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Workyard vs busybusy

Two cost-coded GPS time-card apps for contractors: Workyard (time rules, job costing, field expenses and AI timecard correction on its Autopilot plan) and busybusy (GPS time cards, daily project reports, equipment hours and published per-user pricing). Vendor-published facts only.

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Workyard vs busybusy: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rowWorkyardbusybusy
CategoryGPS time tracking, cost codes & field opsGPS time tracking & daily project reports
AI role (our label)AI features added to established productNot AI-first
What it doesWorkforce management for contractors and field teams: GPS time tracking with time-clock rules and auto clock-in, overtime and break compliance with a GPS audit trail, time capture by project and cost code on every time card, live job-cost reporting by employee and cost code, sync of time by job and cost code to accounting/ERP (Sage, NetSuite, ComputerEase and Foundation named on the pricing page), scheduling with notes/checklists/attachments, a live crew map, mileage allocation, field expenses on a company card, mobile forms with an AI-powered form builder/converter (upload a PDF or image), and a developer API with 60+ endpoints. The pricing page's Autopilot plan adds "AI Time Keeping": a Time assistant (marked New) that the vendor says finds and fixes a full pay period of timecards automatically, with all changes reviewed and approved by admins before they go to payroll, and a Project Time Tracking Agent that detects work-site visits and allocates time to the right project using your offsite and rule-group settings with no manual clock-ins. Homepage figures (50,000+ workers, 10,000+ contractors) and customer quotes are vendor-published claims.GPS time-card app for construction and other field industries: clock in/out (individual, supervisor crew clock-in, kiosk), GPS breadcrumbing and required-onsite clock-in, location-based reminders, signed digital time cards, daily safety/injury sign-off, cost codes and job costing, budgets vs actuals, equipment hours and GPS, scheduling, unlimited GPS/time-stamped photos and notes, documents, and customizable daily project reports. The homepage says the daily can auto-generate weather, job costing, equipment, photos, injury report and hours on site for each project, and that kiosk facial recognition "uses AI" to notify the office about buddy punching. That is the only AI use described; the daily report is assembled from captured data, not described as AI-written. Offline mode listed. Homepage figures (e.g. total time-card hours tracked) are vendor claims.
Who it's forContractors (trade, restoration, service and GC crews) that need GPS-verified, cost-coded time feeding payroll and job costing.Construction crews and owners of small to mid-size trade, excavation, restoration and similar field businesses.
Pricing (as publicly stated)Pricing page (checked Oct 16, 2026): plans start at $6 per user/month billed annually, monthly billing available. Plans: Starter, Pro, Autopilot (marked most popular; adds the AI Time Keeping features, time-clock automations, time-card sign-offs, ERP integrations and API access) and Enterprise (contact sales). Per-plan prices above the $6 starting figure did not render in the page text we read.Free tier plus paid plans (pricing page, checked Oct 16, 2026): Pro $11.99 per user/month billed monthly or $9.99 billed annually; Premium $17.99 monthly or $14.99 annually; both plus a $40 admin license (first user included). 14-day Pro trial, no credit card required.
Test statusNot tested. No scores.Not tested. No scores.
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