Comparison

7punches vs Kintow

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Employee time clocking
  • Syncs with 7shifts scheduling
  • Labor cost reduction tools
  • Tip declaration
  • Offline punch recording
  • Punch editing and approval
Features
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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.

About

Kintow

Streamline restaurant inventory management with voice or swipe input. This tool offers real-time syncing to a dashboard for accurate food cost tracking and automated ordering. Designed for efficiency in busy kitchen environments.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated inventory counting
  • Swipe-based item selection
  • Support for dual units
  • Real-time dashboard syncing
  • Automated ordering integration
  • Food cost tracking
Features
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Kintow is the copilot for the modern restaurateur. Count inventory fast with voice or swipe — no clipboards, no spreadsheets. Say item names and quantities naturally. Our AI understands "5 cases of oat milk" and saves instantly. Or swipe through items and tap to count — with support for dual units like cases and individual bottles. Counts sync to your Kintow dashboard in real time, so your food cost tracking and automated ordering stay up to date. Designed for walk-in coolers, storage rooms, and busy kitchens where hands-free counting saves time.

Screenshots

7punches4 screens
Kintow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kintow at 100% against 7punches's 10%. Kintow also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0). 7punches's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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

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

Kintow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 7punches has 55 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of 7punches's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kintow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

7punches ships an update every 3 weeks, Kintow fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
7punches versus Kintow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter7punchesKintow
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (55 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer7shifts, Inc.Kintow Inc.

Customer experience

7punches

All ratings54 ratings
Positive22.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative72.2%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.0%

Kintow

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

7punches

No in-app purchases

None

Kintow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 7punches free?
7punches is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kintow free?
Kintow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 7punches or Kintow?
Kintow is rated higher. 7punches averages 2.0 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Kintow averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do 7punches or Kintow have ads?
Neither 7punches nor Kintow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 7punches or Kintow?
7punches ships an update every 3 weeks, and Kintow fortnightly. Most recently, 7punches was updated on October 23, 2026 and Kintow on October 12, 2026.

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