# Truein review (2026): is it worth $2.25 a month per user, billed yearly? > Face-recognition time and attendance for multi-site workforces Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Truein - **Website:** https://truein.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Too light for HR records or payroll, as it covers time and attendance. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $2.25 per 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 | $3.50 per 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 https://truein.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Truein before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **25% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://truein.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Companies with contract, field or multi-site staff who need verified clock-ins - Facility management, construction, cleaning and staffing firms - Teams that want a low per-user price with face matching included ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: B.** $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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial with all features and no credit card, and no free plan. - **Features: C.** It 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Staff faces and sites have to be enrolled before it works. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with API and FTP links to payroll systems but no named vendors. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among HR software - Truein's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 85 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 91 of 101) 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 for the category: 11 of the 40 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, 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 85 of the 101 other HR software we grade. It costs $27 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, time off and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts. - 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. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Time clock, Time tracking, Shift scheduling, Time off, Reports ## Alternatives - [Buddy Punch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/buddy-punch): Online time clock with GPS, scheduling and payroll add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buddy-punch-vs-truein) - [Homebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homebase): Small-business scheduling, time clock and payroll, priced per location. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/homebase-vs-truein) - [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/connecteam-vs-truein) - [Clockify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clockify): Team time tracker and timesheets with a free plan for 5 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clockify-vs-truein) - [Deputy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deputy): Shift scheduling, time clock and labor-law tools for hourly teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deputy-vs-truein) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://truein.com/pricing - https://truein.com/pricing?i=i4 - https://truein.com - https://truein.com/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/truein Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).