Jibble vs TradesTimer
What Jibble is
A free time-clock and attendance app for teams, featuring facial recognition and GPS clock-in at fixed, pre-defined locations.
Best for: Managers and teams who need to track employee attendance, shift duration, and clock-in/out events at specific, fixed job sites or office locations.
Pricing at a glance
$2.49 Free and paid plans
Free unlimited-user time clock; paid roughly $2.49/user/mo adds advanced features. Pricing changes — verify.
Verified 2026-06-08
$0 Free — full app
Jibble strengths
- Facial recognition for secure identity verification
- GPS-based clock-in for fixed-location attendance
Considerations for self-employed tradespeople
- Manually clocking in and out for every new client stop throughout a day of multiple jobs
- Pre-configuring specific jobsite locations in the app before arriving at a site
Experiences with Jibble
These quotes come from public discussions about Jibble. Each quote links to its source.
Some features felt like an overkill for solo use … Feels like it is best for managing a remote team first, and freelancers second.
Jibble's generous free plan is real — but it's a team product, and a solo tradesman ends up navigating attendance features built for someone else's org chart.
Why I built a Jibble alternative
Running time tracking for ten electricians taught me what attendance systems are really for: employers who can't watch the site. Face check-in, kiosks, GPS stamps — it's all trust infrastructure. Fair enough with a crew. But the failure I actually fought every week wasn't dishonesty, it was forgetting — a guy works a full morning and the clock-in just never happened. Trust tools don't fix forgetting.
Attendance tools can help an office manage team records. TradesTimer focuses on individual stops and trips that you review before billing.
What TradesTimer does differently
- Automatic reconstruction of stops and trips without any manual timers
- Automatic mileage logging for tax purposes derived from trip distances
Which app fits your needs?
Jibble is a robust solution for managing team attendance and shifts at fixed locations. TradesTimer is a specialized tool for solo tradespeople, automatically reconstructing a day of varying stops and trips to provide billable hours and mileage without ever needing to hit a timer.
Page last verified 2026-06-08. If Jibble has changed pricing or features since then contact us at [email protected] to request a correction.
Free time tracking
Record stops and trips, review your hours, and export reports without a subscription.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.