7punches vs Kintow
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.
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.
- Voice-activated inventory counting
- Swipe-based item selection
- Support for dual units
- Real-time dashboard syncing
- Automated ordering integration
- Food cost tracking
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
7punches ships an update every 3 weeks, Kintow fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 7punches | Kintow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 7shifts, Inc. | Kintow Inc. |
Customer experience
7punches
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In-app purchases
7punches
No in-app purchases
Kintow
No in-app purchases









