Panda's Recap

Jibble Alternatives in 2026: Four Options Compared

Updated October 3, 2026 · by the Panda's Recap team

Jibble is excellent attendance software, with GPS, geofences and face recognition on a free plan. If what you track is time on projects and clients, a project tracker may suit you better: Clockify or Toggl for a team, TimeCamp for a free plan with no user cap, and Panda's Recap if it's just you and you want your hours to become your next review and résumé.

What Jibble does well

Jibble is built for businesses with people on shifts, in industries like construction, field services, retail, healthcare and hospitality. Staff clock in from a phone or a shared kiosk, GPS and geofences confirm where, and face recognition confirms who. Hours flow into timesheets and payroll.

The free plan is generous: unlimited users, face recognition, GPS with geofences, a kiosk and timesheets. Reviewers rate it highly, often praising the mobile app and how quickly it sets up. It also tracks time by project and client, and added built-in invoicing in 2026.

Jibble doesn't show its paid prices publicly any more. You see them after you sign up.

Comparison

Prices are from each company's own pricing page on October 3, 2026.

Panda's Recap

Best for: one person tracking their own work, who wants it to count at review time.

Panda's Recap is a task board with the timer on the card. Start a card and the time runs, finish it and it stops. Over a year that becomes a record of what you did, for whom and for how long.

That record turns into a draft performance review, for free. Pro writes the finished review, builds a résumé from your real work, answers questions about your year, and turns billable hours into invoices.

Pros: your hours become your review and your résumé. Free for good for one person, with timers, calendar, reports and exports. Pro is $4.99 a month flat.

Cons: no teams, so it isn't for clocking staff in. No kiosk, payroll or leave tracking. No native phone app.

Clockify

Best for: a small team tracking project time.

Clockify is built around projects and clients. The free plan covers up to 5 users, and paid plans start at $3.99 a seat billed yearly, with invoicing from the $5.49 Standard plan.

Pros: low prices, apps everywhere.

Cons: invoicing needs a paid plan.

Toggl

Best for: a team that wants the simplest timer.

Toggl is known for being easy to use. Free covers up to 3 users, and paid seats start at $9 a month billed yearly.

Pros: easy, apps everywhere, a good free plan for small teams.

Cons: invoices are a PDF download.

TimeCamp

Best for: a team that wants unlimited free users for project time.

TimeCamp's free plan has unlimited users and projects. Starter is $3.99 a user a month billed yearly and adds invoicing.

Pros: no user cap on free.

Cons: no invoicing on the free plan.

Stay on Jibble if

Your team clocks in at a site, you need to know they were there, and you pay them by the hour. That's exactly what Jibble is built for.

If you're tracking your own project work instead, especially with an eye on your next review or your résumé, one of the options above will fit better.

Common questions

Is Jibble free?

Yes. The free plan has unlimited users, clock-in from phones and a kiosk, GPS and face recognition.

Does Jibble do invoicing?

Yes, since early 2026. Check inside your account for which plan includes it.

Can Panda's Recap write my performance review?

Yes. Your finished cards and logged hours become a free draft review. With Pro you get the polished review and a résumé built from the same work.

Can my team use Panda's Recap?

Not as a team. Each person can keep their own board, but there's no shared workspace or manager view.