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Best Homebase alternatives (2026)
9 alternatives to Homebase in workforce management, ranked by entry price. Homebase starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: 7shifts, Connecteam, Sling.
- Closest by price: 7shifts ($0/mo), Connecteam ($0/mo), Sling ($0/mo).
Homebase alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7shifts STALE · 2026-09-29 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Restaurant and food-service teams needing scheduling and payroll | 7shifts.com |
| 2 | Connecteam STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Small businesses managing deskless/frontline teams | connecteam.com |
| 3 | Sling | $0/mo | Yes | — | Shift-based hourly teams (restaurants, retail, hospitality) needing scheduling plus time tracking | getsling.com |
| 4 | Pebb | $2.5/user/mo | No | — | Frontline teams wanting communications and scheduling in one app | pebb.io |
| 5 | When I Work STALE · 2026-09-03 | $2.5/user/mo | No | — | Single-location teams wanting to cut time spent building schedules and improve team communication | wheniwork.com |
| 6 | Deputy | $5.5/user/mo | No | — | Hourly, shift-based workforces needing scheduling and time tracking | deputy.com |
| 7 | Buddy Punch | $5.99/user/mo | No | — | Small teams and businesses needing simple employee time tracking, scheduling and payroll | buddypunch.com |
| 8 | QuickBooks Time STALE · 2026-09-03 | $20/user/mo | No | — | Small businesses already on QuickBooks that need employee time tracking synced to payroll and invoicing | quickbooks.intuit.com |
| 9 | Rippling | quote-only | No | — | Growing SMBs (under ~2,000 employees) unifying HR, IT, and Finance on one platform | rippling.com |
Data current through 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 4 of 9 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Workforce Management index.