HostedTime vs SmartLinx Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HostedTime
Track your work hours and view your upcoming shifts. This app allows you to check your timecards, view schedules, and monitor your available balances. You can also send and receive messages directly within the application.
- View timecards
- View schedules
- View balances
- Send messages
- Receive messages
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Time/Attendance Mobile Application * View Timecards * View Schedules * View Balances * Send/Receive Messages
SmartLinx Go
Access real-time scheduling, time and attendance, payroll, and accruals information from your mobile device. Submit changes, fix errors, and make requests on the go. Stay informed with mobile alerts and notifications.
- Real-time scheduling access
- Time and attendance tracking
- Payroll and accruals information
- Submit changes and requests
- View and sign up for open shifts
- Manage time-off balances
- Access pay-stub history
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SmartLinx Go connects you to what you need, when you need it. You can access real-time scheduling, time and attendance, payroll and accruals information on your mobile phone, anytime, anywhere. With SmartLinx Go, you can do more than view live information, you can submit changes, fix errors, and submit requests all from your phone. As an employee, you can use SmartLinx Go to: View and sign up for open shifts Review your remaining time off balance and submit time-off request Punch in and out of work if authorized Access your real-time schedule Get mobile alerts to help you stay on schedule Receive notifications of status changes for Open Shifts, Time Off, Schedule, etc. Access your full pay-stub history Update your contact information and notification preferences And much more…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartLinx Go at 2.8 against HostedTime's 1.7. SmartLinx Go also leads on review sentiment (14% vs 5%) and ratings volume (553 vs 159). On price, update cadence, 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.
SmartLinx Go holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 159 and 553 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of HostedTime's written reviews are positive against 14% of SmartLinx Go's.
HostedTime ships an update every 11 days, SmartLinx Go fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HostedTime | SmartLinx Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (159 ratings) | 2.8 (553 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.3% of reviews | 13.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 159 | 553 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bektek Enterprises, Inc. | SmartLinx Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
HostedTime
SmartLinx Go
User reviews
HostedTime
From 159 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Everything needed is accessible
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent logouts
- 🐛 Locked out of account
- 🐛 App glitches and errors
- 🐛 Pay issues
- 🐛 Cannot access information
SmartLinx Go
From 553 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy and reliable
- 🚀 Convenient
- 💰 Helpful for tracking work hours and pay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 🔄 Constantly logging out users
- ⏱️ Slow and unresponsive
- 🤯 Frustrating to use
- 📵 Frequent crashes and white screens
Bugs and requests
HostedTime
Reported bugs
84 issues- Keeps logging me out
- Locked out for days
- Messes up every weekend
- Can't get paid right
- Won't let me back in
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- Picks you out often
- Frequently does not work
- PTO is always messed up
- Desktop version does not recognize login and password
- Pay stubs currently stuck loading
- Cannot access my information
- Continue to get message that I am locked out
- Cannot access any of my information
- No type of help from app support
- Cannot log in
- Worst app
- App has logged me out and will not log me back in
- Won't let you contact developer
- Took the update on 1/16/25 now I cannot login
- Get an error 'cannot communicate with server'
- New update kicked me out and now I'm unable to log back in
- Can't get my paycheck on my HostedTime anymore
- Unable to download paystubs
- Cannot see paychecks
- Cannot see w2s
- Since update every time I press on messages it says no conversation yet
- Won't let me press on links sent to me
- When viewing pay stubs in the app it just says the pdf downloaded and can't see anything
- App only works when it wants to
- Has my account locked
- Will not even allow me to use one time code to access
- Online doesn't have account either
- How do I get account unlocked?
- Saying that it's 5/30/2024 for time
- Can't see scheduled PTO days
- Don't have an update available
- App Store says last update was 9 months ago
- Couldn't get it to work on my phone
- Recently logged me out and I can't get back in
- It says I've been locked out
- This app is nothing but problems and error
- Has logged me out for some reason and it will not allow me to log back in
- Wouldn't let me logged into another facility
- Basically useless
- I have been locked out of my account and there's nothing I can do about it
- Keeps logging me out and not able to sign back in
- It doesn't show all the information needed
- Just get a blank screen
- Won't work for my apple phone or apple tablet
- Can't download time sensitive check stubs
- App updated on my phone. Now I can't log in.
- This app will only allow for 1 account
- Can't log in even after trying multiple time and both ways
- The app does not work
- Newest version isn't showing correct hours
- All hours (paid reg, shift difference, service worker and sick hours) are all calculated together
- Cannot see your PTO with the new update
- Have to download your check to files just to see it
- Hour totals incorrect
- No period hour totals
- Does not scroll on time card correctly
- Practically useless
- Can't view actual hours that I have actually worked
- Everything is thrown together hours and shift differences are calculated together
- Horrible update. Change it back!!!
- Can't even see my PTO time
- Can't seem to log in or update
- Unable to see the balances on my account after the update
- Can't see PTO with new update
- This new update is trash
- The old version was better
- Screen does not load completely
- It doesn't show a total of your time
- Keeps saying username or password is incorrect
- Unable to get into the app
- When you need to view anything important. App is giving you a hard time.
- Unable to login with the correct login information
- App tends to crash anytime I try to see any of the messages from my facility
- Get the can't connect to server error message
- Server not available
- Unable to log in. Stating 'wrong ID and or Password'
- Gives an error as of lately saying wrong User ID and Password
- Can't do the App Support because it asks for email and password which I do not have
- No app update for it to do
Requested features
9 requests- Allow changes to banking info for direct deposit
- Improve app for users
- Add ability to see PTO
- Put back actual hours worked to the time clock
- Separate hours worked from shift differences
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- Allow viewing paychecks without downloading
- Fix app so it works for Apple phones/tablets
- Allow multiple accounts for users working for multiple companies
- Fix app so it works on iPhone 14
SmartLinx Go
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues and password reset problems
- Timesheet and schedule not loading properly
- Incompatibility with newer devices and OS updates
Requested features
3 requests- Facial recognition for faster login
- Improved stability and reliability
- Better notification system for schedules and updates
In-app purchases
HostedTime
No in-app purchases
SmartLinx Go
No in-app purchases
