Facility Grid vs Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Facility Grid
This application streamlines field commissioning and quality control for teams. It offers customizable roles and permissions, an intuitive interface, and offline access to project data. Keep projects on track and teams aligned with seamless synchronization.
- Customizable roles and permissions
- Intuitive interface for all skill levels
- Offline access to project data
- Automatic data synchronization
- Seamless connection to FacilityGrid.net
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Facility Grid makes it easy for your whole team to stay on top of commissioning and quality control in the field. Whether someone is highly technical or brand new to the process, the app gives everyone the right information at the right time—online or offline. Key Highlights: • See only what matters with customizable roles and permissions • Simple, intuitive interface for all skill levels • Access project data, activities, and equipment details anywhere • Work confidently offline; sync automatically when reconnected • Seamlessly connected to FacilityGrid.net Keep your projects moving, your team aligned, and your work on track—wherever the day takes you. Requires an active FacilityGrid.net account.
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: Facility Grid at 3.4 against Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry's 1.6. Facility Grid also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 15.6). 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.
Facility Grid holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 20 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Facility Grid'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.
Facility Grid ships an update monthly, Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Facility Grid | Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) — better | 1.6 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Facility Grid, LLC | TACinsight |
Customer experience
Facility Grid
Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
In-app purchases
Facility Grid
No in-app purchases
Viewpoint Payroll Time Entry
No in-app purchases
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