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TIMEKEEPING, WITH A HUMAN TOUCH.
Bring clock-ins, people and handovers into harmony. Thoughtful timekeeping that gives your team a little more room to get on with their day.
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Every moment has its place.
01 / EVERYTHING FINDS ITS PLACE
The shift doesn’t live in a spreadsheet. It lives in arrivals, breaks, conversations and handovers. Cicada puts the pieces in one place.
One tap to mark the moment. If the signal drops, a queued punch keeps the time you actually pressed the button, and a retry is never recorded twice.
A live board of presence and shared status. See who’s on site or running late, without a map following anyone around.
“The delivery is in the back.
Everything’s ready for you.”
Speak or type a handover, then leave clear, organised notes for the people picking up where you left off.
02 / TRY A SMALL PART OF THE DAY
From the first hello to the final clock-out, the essentials are right where you need them.
Clock in, take a break, request leave and look back at your own hours. A clearer record, on your own phone.
Interactive product illustration · Example data
No account,
location access or personal data required.
Good morning, Jamie.
Your first moment will appear here.
A little clarity for your day.
03 / A LITTLE RESPECT GOES A LONG WAY
Knowing a shift started shouldn’t mean knowing someone’s every move. Cicada records a location when someone clocks in or out. It doesn’t follow the journey in between.
Corrections are appended. The original punch stays put.
The optional photo check detects presence on the device. It doesn’t enrol a face for recognition.
04 / ALL THE OTHER LITTLE THINGS, TOO
Bring new starters in with hire records and starter-pack OCR. Work-inbox activation and a personal PIN make the first sign-in straightforward.
Track breaks and request leave in the app. People can see the request and make a decision in the same place.
Ask a question by voice or text. Ivy reads the shift ledger, and every sentence she says is checked against the record before you see it.
Hours worked times each person’s rate, before tax, in the currency you pay in. Breaks come off, and open shifts must be resolved before the week can be calculated.
05 / NEW IN THE APP
A new look, and a run of updates shaped by real shifts. Here is what’s changed.
Cicada drafts next week from everyone’s availability. Every shift says why it was given, a manager publishes it, and shifts moved by hand stay moved.
Face ID or Touch ID opens the clock, checked with your account first.
People set the break length once. Reminders are scheduled on your own phone and cancelled the moment they stop being true.
Clocking in from outside the site shows how much further there is to walk. Off-site punches are flagged, never refused.
A suggested finish arrives with every reason behind it, and nothing reaches the timesheet until you accept it.
When the same problem keeps coming up across shifts, it becomes an open issue with an owner, built from the words people actually said.
Add your details, name your People lead and choose a plan that fits the size of your team.
06 / THE HONEST COMPARISON
Here is where Cicada parts company with the usual approaches to the same problem — in their own published words, and in ours.
| The difference | Cicada ClockOURS | Scheduling-first platforms | All-in-one ops suites | GPS time-clock apps | Small-business all-in-ones |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Where your people are Knowing a shift started shouldn’t mean knowing someone’s whole day. | One reading at clock-in, one at clock-out. There is no route tracking in the product to switch on. | Location on the punch, with geofencing around the site. | Location on the punch, with live tracking available on the higher tiers. | A location stamp every few minutes while someone is clocked in, drawn as a route on a map. | A GPS-enabled clock with geofencing at the punch. |
| 02 Proving it’s really you A selfie in a manager’s timesheet and a face template on a server are very different things to hand over for a job. | An optional presence check on the phone itself, with nothing enrolled. | Opt-in facial biometrics on the shared kiosk. | A personal PIN, plus a selfie saved for a manager to review. | Photo clock-ins, used to verify identity. | Photo capture at clock-in, with a unique PIN per employee. |
| 03 When a punch goes wrong An edited record and an appended one are not the same thing on the day someone questions their pay. | Appended, so the original punch is never edited away. | Edited on the timesheet, with a record of the change. | Edited on the timesheet, with a record of the change. | Edited on the timesheet, with a record of the change. | Edited on the timesheet, with a record of the change. |
| 04 What the next shift is told Most of what the evening team needs to know never makes it into a chat thread. | Handover notes attached to the shift itself. | Shift notes and a company news feed. | Chat, updates and forms across the organisation. | Shift notes and team messaging. | Team messaging and shift notes. |
| 05 Seeing the week as it happens You should be able to see what a week is costing before payroll does. | Weekly pay before tax as the hours are recorded, in your currency. | Timesheet exports and payroll integrations. | Timesheet exports to payroll providers. | Payroll available as an add-on. | Full payroll on the top plan. |
| 06 What it’s built around We’d rather be straight with you: if swapping shifts is your problem, we’re not your answer yet. | The shift as people actually live it — arrival, break, handover, leave — plus drafted rotas. | Scheduling first: rotas, swaps and demand forecasting. | An all-in-one operations, comms and HR suite. | Tracking first, with scheduling built around it. | Scheduling, hiring and payroll for small local businesses. |
| 07 What it costs Worth knowing what the category charges before you decide what a calmer day is worth. | One flat yearly price per organisation, in US dollars. | Around $5–$9 per user, per month. | Free for the smallest teams; roughly $29–$99 a month for the first 30. | From about $2.50–$8 per user, per month, before add-ons. | From free to around $120 per location, per month. |
So why try us? Because good privacy practice, wherever you work, means monitoring no more than you actually need to — and we started there rather than bolting it on.
Talk to us about your team ↗Compiled September 2026 from published pricing pages and help documentation across widely used tools in each category. Products and prices change, and any one tool may differ from the approach it belongs to — please check current details before you decide.
A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING
Teams working shifts, and the People teams supporting them.
Yes. You choose your country and the currency you pay in when you sign up, and weeks follow your own time zone. Plans are one flat yearly price per organisation, in US dollars.
No. Pay is hours worked times each person’s rate, before tax, in the currency you choose. It isn’t a payslip or tax advice: Cicada doesn’t work out tax or deductions, file anything with a tax authority, replace your payroll process or forecast labour from POS data.
A BETTER DAY STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION
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clearer
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