Buddy Punch
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy it if you run an SMB with hourly or field workers who need punch verification, scheduling, and payroll together.
Comparison
Buddy Punch lands on Depends, and OnTheClock lands on Worth it.
Buy it if you run an SMB with hourly or field workers who need punch verification, scheduling, and payroll together.
Small and medium hourly teams should buy: it is cheap ($4/employee/month), highly rated (4.7/5 Capterra), and built for payroll.
| Compare | Buddy Punch | OnTheClock |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Worth it |
| Best for | SMBs with hourly, deskless workers | Small hourly teams |
| Who it's not for | Healthcare orgs needing HIPAA compliance | Enterprises with complex process and admin budgets |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed; encryption and MFA reported, but Buddy Punch is not HIPAA compliant.⁸ | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | No evidence in sources | Claims award-winning human support, unverified |
| Public sentiment | Users praise Buddy Punch as clean, focused, and dependable for hourly teams, while critics flag the base fee, add-on pricing, and a middling 6.0/10 expert score.⁶ | Users praise ease of use, mobile access, and payroll reporting, though the Android app's 3.3/5 rating hints at mobile friction.13 |
| Biggest gotcha | $19 base fee sits on top of monthly user fees . painful for very small teams.¹ | Android ratings trail web praise; test mobile before company-wide rollout15 |