Puuunch vs Hubstaff
Hubstaff measures your employees: screenshots, activity levels, idle time, location. Puuunch measures the work: hours the person writes down themselves. That isn’t a feature difference — it’s a difference in what you’re assuming about the people you hired.
Hubstaff details read on 5 September 2026, from hubstaff.com.
| Criterion | Puuunch | Hubstaff |
|---|---|---|
| What gets measured | The hours a person types, on a week they submit | The hours, plus screenshots and activity levels |
| Screenshots | None. Ever. | 100 per seat per month (Free), 500 (Starter), 1,500 (Grow), unlimited (Team) |
| Activity levels (keyboard and mouse) | None | Every plan, including Free |
| Idle detection | None | Grow plan and above |
| Location and GPS | None | Enterprise plan, or an add-on at USD $3.33 per seat per month |
| App and URL tracking | None | Varies by plan |
| Timesheet approvals | Included | Team plan and above |
| Expenses and receipts | Included | Grow plan and above |
| Pricing | CAD $5.50 per active person per month, one plan | Per seat across four plans, plus add-ons |
So which one should you choose?
These two products solve different problems, and one of them isn’t ours. Here is our answer, in both directions.
Choose Puuunch if
- You trust your team and you just want to know where the time went.
- You’d rather not have to explain to someone why their screen is being photographed.
- You want weekly approvals and expenses without climbing a plan for each.
- Hosting in Canada and a fully bilingual interface matter to you.
Choose Hubstaff if
- You have to evidence billed time to clients who demand proof, and your contracts say so.
- You have field teams and location is genuinely part of the job.
- You pay people hourly against measured time, with payroll following from it.
- Monitoring is a real requirement where you are, not a reflex — and your employees have been told.
If you need proof, take Hubstaff: Puuunch will never produce it, and that isn’t a gap waiting to be filled. A timesheet someone fills in themselves is only worth anything if it is believed.
What Puuunch never collects
These aren’t features that are coming. They’re decisions, and they aren’t going to change.
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No screenshots
Puuunch never photographs anyone’s screen, on any plan, and there is no setting that turns it on.
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No activity tracking
No keystrokes, no mouse movement, no activity percentage, no list of apps or sites visited.
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No location
No GPS, no geofencing, no device position. A time entry holds a duration, a project and a note.
Try it with your own hours.
Your first week is free and takes about a minute to set up.
Frequently asked
No, on any plan, and there is no setting that turns it on. Puuunch tracks no keystrokes, no mouse movement, no open applications and no location.
Because an option the boss can switch on is not an option for the employee. The day the setting exists, so does the question “why isn’t it on here?”. Not having it is the feature.
From its own plan-comparison page: activity levels on every plan including Free; screenshots on a quota (100 per seat per month on Free, up to unlimited on Team); idle timeout from Grow up; location on Enterprise or as a paid add-on.
The week is submitted, then approved by a manager, and it locks. It is the same mechanism as a signed paper timesheet — the person asserts, someone countersigns.
Yes, in Puuunch’s single plan. In Hubstaff, timesheet approvals start at the Team plan and expenses at Grow.
Because their pricing page doesn’t publish them in a form we can read and quote with certainty, and taking a number from somewhere else would break the rule these pages rest on: verified vendor facts only, with the date written down. See hubstaff.com for their pricing.
Hubstaff is a trademark of its owner. Puuunch is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Hubstaff. The details above come from public pages on hubstaff.com read on 5 September 2026 and may have changed since.