Lookout for Work vs absence.io
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lookout for Work
This app provides security and phishing protection for corporate devices. It ensures your device adheres to company policies and allows easy communication with your IT department if compliance issues arise.
- Corporate device security
- Phishing protection
- Policy compliance
- IT department contact
- Out-of-compliance alerts
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Lookout for Work is only for employers who have enrolled in the Lookout Enterprise program. Install Lookout for Work on your corporate device to make sure your device stays compliant with your company's corporate policies. If a device is found to be out-of-compliance, you can easily contact your IT department to resolve the situation. Lookout for Work includes call and message protection features. Call protection blocks incoming calls from numbers on your organization's block list, which is managed by your administrator. Message protection filters SMS, MMS, and RCS messages to detect phishing and fraud threats based on criteria defined by your administrator. Data accessed through these features is used solely to provide call and message protection and is never used for tracking or shared with third parties.
absence.io
Easily manage employee absences and track work hours on your mobile device. Plan vacations, view team schedules, and record time with a single click. Ideal for efficient daily management of your team's time and leave.
- Absence planning and vacation day management
- Team absence calendar overview
- Absence request approval (for HR)
- One-click start/stop time clock
- Real-time overtime recording
- Time entry management (for HR)
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With the absence.io mobile app you can easily manage your absences and track your time - all on your mobile device! The mobile app offers the core functions of absence management and time tracking of the absence.io software for all users to provide an efficient solution for daily use. Absence Management: - Easy planning of your absences and vacation days - Overview of all absences of your team in the calendar - Direct approval of absence requests (only for HR) - Easy access to the dashboard (only for HR) Time Tracking: - Start & stop time clock with just one click - (Over-)time recording in real time - Easily enter, edit and delete time entries (only for HR) Just a head’s up - our app only works with an existing absence.io account. Sign up now at absence.io to test our software and app! The mobile app is not our terminal app. Do you have any questions about absence.io or want to give us feedback? Then feel free to drop us a message at hello@absence.io - we are looking forward to hearing from you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lookout for Work at 25% against absence.io's 0%. Lookout for Work also leads on ratings volume (2.8K vs 50). absence.io's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.4). 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.
absence.io holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lookout for Work has 2.8K ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Lookout for Work's written reviews are positive against 0% of absence.io's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lookout for Work ships an update monthly, absence.io every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lookout for Work | absence.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2.8K ratings) | 4.6 (50 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| 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 | 168 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lookout, Inc. | absence.io GmbH |
Customer experience
Lookout for Work
absence.io
Bugs and requests
Lookout for Work
Reported bugs
4 issues- Perpetually flags deleted apps as threats
- Prevents access to work apps and email
- Doesn't acknowledge changes made on the device
- Causes white screen and app crashes
Requested features
4 requests- Improve update speed and accuracy
- Add option to disable VPN on trusted networks
- Provide better visibility into app behavior
- Improve battery optimization
absence.io
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lookout for Work
No in-app purchases
absence.io
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Lookout for Work free?
Is absence.io free?
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