CE AND CPD HOURS LOG

PDHLogbook

CE and CPD Hours Log

One course. Every license it counts toward.

Nurses, pharmacists, accountants, engineers and other professionals with continuing education requirements. Log each course once, credit it to every license it counts for, and watch each one against its own cycle and deadline.

$1.99/mo · $9.99/yr · $19.99 once.
No card needed to start. Android.

Any licensed profession
PE and PLS state presets
Works offline
No account

The PDHLogbook dashboard with two nursing licenses, each with a progress ring, hours logged against hours required and days to renewal

Log it once, credit it twice

An activity holds a list of licenses, not one. Tick the ones it counts toward as you save it and the hours land in each of those cycles. Nothing is typed twice.

ONE ACTIVITY

Cardiac Monitoring Essentials

Provider: Regional Medical Center
Category: Conference / seminar
Hours: 6 hours
Certificate: Photo attached

California RN

2-year cycle · +6 hours this cycle
Texas RN

2-year cycle · +6 hours this cycle

Ethics or a required topic is a separate tick on the same activity, counted against each license's own requirement. Cost is kept per activity with its own currency, so a course paid in euros never lands in a dollar total.

Any license, your board's rules

Each license carries its own rule, cycle and deadline. Engineers and surveyors start from a state table; everyone else types the rule their board publishes.

Engineers and surveyors

Pick PE or PLS and your US state. The app fills in that state's hours, cycle length, ethics hours, carry-over cap and a suggested retention period.

Every other profession

Pick Other and enter the rule from your own board: the profession, the board, the hours required, a cycle of one to five years and the renewal date.

Your unit

Hours, CEUs, credits, CPD points or PDH. It is a label on that license, so the numbers you type are the numbers your board uses.

EVERY LICENSE KEEPS ITS OWN CLOCK

90 daysbefore the deadline
30 daysbefore the deadline
7 daysbefore the deadline

Three reminders per license, at 9am on the day, and they come back on their own after the phone restarts. They use Android's relaxed scheduling, so the phone may deliver one a little late rather than wake itself up for it. When a cycle passes its end date the app moves the license to the next one on its own; activities never move, so an earlier cycle can still be put back together later.

The state table for PE and PLS

Adding an engineering or surveying license does not mean typing your board's rules from memory. Pick the state and the app copies a starting cycle length, hours per cycle, ethics hours, carry-over cap and suggested retention period onto your license. They stay editable, so a later change to the reference table never rewrites the cycle you have been logging against.

Eight states carry no continuing education requirement. For those the app still tracks the renewal date so the reminder works.

51 states and DC in the bundled table
8 of them require no continuing education
18 carry a "verify with your board" flag where sources disagreed
Jun 2026 the date the table was compiled, shown in the app

PDHLogbook helps you organize and prepare your continuing education records. It does not certify hours or guarantee acceptance by any licensing board. Verify your requirements, accepted activities and record retention period with your board. You are responsible for the accuracy of your records.

The app itself

Screens from the 1.1.0 build, showing the app's own sample records.

Two nursing licenses, two rings, two deadlines.
One license: hours against the requirement and every course in this cycle.
Any profession: the board, the hours, the cycle and the unit.
One course ticked toward both licenses, with its certificate attached.
Every certificate photo in one grid.
Three engineering licenses with their state rules filled in.

What you hand over if you are asked

Pick a license and the app builds a PDF of its current cycle and hands it to the share sheet. It is a record you prepared, not a submission, and it certifies nothing. The PDF is written in English.

Certificate photos are compressed when you capture them and stored on the phone, then placed in the appendix, so the file stays a sensible size to email.

Header: your name, the license and its number.
Cycle: the cycle dates on the license.
Totals: hours logged against hours required, and ethics against the ethics requirement where the license has one.
Disclaimer: the same wording the app shows you, on the first page.
Transcript: every activity in the cycle by date with provider, category, hours and a running total.
Certificate appendix: the certificate photos you attached, each under its activity.

What one activity holds

Live course
Self-study / online
Conference / seminar
Teaching / presenting
Publishing / authorship
Professional activity
Other

Plus the title, the provider, the date, the hours, the licenses it credits, the ethics or required-topic tick, an optional cost with its currency, notes, and any number of certificate photos.

Worth knowing before you install

It is a record, not an authority. It does not certify hours or know whether your board will accept them.
Records are stored on the phone. No account or sign-in. You back them up yourself from Settings.
The backup is one file. Licenses, activities and certificate images together, and Restore rebuilds them on a new phone.
In 10 languages. English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The audit PDF stays in English.
Carry-over is capped for PE and PLS. Hours brought from the last cycle count only up to the state's cap, so the ring never flatters you.

Pricing

The app starts on the standard tier: one license, fifteen activities and a banner ad.

Reading, editing, exporting the PDF and backing up what you logged is never gated. The paywall stands in front of a second license and a sixteenth activity, and nowhere else.

ONE-TIME OR SUBSCRIPTION

$19.99lifetime

$9.99 a year
$1.99 a month

Unlimited licenses
Unlimited activities
No ads
Priority support

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Questions

Does it work for nurses, accountants and other professions?

Yes. Pick Other when you add a license, type the profession and your board, and enter the hours required, the cycle length and the renewal date. The US state presets are only for professional engineers and land surveyors.

Can one course count toward more than one license?

Yes. Tick every license it should credit when you save it, and the hours land in each of those cycles. Untick one later and only that license loses the hours.

Can I count in CEUs or CPD points instead of hours?

Yes. Each license has its own unit: hours, CEUs, credits, CPD points or PDH. The unit is a label, so type the number your board uses.

What is in the audit PDF?

Your name, the license and its number, the cycle dates, hours logged against hours required, the ethics count where there is one, a transcript of every activity in the cycle with a running total, and your certificate photos as an appendix. It is written in English.

Does it work with no signal?

Yes. Every license, activity and certificate photo is stored on the phone. There is no account and no sign-in.

What happens if I do not pay?

Nothing you logged is touched. It all stays readable and the PDF still exports. The standard tier only stops you adding a second license or a sixteenth activity until you buy.

Is it a subscription?

Your choice: $1.99 a month, $9.99 a year, or $19.99 once. Lifetime is a one-time purchase of the same full app.

Set your licenses up once

Add each license, enter its rule or pick its state, then log courses as you take them. The next renewal notice arrives to a record that is already put together.