(650) 332-8623The 7 Best Time Card Apps for 2025
Looking for the best time card app for your construction business? We’ve reviewed 7 of the best apps on the market to help you choose!
Tracking time cards manually is challenging and prone to errors—47% of businesses still rely on paper timesheets. These mistakes can lead to payroll issues, time theft, and lost revenue.
If you’re ready to eliminate errors and ensure accuracy, we’ve reviewed seven of the best time card apps for construction companies. Compare their features to find the best tool that meets your needs.
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Premier time card app, offering unmatched GPS tracking and scheduling capabilities. |
Offers essential tools for time card management. |
Offers scheduling and customer management tools with mobile CRM. |
Track your crew’s time cards from one easy app
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9.5 
14-day free trial, (no card needed)
7.8
14-day free trial
7.7
Free plan for 5 users
7.5
30-day free trial
7.3
14-day free trial
7.0
7-day free trial
6.8
14-day free trial
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The Bottom Line
Time card errors mean lost time and money—not exactly the recipe for construction business profitability.
To keep time card errors under control, construction businesses need to choose the best time card apps to accurately capture employees’ hours and manage timesheets satisfactorily.
Workyard brings the best time card app for construction managers like you. Field workers and contractors love our mobile apps as well – just check out our ratings on the App store and Google Play. If you want to say goodbye to time card woes, why not try our 14-day free trial and see how we solve your timesheet management issues today.
Our Scoring System Explained
Our 8-part scoring system was created to help you understand the potential value of any software we review simply and fairly.
We created it after reviewing dozens of software products, which we covered in depth, but without providing a direct and simple way for readers to compare products on their merits – without spending a lot of time looking through our articles for the information they needed to make an informed decision.
Every app we review will include Customer Support and Company scores, which we’ll explain in more detail below. Many of the factors reviewed in this article will also be consistent across most (or all) of our software reviews, with some differences:
The 8 factors assessed and their contribution to a product’s overall score may differ slightly from product to product based on various factors, such as the use case we’re reviewing for, the type of business these products are tailored to, and other considerations. However, all reviews will feature an 8-part score, weighted and combined to calculate each product’s overall score.
How We Score Software
All factors in our reviews are scored on a 10-point scale – technically 11 points – from 0-10. However, we only give products a score of 0 if it does not include an essential feature at all, and we try to avoid giving out 0 scores if a product can demonstrate any functionality in line with the specific factor being reviewed.
In general, the 0-10 range translates as:
- 9.0 – 10 – One of the absolute best in its category (amazing).
- 7.5 – 8.9 – Very good, but with some minor issues (very good).
- 6.0 – 7.4 – Mediocre performance with notable shortcomings (average).
- 3.0 – 5.9 – This feature is not ready for prime time (borderline).
- 1.0 – 2.9 – This feature actually makes its product worse (unacceptable).
- 0 – The product doesn’t include this important feature at all.
How We Calculate Overall Scores
The 8 factors reviewed are weighted based on an overall total of 100%:
- Ease of Use: 20%
- Time Tracking Accuracy: 20%
- Scheduling Features: 15%
- Job Tracking: 15%
- Integrations: 10%
- Customer Support: 15%
- Company: 5%
Methodology for Each Factor
Ease of Use
We evaluate a product’s ease of use based on three main considerations:
- How easy is it to set up this app?
- How easy is it for managers to use the backend dashboard?
- How easy is it for frontline workers to use the (mobile) app?
These three considerations cover the main ways you and your team would use the software being reviewed – when you first obtain it, when someone (a manager, executive, team leader, or similar role) needs to use it to manage people, money, data, and other things, and when workers you’re tracking use the app (usually a mobile version of the software designed for frontline and/or field team members) to clock in, clock out, record time worked, or address other day-to-day needs.
Time Tracking Accuracy
Every minute matters when you’re trying to control payroll costs. This factor accounts for various features and common needs in time-tracking apps, such as…
- How accurate or precise is its GPS tracking capability?
- How accurate – and how customizable – is its geofencing feature?
- How accurate is its travel and mileage tracking (if available)?
- Can it automatically clock workers in and out based on the above?
- Can you set and/or restrict rules for clocking in and out?
- Can the app continue tracking workers while offline?
- How easy is its mobile app and/or kiosk for frontline workers?
Scheduling Features
Many construction businesses prefer to manage as many aspects of employee labor activity as possible in a single app, which is why many time-tracking apps also include worker scheduling as a core feature.
When we consider a product’s scheduling features, we look at:
- Its dashboard customizability (daily, weekly, or monthly views).
- Its project-based scheduling and visibility.
- Its real-time updates and notifications for workers.
- Its real-time map views of worker locations for best-fit scheduling.
- Its recurring schedule (copies to subsequent weeks, etc.) functionality.
Job Tracking
This factor helps you understand if the software can also provide insight into specific projects, which is particularly handy when your business deals with many customers or clients who generally need shorter-term work. Effective job tracking typically also includes accurate job costing functionality for construction companies.
We assess several things when calculating a product’s job tracking score:
- Its project-based tracking for multiple projects per day/week/etc.
- Its ability to track multiple / many projects simultaneously.
- Its use of (and your ability to customize) construction cost codes.
- Any built-in job costing views.
- Any integrations for cost coding (QuickBooks etc.)
Integrations
No business can operate on a single app, which is why integrations with other apps and tools are such important aspects of modern business software.
To calculate a product’s integration score, we’ll examine:
- How many native integrations (the simplest connection) does it offer?
- How effective and easy-to-use are its integrations with payroll software?
- Does it have robust data import and export features?
Customer Support
Learning how to use a new app can be frustrating, even if it’s meant to be the most user-friendly app around. That’s why great customer support is so essential when considering which time-tracking app to use.
Customer support scores are calculated based on:
- Live support channels available (phone, email, chat, etc.).
- Live support hours (business hours only, 24/7, etc.).
- The strength of the product’s online help center and/or FAQs.
- What other users say about support in online reviews.
Company
A great company with a highly customer-friendly approach can often make up for shortcomings in their software products – at least up to a point.
When assessing this score, we’ll examine:
- Transparency (easy-to-find pricing, etc.)
- Trial period (duration, feature availability, credit card requirements, etc.).
- Subscription flexibility (contracts, required durations, etc.).
- Ease of cancellation or pausing subscriptions.
- Customer perceptions (online product reviews).
- Website (a minor consideration, but great companies tend to have great websites).
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The best time card apps should streamline timesheet management processes for both team managers and employees. Essential features include:
Clock-in and clock-out functionality – Employees should find clocking in and out easier than using manual timesheets and logs. Ideally, time-tracking technology like GPS, geofencing, and photo clock-ins should accurately capture worked hours and prevent time theft.- Multiple options for time entry – Time card apps should allow employees to add to their time (with appropriate permission from approvers) should errors occur. Likewise, team admins should be able to edit and correct time card discrepancies easily.
- Rich timesheet management features – The best time card apps should have robust timesheet management features, including search functions, reporting, live cost tracking, integration with payroll, and others.
- Intuitive dashboard – Construction managers like you have little time to sit down and learn a complex navigation system. The best time card app should be equipped with an intuitive dashboard that’s easy to learn and use.
- Good mobile experience – The best time card app should create a great, friction-free mobile experience for field workers and users. It should speed up their daily tasks like clocking in, submitting daily logs, reviewing timesheets, and communicating with teammates on their phones.
Workyard brings robust web platform and mobile app functionality to small teams without breaking the bank. Managers can rely on Workyard to streamline time card management, while employees know the app correctly records their worked hours on every job.
Workyard is a time card app specially designed for construction managers and workers. The app is battle-tested by over 50,000 workers and has been continuously improved to deliver time-tracking and timesheet management solutions for contractors and construction businesses.
Check out our case studies and sign up for a free 14-day trial now—no credit card required.
30 minutes on a timesheet is half an hour, commonly represented as 0.5 in decimal format for easier calculations.
In time tracking and payroll, hours are often tallied in decimals. So, 6 hours and 30 minutes worked would be recorded as 6.5 hours. This simplifies summing hours and ensures accuracy on paychecks.
Most organizations break hours into quarter-hour increments. Key conversions include:
- 15 minutes = 0.25 hours (a quarter hour)
- 30 minutes = 0.50 hours (half an hour)
- 45 minutes = 0.75 hours (three-quarters of an hour)
Using these, if someone works from 9:00 to 5:30 (with no break), they’ve worked 8.5 hours (8 hours + 30 minutes).
45 minutes on a timesheet is three-quarters of an hour, typically recorded as 0.75 in decimal form for payroll calculations.
Many businesses convert minutes to a decimal hour format for easier math. So, 8 hours and 45 minutes worked would be logged as 8.75 hours. This ensures accuracy when totaling hours and calculating pay.
On traditional timesheets, minutes are often expressed as fractions of an hour:
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- 15 minutes = 0.25 hours (a quarter hour)
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- 30 minutes = 0.50 hours (half an hour)
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- 45 minutes = 0.75 hours (three-quarters of an hour).
This decimal format avoids confusion when summing up hours worked over a day or week. For example, if an employee worked 7.5 hours on Monday and 8.75 hours on Tuesday (which includes a 45-minute break or overtime period), adding them yields 16.25 hours for those two days.
15 minutes on a timesheet is a quarter of an hour, usually represented as 0.25 in decimal format.
Many workplaces track time in 15-minute increments, so 15 minutes = 0.25 hours, 30 minutes = 0.50, 45 minutes = 0.75, and so on. This makes adding up hours simpler and ensures payroll calculations are correct.
Converting 15 minutes to a decimal is straightforward: 15 ÷ 60 = 0.25. For instance, if someone worked from 8:00 to 4:15, that’s 8.25 hours (8 hours + 15 minutes).
If you’re filling out a digital or paper timesheet, you might write “8.25” for that day’s total hours.
