Blip! vs HBHR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blip!
This app allows businesses to easily track employee work hours and locations. It offers features like geofencing for automatic clock-ins/outs and QR code scanning for manual time recording. Employees can also log breaks, and managers can review and edit shift times, export data, and manage multiple work locations.
- Geolocation tracking with geofencing
- QR code scanning for clocking
- Break time logging
- Edit shift and break times
- Multi-location tracking
- Work history export
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Blip is a free app for BrightHR customers. It lets you easily track your employees’ work hours and locations on the go. Here’s how it works: Geolocation Use the app to create a geofence—a virtual boundary—around your workplace. Then, when your employees enter or leave the geofence, Blip picks up their location and asks them to clock in or out, helping you to know exactly where your staff have worked and how long for. QR codes Alternatively, you can use Blip’s smart scanning system to record your employees’ work hours instead. Your staff use Blip to scan a QR code—a type of barcode—when they arrive and leave work. Then, each time they scan the code, Blip will register them as clocked in or out. It’s that simple. Breaks Blip makes it easy to track breaks, too. At the tap of a button, your staff can log the start and end of their breaks, so you can see how long and how often they take downtime. How Blip helps you: - Check your employees’ work hours and track their location in an instant. - Keep an eye on your employees’ breaks and make sure they’re getting enough downtime. - Change an incorrect shift or break time in a few quick taps. - Create multiple locations and easily track where your employees have worked. - View a full history of an employee’s work hours and filter the date range easily. - Export the work history for an individual or team and save it as a spreadsheet for your records.
HBHR
This app provides a comprehensive HR solution for both employers and employees, managing everything from leave requests to mental health. It offers push notifications and SMS messaging for important updates and ensures security with single sign-on.
- Annual Leave requests
- Mental Health management
- Push notifications
- SMS messaging
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
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One platform. Everything connected. HBHR is the AI-powered HR and workforce management platform built for modern organisations. Manage HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, employee wellbeing, communication and workforce operations in one secure mobile experience, designed to keep teams connected, informed and productive wherever they work. - HR and Payroll in one connected platform - Leave, attendance and document management - Employee communication and engagement tools - Wellbeing and mental health support - Recruitment, onboarding, and performance management - AI-powered insights and automation - Secure, compliant and mobile-first
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blip! at 4.6 against HBHR's 3.5. Blip! also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 4). HBHR's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (50% vs 38%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Blip! holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blip! has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Blip!'s written reviews are positive against 50% of HBHR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Blip! ships an update every 3 weeks, HBHR weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blip! | HBHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31 ratings) — better | 3.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BrightHR | HealthBoxHR Ltd |
Customer experience
Blip!
HBHR
Bugs and requests
Blip!
Reported bugs
16 issues- Clock in button doesn't register taps
- Clock out button doesn't work properly
- Unexpected random logouts
- Break button fails to update status
- App crashes on update installations
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- Cannot clock out when outside geofence area
- Barcode scanning doesn't register clock in
- Location search functionality broken after updates
- Conflict error messages for valid time changes
- Camera access fails on iOS 14+
- App freezes when updating shifts
- Phone overheating after updates
- Slow data fetching from cloud
- App won't open or respond
- Location tracking continues after app closure
- Notifications sent for entering coworkers' home addresses
Requested features
14 requests- Offline functionality with sync when reconnected
- Automatic clock out when leaving geofence
- Web-based clock in/out option
- Employee self-approval of timesheets
- Auto-end break after set time period
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- Integration with BrightHR staff files and rotas
- Automatic break deduction from total hours
- Manager access without full admin privileges
- Ability to edit break punches
- Automatic clock in/out based on geofencing
- Consolidated single app instead of multiple apps
- Date range filtering for work history
- Shift end reminders
- Overtime tracking and display
HBHR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blip!
No in-app purchases
HBHR
No in-app purchases
