Homebase alternative
Looking for a Homebase alternative that's just hours?
Kangaroo Clock skips the scheduling, messaging, and HR bundling. Track hours, export clean CSVs, move on.
Updated June 2026
What Homebase does well
Homebase is a real workforce-management platform. The shift scheduling is good, the team messaging works, the hiring and HR tools cover most small-business needs. If you want one tool that handles scheduling, time tracking, employee communication, and payroll handoff, Homebase is a defensible single pane of glass.
Kangaroo Clock vs Homebase at a glance
High-level capability comparison. For exact pricing and feature checklists, check Homebase's site, it stays more current than anything we'd cache here.
| Capability | Homebase | Kangaroo Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling / shift planning | Core feature. | None. Time tracking only. |
| Team messaging | Built in. | None. Out of scope. |
| HR / hiring tools | Included in paid tiers. | None. |
| Time tracking | Yes, strong, with paid-tier features. | Yes, the whole product is this. Kiosk + QR + personal link, all included. |
| Pricing model | Per-location tiers, scale up with feature use. | Flat pricing (free at launch). |
| CSV export | Yes. | Yes, locked schema, distinct-worker count as a first-class metric. |
Where Kangaroo Clock fits instead
If your only real need is "who worked, when, for how long, give me the hours," Homebase is a lot of product to navigate. Most of the screens are about scheduling, messaging, or hiring, workflows you may not run.
Kangaroo Clock is the version that's just the hours. Five-minute setup, three clock-in surfaces (shared tablet, QR poster, personal links), a clean report that feeds payroll. Nothing else. If you're already running scheduling somewhere else (Google Calendar, a paper schedule, a separate scheduling tool), the rest of Homebase is overhead.
You should stay with Homebase if…
Stay with Homebase if you need scheduling and time tracking in one place, if your team communicates through the Homebase app, or if you're already paying for the payroll handoff. Homebase is also the right call for a single-location restaurant or retailer that wants the bundled HR features.
Common questions
Does Kangaroo Clock do scheduling?
No. Time tracking only. If you want scheduling, keep your existing tool (or Homebase) and use Kangaroo Clock for the hours half.
Can Kangaroo Clock send hours to my payroll provider directly?
Not via direct integration in v1. You export a clean CSV and upload it to your payroll provider. The CSV schema is locked, so once your payroll provider accepts the format it won't break.
How does Kangaroo Clock's pricing compare to Homebase?
Kangaroo Clock is free for everyone at launch. Paid tiers will come later but will always be flat, never per-location or per-seat. Homebase's pricing scales with both.
See for yourself
No signup needed. Add workers, share a kiosk, watch hours roll in.