Best attendance apps for field staff in India, 2026

The short answer

Check the site cap first, because it is capped more often than buyers realise. Connecteam allows 10 geofence sites on Advanced and removes the cap only on Expert, so a contractor working thirty client addresses must buy the top tier. Our own cheaper bands cap at 1 and 3 locations, which is exactly why this page quotes our Rs 14,999 plan and not the Rs 5,999 one our other comparisons use. Six of the nine publish no site cap either way, so ask.

Only two products here handle a network drop. Shiftelio queues punches on the device and syncs when signal returns, and HROne publishes offline attendance in its Basic tier, which no other competitor on this page does. Everywhere else, an employee at a basement or a rural site who cannot clock in produces an argument rather than a record.

A continuous trail is a separate purchase almost everywhere. Kredily is Rs 50 per user per month and Android only on their own table, greytHR is Rs 140, Buddy Punch is $2. Decide whether you need a route or an arrival before paying for the route: it is a much larger promise to your staff and it is the feature they object to.

What a 25-person field team costs per year, at the tier that actually works

Site caps and what happens when the signal drops

• IncludedShiftelioOffline queueing on the device, syncing when signal returns. Unlimited sites on the Rs 14,999 plan; the cheaper bands cap at 1 and 3 locations, which is why this page quotes the top one
• IncludedHROneOffline attendance published in Basic, the only competitor here that publishes it at all. No site cap stated either way, so ask
• Costs extraConnecteamNo published offline capability. Geofence sites capped at 10 on Advanced; only Expert is unlimited, which is why Expert is the row in the table
• Costs extraKredilyNo published offline capability. Continuous Live Tracking is Android only on their own table
• Costs extraBuddy PunchNo published offline capability. Real-Time GPS is $2 per user per month on Starter and Pro
• Costs extraZimyoNo published offline capability and no published site cap. Selfie is a tier up from the geofence
• Costs extragreytHRNo published offline capability. Live tracking is Rs 140 per user per month, on Growth and Premium only
• Costs extrafactoHRNo published offline capability. Geofence starts at Premium; selfie and face are dollar-priced add-ons
• Costs extraClockifyNo published offline capability. Location history only; geofencing is not mentioned in their GPS documentation at all

How this list was ranked

• Anti-spoofing is deliberately not a ranking axis. No vendor here, ourselves included, publishes a claim about mock-location detection that could be verified. Ranking on an axis where every figure would be marketing copy is how these pages become worthless, so it is discussed in the entries and not scored.
• We quote our own expensive plan on this page. Our Rs 5,999 band covers 3 locations, which is wrong for a field team, so the table uses the Rs 14,999 unlimited-locations plan. Quoting the cheaper number would have flattered our row and made the page useless.
• A missing feature is reported as unpublished, not as absent. Where a vendor’s pricing page says nothing about offline capture, the entry says no offline capability is published. That is not the same as saying it does not exist, and the difference is the reader’s question to ask, not ours to answer for them.
• Seat floors are priced in, not footnoted. Zimyo, HROne, factoHR and greytHR bill a block of roughly 50 seats. Field crews are often exactly the size where that bites hardest, so the affected rows show what 25 people actually pay.

Best in each category

The question that eliminates most of this list

How many different addresses will your team stand at this year?

Under about ten, you do not have a field problem, you have a multi-site problem, and most of this list solves it cheaply. Our Rs 5,999 band and Connecteam Advanced both cover you, and you should not be reading a page that quotes the expensive tiers.

Over about ten, and especially if the list keeps growing, the site cap becomes the only number that matters and it is the one nobody advertises. Ask every vendor for it in writing before you compare anything else, then ask what happens to a punch made with no signal. Those two answers will eliminate most of this page for you faster than any price comparison.

The whole list at a glance

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Shiftelio

Cheapest unlimited-site setup with offline capture

Teams whose staff are at a different address every day.

Choose it when

Your people visit many addresses and you need every one of them geofenced without paying per site. At Rs 14,999 for 25 people that is Rs 600 per employee per year with offline capture, a live map and selfie verification in it. The nearest rival that publishes both unlimited sites and offline capture is HROne at Rs 59,400, and Connecteam only removes its site cap on its top tier.

Look elsewhere when

You need device-level mock-location detection. We do not do it, and we are saying so on the page where it matters most rather than in a footnote: our verification is a selfie plus a trail you can inspect, which raises the cost of cheating without making it impossible. Some of our own marketing pages currently claim otherwise and they are wrong; we are fixing them. If defeating a determined spoofing app is your actual requirement, ask every vendor here to demonstrate it on a rooted phone before you believe any of us. You should also look elsewhere if you want a full HRMS, which we do not build.

Disclosure: this is our product and this page is on our website, which is exactly why the criterion is written out above, why every rival figure is dated and sourced, and why the paragraph above this one exists. Our prices are on the pricing page and there is nothing behind a "contact us". How we rank is set out on the methodology page. We also state plainly above that we do not do device-level mock-location detection, and that some of our own marketing pages currently claim we do.

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HROne

The only rival that publishes offline attendance in its base tier

A full Indian HRMS for a field-heavy business of fifty people or more.

Choose it when

Your field team is part of a larger workforce you already want one HRMS for, and you are at or above fifty people. Offline attendance in a base tier is genuinely rare: it is the single most important feature on this page and HROne is the only competitor here that publishes it at all. That is worth a lot more than a marginally cheaper geofence.

Look elsewhere when

You have 25 people. The 50-user block makes it Rs 2,376 per employee per year against the Rs 1,188 implied, which is nearly four times our Rs 600 for a comparable job. Two things to confirm in writing: whether there is a cap on the number of sites, since the page does not say, and whether the quoted price is monthly or annual, since the page does not say that either.

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Connecteam

Best toolkit around the attendance, for teams that need more than a punch

Running a deskless field operation: jobs, forms, checklists and messaging.

Choose it when

The punch is the least interesting thing you need. If your field staff also complete job forms, tick safety checklists, follow shift instructions and message a dispatcher, this is a far more complete field-operations product than anything else here, and the bundled-seat model means 25 people cost the same as 30.

Look elsewhere when

You need Indian payroll, or you were about to buy Advanced. There is no Indian statutory payroll of any kind: the payroll integration page lists ADP products only, with no mention of India, EPF, ESI, professional tax or Form 16. And the 10-site cap on Advanced is exactly the trap this page exists to warn about, because Advanced is the tier a buyer comparing prices will choose. No INR price either, so you are paying in dollars.

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Kredily

Cheapest continuous trail in India, if nobody carries an iPhone

Watching a route rather than verifying an arrival.

Choose it when

A continuous trail is the actual requirement and your field staff are all on Android. Rs 50 per user per month is by a wide margin the cheapest live tracking on this page, against Rs 140 at greytHR and $2 at Buddy Punch. Kredily is also the only vendor here whose free tier has no headcount cap, so it costs nothing to trial the rest of the product first.

Look elsewhere when

One person carries an iPhone. Kredily marks Continuous Live Tracking as Android only on its own table, and a trail with a hole in it is not evidence, it is an argument waiting to happen in a disciplinary meeting. Check that first, because nothing else about the product matters if it is true for your team. There is also no published offline capability, which for field work is the second question to ask.

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Buddy Punch

Cleanest way to buy real-time tracking for only the people who need it

Hourly field crews, priced à la carte.

Choose it when

You want to add live tracking for the eight people who are genuinely mobile without moving the whole company up a tier. That granularity is unusual and it is the right shape for a business where only part of the workforce is in the field.

Look elsewhere when

You are in India. No INR price, no Indian statutory payroll mentioned anywhere, and the $19 monthly base fee is a surcharge that falls hardest on small teams. There is also no published offline capability, and the tier that would be cheapest cannot even be costed because its geofence add-on has no published price.

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Zimyo

Cheapest geofence once you are genuinely at fifty people

A full HRMS for a larger field-heavy business.

Choose it when

You have fifty or more field staff and want one HRMS for everything. At exactly 50 users, Basic is Rs 48,000 a year with geofencing included, which is a genuinely strong number for a complete HRMS.

Look elsewhere when

You need the selfie, or you have fewer than fifty people. The 50-user minimum means a 25-person business pays Rs 1,920 per employee against an advertised Rs 960, and the selfie sitting on Standard means you cannot buy it only for the field team, you move the whole company. For field work specifically, the absence of any published offline capability is the bigger gap.

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greytHR

Deepest Indian payroll behind the field attendance

Serious statutory payroll, with field attendance attached.

Choose it when

The hard part of your month is PF, ESI, professional tax and Form 16 rather than knowing where the van is. On statutory depth it beats most of this list, and the geofence coming with the tier rather than as an add-on is a point in its favour.

Look elsewhere when

The trail is the reason you are buying. Rs 140 per user per month is Rs 42,000 a year at 25 people for live tracking alone, which is nearly three times our entire unlimited-site subscription. The 50-employee bundle applies here too, and no offline capability is published.

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factoHR

Face recognition in the field without buying hardware

A full HRMS with biometric-grade verification bolted on.

Choose it when

You want a face check rather than a selfie somebody reviews later, and you do not want a machine at a gate you no longer have. At $1 per employee per month that is the cheapest route to face verification here.

Look elsewhere when

You are watching the total, or you work where the network does not. Rs 71,988 is the most expensive geofence in rupees on this page, largely because the base fee buys 50 employees regardless. The free tier excludes attendance entirely so it is no starting point, and a dollar-priced add-on on a rupee plan moves with the exchange rate.

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Clockify

Best for billing client hours from the field

Knowing which hours went to which client, with a map for context.

Choose it when

Your field staff are consultants or engineers whose time is billed to clients, and the map is context rather than evidence. For that job it is well built, and the absence of a seat minimum makes it unusually flexible for a small mobile team.

Look elsewhere when

You need to refuse a punch made at the wrong address. It sits last here because location history is the weakest form of field evidence and because the stronger form may not exist in the product. No Indian statutory payroll either: nothing on its pricing pages mentions EPF, ESI, professional tax or Form 16.

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Each of these ranks against a different question, so they reach different answers. The one you want is the one whose question is yours.

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