Best GPS attendance apps in India, 2026, and which tier gates what

The short answer

Two products here put real location verification in their cheapest tier. Shiftelio includes a geofence and a selfie in every plan including the Rs 999 one, and HROne includes geotagging, geofencing, selfie and offline capture in Basic. Everywhere else, location costs a tier climb, a per-user add-on, or both. We make Shiftelio, so every figure on this page is sourced and dated and HROne's wider base tier is stated rather than buried.

Check the seat floor before you compare per-user rates. Zimyo, HROne, factoHR and greytHR all bill a block of roughly 50 seats whether you fill it or not. Zimyo advertises Rs 80 per user and charges a 25-person business Rs 160. That single detail moves the real cost more than any feature on this page.

Decide which of the four you need first. If a stamp is enough, the cheap tiers are fine and you can stop reading. If you need to refuse a punch made outside a boundary, most base plans cannot do it. If you need a continuous trail, it is a separate purchase almost everywhere, and it is the most expensive line on this page.

What location verification costs at 25 employees, cheapest tier that can do it

Does the cheapest plan include a real geofence

• IncludedShiftelioYes. Geofence and selfie in every plan, including the Rs 999 one
• IncludedHROneYes. Geotag, geofence, selfie and offline capture are all in Basic, the widest base tier here
• Costs extraZimyoPartly. Geofence is in Basic, but the selfie is Standard-tier only, at double the per-user rate
• Costs extraConnecteamNo. Basic gives a location stamp and a map but no geofencing at all. Geofences start at Advanced, capped at 10 sites
• Costs extraBuddy PunchNo. Starter gives coordinates only and its geofence add-on has no published price. Geofences are standard from Pro
• Costs extragreytHRNo. Geofencing arrives with Growth, one tier up from Essential. Live tracking is a further Rs 140 per user per month
• Costs extraKredilyNo. Nothing on the free tier or on Payroll OS. Selfie and GPS start at Professional
• Costs extrafactoHRNo. Core has no geofence at all; it starts at Premium. Selfie and face are separate dollar-priced add-ons
• Costs extraClockifyNo. GPS needs Pro, and their own GPS documentation never mentions geofencing, so boundary enforcement is unconfirmed

How this list was ranked

• The four kinds of proof are ranked, not treated as equal. A coordinate stamp, a geofence, a continuous trail and an anti-spoofing check are different products at different prices. A vendor selling the first and calling it location tracking is ranked as selling the first.
• Seat floors are priced in, not footnoted. Where a vendor bills a 50-seat block, the cost row shows what 25 people actually pay rather than the advertised per-user rate. Four of the nine do this and none of them lead with it.
• An absence of documentation is reported as that, not as an absence. Clockify’s GPS help pages never mention geofencing. That is what is written in its entry: unconfirmed. We did not write that it lacks the feature, because we do not know that.
• One row is marked approximate on purpose. Buddy Punch’s own pricing page blocks automated reads and two sources of its help centre disagree by a dollar per user. Publishing it with the discrepancy named is more useful than publishing it clean or leaving it out.
• We are first, and a rival beats us on breadth in its own entry. We make Shiftelio. HROne’s base tier covers more location features than ours does and its entry says so plainly; we rank ahead of it on cost per head at 25 people, which is a claim you can check in the table rather than take on trust.

Best in each category

The question that decides which tier you need

If somebody punches in from the wrong place, do you want to know, or do you want it refused?

Wanting to know is a reporting problem, and a coordinate stamp on the punch solves it. That is the cheap tier everywhere, and if a supervisor reviewing a map once a week is enough, buy it and stop. Wanting it refused is an enforcement problem, and it needs a geofence, which is one or two tiers up almost everywhere on this page and is the single most common thing buyers discover after signing.

There is a third answer worth being honest about: wanting to watch the route all day. That is a much larger promise to your staff about what you are recording, it is priced separately everywhere, and it is the feature people actually object to. Be sure you need it before you pay Rs 140 a head a month for it.

The whole list at a glance

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Shiftelio

Most location verification per rupee, and none of it tier-gated

Geofenced, selfie-verified attendance for 5 to 100 people across sites.

Choose it when

You want the geofence and the selfie together, at 25 people, without discovering that one of them is on the next tier up. On this list that combination costs Rs 48,000 at Zimyo, Rs 59,400 at HROne and Rs 71,988 at factoHR, largely because those three bill a 50-seat block whether or not you have 50 people. We do not, so the arithmetic is not close and we have put it in the table rather than asked you to take it on trust.

Look elsewhere when

You need a full HRMS rather than attendance and payroll. We do not build performance cycles, applicant tracking, a learning system or org charts, and HROne and Zimyo do. If those matter, their per-head cost buys a much wider product and the comparison is not really about location at all. We are also the wrong answer if you want a free tier, because we have none: our free-tier page ranks us sixth for that reason and recommends two rivals ahead of us.

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. HROne's cheapest tier covers more location features than ours and its entry above says so.

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HROne

Broadest location coverage in a base tier, of any paid vendor here

A full Indian HRMS whose cheapest plan already does location properly.

Choose it when

You want one system for the whole HR function and you refuse to be upsold on location. If you are going to buy a full HRMS anyway, this is the one whose cheapest tier does not make you climb a tier to get a geofence or a selfie, and offline capture in a base plan is rarer still. For a business already at or above 50 people the seat block stops being a penalty and the per-head figure becomes competitive.

Look elsewhere when

You have 25 people. The Rs 4,950 covers 50 users, so a 25-person business pays Rs 2,376 per employee per year against the Rs 1,188 the headline implies, and we are Rs 240. The seat floor, not the feature set, is what makes this the wrong buy at this size. Two other gaps: every add-on on the page is unpriced, including payroll outsourcing and the WhatsApp bot, so a quote can move a long way from Rs 4,950; and the page does not say whether the price is monthly or annual billing, which is not a detail.

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Zimyo

Cheapest geofence among the fifty-seat HRMS vendors, if you can live without a selfie

A full HRMS for a business of fifty people or more.

Choose it when

You have fifty or more people, you want a full HRMS, and a geofence without a selfie is enough proof for your situation. At exactly 50 users Basic is Rs 48,000 a year for a complete HRMS with geofencing, which is a genuinely competitive number and better value than several products above it on cost alone.

Look elsewhere when

You need the selfie, or you have fewer than fifty people, and most readers of this page are one or both. The 50-user minimum means a 25-person business pays Rs 1,920 per employee per year against an advertised Rs 960: the headline is exactly half the real rate. And the selfie sitting on Standard is the expensive gate here, because you cannot buy it for the few people who need it, you move everybody to Rs 160. Watch the add-ons too: HR Analytics is Rs 20,000 per licence per month, which is more than the entire Basic plan for 50 people.

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Connecteam

Clearest published tier ladder for location, of anyone here

Deskless team operations, scheduling and communication, with location attached.

Choose it when

Your problem is running a deskless team rather than paying one: shifts, checklists, forms, training and a chat channel that is not WhatsApp, with location attached to the punch. Under 30 people the bundled-seat model is unusually kind, because 25 users cost exactly the same as 30, and the tier ladder is published plainly enough that you can tell what you are buying.

Look elsewhere when

You are an Indian employer who needs payroll. There is no Indian statutory payroll of any kind: their payroll integration page lists ADP products only, with no mention of India, EPF, ESI, professional tax or Form 16 anywhere, so somebody still does that elsewhere. There is also no INR price, so you are paying in dollars on a card. And check the geofence cap before committing: 10 sites on Advanced is plenty for one business and not enough for a contractor working thirty client addresses.

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Buddy Punch

Most granular pricing for live tracking specifically

US-style hourly time tracking with location, sold à la carte.

Choose it when

You want to pay for exactly the location feature you use and nothing else, and you like being able to add real-time tracking for $2 a head rather than climbing a tier. The pricing is unusually legible once you find the help centre, and the separation between a coordinate, a geofence and a live trail is more explicit than most vendors manage.

Look elsewhere when

You are in India, on almost every count. No INR price, no Indian statutory payroll mentioned anywhere, and the $19 monthly base fee sits on top of every plan so small teams pay a surcharge per head that larger ones do not. The deeper problem is that Starter cannot be costed at all for this page: its geofence add-on has no published price, so the cheapest tier that verifies a location is unpriceable and Pro is the first row that can honestly go in a table.

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greytHR

Deepest Indian statutory payroll sitting behind the geofence

Serious Indian payroll and compliance, with attendance attached.

Choose it when

The hard part of your month is statutory payroll rather than attendance. On PF, ESI, professional tax and Form 16 it has more depth than most of this list, and if that is the actual problem then the attendance module is a bonus rather than the purchase. The geofence being included in Growth rather than sold separately is a genuine point in its favour.

Look elsewhere when

Location is the reason you are shopping. Rs 140 per user per month for live tracking is the most expensive location add-on on this page: at 25 people it is Rs 42,000 a year on its own, which is seven times our entire subscription. The 50-employee bundle has the same effect here as at Zimyo and HROne, so a 25-person business pays for 50. And to correct something we got wrong ourselves: greytHR has no free tier, only a seven-day trial, whatever comparison round-ups tell you.

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Kredily

Cheapest live tracking on this page, if Android-only is acceptable

Free HR records, with location available as a paid climb.

Choose it when

You want a live trail rather than a punch stamp and you are pricing that specific feature. At Rs 50 per user per month it is the cheapest continuous tracking here by a wide margin, against Rs 140 at greytHR and $2 at Buddy Punch. Kredily is also the only vendor on this page with a free tier that has no headcount cap, which makes it the natural place to start if budget is the binding constraint.

Look elsewhere when

Any of your staff carry an iPhone. Kredily marks Continuous Live Tracking as Android only on its own table, and a tracking system with a hole in it is not a tracking system, it is a reason to argue in a disciplinary meeting. Check that before anything else. Beyond that, location means climbing to Professional at Rs 20,988, which is over three times our Rs 5,999 for the same 25 people, and the free tier that makes Kredily attractive excludes GPS entirely along with payouts, challans and Form 16.

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factoHR

The one to look at if you want face recognition rather than a selfie

A full HRMS with biometric-grade verification bolted on.

Choose it when

You want face recognition specifically rather than a selfie a supervisor eyeballs later, and you want it without buying hardware. At $1 per employee per month it is the cheapest route to face-based verification on this page, and it sits on top of a full HRMS rather than a standalone attendance tool.

Look elsewhere when

You are watching the total. Rs 71,988 is the most expensive geofence in rupees on this page, and it is that high largely because the base fee buys 50 employees whether you have 5 or 50. The free tier is no help here either: it excludes attendance, the mobile app and geofencing entirely, so it is a document generator rather than a starting point. And a dollar-priced add-on on a rupee plan means your location cost moves with the exchange rate.

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Clockify

Best location history for project work rather than compliance

Tracking which hours went to which client, with a map attached.

Choose it when

The question you need answered is how many hours went to which client or project, and the map is context rather than evidence. For that job it is well built, the free tier is not crippled, and there is no seat minimum on the paid tiers.

Look elsewhere when

You need to prove somebody was inside a boundary. Clockify sits last here because location history is the weakest of the four kinds of proof this page ranks by, and because the strongest kind may not exist in the product at all. It also does no Indian statutory payroll: nothing on its pricing pages mentions EPF, ESI, professional tax or Form 16, because it is a time tracker rather than a payroll engine. At $7.99 a seat it is also the most expensive per-head location on this page.

Questions people ask before choosing

Work the numbers yourself

• How multi-site attendance works in Shiftelio
• Attendance when the site has no network
• Staff who do not carry a smartphone
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• Overtime calculator
• What Shiftelio costs
• How we rank, and where these numbers come from

Other comparisons on this site

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

• Best attendance apps in India: Annual cost at 25 employees with GPS verification working
• Best free attendance apps in India: How far a free tier gets you before payroll, location or a headcount cap forces an upgrade
• Best attendance apps for field staff in India: Site caps, offline capture and the cost of a continuous trail, for staff never at one address
• Best attendance apps for construction sites in India: Workers who own no smartphone, whether a daily wage can be paid at all, and whether the pricing shape survives a headcount that moves with the project
• Best attendance apps for restaurants in India: Whether a two-part day can be rostered at all, whether each outlet gets its own boundary, and how fast a new hire can punch
• Best payroll software for small businesses in India: Whether the statutory output is actually produced, not merely calculated