Truein review (2026): is it worth $2.25 a month per user, billed yearly?
Face-recognition time and attendance for multi-site workforces
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Truein report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for face-recognition time clocks from $2.25
Truein tracks attendance by face recognition, with GPS geofencing and a kiosk or phone punch, from $2.25 a user a month on yearly billing. Scheduling and overtime rules need Advanced, and live tracking is an add-on.
Who Truein is for
- Fits if you have several sites and want staff to clock in with their face
- Works for field crews that need geofenced punches and offline capture
Who Truein is not for
- Too light for HR records or payroll, as it covers time and attendance
- Pricey if you want scheduling and overtime rules, which are Advanced at $3.50
- Watch out: live tracking and time-off management are paid add-ons on top of Advanced
- Watch out: over 1,000 staff means Enterprise, with no published price
- Not for you if you want named payroll integrations, as only API and FTP links are listed
Why Truein gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for money$2.25 a user a month on yearly billing, inside the cheapest quarter. Advanced is $3.50, and live tracking ($1.25) and time off ($0.50) are add-ons.
- CFree plan and trialA 14-day trial with all features and no credit card, and no free plan.
- CFeaturesIt does attendance fully: face clock-in, geofencing, offline capture and job tracking. That is a narrower job than HR software, and scheduling, overtime rules and advanced reports sit on Advanced.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Staff faces and sites have to be enrolled before it works.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, iOS and Android, with API and FTP links to payroll systems but no named vendors. No desktop app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Truein's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/truein#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/truein.svg" alt="Truein: 2.4 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Truein stands among HR software
Truein's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 50 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 9.
It stands best on value for money (B, above 56 of 63) and worst on features (C, above 1).
Its paid plans start at $2.25 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.36 for the category: 7 of the 36 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 64 HR software we grade, cut by the letter each got. Truein’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 56 of 63, level with 5
- CFree plan and trialAbove 40 of 63, level with 18
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 63, level with 39
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 63, level with 61
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 22 of 63, level with 41
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 38 HR software. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Truein, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Truein you could make: time tracking, time off and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 50 of the 63 other HR software we grade. It costs $27 a year.
What you could make
- Time tracking, time off and reports: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
What this rests on. Truein’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Truein?
Truein records when staff start and finish work by matching a selfie or kiosk photo to a face and stamping the punch with a location. It is aimed at companies with contract, field and multi-site workers, such as facility management, construction and staffing firms. Plans differ by region, and the US, Canada, Europe and Australia share one price list.
Worth knowing
- Shift and job scheduling, overtime rules and advanced reports are on the Advanced plan, not Time Capture.
- Live tracking ($1.25 per user / month) and time-off management ($0.50 per user / month) are paid add-ons on top of Advanced.
- Companies with more than 1,000 staff are directed to Enterprise, which has no published price.
- The pricing page lists API and FTP integrations with HRMS and payroll systems but names no specific vendors; custom integrations are offered.
Key features
- Face-recognition clock-in
- Staff clock in with a selfie in the mobile app or at a shared kiosk, and the system checks the face and flags suspected photo or video spoofing for admin review.
- GPS geofencing
- Punches can be limited to approved work sites, and each entry carries a location stamp.
- Offline capture
- When there is no network, punches are stored on the device with the face and location and sync once the connection returns.
- Job-based time tracking
- Hours can be logged against jobs, sites, shifts and staff categories, so a timesheet shows where time was spent.
- Scheduling and pay rules
- The Advanced plan adds shift and job scheduling, overtime and break rules, activity planning and contractor or agency management.
- Multi-site dashboard
- One dashboard covers every location, with approval workflows for time corrections and exception flags for late, off-site, duplicate or missing punches.
Truein pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Truein is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $2.25 per user / month, billed annually ($3.00 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $2.25 per user / month, billed annually ($3.00 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial with access to all features, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Time Capture | $2.25per user / month, billed annually ($3.00 billed monthly) | Face-recognition clock-in, GPS geofencing, kiosk and mobile punching, offline capture, job-based tracking and basic timesheets. |
| Advanced | $3.50per user / month, billed annually ($4.50 billed monthly) | Time Capture plus shift and job scheduling, overtime and pay rules, advanced reports and contractor management. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Advanced plus an account manager, custom contracts and billing, integrations and priority support. For companies above 1,000 staff. |
Read from truein.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Truein before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discount25% off with annual billing
The pricing page shows a Monthly and a Yearly toggle with a stated 25% saving for yearly billing, for example $2.25 instead of $3.00 per user a month on Time Capture.
Stated on truein.com
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Common questions
Does Truein have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Truein is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Truein have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Truein is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Truein open source?
Truein is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.