JobSnap vs Clockify: A Free Time Tracker or a Jobsite Time Clock?

Clockify is a general time tracker. Freelancers, agencies and office teams use its timer and reports to see where the hours go, and its free plan covers a small team. It also has a kiosk and GPS. JobSnap is a time clock built only for construction and trades crews, with jobsite geofences and equipment hours in the same app. Here is JobSnap vs Clockify, and when the free tool is all you need.

Competitor information is based on publicly available material and may change. Always confirm details and current pricing on the vendor's own site. We've tried to be fair: both products below are capable tools, and the right choice depends on your business.

	JobSnap	Clockify
Pricing structure	$5 per active employee per month, $20 minimum. One plan, every feature included.	Free plan for up to 5 users. Paid plans are per seat in tiers (Basic, Standard, Pro, Enterprise), with cheaper seats for kiosk-only users.
Free trial	30 days, no credit card.	7 days of the Pro plan, no credit card.
GPS	Included. Every punch records the worker's location and checks it against your jobsites.	Pro plan and up. Records location when the timer starts and stops, and shows visited sites.
Geofencing	Included. Shifts can start and end at the jobsite boundary; punches from outside are flagged.	Not described on its GPS or construction pages; check with the vendor.
Clocking in a crew	Each worker on their own phone, a foreman clocks in the whole crew, or kiosk mode on one shared phone or tablet. Included, no extra seats.	Shared-device kiosk from the Basic plan, with kiosk-only seats.
Scheduling and time off	Crews with a foreman, shown as a calendar, a whiteboard and a planner. Time off included.	Time off from Standard, scheduling from Pro.
Equipment tracking	Machine hours per job, beside labour hours.	Not described on its construction page; check with the vendor.
Invoicing	Estimates that turn into invoices, linked to the job.	Invoices from tracked time and expenses, Standard plan and up.
QuickBooks	Approved hours go to QuickBooks.	Standard plan and up.

Where the free plan stops

Clockify's free plan is a real product: unlimited time tracking, timesheets, and mobile and desktop apps, for up to 5 users. Reports cover a one-month range. For an owner and a few helpers who just want hours per job, that may be all you need.

The features a construction crew tends to need come in steps. The kiosk starts on Basic. Approvals, time off, invoicing and the QuickBooks integration start on Standard. GPS tracking, scheduling and expenses start on Pro. Every seat counts, owner and managers included. Check the vendor's pricing against the features you would turn on.

JobSnap starts with a 30-day free trial, then costs $5 per active employee per month, with a $20 minimum, and GPS geofencing, scheduling, equipment, photos, kiosk mode and QuickBooks are in that price. An 8-person crew pays $40.

A timer versus a jobsite

Clockify is built around a timer you start against a project or a task. That suits billable client work, like a designer logging two hours to a client. Its GPS records where the timer was started and stopped.

JobSnap is built around the jobsite. A shift can start on its own when a worker arrives inside the boundary and end when they leave. The hours land on that job's timesheet, split by site if the crew moves, next to the machine hours.

Who Clockify suits

You are five people or fewer and only need hours. The free plan does the job, and costs nothing.
Most of your time is billed to clients from a computer. Desktop timers, idle detection and project reports are Clockify's home ground.
You need French and already use Clockify. Its apps are available in French, so language alone is not a reason to switch.

Where JobSnap is the better choice

Your crews move between jobsites. Geofences clock them in and out at the site and match the hours to the right job.
You run equipment. Machine hours are tracked per job, so a day's cost includes the iron.
You want the job record in one place. Photos, daily reports, notes, estimates and invoices sit in the job's feed.
You schedule by crew. Assign a crew and its foreman to a job, and workers see where they are going.
You want a time clock at the shop door. Kiosk mode turns any phone or tablet into a shared time clock for the whole crew. Leaving kiosk mode takes the manager's sign-in, so workers can't wander into the rest of the app. There is no separate seat to buy for it.

How to decide

Start with the free plan question. If you have five people or fewer and nobody needs geofencing, scheduling or QuickBooks, use Clockify's free plan and keep your money. If you have a crew on two or three jobsites a day and machines to account for, try JobSnap for 30 days. If your team is part office and part field, also look at how Hubstaff handles both.