Comparison

uAttend vs BambooHR

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

Head to head
About

uAttend

This app allows employees to clock in and out, manage timecards, and add tips and expenses. Supervisors and administrators gain real-time oversight of employee attendance, with features for editing timecards and managing departments.

Highlights
  • Clock in/out for work, lunch, and breaks
  • View and manage time cards
  • Add tips and expenses
  • Department transfers
  • Leave notes for supervisors
  • Real-time employee attendance oversight
  • Edit time cards
Features
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The uAttend mobile app works in conjunction with uAttend’s Cloud-Connected Time and Attendance System. Employees appreciate the convenience of in and out punching in the palm their hands while administrators and supervisors manage timecards with ease. For a personalized touch, the app displays your company logo upon login once you’ve added it to your existing uAttend account. SMART PUNCHING Hourly employees can clock in and out for work, lunches and breaks. It’s all possible in the app! To streamline the process, the app shows the next most likely punch option available to each employee. When someone is on their lunch break, they’ll return to a screen prompt to punch in from lunch.Once punched in, the employee will see their punch status along with the time, date and department they are punched into. They can even transfer departments with the touch of a button. DEPARTMENT TRANSFERS When transferring departments employees are prompted to enter the new department or search by name. Once you transfer it automatically punches you out of your existing department and punches you into the new one. EASY ACCESS TO TIME CARDS Employees with permission can view current and past time cards. It’s easy to approve or email their time cards to a supervisor or themselves in an instant. ADDING TIPS AND EXPENSES Employees can add tips and expenses right from the app. This comes in handy for reporting purposes and so payroll can handle. Add expenses based on the expense codes your account has set up. Track gas, team lunches or whatever you need by selecting the category and adding the amount. Once everything is entered, you can filter by gross pay, notes, tips and expenses. LEAVING NOTES Keep the lines of communication open knowing staff can write a short note to their supervisor with each punch. ADMINISTRATOR/SUPERVISOR FEATURES Administrators and supervisors enjoy real-time oversight on employee time and attendance regardless of location. The app provides a list of all employees and their punch status. At a glance you’ll know who’s in, who’s out and who’s missing. Filter by different statuses to identify who’s at lunch. Administrators view and edit all departments while supervisors view and edit departments or employees they are responsible for. Email timecards individually or to multiple people. EDITING TIME CARDS Within your account, you can filter by employee or department to return results. Search employees to show gross pay, overtime, benefit hours and more. Email the timecard summary for all employees and add notes before sending.As an administrator you can edit punches, facilitate group punches, approve timecards and even contact support directly from the app. If you change your pay period after the fact, there is a way to recalculate timecards as well.

About

BambooHR

Access essential HR functions on the go. View your company directory, manage time off requests, and stay updated with notifications. Securely access employee information and approve or deny leave requests from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Company directory access
  • Time off requests and approvals
  • View colleague information
  • Add contacts to phone
  • Check time off balances
  • Push notifications for requests
  • TouchID and passcode protection
Currently charting
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BambooHR is online HR software for small and medium-sized businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and free you up to do meaningful work. The BambooHR app lets you take some of those most important functions with you, and makes your most common tasks in BambooHR simple and fast. * In order to do anything with the BambooHR app you will need a current BambooHR account. Find out more on our website. * The app fully supports single sign-on (SAML) to login Your Company Directory, Everywhere You Go Your company’s phone numbers, emails, photos, titles—your whole company directory goes wherever you do. * See colleague’s information and call, email, or message them with a tap * Quickly add someone’s info to your phone’s contacts Plan and Manage Time Off Planning a trip? Request time off when you’re out and about. Leave requests can be submitted in the app, and if you’re an approver, you can approve them there as well. * See who’s out of the office today and on any future date * See current and calculate your future time off balances * Submit, view, edit, and comment on your time off requests * Approve and deny time off requests * Push notifications keep you in the loop on the status of your requests And don’t worry, TouchID and passcode protection will help keep your information secure. Happy Bambooing!

Screenshots

uAttend4 screens
BambooHR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BambooHR at 4.7 against uAttend's 1.8. BambooHR also leads on ratings volume (13K vs 233) and review sentiment (26% vs 5%). uAttend's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BambooHR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BambooHR has 13K ratings behind it against 233, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of uAttend's written reviews are positive against 26% of BambooHR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

uAttend ships an update every 6 weeks, BambooHR every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
uAttend versus BambooHR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruAttendBambooHR
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (233 ratings)4.7 (13K ratings) — better
Positive reviews5.3% of reviews26.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23313K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#144 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size221 MB287 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWorkwell Technologies, Inc.BambooHR

Customer experience

uAttend

All ratings231 ratings
Positive17.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative78.8%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive5.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative92.4%

BambooHR

All ratings12,755 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews287 reviews
Positive26.1%
Neutral12.9%
Negative61.0%

User reviews

uAttend

From 233 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⭐ Brilliant
  • 👍 Good app
  • 👍 Helps

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes constantly
  • 🐛 Freezes and glitches
  • 🐛 Slow and buggy
  • 🐛 Doesn't work
  • 🐛 Unreliable

BambooHR

From 13K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use for employer and employee
  • 👍 Simple to use
  • 👍 Professional approach
  • 👍 User friendly
  • 👍 Great app when it involves anything to do with my job

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App ask for update to see inbox, people or my info
  • 🐛 Locks you out
  • 🐛 Spends a lot of time down, can't always see signature so you don't know if forms are actually filed out or not
  • 🐛 Not user friendly
  • 🐛 Freezes

Bugs and requests

uAttend

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login issues
  • Punch in/out not working
  • Crashes on launch
  • Syncing issues
  • Compatibility problems with newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Bring it to Apple Watch
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve time card and accrual information
  • Add more employee-friendly features

BambooHR

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App ask for update to see inbox, people or my info
  • Locks you out
  • Spends a lot of time down, can't always see signature so you don't know if forms are actually filed out or not
  • Freezes
  • Notifications don't clear properly
Show 9 more
  • Badges slow to update, annoying
  • Poor crashes
  • Log in is impossible
  • Slow app
  • Phone directory look up not working
  • Contacts don't work
  • Document Sigining not working
  • Crashes on log in
  • Crashes every time you try to save a contact locally

Requested features

14 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced calendar view on app
  • Allow employees to download letter of employment at their own
  • Easier way to fix clocking issues
  • Easier way to track lieu hours
Show 9 more
  • Open app from email links
  • More functionality on app compared to website
  • Ability to cancel time off requests from app
  • Include user on calendar/out today view
  • Text-based recruiting services
  • Ability to onboard new hires from app
  • Allow document signing on mobile
  • Announcements in the app
  • Ability to view emergency contacts

In-app purchases

None

uAttend

No in-app purchases

None

BambooHR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is uAttend free?
uAttend is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BambooHR free?
BambooHR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, uAttend or BambooHR?
BambooHR is rated higher. uAttend averages 1.8 out of 5 from 233 ratings, while BambooHR averages 4.7 from 13K ratings.
Do uAttend or BambooHR have ads?
Neither uAttend nor BambooHR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, uAttend or BambooHR?
uAttend ships an update every 6 weeks, and BambooHR every 2 weeks. Most recently, uAttend was updated on October 9, 2026 and BambooHR on October 14, 2026.

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