Comparison

Deputy vs WorkEasy.Team

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

Head to head
About

Deputy

This app simplifies employee scheduling, time tracking, and workforce management for businesses. It allows for easy creation of balanced schedules, communication with staff, and integration with payroll systems. Employees can view their schedules, manage availability, and clock in/out.

Highlights
  • Create balanced, cost-effective schedules
  • Publish shift information via push notification
  • Fill open shifts with team pick-up
  • Approve leave and shift changes
  • Manage team communications and tasks
  • Track time and attendance
  • Integrate with payroll and POS systems
Features
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Deputy is the ultimate employee scheduling app, shift planner, staff timesheet app, & complete workforce management solution. Get started for free today! Over 250,000 workplaces in 90+ countries trust Deputy for their employee scheduling software, leave management, time & attendance tracking, team task management, staff communication, demand forecasting and performance management. HOW DEPUTY HELPS BUSINESSES ◆ Easily create balanced, cost-effective schedules in minutes from any device. ◆ Publish personalized shift information to your team via push notification, email, and SMS. ◆ Fill open shifts easily by pushing alerts to your team and letting them pick up available shifts. ◆ Approve leave from your mobile easily so you're never caught off guard. ◆ Quickly approve employee shift swaps and shift changes in seconds straight from a mobile device. ◆ Manage team communications easily in one place: broadcast announcements, assign tasks to specific individuals / shifts, and get confirmation that your team has seen it. ◆ Get greater insight and control of your business, and keep yourself compliant with inbuilt fair workweek compliance. ◆ Connect with your existing apps to give you end-to-end visibility. Deputy syncs with over 300+ of the world's most used solutions such as ADP, Square, QuickBooks, Xero, Gusto, NetSuite, Revel, LightSpeed and many more! HOW DEPUTY HELPS EMPLOYEES ◆ Get your work schedule on your device as soon as it’s published. ◆ View all your upcoming shifts in one place and receive alerts on days when you’re due to work. ◆ Manage your availability and time off easily, see what’s approved, and make it simple for your manager to know when you are and aren’t available. ◆ Clock in and out of work quickly from the app. ◆ See important company updates, manage your tasks and communicate with your team from your mobile device. TRY DEPUTY TODAY Setting up your business? Sign up for a free trial today. No setup fee. Pick the plan to suit your business: monthly, annually or flexi. Always know that you have the right people scheduled with our Shift Planner: Deputy makes it easy to create fully costed schedules in minutes, then notify staff when they’re working. Deputy will even automatically remind employees of their shifts on the morning that they are due to work. Manage employees’ leave requests or unavailability from a central location, then integrate with your online schedules so there’s no risk of scheduling someone who is not available. Need to be smart about staffing levels? Deputy integrates with your POS & payroll information to make sure you’re scheduling efficiently, and pulls in real-time weather information so you know if you need extra shifts or not! Clocking in to work is made simple with our time clock software, including GPS validation, to quickly track time and attendance (or optionally from a tablet Kiosk, using our inbuilt facial detection technology). Finalizing your timesheets and exporting to payroll can be done with one click from your mobile device. Joining an existing team? It's free - just log in. CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS “Straightaway, the time and attendance headache disappeared. There’s no need to manually enter data from one system to another. It’s all uploaded effortlessly. And on our tablets or phones, we can sign off timesheets with a swipe." "Everyone gets alerted to their shifts, which they can check on their smartphones. Everyone knows where they should be, when they should be there and what they should be doing." "Deputy has been a revelation for our business. We’re saving approximately $30,000 a year in admin costs alone. But even more importantly, we’re now able to optimize all shifts and staffing levels." ABOUT DEPUTY APP Our staff scheduling app is updated regularly to make sure we’re always providing the best and most flexible features to the businesses we work with. Any feedback? Need help? Email experience+ios@deputy.com Terms of Use: https://www.deputy.com/subscription-agreement

About

WorkEasy.Team

This comprehensive workforce management tool simplifies employee scheduling, time tracking, and HR data management for small businesses. It allows employees to clock in/out, view schedules, and request time off, while managers can build schedules, track labor costs, and store employee documents.

Highlights
  • Employee time tracking and attendance
  • Shift scheduling and availability management
  • Time off policies and requests
  • HR data management and document signing
  • Company asset tracking
  • Real-time labor cost monitoring
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WorkEasy.team is an all-in-one workforce management software for small businesses that makes managing employees easier and more efficient than ever, empowering your team to focus on what really matters! WorkEasy.team Helps You With: Time tracking and attendance: Employee time tracking has never been so easy and reliable! Using the time clock app, employees can clock in, start/end break, clock out, and transfer to other jobs right from their phones, or on computers or the XENIO biometric time clocks in your office. Managers can easily track breaks, overtime, job costing, timesheets, and much more all in the WorkEasy.team time tracking feature. Build and share your schedule: With the WorkEasy.team employee scheduling app, employees can easily see when and where to work and be notified of their scheduled shifts. Employees can view their latest scheduled shifts from anywhere, submit their availability, drop shifts, and swap shifts with their co-workers. Time Off policies and requests: Manage employee’s time off, Vacation, Sick, Holidays, and other time off types using our time off policies to configure accrual rules, define request validations, and most importantly allow employees to request time off right from the mobile app. HR data management: Build a custom employee directory with visual and intuitive employee profiles. Share important documents with your team and request employees to sent documents or sign documents electronically (e-signature) to ensure all employee documents are in a single location. Keep track of company assets and efficiently assign them to your employees. Employees Can: • Clock in/out from a Xenio time clock, web or their smartphones • View their up-to-date work schedule anywhere • View the hours they’ve worked and estimated earnings • Request and accept shift swaps • Submit their availability and time-off requests • Receive shift reminders Managers Can: • Build and publish teamwork schedules • View team availability and time-off requests while building the work schedule • View the status of employees, and add or edit employee timesheets • Check scheduled labor costs and actual labor costs • Get alerts when employees are late or reach overtime • Set up time off policies • Store and access employees documents WorkEasy.team provides US-based phone, email, and chat support free to all businesses, and our mobile app is free for managers and employees.

Screenshots

Deputy4 screens
WorkEasy.Team4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deputy at 59% against WorkEasy.Team's 0%. Deputy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (6.2K vs 8). WorkEasy.Team's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Deputy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month. WorkEasy.Team asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Deputy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deputy has 6.2K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Deputy's written reviews are positive against 0% of WorkEasy.Team's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deputy ships an update weekly, WorkEasy.Team fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Deputy versus WorkEasy.Team: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeputyWorkEasy.Team
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.2K ratings) — better2.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews59.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6.2K — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size288 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeputy.comEasyWorkforce Software Inc.

Customer experience

Deputy

All ratings6,177 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews429 reviews
Positive59.2%
Neutral9.6%
Negative31.2%

WorkEasy.Team

All ratings8 ratings
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Deputy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes frequently
  • Timesheets not accurately recording hours worked
  • Shift scheduling issues after updates
  • Notification system not reliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to cancel shifts
  • Improve communication features between employees
  • Provide more detailed reporting and analytics
  • Allow employees to view their leave balances
  • Integrate with more payroll/HR systems

WorkEasy.Team

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Deputy

Subscriptions2
  • 10 users1 Month trial$59.991 Month
  • 25 users1 Month trial$144.991 Month
None

WorkEasy.Team

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Deputy free?
Deputy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WorkEasy.Team free?
WorkEasy.Team is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Deputy or WorkEasy.Team?
Deputy is rated higher. Deputy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.2K ratings, while WorkEasy.Team averages 2.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Deputy or WorkEasy.Team have ads?
Neither Deputy nor WorkEasy.Team shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deputy or WorkEasy.Team?
Deputy ships an update weekly, and WorkEasy.Team fortnightly. Most recently, Deputy was updated on November 6, 2026 and WorkEasy.Team on November 3, 2026.

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