Workyard alternative
Workyard is a strong GPS time-tracking tool priced at a $50/month company base plus per-user fees. JobCost Pro starts free and costs the entire job — receipts, materials, subs, and hours — with your margin live on your phone.
Workyard answers "who was on site and for how long" with precision GPS — genuinely well. But labor is only part of a job's cost. Materials runs, sub invoices, dump fees, and the $60 fitting trips decide your margin too, and a time-tracking tool never sees them. On Workyard's published pricing (July 2026), a 6-person crew on Pro runs about $146/month — $50 base plus $16 per user — and at the end you still can't see whether the job made money, only what the labor cost.
Receipts scanned by AI, materials, subs, fees, and GPS-tracked hours all land on the same job ledger. The margin you see is the real one, not the labor-only version.
A real free tier — 3 projects, 50 receipts a month. Contractor is $49.99/month flat with 5 seats. No company base fee, no per-user meter running.
Budget vs. actual per job, updating as costs land. A job trending under bid shows up in week two, while you can still act on it.
Workyard is excellent at what it's built for: precise GPS time tracking and labor compliance. The real question is whether your problem is a time clock or a job ledger.
| Feature | JobCost Pro | Workyard |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $0 (real free tier) | $50/mo base + per-user fees |
| Free tier | Yes | No (14-day trial) |
| Per-user fees | None (Contractor includes 5 seats) | $8–$16/user/mo |
| GPS time tracking | Yes (geofenced, auto clock-out) | Yes — their specialty |
| AI receipt scanning | Yes (line items + returns) | Not the focus — time-first |
| Voice expense capture | Yes | No |
| Materials + sub costs on the job | Yes, at capture | Labor-centric |
| Live per-job margin (all costs) | Yes | Labor cost reporting |
| Native invoicing | Yes | No |
| Mobile-first field capture | Yes | Yes (time), office for the rest |
¹ Workyard pricing per workyard.com/pricing verified July 2026: Starter $8/user/mo ($6 annual) + $50/mo company base; Pro $16/user/mo + $50/mo base; Enterprise custom for 50+ users. 14-day free trial.
GPS time tracking is Workyard's whole product, and it shows: high-accuracy location data, geofence precision, workforce scheduling, and labor-compliance reporting built for bigger field teams. If your only problem is knowing exactly where field hours go — and the office already handles everything else — Workyard is a strong pick.
The full picture. Receipts, materials, subs, and hours land on the job the moment they happen, so the margin you see is the real one. Plus a real free tier, flat crew pricing, native invoicing, and AI capture built for dirty hands.
Three projects and 50 receipts/month, free indefinitely. Workyard offers a 14-day trial; JobCost Pro lets you run a whole real job free first.
Snap the receipt; vendor, amount, and line items are read and filed to the right job automatically.
Hands full? Say the amount, vendor, and job. Logged.
Geofenced clock-in, auto clock-out when the day wraps, mileage between jobs — you don't give up time tracking by switching.
Branded invoices and a clean homeowner progress view, no extra subscription.
Overrun warnings before a job blows its budget — not in the month-end report.
Full Spanish app and an AI that answers in the user's language.
Categorized exports drop into QuickBooks Online or Desktop. Keep your accountant.
Free for 3 projects. Pro at $29.99/mo. Contractor at $49.99/mo with 5 seats. Business at $149.99/mo with 15 seats. The whole crew on one bill.
Less than a single trip to Home Depot.
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.
3 projects, 50 receipts/month — get started free
For solo contractors — unlimited projects & receipts
For crews — 5 team members, GPS & payroll
Full platform — 15 team members, 1099s, API
Paid plans renew automatically at the price shown for the selected interval (monthly or yearly) until you cancel. You'll be charged in US dollars plus any applicable sales tax.
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Yes — geofenced GPS clock-in and clock-out, auto clock-out when the day wraps, and mileage between jobs, tied to each job's cost at your loaded labor rate. If you need enterprise-grade workforce scheduling and compliance reporting across large teams, that's genuinely Workyard's lane.
You can — some crews keep Workyard for workforce operations and use JobCost Pro for job costs. Most small crews end up consolidating: one app, one bill, and hours already land on the job ledger here.
Better — a real free tier. Three projects and 50 receipts per month, indefinitely. Run a real job through it before spending anything.
Export your time reports from Workyard as CSV and keep them for your records; new jobs take about a minute to set up in JobCost Pro and costs start landing immediately. Historical transactions can be bulk-imported via CSV.
Per Workyard's published pricing (verified July 2026): a $50/month company base plus $8/user (Starter) or $16/user (Pro) monthly. JobCost Pro: free tier, then $29.99 (Pro), $49.99 (Contractor, 5 seats), or $149.99 (Business, 15 seats) flat.
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