Best Tablet Kiosk Time Clock Apps for Shared Devices

A kiosk time clock is a tablet mounted where hourly staff start their shift: each person taps in on the same device instead of on their own phone. The buying questions are narrow. How does the kiosk know who is punching, what does it keep as proof, does it still work when the Wi-Fi drops, and what does a seat cost for someone who only ever clocks in. Prices and features below come from each vendor's pricing or kiosk page, read on October 28, 2026 (QuickBooks Time's price on October 27). Nothing here comes from a hands-on trial.

For whom: a shop, clinic, restaurant, warehouse or job-site trailer with 5 to 50 hourly workers and one shared device. Not for: crews that clock in from scattered job sites on their own phones; see time tracking for field crews.

Kiosk features and cost for ten hourly workers

Our pick

Clockify Pro. A shared tablet invites one worker to punch in for another; a photo taken at clock-in lets a manager see who stood in front of the tablet. Clockify adds photo capture to its kiosk from the Pro plan, with each user's consent before the first capture, and its limited seats for people who only ever punch at the kiosk keep the bill low: about $23.89 a month for ten workers and one admin, against $88.90 on Buddy Punch Pro.

• Pick Clockify Basic if a PIN is enough because a manager on site already knows who arrives: the same kiosk with PIN sign-in costs about $11.89 a month for that team.
• Pick Buddy Punch Pro if part of the team punches at the kiosk and part from their own phones on the road: Pro takes a webcam photo at each punch, adds basic geofencing, and its offline mode keeps mobile-app punches made by signed-in employees until the phone reconnects. The shared kiosk itself still needs a connection, and every worker is a full user, so it costs more.
• Pick QuickBooks Time if payroll already runs in QuickBooks: the kiosk takes a 4-digit PIN and can require a photo, and approved time lands in the payroll you already use. Its price assumes you already pay for QuickBooks Online, and the kiosk needs a reliable connection.

Do not add face recognition casually

A photo stored for a manager to look at is not the same as a face template a system matches automatically. Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act sets written rules for collecting, keeping and destroying biometric identifiers, and other states have their own. Before turning on any face-matching option, read our guide to biometric time clocks and BIPA.