Comparison

Great Lakes Skilled Trades vs Punch

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

Head to head
About

Great Lakes Skilled Trades

Features
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By downloading the app, you will be able to connect with us from the palm of your hand. Communicate via your preferred channels and receive instant notifications for jobs that are most relevant to you. The App was designed to create a better employee experience that lets you control where and when you work at great rates. It allows you to: -Message your recruiter at any time -Receive notifications for jobs that fit your criteria -Accept or reject shifts at any time -Track your hours, availability and commuting distance in real-time -Easily add experiences and skills to get the most relevant jobs. How do I get started? Great Lakes Skilled Trades's app is easy to configure. Once you have downloaded and opened the app, fill in the required fields and submit. Your request will go to us for credentialing.* Once your credentials have been verified you will start receiving job offers and you're ready to go! *New workers may be required to fill out paperwork to verify credentials, and jobs will be provided in the cities in which Great Lakes Skilled Trades operates

About

Punch

This app simplifies time tracking for teams, allowing employees to punch in and out easily. It streamlines payroll processing, manages paid time off, and handles commissions and bonuses. Integrates with popular payroll services.

Highlights
  • Team time clock
  • Payroll integration
  • Paid time off accrual
  • Commission and bonus tracking
  • Geofenced job sites
  • Kiosk mode for shared devices
  • Offline functionality
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Punch tracks your team's hours from punch in to payroll ready, in one app. Your crew punches in and out with a tap. You review the pay period. Payroll is ready. No spreadsheets, no paper timesheets, no guessing who worked when. And all of this verified data flows seamlessly into CRMb, once paired. Try Punch free. Every feature is on every plan, forever. You pay one flat price for your whole organization at every plan size. Punch in where it counts. Add optional geofenced job sites and an iPhone punch in only counts at the right place, so paid hours are worked hours. Punch in and out anywhere the work is done. Your schedule, in the app you punch from. If your company also runs CRMb, our companion app for scheduling and jobs, employees see their next two weeks of assigned shifts under My Shifts. Tap one for the customer, the job, the job site with its address, and the scheduler's notes - perfect for dispatch. One iPad for the whole crew. Kiosk mode turns a shared iPad into a punch station: pair it once and everyone punches in with their name and a PIN. QuickBooks Online and Square, built into the app. Connect either one, map your people, and push a whole pay period of approved hours straight through, no double entry. Re-exporting never creates duplicates. Approve in one tap. Review shifts, approve or reject a whole pay period at once, and mark it paid. Add a shift when someone forgot to punch, move it to the right job site, split it across sites or shifts, or delete it. Roles that fit how you work. Managers approve their own crew, and a senior manager can oversee other managers and their teams. Hand payroll to a dedicated Payroll role that marks the ready periods paid and cannot approve or reject a shift. Same with the Accounting role. Paid time off that accrues. Punch tracks balances that build with tenure across vacation, sick and personal time. Commission, bonuses, and paid travel. Employees log sales with a tap, managers approve them, and approved sales pay out with the pay period, a percent of sales or an amount per unit. Owners add bonuses by pay period, month, quarter, or year. Record in-transit time as its own shift with its own rate. Punch counts all of it toward overtime. Overtime and pay, done for your country. Pick your country at signup and Punch attaches your local overtime rules automatically, across 60 countries, and bills you in your own currency in 35 of them. Coverage spans the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, 20 countries of the euro area, the Nordics, central and eastern Europe, India, Brazil, Japan, Korea, southeast Asia, Australia, all six Gulf states, and Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Chile. Pay periods land on any day you choose, weekly or bi-weekly. Run more than one company. Switch organizations from your account and the whole app follows, notifications included. Rename an organization, or delete one you no longer need. Works on iPhone, iPad, and the web, offline too: punches, lunches, and requests sync the moment service returns. Available in Spanish and Canadian French. Punch también está disponible en español. Punch parle aussi français (Québec). Owners get unlimited job and project sites, pay rates by hour, salary, or location, and exports to CSV, Excel, or PowerPoint. Employees get a tap to punch, their lunch, their shifts, their time off, and their own export. Built for accountability and privacy. Every change is recorded with a reason and the manager who made it. No background tracking, no photo on punch, and no facial recognition. Plans for every size, every feature on every one: Punch Solo: 1 member Punch Startup: up to 3 members Punch Crew: up to 5 members Punch Team: up to 10 members Punch Company: up to 20 members Punch Premier: up to 50 members Punch Scale: up to 100 members More than 100 members runs on Punch Enterprise, managed from your Punch account on the web.

Screenshots

Great Lakes Skilled Trades3 screens
Punch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Great Lakes Skilled Trades at none against Punch's 14. Great Lakes Skilled Trades also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Punch's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 13 months). On price, 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. Punch sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Great Lakes Skilled Trades asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Great Lakes Skilled Trades ships an update every 13 months, Punch every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Great Lakes Skilled Trades versus Punch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreat Lakes Skilled TradesPunch
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB38 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWorkbox Staffing IncCRMb Industries LLC

In-app purchases

None

Great Lakes Skilled Trades

No in-app purchases

14 purchases

Punch

Subscriptions14
  • Punch Solo Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Punch Startup Monthly$16.991 Month
  • Punch Crew$27.991 Month
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  • Punch Team$44.991 Month
  • Punch Solo Annual$69.991 Year
  • Punch Premier$69.991 Month
  • Punch Company$79.991 Month
  • Punch Scale$129.991 Month
  • Punch Startup Annual$169.991 Year
  • Punch Crew (Annual)$279.991 Year
  • Punch Team (Annual)$449.991 Month
  • Punch Premier (Annual)$699.991 Year
  • Punch Company (Annual)$799.991 Year
  • Punch Scale (Annual)$999.991 Year

Questions

Is Great Lakes Skilled Trades free?
Great Lakes Skilled Trades is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Punch free?
Punch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Great Lakes Skilled Trades or Punch have ads?
Neither Great Lakes Skilled Trades nor Punch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Great Lakes Skilled Trades or Punch?
Great Lakes Skilled Trades ships an update every 13 months, and Punch every 4 days. Most recently, Great Lakes Skilled Trades was updated on October 8, 2026 and Punch on October 11, 2026.

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