SparkHours vs Track Your Hours

TYH logs your APCC hours. SparkHours handles the rest of the workflow.

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

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Import your existing hours during setup. SparkHours gives you free access through your TYH paid-through date. No double billing, no gap in coverage.

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Feature comparison at a glance

Track Your Hours and SparkHours compared for APCC 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
Dual licensure No Yes
BBS form PDF export Yes Yes
Practicum 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

The gaps add up over 3,000 hours

If you're on Track Your Hours, you already know that dedicated tracking beats a spreadsheet. TYH logs your hours, sorts categories, and watches your supervision requirements. On those basics, it does the job.

But the LPCC workflow has requirements that TYH doesn't cover. Signatures are the obvious one: you're still printing logs, finding your supervisor, getting ink on paper, scanning the result. Do that for 104 weeks of supervision and it stops feeling like a minor inconvenience. If you're also working toward an LMFT alongside your LPCC, TYH can't track both, so you'd need two separate accounts. And there's no dedicated practicum tracking, so you're on your own figuring out which rules apply before and after you register as an associate.

None of those are fatal on their own, but stacked together over two or three years, they represent a lot of unnecessary friction. SparkHours handles digital signatures, dual licensure, and dedicated practicum tracking with the correct rules for each phase. All in one place.

Side-by-side comparison

Track Your Hours

  • No electronic signatures. You're still printing, signing, scanning.
  • One license type per account, no support for dual licensure
  • No dedicated practicum progress 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.
  • Track LPCC and LMFT simultaneously in one account
  • One-click download BBS forms with e-signatures ready for submission
  • Practicum and associate phases tracked with the right supervision rules for each
  • $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 APCCs

Digital supervisor signatures

Your supervisor gets a secure email link when you submit a log. They review, sign, and you're done. No paper, no scanning, no chasing anyone down the hall. They don't need to create a SparkHours account, either.

Dual licensure tracking

Working toward LPCC and LMFT at the same time? More people do this than you'd expect. SparkHours gives you separate dashboards for each qualification. TYH only handles one license type per account.

Dedicated practicum progress 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 each phase.

TYH data import

Your existing TYH hours transfer automatically during SparkHours setup. No re-keying sessions. And you get free SparkHours access through your TYH 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
  • No dual licensure support

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 practicum progress tracking
  • Dual licensure support
  • Competitor data import
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Frequently asked questions

SparkHours has a Track Your Hours importer built into the setup process. Your hours transfer automatically. No CSV wrangling, no re-entering sessions one at a time. SparkHours also reads your TYH paid-through date and gives you free access until that date passes.

No. SparkHours detects your TYH paid-through date and doesn't start billing until after it expires. You keep full access to SparkHours in the meantime.

It doesn't. TYH's workflow still ends at the printer. You print your log, get it physically signed, scan it, and file it. SparkHours replaces all of that with a secure email link. Your supervisor clicks, reviews, signs. Takes about a minute. No account on their end.

No. If you're pursuing both LPCC and LMFT (which isn't unusual), TYH can't track both qualifications in one account. SparkHours can. Each license type gets its own progress dashboard, its own category tracking, its own form export.

Both need 3,000 total hours and 1,750 hours of direct client contact. Both use the same supervision structure. The differences are the subset and the starting line: LMFT carves 500 hours of work with couples, families, and children out of the 1,750, LPCC has no specialty subset at all, and AMFTs can count up to 1,300 pre-degree hours where APCCs can count none. Each uses a different BBS form. If you're pursuing both, SparkHours tracks everything in one account.

TYH runs $89.95/year. SparkHours is $10/month, or $100/year if you pay annually. The price difference gets you e-signatures, dual licensure tracking and progress projections. For most trainees, the time saved on signatures alone is worth it. See full pricing details.

Yes. SparkHours generates your official BBS weekly summary forms with one click, and your supervisor's e-signature is already attached. No reformatting, no printing and scanning separately.

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