Best employee attendance apps in India, October 2026

What 10 and 25 staff cost per year, GPS switched on

Who charges extra for GPS and live tracking

• IncludedShiftelioGPS check-in, selfie and live tracking in every plan
• IncludedJibbleGPS clock-ins on a live map on the free plan (no payroll)
• IncludedZimyoGeotag and geofence on Basic; live tracking not found on their pricing page
• Costs extraKredilySelfie and GPS on Professional; Live Tracking add-on Rs 50 per user a month, Android only
• Costs extraSalaryBoxLive location add-on, Rs 100 per user a month
• Costs extragreytHRGeofencing on Growth; GPS Live Tracking add-on Rs 140 per user a month
• Costs extraTrueinGeofencing on the plan; Live Tracking add-on Rs 200 per user a year
• Costs extraPagarBookLive map is a separate plan, PagarBook Geo, Rs 5,999 per staff a year

How this list was ranked

• Same basis for everyone. One year, 10 and 25 staff, before GST, with each company's own GPS or live-tracking add-on included where it is sold separately.
• Every figure has a page and a date. Rival prices come from their own pricing pages, read on 5 Oct 2026. Where no price is published we say so instead of using a blog figure.
• Rivals keep the rows they win. Jibble and Kredily are free for what they do, PagarBook is cheaper at 10 staff without a live map, and Truein has face recognition and offline capture.
• We are first on this criterion, and we make Shiftelio. Our own entry carries the same "look elsewhere when" paragraph as every other.

Best in each category

The one question that decides it

Do you need payroll in the same app as attendance?

If not, start with a free plan: Jibble for GPS clock-ins, Kredily for employee records. If yes, compare the whole job priced at your headcount with GPS switched on, which is the table above.

The whole list at a glance

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Shiftelio

Lowest yearly price we found for GPS attendance, a live map and payroll at 10 to 25 staff

Suits a small business, often across more than one site, that wants attendance and salary in one app.

Choose it when

You want staff to check in on their phone with GPS and a selfie, see where field staff are, and turn the month into salary with PF, ESI and PT in the same app, for one flat price that does not change when you hire within the plan.

Look elsewhere when

Everybody works at one address and you only need a register: Jibble and Kredily both have free plans. Under about 12 staff who do not need a live map, PagarBook's App plan costs less than ours. If you need face matching at a gate, Truein does it and we do not. Past about a hundred people with a full HR team, a full HRMS such as Keka or greytHR fits better.

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. Two free plans on this page cost less than ours for attendance alone, and we say so.

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Kredily

Free plan for employee records with no employee limit

Suits a team that wants a free employee database and web clock-in, then a paid plan for payroll.

Choose it when

Your budget is zero and you want employee records out of a spreadsheet: the free plan has no employee limit. Or your staff are all on Android and you want a payroll suite with selfie and GPS check-in.

Look elsewhere when

You need the free plan to run payroll or GPS: their page puts selfie and GPS attendance on Professional, and continuous tracking is Android only, so an iPhone in the team is not covered.

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Zimyo

Geofence and payroll on the base plan of a full HRMS, from 50 users

Suits a business of 50 or more that wants a full HRMS.

Choose it when

You have 50 or more people and want leave, payroll, compliance and attendance with a geofence in one HRMS.

Look elsewhere when

You have fewer than 50 people: the minimum means a 25-person team pays for 50 users, Rs 1,920 a head.

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SalaryBox

Payroll with EPF, ESI and PT on one plan, with an optional live-location add-on

Suits a shop, kitchen or factory floor that wants payroll with EPF, ESI and PT.

Choose it when

You want payroll with EPF, ESI and PT on one plan and only some of the team needs live location.

Look elsewhere when

Every person needs live location: the add-on is charged per user on top of the plan.

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greytHR

Payroll-first HR suite with geofencing on Growth

Suits a company of around 50 or more whose main job is payroll and HR.

Choose it when

You have around 50 people or more and payroll and HR process is the main thing you are buying.

Look elsewhere when

You have 10 to 25 people: both published plans include 50 employees and you pay for the bundle either way.

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PagarBook

Lowest price at 10 staff if you do not need a live map

Suits a small team paying per staff for attendance and payroll, without a live map.

Choose it when

You have about 10 staff, nobody needs to be seen on a map, and per-staff pricing suits you: at 10 staff the App plan is cheaper than ours.

Look elsewhere when

You need the live map for everyone: Geo is priced per staff on top of the App plan.

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Jibble

Free time tracking with GPS clock-ins on a map, for unlimited users

Suits a team that wants free attendance with GPS and does its payroll somewhere else.

Choose it when

You want GPS attendance for free and already run payroll in another tool. On attendance alone it costs less than every other product here, ours included.

Look elsewhere when

You want salary with PF, ESI and PT worked out from the same attendance: that is not in Jibble.

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Truein

Face recognition attendance with offline capture, for sites and gates

Suits a large or contract workforce clocking in at a site, where proxy punches are the problem.

Choose it when

Proxy punching is your problem and staff clock in at a gate or site: face recognition and offline capture are on their base plan, and the base price matters less at several hundred staff.

Look elsewhere when

You have 10 to 25 people or want payroll in the same app: the base price is charged whatever your size.

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Keka

Full HRMS and payroll for companies with an HR team

Suits a mid-sized company that buys HR, payroll and hiring together.

Choose it when

You have an HR team and want performance, hiring and payroll from one vendor, and a sales process suits you.

Look elsewhere when

You want to see a price before talking to sales.

Questions people ask before choosing

More to check before you choose

• Shiftelio attendance and payroll app for India
• All Shiftelio features
• Shiftelio pricing
• Overtime calculator
• PF and ESI calculator
• Shiftelio compared with Truein
• Shiftelio compared with Keka
• Shiftelio compared with SalaryBox
• Shiftelio compared with PagarBook
• How we rank, and where these numbers come from

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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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• Best payroll software for small businesses in India: Whether the statutory output is actually produced, not merely calculated