Punchy: Simple time tracking for home

Punchy

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A home kiosk, a personal PIN, and an honest record of the hours: no spreadsheets and no paperwork. The kiosk is a screen at your home, not an app on anyone's phone.

Free to use · No credit card · No ads · Adults only · Available in the United States.

The Punchy kiosk on a tablet: a worker named Maria, a green Punch In button, and her recent time log.

Set it up once on a device at home. From there, every shift is captured automatically.

  1. Your peopleMariaPINLeoPIN+ add someone

    You sign up

    On your own computer or phone: add the adults whose hours you want to track (a house cleaner, gardener, dog walker, tutor, or caregiver) and give each one a personal PIN. They never need an account.

  2. Enter PINstays at your home

    The kiosk moves in

    Open your private kiosk link on a spare tablet or old phone and leave it somewhere your people can reach. There is nothing to install, and the device stays at your home.

  3. MariaPunch inno app needed

    They punch on your kiosk

    Each person taps their PIN and presses Punch In or Punch Out on your kiosk, not on their phone. Nothing for them to install, no account, no GPS.

  4. This weekMaria6h 30mLeo2h 00mTotal8h 30m

    You see the hours

    Every punch lands in your dashboard and the hours total up on their own. At payday, record what you paid and mark hours as paid, so nothing is counted twice.

See how the kiosk works →

Punchy stays out of the way. No timesheets to chase, no math at payday.

Manage everyone from one place

Add the people you want to track, set each person's PIN, and see at a glance who's currently clocked in. Your private kiosk link lives here too: open it on the device you're dedicating to the kiosk, with a QR code to reach it in a quick camera scan.

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The Punchy dashboard showing the kiosk link, a QR code, and a list of workers with two currently clocked in.

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The Punchy time logs: punch-in and punch-out entries for several people, a recorded payment, and an Export CSV button.

Every shift, logged and ready for payday

Punch in and punch out are captured automatically. Your records are always yours to take with you (export your time logs as a CSV file whenever you want), and you can record what you paid and mark hours as paid so they're never counted twice. Punchy never moves money: the pay figures are simply your own record.

Punchy collects only what the tool needs to do its job. When you're done, you can permanently delete your account and everything in it.

No ads

Punchy isn't an ad or data business: no advertising, and no selling or sharing your data.

No GPS

A punch is a tap at your kiosk. Punchy never asks for anyone's location: it records when, not where.

Nothing for them to install

The people you track never download an app or create an account: they just tap their PIN.

No cross-site trackers

The only measurement is our own anonymous, cookie-free usage stats, and none at all on the kiosk.

The details, in plain words: our Privacy Policy.

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No credit card required.