The 7 Best Automated Time Trackers for 2025

Scoring

Key Features

• Automatic geofencing-based clock-ins and clock-outs for workers

• Manual clock-in and clock-out via the Workyard mobile app

• Supervisor log-in for multiple team members

• Automatic travel log and mileage tracking

• Real-time location monitoring and job tracking

• Workyard dashboard for real-time updates

• Comprehensive time and cost reporting

Highlights

Workyard is an automated time tracker app built for the field, ideal for specialty contractors, general contractors, and other construction businesses. Its GPS time-tracking and geofencing capabilities keep time records accurate, while facial detection features prevent buddy punching. 

Construction and field service companies can benefit from its accurate time, location, mileage, and job cost tracking features. It also has an easy drag-and-drop scheduling capability to optimize your team’s schedules.

Aside from getting a clear overview of hours worked and real-time job costs, you can eliminate manual payroll data entry and replace it with automated payroll with only a few clicks.

Workyard addresses common challenges like payroll errors, scheduling inefficiencies, and labor compliance with ease. The app’s powerful scheduling tools organize jobs, automate recurring tasks, and enable real-time updates for field workers. Its cost management and reporting features enable businesses to track labor, mileage, and material costs to improve billing accuracy.

As an automated time tracker, Workyard enables contractors to automate time-consuming business operations, save manual effort, and increase profitability.

Improve time tracking accuracy on your job sites with Workyard.

Explore Workyard for Free

Accurate GPS Time Clock

Workyard makes it easy for your team to punch in and out via the GPS time clock app. It’s quick to learn and easy to use for admins and teams.

Employees can manually clock in when they get to the job site and then clock out the same way at the end of the day. In case they forget to log out, Workyard automatically detects the last visited job site and trims the hours as needed.

Another way of conveniently logging workers in is by setting up geofences. The Workyard app will automatically log them in once they enter the job site or geofence. No need to clock out on the Workyard app ― they will be automatically clocked out once they exit the geofence boundary.

You can also give team members supervisory or administrator permissions so they can log in multiple team members at once for faster and more efficient clock-ins at busy job sites.

Workyard is available in mobile, desktop, and kiosk mode for your unique workforce management needs:

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Try it free for 14 days Book a demo

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Ensure accurate payroll with Workyard’s smart time clock.

Automatic Clock-In/Out 

Use Workyard’s geofencing technology to automatically record when employees enter a designated job site. This feature eliminates manual steps for clocking in or out, reducing personnel errors and saving time. It also prevents both accidental and intentional time card mistakes, ensuring payroll and job costing are always accurate.

Payroll Automation 

Workyard automates your payroll process by seamlessly capturing and exporting time worked with a few clicks. With precise time tracking and automation, payroll is kept accurate and delivered on time, ensuring employees are paid on schedule.

Workyard’s automated time tracking functionality is enhanced by its robust suite of additional features, offering a complete solution for workforce management. Its scheduling tool ensures work assignments are organized efficiently, while real-time location tracking provides visibility into your crew’s whereabouts.

Features like job costing, job tracking and reporting also provide crucial insights into work progress, job costs, and employee attendance. Lastly, Workyard’s built-in compliance tools give you peace of mind when it comes to labor laws and regulations, so you can focus on delivering projects on time and budget.

Real-Time Job Tracking

Workyard’s suite of tools allows you to oversee your team while they’re working. With its accurate GPS time tracking capabilities, you can see exactly where your employees are and what tasks they’re working on.

They can also share real-time job progress and updates via the Workyard app by attaching notes, photos, and receipts to their time cards.

Meanwhile, you can review all their time cards, track job progress, and monitor travel logs and mileage on the Workyard dashboard. You can break down captured hours by project and get insights into where time is allocated and money is spent.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Try it free for 14 days Book a demo

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

Capture everything you need to know about your jobs.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We created Workyard – the first app reviewed here – to address issues we encountered while struggling to track and manage construction payrolls for over 700 workers in over 50 construction businesses. We built the Workyard app from the ground up to support construction companies like yours, with industry-essential features like the industry’s most accurate time clock app with GPS and geofencing, intuitive contractor scheduling, construction cost tracking tools, and more.

Learn more about how Workyard works on our main website, or sign up for a 14-day free trial today to see what Workyard can do for your business.

Insights and Reports

With Workyard’s detailed reports, you can quickly identify inefficiencies. For instance, if a project’s labor costs are trending higher than expected, you’ll catch it in real time and make adjustments before it impacts your bottom line.

Download reports for employee hours, miles and travel time, and project costs by summary, period, or cumulative view.

All employee time, job progress, project, and task reports can also be exported in different formats.

Powerful dashboards that make tracking a breeze.

Try it free for 14 days Book a demo

Powerful dashboards that make tracking a breeze.

Powerful dashboards that make tracking a breeze.

Powerful dashboards that make tracking a breeze.

Powerful dashboards that make tracking a breeze.

Powerful dashboards that make tracking a breeze.

Digital Team Scheduling

Workyard’s shared digital team calendar allows you to schedule jobs, organize tasks, and communicate with your team in real time on what else needs to be done. With its easy drag-and-drop functionality, you can build your teams’ weekly or monthly schedules in minutes and send them out immediately when you’re done.

You can add labels, due dates, and customizable checklists to make job assignments clearer and more detailed. You can also schedule recurring tasks on your team calendar. All tasks and jobs are updated and easily accessible via the Workyard app.

Workyard also makes it easy to make changes to schedules, from start and end times to task labels. With the bulk edit feature, you can simply select options you need to update, such as task status, start date and time, due date and time, assignees, and color labels.

Ensure workers have all the details they need.

Try it free for 14 days Book a demo

Ensure workers have all the details they need.

Ensure workers have all the details they need.

Ensure workers have all the details they need.

Ensure workers have all the details they need.

Ensure workers have all the details they need.

Integrations

Workyard also ensures your data flows effortlessly into your current payroll, billing, and accounting systems. It connects to various native integrations and cloud and on-premise apps.

Check out some of Workyard’s native integrations.

Try it free for 14 days Book a demo

Check out some of Workyard’s native integrations.

Check out some of Workyard’s native integrations.

Check out some of Workyard’s native integrations.

Some of Workyard’s native integrations include QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online, ADP Run, ADP Workforce Now, Foundation Software, Sage 100 Contractor, Gusto, Rippling, and Paylocity.

Labor Compliance

Workyard ensures your business stays labor compliant with its simplified, built-in labor compliance to local, state, and federal labor regulations. It’s also FLSA-compliant with an up-to-date, accurate online repository.

Avoid disputes by giving workers transparency.

Try it free for 14 days Book a demo

Avoid disputes by giving workers transparency.

Avoid disputes by giving workers transparency.

Avoid disputes by giving workers transparency.

Employees also have easy access to their historical time cards on the mobile app. They can view timelines and attachments on their time cards and change notification logs on their time logs.

Ensuring labor compliance is crucial for companies working in high-cost areas. For state-specific requirements, refer to our labor laws guides below:

• Texas Labor Laws
• New York Labor Laws
• Idaho Labor Laws
• Massachusetts Labor Laws
• Mississippi Labor Laws

Reviews

Workyard has consistently solid scores and hundreds of user reviews across three major platforms. See what Workyard users have to say from their reviews below.

For iOS user RHEC615, Workyard is the best work app because it’s easy to use, consistent, and accurate.

iOS Review:

Best app⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
“By far the best app I’ve ever used for work. Most consistent and accurate app hands down. Haven’t had any difficulties at all, was very easy to use. I will never use another app for clocking my hours at work.”

Android user Casey Reeves has trouble with the filters not updating their employee list, resulting in lots of scrolling just to approve a few time cards.

Google Play Review:

⭐⭐
“The filter option resets regularly requiring a repeat of the process. Lately the filter does not update the list of workers, requiring scrolling through hundreds of employees to approve only a few timecards. If my company did not mandate it, I would not use this app.”

Cassandra B. gave it five stars for how easy it is to use and customize for their business needs.

Capterra Review:

“Great product for our needs in construction time tracking ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
It’s been very simple to use for our employees, and is easy to customize for our needs.”

Pricing

Scoring

Key Features

• Automated time tracker for accurate time records

• Time tracking on browser, mobile, and desktop app

• Time blocks for staying productive

• Dashboard for viewing worked hours

• Real-time data on task and project progress

• Attendance tracking and work scheduling

• Online timesheets

Highlights

TrackingTime is an automatic time tracker providing time reports from everyone on your team, allowing you to see the hours worked by employee, client, or project on the dashboard.

The app’s AutoTrack feature automatically records all computer activities for reporting and is fully private.

Wherever your team is located, they can track their time and receive real-time updates on tasks and project progress. They can use the TrackingTime desktop app or track hours on the go via the mobile app. With the TrackingTime button, they can also track time directly from the browser.

Employees can also break their workday into time blocks for enhanced productivity.

Time cards are automatically generated from time entries. TrackingTime also automates attendance tracking and gives you a clear overview of their productivity via user and project reports.

For businesses that require detailed field reporting and project management, Autodesk Build offers robust tools for keeping projects on track.

Reviews

When you look up TrackingTime reviews online, you will see a decent rating of 3.1 on the App Store and fairly good scores of 4.1 and 4.6 on the Play Store and Capterra, respectively.

Although there aren’t a lot of published user reviews online, we’ve collected some of them for you below.

For iOS user Lmorris939, the app is only worth two stars because it’s buggy, which doesn’t allow him to switch tasks effectively.

iOS Review:

Good app, poor performance ⭐⭐
This app works very well, when it works. That being said, it is extremely buggy. And I have to routinely go into my past hours and fix things because of bugs that stop a task immediately after starting, doesn’t switch tasks effectively, etc. If they update and fix all the bugs, this would be a five-star app. As is, it’s mediocre at best.”

Android user Ken Ume has similar complaints about the mobile app, saying it’s a hit-or-miss when performing tasks like importing events and tasks or bulk editing.

Google Play Review:

⭐⭐⭐
“Good idea, clunky and inconsistent execution. Importing tasks or events is a bit hit-and-miss. It’s not possible to bulk edit unless you want to delete things. Sync is random at best, hours after events change without warning. The Android app seems very limited – no widget and is only marginally better than the desktop app. My implementation never seems to refresh or update without a force stop and clear of the cache.”

But for Ciro R., the app is worth a five-star rating because of its time management solutions, progress tracking, and reporting capabilities.

Capterra Review:

Unmatched tool for time and task progress tracking ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
It really came in handy in solving team time management, more so when a team has an ongoing project that has strict deadlines. It has reporting capabilities coupled with task progress tracking using a timesheet workflow that enables our firm to stay compliant with all the internal processes.

Pricing

Scoring

Key Features

• Automated time tracking for app usage, calendar events, and websites

• Tailored tracking preferences by app and URL

• Private tracking on local device

• Manual tracking with physical devices, calendars, and keyboard shortcuts

• QuickTrack pop-up shortcut for quick tracking of previous or new tasks

• Manual addition of time entries to calendars

• Customizable physical Timeular Tracker (stickers, colors, or notes)

• Integrations with payroll and invoicing tools

Highlights

Timeular offers a physical time tracker and automatic time tracking features. The app is General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)- and privacy-compliant to protect the privacy of your employees and your company.

It lets you track hours based on your app usage, scheduled calendar events, and visited websites. Before approving and forwarding automatic time entries to clients or managers, you can review everything tracked at a specific time and decide which will be included in the time reports.

Timeular’s hardware time tracker has eight sides you can personalize with your tasks and can be connected to the mobile app via Bluetooth. You can also create a shortcut for a time tracking pop-up window on your computer.

Its time management tools allow you to track team productivity, bill clients, monitor job progress, and send your time tracking data to over 3,000 project management tools or task management apps.

Reviews

The online reviews for Timeular are mostly positive, with high scores of 4.5 and 4.6 on the App Store and Capterra and a solid score of 3.7 on the Play Store. Check out some user reviews below.

Alyxana has been using Timeular for years and loves the physical tracker. But since she’s often not at her desk anymore, she also uses the app, which she thinks could use some improvements.

iOS Review:

Good, but could be better ⭐⭐⭐
I got my physical tracker almost 5 years ago and I love it. I have fallen out of the habit of using mine though because I’m not often at my desk anymore. And so I looked to the app. I love that there is an app. But it’s missing some very key features.”

Meanwhile, Android user Taylor Cardon prefers the desktop and web browser versions because the app is just laggy and often freezes or crashes.

Google Play Review:

⭐⭐ 
This app lately has been horrendous. Laggy, freezes, shuts down. Doesn’t seem like it’s been updated in months. Doesn’t hold a candle to the desktop/browser app. Wish more time and effort would be put into it.

Heather M., a senior graphic designer for an education management company, finds Timeular easy and intuitive. Using a physical device is also a novel idea to help her stay productive.

Capterra Review:

An intuitive and easy way to track a large variety of projects ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
Timeular has helped my workflow and given me great data for how much time I spend on each type of project. I love how simple it is to use, and the novel idea to include a physical item that sits in front of you that you can design and name however you want. For example, I use the die to divide up all the different aspects of my work, as opposed to specific projects. Then I can see the data on how much time I spend on design vs. animation, prep and research, organization, and break time.”

Pricing