Comparison

Punch Time Clock vs ShiftBuddy

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Punch Time Clock

Easily track work hours, manage shifts, and generate detailed timesheets. This app offers simple clock-in/out functionality, retroactive adjustments, and professional PDF/CSV exports for record-keeping or invoicing.

Highlights
  • Effortless time tracking
  • Comprehensive timesheets
  • Professional PDF/CSV exports
  • Flexible shift management
  • Organize with tags
  • Overtime calculations
Features
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Introducing Punch Time Clock, the essential time-tracking app for shift workers, freelancers, remote workers, small-business owners, students and salaried employees. With Punch, managing your hours has never been easier. # KEY FEATURES • Effortless Time Tracking Clock in, take breaks, and clock out with a simple tap. Forgot to clock out? No problem—easily make retroactive adjustments. • Comprehensive Timesheets View detailed timesheets showing your hours worked and estimated earnings. Perfect for tracking your work history. • Professional PDF Exports Export timesheets as professionally formatted PDF or CSV files. Share them with employers, invoice clients, or keep them for personal records. • Flexible Shift Management Create new shifts from scratch or edit existing ones. Add personal notes to each shift for better task or project tracking. • Organize with Tags Categorize your shifts using Tags to filter timesheets by job, client, project, and more. Stay organized and efficient. • Overtime Calculations Automatically calculate daily and weekly overtime for Weekly and Biweekly pay schedules to ensure accurate tracking of your work hours. # WHY CHOOSE PUNCH TIME CLOCK? • User-Friendly Interface – Designed for simplicity and ease of use, so you can focus on your work, not your timesheets. • Reliable & Secure – Built with the latest technology to keep your data safe. • Customizable Experience – Tailor Punch to fit your unique needs with flexible settings and features. Take control of your work hours with Punch Time Clock. Download now and transform the way you track time—effortlessly and accurately. # UPGRADE TO PUNCH PRO Punch is completely free, with no limits. Upgrade to Punch PRO with a one-time purchase for advanced features like pay estimates, timesheet exporting, notes and tagging. Privacy Policy - https://trentmorris.com/punch/privacy Terms of Use - https://trentmorris.com/punch/terms

About

ShiftBuddy

Easily log work shifts, track hours, and estimate pay without spreadsheets. Manage multiple jobs, currencies, pay rates, and overtime rules. Review your history with calendar views and job statistics, then export professional timesheets.

Highlights
  • Log shifts with start/end times and breaks
  • Track multiple jobs, currencies, and pay rates
  • Estimate regular, overtime, and double-time pay
  • Calendar views and job statistics
  • Export timesheets as PDF or CSV
  • Optional iCloud sync and Face ID/Touch ID protection
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ShiftBuddy helps you log shifts, track work hours and see estimated pay without keeping a spreadsheet on the side. Record start and end times, breaks, notes and overnight shifts. Manage multiple jobs, currencies, pay rates, raises, overtime and double-time rules, plus presets for recurring shifts. See this week at a glance, browse calendar views, search your full history and compare job stats from the My Jobs dashboard. Set weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly or monthly pay schedules, follow pay-period goals and keep the payday widget close by. Export professional timesheets as PDF or CSV, share them when needed, or back up and import all app data as JSON. Your data is local-first, with optional iCloud sync across devices. No separate ShiftBuddy account is required, and Face ID or Touch ID can add an extra layer of privacy. Built for real shift work: • Log a shift in seconds, then edit, duplicate, copy, share, or save it as a preset. • Track paid and unpaid breaks, notes, overnight shifts, and manual overtime adjustments when your day does not fit a simple formula. • Manage active and previous jobs with colors, currencies, role details, workplace info, pay history, and job-specific settings. • Add pay raises by effective date and named rates for special roles, departments, weekend work, holiday shifts, or different responsibilities. • Let ShiftBuddy estimate regular, overtime, and double-time earnings from your rules, while keeping hours and pay totals easy to scan. Plan around payday: • Set weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay cycles for each job. • See accrued earnings for the current pay period, progress toward a pay-period goal, and a countdown to your next payday. • Use payday reminders and the payday widget to keep upcoming deposits visible without opening the app. Review, search, and report: • Browse day, week, and month calendar views, plus a full history of past weeks and months. • Search saved shifts by date, weekday, job, note, rate name, or amount earned. • Compare jobs with stats such as total hours, earned pay, average shift, longest shift, days worked, effective rate, overtime hours, and recent shifts. • Export a date range or a single job as a clean PDF or CSV timesheet for managers, payroll, invoices, reimbursement, or your own records. • Back up and import your jobs, rates, shifts, breaks, notes, and reminders as JSON whenever you want a portable copy. Your data stays practical and private. ShiftBuddy is local-first, supports optional iCloud sync across your devices, does not require a separate ShiftBuddy account, and can be protected with Face ID or Touch ID. It is designed for iPhone and iPad, whether you work retail, hospitality, healthcare, delivery, security, freelance jobs, student shifts, seasonal work, or any schedule that changes week to week. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Punch Time Clock4 screens
ShiftBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Punch Time Clock at 36K against ShiftBuddy's 1. Punch Time Clock also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). ShiftBuddy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Punch Time Clock sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and ShiftBuddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShiftBuddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Punch Time Clock has 36K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Punch Time Clock versus ShiftBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPunch Time ClockShiftBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (36K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings36K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrent MorrisLife Utility Apps, LLC

Customer experience

Punch Time Clock

All ratings36,066 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews477 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative23.1%

ShiftBuddy

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Punch Time Clock

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Export feature not working
  • Crashes when using certain functions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to add notes to entries
  • Option to customize pay periods
  • Support for multiple pay rates
  • Sync data to cloud storage

ShiftBuddy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Punch Time Clock

One-time4
  • Nice Tip$1.99
  • Amazing Tip$4.99
  • Pro Upgrade$7.99
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  • Ridiculous Tip$19.99
2 purchases

ShiftBuddy

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$19.99

Questions

Is Punch Time Clock free?
Punch Time Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShiftBuddy free?
ShiftBuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Punch Time Clock or ShiftBuddy?
ShiftBuddy is rated higher. Punch Time Clock averages 4.8 out of 5 from 36K ratings, while ShiftBuddy averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Punch Time Clock or ShiftBuddy have ads?
Neither Punch Time Clock nor ShiftBuddy shows ads.

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