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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Apploye

4Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apploye was named 4 times in Time and attendance and 1 other category, where UKG Ready led with 15%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market33 of 90

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In time and attendance · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Apploye for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	33 of 90	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	83 of 99	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apploye yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Apploye across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“best if your team wants a fuller feature set such as screenshots, reports, and payroll support” Perplexity Sonar · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Apploye is a strong choice for small and mid-sized teams that need more than a simple timer.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“e.g., Hubstaff, Time Doctor, Apploye ... The Verdict: Avoid.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative

“including *Hubstaff, Deputy, Apploye, and Time Doctor*) and found that they systematically shared worker data” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apploye, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apploye was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Hubstaff3 of 40Not in the top three

Time Doctor2 of 40Not in the top three

ChartHop1 of 41Not in the top three

Connecteam1 of 41Not in the top three

Crunchr1 of 41Not in the top three

QuickBooks Time1 of 41Not in the top three

ADP1 of 40Not in the top three

Deputy1 of 40Not in the top three

EasyWorkforce1 of 40Not in the top three

Factorial1 of 40Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apploye. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 4 answers that named Apploye and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

apploye.comYour site2

peoplemanagingpeople.com2

agilityportal.io1

business.com1

connecteam.com1

eresourcescheduler.com1

forbes.com1

g2.com1

joinhomebase.com1

learn.g2.com1

Ten of the twelve domain citations in answers naming Apploye came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apploye.com/best-employee-time-tracking-software2

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-time-clock-software2

agilityportal.io/blog/top-clock-in-clock-out-app-small-business-20261

business.com/categories/time-and-attendance-software1

connecteam.com/best-employee-time-tracking-apps-smb1

eresourcescheduler.com/blog/employee-time-tracking-software-usa1

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-time-tracking-apps1

g2.com/categories/time-tracking-software/small-business1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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