Alternatives to Paycom
By App Store Tracker Editorial · Updated — live App Store data verified
The short version
ADP Mobile Solutions is the strongest Paycom alternative, handling pay, time, and HR self-service on one of the largest employee-app bases anywhere. Paylocity is the other heavyweight, covering payroll, clock-in, and HR tasks. Paycor offers the same employee self-service with strong adoption. Since these apps only work if your employer uses them, the right one comes down to which payroll provider your company runs. Each shares Paycom's core: view pay, clock in, request leave, and manage HR from your phone.
People look for Paycom alternatives when their employer switches payroll providers, or when they want a smoother way to check pay, clock in, and handle HR. The apps below all share its core job: employee self-service for viewing payslips, tracking time, requesting leave, and managing HR details. The catch is that each only works if your company uses that provider, so the deciding factor is your employer's choice. We ranked them using embedding similarity against Paycom's payroll-and-HR model, then weighed live App Store ratings and how many people use each one. The top picks mirror Paycom's self-service flow most closely. Pricing and ratings beside each app come straight from the live store.
Why it's similar
Paycor Mobile matches Paycom's employee self-service: view pay, manage HR tasks, and handle time from your phone. Reviewers there even compare it directly to Paycom.
How it differs
It's a competing provider, so it only works if your employer uses Paycor, and reviews are mixed on recruiting being a web shortcut. With a solid rating and large base, it's a close functional alternative.
Why it's similar
Paylocity matches Paycom: clock in and out anywhere, view pay, and manage HR self-service.
How it differs
Reviewers praise mobile clock-in but flag gaps for managers and a dated interface, and it requires your employer to use Paylocity. With a strong rating and a large base, it's one of the strongest alternatives.
Why it's similar
Payworks Self Service matches Paycom's core: log in to view pay and manage HR details from anywhere.
How it differs
It requires your employer to be a Payworks client, and it has no ratings yet, so it's unproven. It's a self-service alternative tied to that provider.
Why it's similar
CloudPay matches Paycom's pay-access role, letting employees check payslips and even access earned wages early.
How it differs
It's a global pay-experience app focused on payslips and financial wellbeing rather than full HR, and has no ratings yet. It's a pay-focused alternative for CloudPay-using employers.
Why it's similar
AC Payroll matches Paycom's self-service: manage payroll, leave, claims, and time attendance from one app.
How it differs
It's an AutoCount cloud payroll app concentrated in Southeast Asian markets, with no ratings yet. It's a regional self-service alternative for its clients.
Why it's similar
Fingercheck matches Paycom's payroll-and-HR self-service: access pay, scheduling, PTO, and clock-in for small businesses.
How it differs
It targets small-business employers rather than Paycom's mid-to-large focus, and requires your company to use it. With a good rating and modest base, it's a small-business alternative.
Why it's similar
Thankyou Payroll matches Paycom's pay-summary side, giving employees easy access to their pay information.
How it differs
It's a New Zealand cloud-payroll app focused on pay summaries rather than full HR, with no ratings yet. It's a pay-access alternative for its client organizations.
Why it's similar
ADP Workforce Now On the Go matches Paycom's management side, letting employers run and manage payroll and time.
How it differs
It's aimed at employers rather than employees, so it's the admin counterpart rather than the self-service app, and has no ratings yet. It's an employer-focused alternative within the ADP family.
Why it's similar
ADP Mobile Solutions matches Paycom directly: view pay, manage time, and handle HR self-service from your phone.
How it differs
It requires your employer to use ADP, but it's a major provider with one of the largest employee-app bases anywhere. With a strong rating and an enormous base, it's the strongest alternative.
Every app in our database carries a dense vector embedding derived from its title, subtitle, full description, and category metadata. To find apps similar to Paycom, we compute cosine distance against every other app and surface the closest 60 candidates. The similarity score shown on each pick is 1 - distance/2 clamped to [0,1] — 100% means the embedding spaces are identical, 0% means orthogonal.
We then re-rank the candidate set using current App Store rating and review-count signals so a 4.8-star app with 100,000 reviews ranks above a 4.5-star app with 200 reviews even when their embedding distance is similar. Apps that haven't shipped an update in 12 months are filtered out before re-ranking.
The similarity cache is recomputed weekly. Live App Store data (rating, review count) is verified every 6 hours.
No paid placements. No affiliate links. No sponsored picks. Read our full methodology.
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