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Last updated: March 2026
Two products for two kinds of work. One measures activity on a computer. The other verifies who is at the clock on a floor, a dock, or a job site.
The feature lists overlap. What each product is actually recording does not.
Hubstaff runs as an app on the worker's computer or phone and measures digital activity: screenshots at set intervals, application and URL usage, keystroke and mouse rates rolled up into an activity score, and GPS for mobile plans. Most of that is configurable, and teams that bill clients hourly use it to substantiate invoices. It is a strong product for agencies, freelancers, and distributed teams whose entire output happens on a screen.
EasyClocking records two events per shift: the clock-in and the clock-out, each tied to a verified identity at a physical terminal or a geofenced mobile punch. Between those events it records nothing, because there is nothing on a screen to record. The output is a clean set of hours that feeds overtime rules, job costing by cost code, certified payroll, and 20+ payroll systems.
What this means for you: Pick based on where the work happens. If the deliverable is produced on a computer and you need evidence of hours billed, activity data is the evidence. If the deliverable is a poured slab, a loaded trailer, or a finished production run, the work is already visible and the open question is whether the timesheet matches it.
Honest guidance. We'd rather help you make the right choice than win a deal on incomplete information.
| Capability | Hubstaff | EasyClocking |
|---|---|---|
| Primary approach | Software-based activity monitoring (screenshots, keystrokes, mouse) | Biometric identity verification at the clock |
| Biometric time clocks (hardware) | No: software only | Yes: industrial fingerprint + facial recognition |
| Industrial-grade hardware | No: desktop/laptop software | Yes: IP65+, built for dust, cold, wet |
| Screenshot monitoring | Yes: randomized screenshots during work | No |
| Keystroke / mouse tracking | Yes: activity levels tracked | No |
| Time & attendance | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduling | Basic shift scheduling | Yes: with overtime equity tracking |
| Direct payroll integration | Yes: limited integrations | Yes: 20+ systems |
| GPS tracking | Yes: continuous GPS tracking | Yes: mobile punch with geofencing |
| Offline capability | Limited | Yes: full offline, syncs when connected |
| Prevailing wage / certified payroll | No | Yes |
| Best for | Remote desk-based teams, freelancers, agencies | Construction, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing |
| Deployment model | Desktop and mobile app installed per worker | Wall-mounted or portable clocks, plus a mobile app for field crews |
These two products rarely belong in the same evaluation, and here is why.
Hubstaff answers a question about computer work: how were these billable hours spent. For an agency invoicing a client, a contractor billing by the hour, or a distributed team with no shared office, that question is real and Hubstaff answers it well. We do not compete for that buyer and would not win if we tried.
EasyClocking answers a different question: did the hours that reached payroll match the hours worked. On a plant floor or a job site, the output is already visible. Nobody needs a screenshot to know whether the line ran. What breaks down is the record. A shift gets logged under the wrong person because a PIN was shared or a badge got passed along, a punch gets missed and reconstructed from memory on Friday, hours get re-keyed from one system into another. The result is inflated payroll on some lines, unrecorded hours on others, and no way to tell which is which after the fact.
Biometric verification fixes the credential problem at the source. It ties the punch to the person, so the hours are provable. The audit trail covers later edits too, so a record cannot be quietly changed after approval. That is a data quality mechanism, not a monitoring one, and it stops at the punch by design.
If your workforce is split, some remote desk staff and some on-site crews, running both products is a legitimate answer. They are not solving the same problem, so they are not really redundant.
Feature-by-feature comparisons with honest strengths and weaknesses.
EasyClocking verifies identity at the point of clock-in using biometric hardware and then gets out of the way. Hubstaff continuously monitors activity through screenshots, keystroke logging, and mouse movement tracking throughout the workday. They serve different types of work: EasyClocking is built for physical work environments, Hubstaff for remote desk-based teams.
Not well. Hubstaff is designed for desk-based work. Its core features (screenshot capture, app usage tracking, keystroke monitoring) require a computer. Workers on factory floors, jobsites, warehouses, and trucks don’t sit at desks. EasyClocking’s industrial biometric hardware is purpose-built for these environments.
No. EasyClocking records the punch: who clocked in, when, and where. It does not capture screenshots, keystrokes, application usage, or continuous location. The record it produces is a set of verified start and stop times, which is what payroll and certified payroll reporting actually need.
Because it does not apply to the work our customers do. Screenshots and app-usage tracking answer a question about computer work. On a plant floor, a dock, or a job site, that data does not exist and would not tell you anything if it did. The question there is whether the hours on the timesheet match the hours worked, which is an identity and record-accuracy problem.
Yes, though it is usually a sign that the work itself changed rather than a like-for-like swap. The common case is a company whose headcount shifted from remote or hybrid roles toward on-site crews, where a per-machine software agent no longer has anywhere to run.
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