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 FREEMIUM
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
Where Jibble is strong
- Facial recognition for secure identity verification
- GPS-based clock-in for fixed-location attendance
Where Jibble falls short for trades
- 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
Jibble problems, in users' own words
These aren't our words — they're from public threads written by people using Jibble (or shopping for a way out). Each quote links to the original discussion.
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.
Jibble would have been a fine tool for that office — kiosks, face check-in, attendance policies. Those features exist because employers don't fully trust clock-ins. When you're solo, there's nobody to distrust: you just need the honest hours. TradesTimer skips the attendance theater and hands you the hours.
What TradesTimer does differently
- Automatic reconstruction of stops and trips without any manual timers
- Automatic mileage logging for tax purposes derived from trip distances
The verdict
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 and this page is stale, email support@tradestimer.com 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.