Time Clock by Homebase vs Kintow
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
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 Time Clock by Homebase's 38%. Kintow also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). Time Clock by Homebase's advantage is ratings volume (37 vs 3). 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.
Kintow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Clock by Homebase has 37 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Time Clock by Homebase's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kintow's.
Time Clock by Homebase ships an update every 2 months, Kintow every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Clock by Homebase | Kintow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pioneer Works, Inc. | Kintow Inc. |
Customer experience
Time Clock by Homebase
Kintow
In-app purchases
Time Clock by Homebase
No in-app purchases
Kintow
No in-app purchases
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