7punches vs ExpandShare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
7punches
This free time-clocking system is designed for restaurants to simplify employee scheduling, payroll, and attendance. It allows staff to easily punch in and out, while managers can track labor costs, enforce policies, and manage punches securely.
- Employee time clocking
- Syncs with 7shifts scheduling
- Labor cost reduction tools
- Tip declaration
- Offline punch recording
- Punch editing and approval
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Meet 7punches, a free, easy, time-clocking system built specifically for restaurants. 7punches is a companion app to 7shifts — a free employee scheduling app built for restaurants. 7punches is designed to help restaurateurs manage scheduling, payroll, and attendance like a pro, and to help staff quickly and easily punch in and out for their shifts. How 7punches works: - 7punches app serves as an easy-to-use, secure, time-clocking punch pad for your employees. - Syncs with 7shifts to generate powerful insights about your sales, budgets, staff attendance, and productivity. - Reduce your labor costs when you set limits on early clock ins, program auto punch outs, enforce breaks, and prevent unauthorized punches. - Prompt staff to declare tips at the end of each shift. - Record and sync every employee punch, even when 7punches is not online. - Easily edit and/or approve all employee punches About 7shifts: - 7shifts is employee scheduling software for restaurant managers and employees. - It provides a powerful platform for restaurant owners and managers to schedule staff and manage requests on the go. - Employees can access schedules and submit time-off requests, availability updates, and swap shifts from anywhere. - 7shifts and 7punches work together to make employee punches simple, and to provide managers with valuable labor cost data.
ExpandShare
This platform streamlines restaurant staff training and development. It offers a mobile-first approach with AI-powered tools for creating custom learning paths and translating content. Managers can organize operations and track employee progress effectively.
- Mobile-first training interface
- AI-driven learning path creation
- Multi-language content translation
- Blended in-person and digital training tracking
- Restaurant-specific content database
- Newsfeed with translation
- Labor management reporting
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ExpandShare, a Restaurant365 Company, is a mobile-first platform designed to help restaurants elevate the entire employment lifecycle and guest experience with standardized, continual education. Managers save time by making training resources available to staff at the right place and time, and with self-serve AI automation, leaders can quickly build custom learning paths and translate them into dozens of languages. It's time to organize and automate your restaurant training and operations with ExpandShare. Training Platform Features & Benefits Mobile-first interface Self-serve learning Blended in-person + digital training tracking AI-driven translation, training track building, and checklists Restaurant-specific content database with compliance tracks Newsfeed with language translation Reporting to empower strategic labor management Integrations with top restaurant technology partners To set up a new account, visit expandshare.com. Employees and team members will need their team credentials to log in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ExpandShare at 57% against 7punches's 10%. ExpandShare also leads on rating (4.1 vs 2.0) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 7punches's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). 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.
ExpandShare holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 58 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of 7punches's written reviews are positive against 57% of ExpandShare's.
7punches ships an update every 3 weeks, ExpandShare every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 7punches | ExpandShare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (55 ratings) | 4.1 (58 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 | 58 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 7shifts, Inc. | Expand LLC |
Customer experience
7punches
ExpandShare
In-app purchases
7punches
No in-app purchases
ExpandShare
No in-app purchases








