KBSPresence vs Team Engine Messaging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KBSPresence
Easily track your workday by locating job sites on a map and logging your hours. This app simplifies time tracking, eliminating the need for manual phone calls to a time tracking system when starting or ending shifts.
- Workday tracking
- Job site location on map
- Daily hour logging
- Time-saving shift tracking
- Eliminates phone calls for time tracking
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KBSPresence allows you to easily track your workday. You can locate job sites on the map and easily track the hours you work each day and at each job. Save time -- no more time-consuming calls to a phone-based time tracking system when you start and finish your shift. NOTE: To enable this application your employer must use KBS time-tracking server software. Contact your system administrator for details.
Team Engine Messaging
Facilitate seamless communication with your distributed workforce. Send texts to your team or applicants without revealing your personal number. Stay connected and informed, whether at your desk or on a job site.
- Send texts without revealing personal number
- Communicate with teams and applicants
- Connect via email, text, and WhatsApp
- Access messaging capabilities anywhere
- Dispatch crews and answer field questions
- Receive live notifications
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Team Engine makes communicating with distributed workforces simple. With our app, you can send texts to your team or applicants without giving out your cell phone number. Keep everyone on the same page and connect with people who use a mix of email, text, and WhatsApp to communicate. Our app gives you and your team access to Team Engine’s powerful messaging capabilities, whether you are at your desk or at a job site. Communicate with applicants, dispatch crews, answer questions from the field, get live notifications, and more - all in one place. This app requires you to have a preexisting user account with Team Engine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Team Engine Messaging at 5.0 against KBSPresence's 2.4. KBSPresence's advantage is ratings volume (196 vs 4) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). 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.
Team Engine Messaging holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KBSPresence has 196 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
KBSPresence ships an update every 9 days, Team Engine Messaging every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KBSPresence | Team Engine Messaging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (196 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 196 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC | Team Engine |
Customer experience
KBSPresence
Team Engine Messaging
In-app purchases
KBSPresence
No in-app purchases
Team Engine Messaging
No in-app purchases
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