Malachite vs ESS Attendance App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Malachite
A cloud-based human capital management system designed to streamline HR operations. It offers comprehensive tools for managing employees, payroll, attendance, recruitment, and more, supporting both Hijri and Gregorian dates with Arabic and English language options.
- Employee Management
- Self-Services
- Payroll Processing
- Attendance Tracking
- Recruitment Tools
- Leave Management
- Appraisals
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Malachite is HR cloud-based system to manage human capital resources. The system covers all needs to manage human capital resource starting from, employees, self-services, payrolls, reports, attendances, appraisals, recruitments, leaves, end of services, fingerprints and multiple companies. Malachite HR system support Hijri and Gregorian dates with Arabic and English Language.
ESS Attendance App
This business application allows employees to remotely sign in and out of work using only their mobile device. It offers location, photo, and IP network restrictions for secure attendance tracking.
- Remote sign-in/out
- GPS location restriction
- Photo verification
- IP network restriction
- Mobile-only attendance
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Using Daftra ESS an Employee can sign-in and sign-out remotely without being at the company's headquarters, and using the mobile phone only Daftra ESS supports: Sign-in with location restriction by using GPS Sign-in with photo restriction by using mobile camera Sign-in with IP Network restriction by detecting mobile internet connection
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ESS Attendance App at 100% against Malachite's 0%. ESS Attendance App also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). 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.
ESS Attendance App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Malachite's written reviews are positive against 100% of ESS Attendance App's.
Malachite ships an update every 5 weeks, ESS Attendance App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Malachite | ESS Attendance App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nudhum Information Technology Company | IZAM INC FOR SOFTWARE |
Customer experience
Malachite
ESS Attendance App
In-app purchases
Malachite
No in-app purchases
ESS Attendance App
No in-app purchases
