If you're sizing up an alternative to Workyard, you've likely outgrown one of these: the per-seat math, the missing production primitives, or the workflow that doesn't survive the second show. Here's what holds from pitch through wrap, and what's worked for teams that moved.
Last updated June 18, 2026
Credit where it's due before we talk alternatives. Workyard earned its place. Here's where it delivers.
These are the gaps we hear from teams weighing an alternative. Your run-of-show may vary.
Workyard picked a hard problem and does it well: GPS time records accurate enough for construction billing, hours coded to jobs and cost codes, payroll-ready output. If your business bills labor to construction projects, that precision is the product. A production crew needs the location-honest time record too, and Compass punches are geofenced for exactly that reason, but the site record does not stop at hours: gates scan credentials offline, incidents carry anonymous filing and manager sign-off, punch lists and daily logs close out the build, and gear moves with a custody chain.
A production closes out on more than a timesheet: the incident chain, the punch list, the daily log, the custody trail on gear. Compass keeps them on one org store with the hours.
Credentialed sites need a gate that scans offline and journals every result. A time tracker has no gate; Compass treats it as a first-class surface.
Per-user pricing on a 300-hand build week is real money. Per-org pricing is not.
The path teams take to move off Workyard.
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