---
title: "Work Hours Backup Export and Import App | HoursKit"
description: "Export a local JSON copy of your HoursKit records and bring it back into the app when you need it."
canonical: https://hourskit.com/features/json-backup-import-export/
language: "en-US"
---

# Keep a portable copy of the work record you built

Some records deserve a place beyond the screen where you check them every day\. HoursKit lets you export a local JSON backup, giving you a deliberate copy of the shifts, jobs, and setup you have built\. It is a practical option for people who like to keep their own archives organized\.

## Create a snapshot when it matters to you

Export a backup at a natural moment: after finishing a busy season, before making major changes to how you organize work, or when you simply want a copy of a completed year\. The JSON file captures the HoursKit record as a package, so you do not need to assemble a backup from screenshots, spreadsheets, and scattered notes\.

## Archive the details that make a shift recognizable

A shift is easier to recognize when the jobs, templates, settings, and related details travel with it\. A local export preserves that surrounding structure, giving your archive more value than a bare list of hours\. You can keep the file with your own files in the location and organization system you prefer\.

## Bring a saved record back into HoursKit

Import the JSON file through HoursKit when you need to work with a saved copy again\. The format gives your own data an intentional archive and return path\. Check the file you select so you know which snapshot you are bringing back, especially if you keep more than one backup over time\.

## Pair everyday continuity with a deliberate archive

iCloud helps keep your current entries available across your iPhone and iPad\. JSON export serves a different purpose: a portable copy you choose to create and retain\. It works well for a finished tax year, a long project, or any set of hours you want to file away independently from the app’s day\-to\-day use\. In that sense, it is a filing habit you control, built from the data already in your tracker\.

## Features
- [iPad Hours Tracker App for Work and Pay](https://hourskit.com/features/ipad-hours-tracker/) — Track shifts, look over pay periods, and prepare timesheets with HoursKit on iPad\.
- [iCloud Time Tracking for iPhone and iPad](https://hourskit.com/features/icloud-backup-sync/) — Keep your HoursKit shifts, jobs, and settings together across your own iPhone and iPad with iCloud\.
- [Timesheet App With PDF and XLSX Exports](https://hourskit.com/features/timesheet-reports/) — Turn tracked shifts into PDF or XLSX timesheets shaped for a client, a pay period, or your own files\.
- [Time Tracking Widgets and Live Activities](https://hourskit.com/features/widgets-live-activities/) — Keep active shift status, today’s progress, and quick HoursKit entry points visible on iPhone widgets and Live Activities\.
- [Multiple Job Time Tracker With Tasks and Tags](https://hourskit.com/features/multiple-jobs-tags/) — Organize several jobs, clients, tasks, and flexible tags in one place without losing the detail behind each hour\.
- [Hourly Pay, Overtime, and Wage Calculator App](https://hourskit.com/features/pay-estimates/) — Turn recorded shifts into a more complete pay estimate with rates, breaks, overtime, additions, deductions, and rounding choices\.

## Workflows
- [Track Hours Across Jobs, Clients, and Work Sites](https://hourskit.com/workflows/jobs-clients-and-sites/) — Keep jobs, clients, and work sites separate with their own rates, context, payment status, and focused PDF or XLSX timesheets\.
- [Track a Shift From Clock\-In to Pay Review](https://hourskit.com/workflows/track-shifts-and-pay/) — Keep hours, breaks, pay rules, corrections, pay\-period totals, and shareable PDF or XLSX timesheets connected in one personal work record\.

## Track your hours on iPhone and iPad
- [Download HoursKit for Work Hours Backup Export and Import App](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758804427?utm_source=hourskit.com&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=feature_detail&utm_content=inline&utm_term=en-US&ct=feature_detail-json_backup_import_export)