TradesTimer vs Workyard
What Workyard is
Construction-focused GPS time tracking with labor cost attribution to jobs and cost codes.
Best for: Small-to-midsize construction contractors with W-2 employees who need defensible labor cost data for fixed-price bids.
Pricing at a glance
$6 PER USER / MO (MIN)
Workforce Management plan starts around $6 per user per month; time tracking plan $8 per user per month plus a company fee.
Verified 2026-04-15
$0 FREE — FULL APP
Where Workyard is strong
- Accurate labor-cost attribution per job and cost code
- Automatic time capture triggered by jobsite arrival
- Solid reporting for bidding and post-job profitability
Where Workyard falls short for trades
- Auto time capture requires jobsites to be predefined with geofences before your crew arrives
- Workflow assumes W-2 employees clocking in against assigned jobs, not a solo operator recovering their day
- Reports are built around payroll and job costing, not around a one-person invoice
- Location trails are uploaded and retained on Workyard's servers for attribution
What TradesTimer does differently
- Free — the full automatic time-tracking loop has no price tag
- No jobsites to predefine — stops are detected and labeled automatically as you work
- No employees required; the product is designed primarily around one person
- Location history stays on the phone; there is no employer-facing trail view
- Invoice preview is a share sheet, not an export pipeline into another accounting system
- All your data stays on your phone — no cloud account required
The verdict
Workyard is a strong choice for a construction contractor who lives and dies by job cost accuracy and has W-2 employees to account for. TradesTimer is a better fit for a self-employed tradesperson who mainly wants to stop forgetting how long they were at each address — and the core app is free, so there is no cost to trying it for a week to see if it fits your workflow.
Page last verified 2026-04-15. If Workyard has changed pricing or features since then and this page is stale, email [email protected] and we'll fix it.
Free. The whole app.
The whole time-tracking app is free — no trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees. (Encrypted cloud backup is on the roadmap.)
- Automatic day reconstruction from background GPS
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit any block
- Rounded billable-hours summary, shareable as plain text
- Automatic mileage log, exportable for taxes
- 7-day summary view
- All location data stays on your device
Your location history stays on your phone.
There is no TradesTimer server storing your location trails. No account. No sign-up. Your GPS history lives on the device that recorded it — for as long as you want it. The only time anything leaves your phone is when you choose to share your billable-hours summary yourself.
The app does not talk to any third-party service with your location. Nothing about where you've been is uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy for the full detail.