're still printing, getting a physical signature, and scanning. With SparkHours, your supervisor receives a secure link by email, reviews the summary, and signs digitally. The whole process takes about a minute, and there's no account to create on their end.

No. BBS experience on the LCSW track begins as an ASW, or under the 90-Day Rule when its conditions are met. School field placement can remain in your records, but it is not a separate BBS licensure phase. SparkHours applies the correct rules to your ASW experience.

TYH is $89.95/year. SparkHours is $10/month, or $100/year with annual billing. The difference buys you e-signatures, dedicated ASW experience tracking, and one-click BBS form download. Over three years, most ASWs find the extra cost pays for itself in time saved on the signature process alone. See full pricing details.

Depends on your clinical hours per week. At 25 countable hours per week, roughly two and a half years. At 20 hours per week, closer to three. SparkHours shows your projected completion date based on your actual pace. It updates every time you log hours, so you always have a realistic timeline.

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