Viewpoint Field View™ vs Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Viewpoint Field View™
This app allows field teams to capture, share, and report on all job site data, including daily logs, inspections, and safety observations. It offers configurable forms and offline capabilities to improve workflows and project quality.
- Capture all field data
- Configurable field forms
- Work offline
- Team collaboration
- Advanced process management
- Automate drawings and locations
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Capture, share and report all field data with a single tool Viewpoint Field View™ is a cloud based and off-line mobile forms solution that captures daily logs, punch lists, safety observations, inspections, defect management, commissioning and much more. With Field View, you can choose from a menu of pre-configured forms and/or create forms on your own that reflect your processes — essentially there is no need for IT or system administrator support. By giving field users an easy-to-use mobile application to capture their field observations from anywhere on the job site — even locations without an internet connection — they’re able to resolve issues more quickly, improve workflows, reduce risk and deliver higher quality projects. Field View benefits include: • Capture all field data • Configurable field forms • Work offline • Team collaboration • Advanced process management • Project location set up • Automate drawings and locations
Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
This app allows construction professionals to record and manage labor and equipment hours for various jobs. It helps improve job cost reporting accuracy and control labor expenses by streamlining data entry from the field.
- Record employee hours by job
- Track equipment usage and cost
- Update job production quantities
- Support for multiple active jobs
- Security and access control
- Direct field data entry
- Synchronizes with Viewpoint Spectrum
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For Viewpoint Spectrum users, Payroll Time Entry lets you record and manage labor and equipment hours associated with all your different construction jobs, all from one easy-to-use app. With Payroll Time Entry, you have much more than a time entry tool – you have the ability to improve the accuracy of job cost reporting and to better control labor and equipment costs. •Payroll Entry: Quickly record the hours of every employee assigned to any of your jobs •Equipment Usage: Track the usage and cost of all equipment assigned to any of your jobs •Job Quantities: Update the production quantities of all phases of your jobs •Multiple Job Support: Record and track labor and equipment usage by job, across all your active jobs •Security and Access Control: Limit views and data entry to only the jobs that users should be able to see •Streamlined Information: Record information directly from the field on mobile devices, eliminating duplicate entry and errors •Full Integration: Payroll Time Entry synchronizes with Viewpoint's Spectrum Construction Software Note: Payroll Time Entry uses GPS to record the location of the time entry. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Viewpoint Field View™ at 3.1 against Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry's 1.6. Viewpoint Field View™ also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Viewpoint Field View™ holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 20 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Viewpoint Field View™'s written reviews are positive against 20% of Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Viewpoint Field View™ ships an update every 3 weeks, Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Viewpoint Field View™ | Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) — better | 1.6 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 250 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trimble Inc. | TAC INSIGHT LLC |
Customer experience
Viewpoint Field View™
Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
In-app purchases
Viewpoint Field View™
No in-app purchases
Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
No in-app purchases




