Time Clock by Homebase vs Rippling Timeclock
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
Rippling Timeclock
This app enables employees to clock in and out, manage breaks, and adjust shifts using a shared device. It requires an existing Rippling employer account to function.
- Clock in and out
- Manage breaks
- Change shifts
- Shared device functionality
- Requires employer account
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The Rippling Timeclock app allows employees to clock in and out, take breaks, change their shifts, and more—all from a single, shared device. Note: To use the Rippling Timeclock app, you must have a Rippling account through your employer.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rippling Timeclock at 3.9 against Time Clock by Homebase's 2.3. Rippling Timeclock also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Time Clock by Homebase's advantage is ratings volume (37 vs 10). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Rippling Timeclock holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 10 respectively.
Time Clock by Homebase ships an update every 2 months, Rippling Timeclock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Clock by Homebase | Rippling Timeclock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (37 ratings) | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pioneer Works, Inc. | People Center, Inc. |
Customer experience
Time Clock by Homebase
Rippling Timeclock
In-app purchases
Time Clock by Homebase
No in-app purchases
Rippling Timeclock
No in-app purchases
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