7punches vs QTS Mobile
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.
QTS Mobile
Manage your QTS data center environment on-demand with real-time insights and control. Access service desk, manage physical access, monitor power, and provision virtual connections to major cloud providers.
- Manage Service Desk incidents and tickets
- Control physical access and badging
- Monitor real-time power draw metrics
- Provision virtual connections to clouds
- Order power circuits and cross connects
- View sustainability and compliance reports
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QTS Mobile provides access to our suite of real-time apps that make it easy to manage and optimize your QTS data center environment on-demand. With QTS Mobile, QTS customers can: • Manage all Service Desk incidents and tickets • Manage physical access and badging processes • View real-time power draw metrics • View 3D replication of your deployment with embedded environmental metrics • Order power circuits • Order cross connects • Provision virtual connections to AWS, Azure and Google clouds, QTS internetConnect service, and between QTS data centers • Order and schedule premium remote management services • View Sustainability metrics • View and export badge activity and data center compliance reports • View QTS ecosystem of on-net carriers, networks and cloud providers More: Get real-time insight into your QTS data center environment on-demand. With QTS Mobile, customers have access to 100% of the QTS Service Delivery Platform. Service Desk • Manage and view status and historical details of all Service Desk cases • Request Temporary Visitor access • Request Remote Hands support • Request Equipment Removal • Schedule Inbound & Outbound Shipments • Order IP over KVM Services Premium Remote Management Solutions • Access SmartCam vision system, requires premium service • View Smart Sensor temperature and ambient humidity metrics, requires premium service • Order and schedule IP over KVM services • Order and schedule QTS Huddle sessions – live streaming/collaboration events with QTS techs and up to 7 SMEs User Management • Create/Edit/Disable users with roles and permissions • Request and disable badges on-demand • View who is on site at any moment in time • View and export Badge Activity reports • View and export QTS data center compliance reports Power Analytics • Calculates and displays average power demand versus contracted power • View power draw by suite, cage, rack/cabinet, circuits and poles • Identifies overused assets and enclosures • Real-time trended graphs show fluctuations with date and time stamp • Shows nested hierarchical information for UPS’ and PDUs for customers with dedicated devices • Generate and export reports on-demand • Opt-in for automated power overage notifications Online Ordering • Order, contract and provision in one paperless transaction • Cross connects • Switchboard Interconnection Services include: • 1 and 10 GB ports • Virtual Connections to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform • Virtual Connections between QTS Data Centers • Virtual Connections to local carrier hotels • Virtual Connections to QTS internet blend • Remote Hands Monthly Subscriptions Dashboard Dashboard displays a real-time snapshot of key deployment metrics and operational information with drill down capabilities: • View Power Consumption vs Power Contracted • View who’s on site at any point in time • View enclosures and circuit pairs reaching power draw thresholds • Open and manage Service Desk cases • Activate Switchboard ports • View status of online orders • See Sustainability metrics • Access compliance reports • Access API resources Getting started is easy – sign in with your QTS SDP Platform user name and password. For assistance, please contact our Customer Support team at 866.239.5000. SDP is available to all QTS customers and accessible via QTS Mobile, web, or API. QTS continues to innovate. Tell us what features you need and how you would use them via the Feedback link in the app’s menu. We are listening!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: QTS Mobile at 100% against 7punches's 10%. QTS Mobile also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
QTS Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of 7punches's written reviews are positive against 100% of QTS Mobile's.
7punches ships an update every 3 weeks, QTS Mobile every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | 7punches | QTS Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (56 ratings) | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 7shifts, Inc. | QTS Realty Trust |
Customer experience
7punches
QTS Mobile
In-app purchases
7punches
No in-app purchases
QTS Mobile
No in-app purchases









