Time Clock by Homebase vs Time Clock Terminal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Clock by Homebase
This app simplifies employee time and attendance tracking, reducing payroll errors and ensuring labor law compliance. It offers features like early clock-in prevention, overtime alerts, and photo verification to prevent time theft. Seamless integration with payroll and POS systems streamlines operations.
- Employee time and attendance tracking
- Payroll export
- Labor law compliance
- Overtime prevention
- Photo verification
- Offline mode
- POS and payroll integration
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The Homebase time clock makes it easy to track your employees’ time and attendance -- for free. The Homebase time clock helps you: Reduce payroll headaches. Accurately track your employees’ hours, and easily edit time cards when necessary. Then easily export to run payroll. Stay compliant with labor laws. Integrated timesheets make it easy to see who took a break and when. And employee time cards, including edit history, are stored securely in the cloud to ensure FLSA compliance. Save on labor costs. Set up early clock-in prevention and get notified when employees are about to hit overtime. Eliminate buddy punching and time theft. Automatically snap a photo so you can be sure the right person is clocking in and out. The Homebase time clock app for iPad works seamlessly with all of our time clock apps using a secure PIN. So your employees can clock in on your iPad and clock out from their smartphone, computer, or your point of sale terminal. And there’s a built-in offline mode, so you’ll never miss a clock out—even with unreliable wi-fi. The Homebase time clock integrates with popular payroll providers to make running payroll a breeze. Employee time cards are automatically formatted for easy import. - Gusto - Intuit Quickbooks Online Payroll - Square Payroll - Heartland - ADP - And more The Homebase time clock also integrates with leading point-of-sale systems, so your employees can clock in and out for shifts right from your POS. - Clover - Square - Toast - Revel - Lightspeed - Upserve - And more
Time Clock Terminal
This app allows employees to clock in and out of shifts using an iPad. It integrates with scheduling and attendance features to accurately track time, manage labor budgets, and process payroll.
- Employee clock in/out
- iPad time tracking
- Shift management
- Labor budget management
- Payroll processing
- Attendance tracking
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The When I Work Time Clock Terminal app for iPad makes it easy for your employees to clock in and out of their shifts. Set up the app on an iPad at your workplace using a valid When I Work account with Attendance. When I Work Attendance works even better when used with Scheduling. Easily track scheduled time and actual time, process payroll accurately, and manage your labor budgets with ease.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Time Clock Terminal at 3.1 against Time Clock by Homebase's 2.3. Time Clock Terminal also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Time Clock by Homebase's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 14%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.
Time Clock Terminal holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Time Clock by Homebase's written reviews are positive against 14% of Time Clock Terminal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Clock by Homebase | Time Clock Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (37 ratings) | 3.1 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pioneer Works, Inc. | When I Work, Inc. |
Customer experience
Time Clock by Homebase
Time Clock Terminal
In-app purchases
Time Clock by Homebase
No in-app purchases
Time Clock Terminal
No in-app purchases
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