GeoTapp vs PicaPonto 2026: an honest comparison of two attendance apps

You are looking for an app to handle attendance for your field teams. You have come across PicaPonto, which arrives from Portugal with a price that makes you look twice. You have seen GeoTapp somewhere. Both talk about clock-ins, geofencing, compliance. So how do you decide?

The short answer: it depends on the problem you actually want to solve. The long answer is this article, and it is worth reading, because picking the wrong tool means paying twelve months of subscription and finding out at the end that the thing keeping you up at night is still exactly where it was.

Honest disclosure before we go on. I am the founder of GeoTapp, so do not expect a neutral article. Expect a precise one: where PicaPonto is stronger, I will say it is stronger, because there is nothing in it for me to talk you into buying something that does not fix your situation. You cancel in month three and we have both wasted our time.

What both of them do (the overlap is real)

Both record clock-ins and clock-outs from the phone, both keep the history, both produce the hour summaries your back office needs at month end, both stop a punch made from the sofa at home. If what you want is to replace the paper sheet with something digital that works, they both stop here and they both deliver.

There is also a point where we are alike, and it is worth saying because most people assume the opposite: neither of the two follows the worker through the day. PicaPonto uses restriction by geographic radius or by network, GeoTapp reads the GPS at the moment of the punch and nothing else. Anyone who tells you that one of these two is surveillance and the other is not is selling you a story.

Where PicaPonto is stronger

Three things, and they are concrete.

The first is price. PicaPonto publishes the numbers, which almost nobody in this market does: 0.75 euro per worker per month on the Basic plan, 1.25 on Premium, with minimums of 12.50 and 22.50 euro. It is among the lowest prices in Europe and it is right there, in plain sight, on their pricing page. If you have thirty people and budget is the criterion that rules, that sum closes itself.

The second is the clock-in methods. Android and iOS app, browser, QR code, physical time clock, biometrics, facial recognition. Here we do not compete: GeoTapp lives on the phone. If you have workers without a smartphone, or a front desk with a wall reader that is already there and works, PicaPonto answers and we do not. That is not a small detail, it is half the companies out there.

The third is the legal lever, used directly and correctly. They point to Article 202 of the Portuguese Código do Trabalho, which requires keeping the working-time record in an accessible place open to immediate inspection, and they remind you that getting it wrong is a serious offence. They are right. They sell compliance, not software.

Add that Inforlider, which publishes the product, states it has been active since 1988 and has more than a thousand companies. Those are house numbers, not third-party verified, but a company that has crossed thirty-seven years is not a startup that folds in August.

Where GeoTapp is different (not better: different)

PicaPonto answers the question “is my record in order if the inspector shows up?”. GeoTapp answers a different question: “how do I prove to my client that the work was actually done?”.

They sound like the same question and they are not. The attendance record is for the State and for payroll. Proof of work is for that Friday-evening phone call at seven, where the client says nobody showed up on Wednesday, and your foreman swears they did, and the argument ends with a discount on the invoice because neither of them can demonstrate anything.

It is for that phone call that GeoTapp was built. Every punch carries the real GPS, a cryptographic hash and photographic proof, and produces a report the client can verify on their own, without going through you and without taking your word for it. And, the detail that changes everything: that report is not editable, not by you, not by the account administrator. A record the boss can correct is a record the client has every right to question.

Neither product is more advanced than the other. They solve different losses.

When to choose PicaPonto

Choose PicaPonto if the price per worker is the deciding factor and thirty cents a head matter at year end. If you have people without a smartphone, or sites with a wall clock, or you want biometrics and facial recognition. If your problem is sleeping soundly about the working-time record obligation. If you prefer a supplier with thirty-seven years of road behind it.

And above all: choose PicaPonto if your problem is recording, not proving to third parties.

When to choose GeoTapp

Choose GeoTapp if you lose money in arguments with clients over work that was done and that nobody can prove. If you work by tender, by cleaning contract, by maintenance, and the invoice gets disputed often enough to annoy you. If you need the proof to hold up against whoever contests it, including the suspicion that your own company arranged the numbers.

If your teams all have phones and the wall reader is no use to you.

How to decide without getting it wrong

When you have two tools that look identical at first glance, the criterion that works is not “which one has more features”. It is “which one solves my biggest loss”.

If your biggest loss is a fine for a badly kept record, you need a solid, cheap attendance system, and PicaPonto is a perfectly sensible choice. If your biggest loss is contracts falling apart over disputes, you do not need a more sophisticated punch: you need proof the client can verify on their own.

The simplest way not to get it wrong is to try both. PicaPonto has a free trial on their site. GeoTapp gives you 14 days with no credit card at geotapp.com/en/trial. Open both, close a test job in each, and send yourself the report to an email address as if you were a client receiving it.

Then look at the two emails and answer one question: which of the two would you accept, if you were on the other side paying the invoice?

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