# Atto

> GPS time clock and shift scheduling for field crews

Atto is a time tracking and scheduling app for field and deskless teams such as construction, cleaning and home services crews. Workers clock in from their phones with a location stamp, and the hours become timesheets with breaks and overtime. Managers also build schedules, handle shift trades, track mileage and chat with the team, and US payroll is sold as an add-on.

- **Category:** Shift Scheduling
- **Made by:** Specta Labs, Inc.
- **Website:** https://attotime.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Atto is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $5.65 per user / month, billed annually (Starter).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of the Advanced plan, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $5.65 per user / month, billed annually ($6.95 billed monthly) | Time tracking on mobile and web, shift scheduling, automated timesheets, job codes, breaks and notes. |
| Plus | $7.95 per user / month, billed annually ($9.95 billed monthly) | Adds team chat, real-time GPS tracking, basic time-off management and automated pay calculations. |
| Advanced | $10.75 per user / month, billed annually ($12.95 billed monthly) | Adds mileage tracking, advanced shift controls, time-off requests and job costing. Marked most popular. |
| Expert | $16.55 per user / month, billed annually ($19.95 billed monthly) | Adds priority support, concierge onboarding, custom implementation and API access. Sold through sales. |

Read from https://attotime.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Atto before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing brings Starter, Plus, Advanced and Expert to $5.65, $7.95, $10.75 and $16.55 per user a month, against $6.95, $9.95, $12.95 and $19.95 monthly. Source: https://attotime.com/pricing

## Key features

- **GPS time clock:** Workers clock in and out from the iOS or Android app or a browser, with the location of each punch recorded and optional limits on clocking in away from the job site.
- **Shared kiosk:** A time clock kiosk lets a whole crew clock in from one device at the job site.
- **Automatic timesheets:** Clock-ins become timesheets with breaks and overtime worked out, ready to review and approve, and they connect to QuickBooks Online and Xero for payroll.
- **Shift scheduling:** Managers build, copy and publish schedules with open shifts and templates, staff send trade and cover requests, and reminders nudge people who forget to clock in.
- **Location and mileage tracking:** Higher plans show who is on the clock and where in real time, keep a location history report and log drives automatically for mileage reimbursements.
- **Team chat and activity feed:** One-to-one and group chats, plus a daily feed of clock-ins, locations, jobs and status changes.

## Good for

- Construction, landscaping and home services crews working on job sites
- Owners who want proof of where each clock-in happened
- Teams that reimburse mileage and want drives logged automatically

## Worth knowing

- Payroll is a US-only add-on at $5.95 per payroll user a month plus a $39.95 monthly base fee.
- Real-time GPS tracking and team chat start on Plus; mileage tracking, time-off requests and job costing need Advanced.
- API access comes only with Expert, which is bought through the sales team.
- Seats are paid upfront and recounted at the start of each billing cycle; downgrades and cancellations apply at the end of the cycle.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Atto is a time clock first: crews clock in from their phones with a location stamp, and the hours become timesheets with breaks and overtime worked out. Scheduling is there too, but it's the lighter half. And at $5.65 a person, a team of 15 pays more here than anywhere else in this category.

- **Value for money: D.** Starter is $5.65 a user a month billed yearly, so 15 staff pay $84.75 a month. That's the dearest figure in this category for a team that size. Team chat and live GPS tracking need Plus at $7.95 a head.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial of Advanced with no credit card needed. Two weeks is enough to see whether your crew takes to it.
- **Features: C.** The time clock side is strong: GPS punches, a kiosk, automatic timesheets and mileage logs. The scheduling half covers templates, open shifts, trades and covers, but nothing on record fills shifts from availability, and time-off requests need Advanced.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.58 from 3,784 App Store ratings. Clocking in is a tap on the phone, which is most of what a crew will ever do in it.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android. Payroll links are just QuickBooks Online and Xero, and the API only comes with Expert, which you buy through sales.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Atto's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps

- Atto's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 1 of the 12 other shift scheduling apps we grade.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 6 of 12) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $5.65 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.65 for the category: 6 of the 12 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shift-scheduling

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Atto you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 11 of the 12 other shift scheduling apps grade higher. It costs $67.80 a year.

- You could make: Time off: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up.
- You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you.
- You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks Online and Xero among them, and has an API.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 3,784 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1132847984

## Works with

QuickBooks Online, Xero

**Tags:** Shift scheduling, Time clock, Time off, Team chat, Payroll, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Connecteam](https://toolgpa.com/tools/connecteam): Employee app for shifts, time clock, chat and HR, free up to 10 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/atto-vs-connecteam)
- [Homebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homebase): Small-business scheduling, time clock and payroll, priced per location. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/atto-vs-homebase)
- [When I Work](https://toolgpa.com/tools/when-i-work): Staff scheduling with auto-fill, shift trades and an add-on time clock. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/atto-vs-when-i-work)
- [Jibble](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jibble): Free time clock and attendance tracker with GPS and face recognition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/atto-vs-jibble)
- [QuickBooks Time](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks-time): Employee time clock and scheduling tied to QuickBooks payroll. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/atto-vs-quickbooks-time)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://attotime.com/pricing
- https://attotime.com/employee-timesheet-app
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atto-time-tracking-shifts/id1132847984

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/atto
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