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Knowify vs busybusy: Which is a better fit?

Updated on December 30th, 2024
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 905 reviews from Job Costing users.
% Fit
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Billing & Invoicing
4.8
Timesheet Management
4.5
Project Tracking
4.6
Invoice Management
5.0
Project Time Tracking
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% Fit
Missing features
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Feature ratings
Billing & Invoicing
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Timesheet Management
4.8
Project Tracking
4.4
Invoice Management
NA
Project Time Tracking
4.7
User satisfaction
4.5
User reviews91
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.6
4.5
User reviews442
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.6
Price starts from
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Free version
Free trial
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Free version
Free trial
Best for

Construction professionals and subcontractors who need to manage their contracts, projects, invoices, change orders, scheduling, and purchasing.

Construction industry and all businesses with employees out in the field. Office staff and field crews who are looking to accurately track time and job costing data are a perfect fit for busybusy.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
Matthew K
Director
5.0

Matthew K.: Hi, my name's Matt from a company GK Engineering and Design. We have 60 employees. We turn over 8 million. And I give Knowify five out of five. We had a software called Sage Construct, which was a server-based software, so it wasn't available in the cloud, only available in our office. It's cloud-based, it's quick, it was easy to implement, and it's just been a good solution for us. Yeah, very easy to implement with useful help from the installation team and very quick to almost set up ourselves with thousands of items that we've had to put on. I recommend that, yeah, it's definitely been a positive experience for us and all the data is quick, on-hand data. It's easy to use so it is been a good software for us compared to lots of softwares that I've had in the past.

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Aaron H
Estimator & PM
5.0

Aaron H.: Hey. My name's Aaron. I'm a project manager and I give busybusy a five star review. For more videos like this, click the link below. Before busybusy, we tried other products like Procore and even just writing things out on a normal timecard. When we switched over to busybusy, it did take some time for our team to learn how to use this app, but now that we've got everybody on it, this app has really helped us be able to track our time, manage our time, and keep accountability on each of our individual projects. We chose busybusy for its flexibility with our 80-plus employees that we have. It gives us the ability to have them log into different projects throughout the day as they're working, as they're doing the things that they are supposed to be doing, we can then be accountable to our client and just let them know that, "Hey, this is accurate billing. This is the amount of time, the amount that these projects take to do this, and we can bill for that time." Whereas before, we ever had that ability. When we first got started with busybusy, it was pretty tough. A lot of the older people in the company were afraid to use an app, and they thought that the GPS tracking meant that we were going to be tracking them all the time, but unless somebody has the time to sit down and just watch every little move that they're making, it just wasn't realistic. And so we got them all to buy into it and they have their GPS location on, just so that way, everybody knows that we're clocking in and out of the project, and it gives us just that one more level of checking for accountability. But, after four years of using this app, we've just really grown to love it and really grown to have the expectation that everybody knows how to use it. And any new hire, just it's no question. It's "Hey, get this app. We're going to get you set up with a log-in. You'll get there and be able to log in and out of your projects with ease and be able to tell us what you're doing and what you've been doing all day without having to take the time and write it down with an old-fashioned piece of paper and pencil." If you're looking for an app that will track your employees and give you readable data to be able to help you with your billing, to help you with accountability for your guys, and just be able to put at ease having to go through a timecard that's written down on a piece of paper, or even maybe you've tried some other apps where you still have to go through and add everything up and figure out how many hours people have, this is the solution. This has been such a wonderful thing for us, and we can click on the individual person, or we can look at the company as a whole, and we can see how many hours we worked this week, and we can break it down to how many hours we put in on specific jobs. And just the ability to account for that saves us hours and hours of time. And payroll is no longer an issue and checking in with guys and trying to figure out where they were working and trying to put together this billing, it's just all right there at my fingertips, either on the app or right there on my desktop when I'm sitting in front of my computer.

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Knowify

Top Features
39/41
  • Billable Items Tracking
  • Forecasting
  • Accounting
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • API
  • Audit Trail
  • Bid Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Bills of Material
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Change Order Management
  • Cost Estimating
  • Cost-to-Completion Tracking
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Estimating
  • Expense Tracking
  • Inventory Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Job Management
  • Job Scheduling
  • Job Tracking
  • Labor Cost Reporting
  • Overrun Reporting
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Production Cost Tracking
  • Progress Reports
  • Project Billing
  • Projections
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Task Scheduling
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Timesheet Management
  • Time Tracking
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Knowify
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
busybusy
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Knowify
  • By Knowify
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2012
busybusy
  • By Align Technologies
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1991
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