Best Time Clock Apps for Construction Crews in 2026

This guide prices eight apps for one crew: 12 workers, three job sites, geofenced punches, overtime rules and a payroll export. A construction time clock has three jobs a general time clock can skip. It has to prove where a worker punched in, assign the hours to the right job, and apply overtime and break rules before payroll runs. Each price is the vendor's own list price, checked on 10 October 2026 in US dollars.

HRpresso data: of the eight apps we priced for this page (n = 8), six list a dated price for a tier with geofenced or perimeter-controlled clock-in. Workyard does not price its geofenced tier on the page, and busybusy's Pro card lists GPS breadcrumbing rather than a geofence. Toolradar data: the Best Time Tracking Tools category on Toolradar, the software directory we run, lists 105 tools.

Methodology: we read each vendor's pricing page and priced 12 users on the plan that includes the scenario's features, using annual billing where the vendor offers it. Where a page does not name a feature, we say so instead of assuming it. Vendors that publish no price on their own pricing page are left out.

A construction time clock records each punch with a location, ties the hours to a job or cost code, and applies overtime and break rules before the hours reach payroll. Field crews usually punch from a phone at the site, with a geofence that stops punches made from the yard or the next job. Some apps add a shared kiosk for crews that start at a yard, and some add job costing so the labor cost of each project shows before the invoice goes out. For the generic version of this category, see our best time clock software guide. Toolradar also tracks the general-purpose versions, including Connecteam and When I Work.

Construction hours are spread across more places than office hours. A punch from the wrong site is a payroll error and a job-cost error at once, and a crew that clocks in from a truck before the job starts creates overtime nobody approved. The fixes are plain: a geofence on each job site, an alert before anyone crosses into overtime, and an export that lands in payroll without retyping. The apps below differ mostly in which of those three they include on the cheapest plan that still fits a crew.

Costs assume 12 workers on one plan. The lowest-priced option that confirms both geofencing and overtime is OnTheClock's time plan at a $5 base plus $4 per employee, which is $53 a month. Timeero Pro is $7.50 per user billed annually, or $90 a month. Connecteam Advanced is $49 a month billed annually for the first 30 users. Buddy Punch Pro is $6.99 per user plus a $19 base, about $103 a month billed annually. Arcoro Time Essential is $108 a month billed annually. busybusy Pro is $159.88 a month billed annually with its admin license. Workyard Starter is $72 a month, but its Pro tier has no published price. QuickBooks Time Elite is $164 a month during its introductory offer and $184 at the regular base, plus the QuickBooks Online account it requires; Intuit lists geofencing on Time Elite only on Intuit's GPS page, read 19 October 2026. Prices checked on 10 October 2026 on OnTheClock pricing, Timeero pricing, Connecteam pricing, Buddy Punch pricing, Workyard pricing, Arcoro Time pricing, busybusy pricing and QuickBooks Time pricing.

OnTheClock for a crew that wants the lowest-priced geofenced punch with overtime calculations, and buys payroll as an add-on. Timeero Pro for field crews that want job tracking and accounting sync. busybusy or Workyard for a construction firm where job costing is the main reason to buy, once Workyard's Pro price is quoted.