Comparison

AttendNow vs Curocat Partners

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

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AttendNow

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Geo-mark Attendance: Employees can accurately mark their attendance anytime from any location, with the help of the GPS from their smartphones. Managers can track the real-time location of staff on-field or other work sites. Location Tracking: Captures the location of your employees who travel for work and displays their travel route on Google Maps. Since the location is documented every couple of minutes only between the punch-in and punch-out period, there are no privacy issues. This feature is ideal for firms having a chain of stores or multiple office locations. Location tracking using radar.io service. Geo-fencing & Location Monitoring: Create a virtual barrier encircling the work location and record every time employees arrive and leave. AttendNow provides a time-stamped GPS record of where the punch happened and makes it easier to spot employees who mark their attendance outside the office location. Works Offline: While deploying staff to different sites for different projects, the poor network connection can be an issue. Once signed in, AttendNow can work completely offline and track attendance with the same accuracy exhibited when it works online. Whenever a connection is established, the data recorded while the app was offline is sent to the server. Leave Management: Employees can apply for leaves through the app and they'll be notified when the manager approves or rejects it. A notification will be sent to the employer whenever an employee is absent. Timesheet: The hours of work done by each employee are trailed and the entire data is delivered in the form of timesheets, making project, team and time management much simpler. Early or late punch-ins are reported accurately. Helps to curate better plans and manage time more productively. Overtime: Employees can keep track of working overtime and submit it to the manager for approval. By referring to the attendance tracker and timesheets, employers can provide the appropriate compensation for the extra work hours. Payroll Management: No manual intervention is required for payroll processing by interpreting the attendance since the attendance summary is integrated with payroll and accounting. Reduces payroll processing time and provides better security for payroll data. Shift Management: Shift planner manages and reschedules shifts for any number of employees effortlessly. Shifts are assigned in accordance with the complex shift requirements and the work duration of each employee. Employees can also be allotted different days off. Dynamic Calendar: For enterprises with no fixed shift timings, the dynamic calendar determines convenient shifts for the staff for each day of the week. Notifications are sent accordingly to the user to let them know when to punch in and punch out. Managing shifts of a large number of employees becomes much effortless. Holiday Management: Predefine your business leave policies and let employees know about their leave availability so that they can plan accordingly. Employers can also manage the yearly holiday calendar and keep staff updated about holidays. Selfie based attendance: Users can prove and confirm their punch-in and punch-out location through selfies where the office background is also included. Picture-based attendance eliminates the possibility of buddy punching. A touch-free alternative for the biometric system, for precise attendance, in the light of the pandemic. Please note running GPS in the background is known to use up the battery.

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Curocat Partners

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You didn't open an institute to live in spreadsheets. You opened it to teach. But somewhere between texting fee reminders, taking attendance on paper, and rewriting the schedule for the third time this week, the admin tasks started eating the art. Curocat Partners is one app for every part of running an extracurricular business โ€” dance, music, sports, martial arts, yoga, art, swimming, academics, and beyond. So you can get back to the part you love. โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” A SCHEDULE THAT KEEPS UP WITH YOU Set up activities and recurring batches in minutes. Cancel a session, block a holiday, or extend a course without rebuilding the calendar. Filter by instructor, activity, or facility โ€” your week, the way you actually need to see it. ATTENDANCE WITHOUT THE CLIPBOARD Mark attendance one tap at a time, or in bulk for a whole session. Every record searchable, every learner accounted for. So when a parent asks "did she come last Tuesday?", you have the answer in two seconds. EVERY LEARNER, FULLY KNOWN See every student across every program. Track session history, add private notes, and view a learner's full journey with you at a glance. No more flipping between a contact list, a class register, and your memory. PAYMENTS YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND Log payments per enrollment. See who's paid, who's overdue, and what's coming up โ€” without exporting anything into Excel. A TEAM THAT DOESN'T STEP ON YOURS Invite admins, managers, and coaches with role-based access. Each person sees exactly what they need to do their job โ€” and nothing they don't. INSTRUCTORS, FACILITIES, AND RENTALS Manage your coaches and your spaces with the same care. Build instructor profiles. Document facility capacity, amenities, and galleries. Even rent your space out by the hour โ€” pricing tiers, peak periods, and blockouts included. INSIGHTS THAT MEAN SOMETHING A clean dashboard for renewals coming up, payments due, and how your programs are actually performing. Decisions, not just transactions. โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” BUILT FOR โ€ข Dance studios juggling 30 batches across 4 instructors โ€ข Sports academies tracking attendance for hundreds of kids โ€ข Music schools chasing fees from forgetful parents โ€ข Yoga teachers running classes from two different facilities โ€ข Anyone who started this work to teach, not to do paperwork PURPOSE-BUILT, NOT REPURPOSED Curocat Partners isn't a generic CRM, calendar, or accounting tool with "studio mode" bolted on. Every feature was designed for the way activity businesses actually run โ€” from the first inquiry to the last session of the season. โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” Download Curocat Partners. Spend less time managing your business โ€” and more time being the reason your students show up.

Screenshots

AttendNow4 screens
Curocat Partners4 screens

Verdict

The call

AttendNow and Curocat Partners are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AttendNow ships an update every 3 weeks, Curocat Partners every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
AttendNow versus Curocat Partners: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAttendNowCurocat Partners
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better16.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size47 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperATTENDNOW TECH SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITEDAyush Sanghai

In-app purchases

None

AttendNow

No in-app purchases

None

Curocat Partners

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AttendNow free?
AttendNow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Curocat Partners free?
Curocat Partners is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AttendNow or Curocat Partners have ads?
Neither AttendNow nor Curocat Partners shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AttendNow or Curocat Partners?
AttendNow ships an update every 3 weeks, and Curocat Partners every 11 days. Most recently, AttendNow was updated on November 7, 2026 and Curocat Partners on November 9, 2026.

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