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WorkMonitor vs Clockify
Free time tracking for unlimited users, with timesheets, reporting and paid tiers above it.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against Clockify’s own site before you decide, and everything below about WorkMonitor is read from the same catalogue as our product pages.
Filling in a timesheet, or having one already written
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How the sheet gets filled
With WorkMonitor
Captured as the work happens, with idle detected and split out rather than rounded away.
Timer-based time tracking
Somebody starts a timer, or reconstructs the week on Friday from a calendar and memory.
Corrections
With WorkMonitor
Corrections append, carrying the author and the reason, with the original still readable.
Timer-based time tracking
A cell is overwritten. The original number is gone, and so is the reason it changed.
From hours to money
With WorkMonitor
Approved hours seed the invoice and the payroll run directly, through one shared rate engine.
Timer-based time tracking
Export, reformat, paste into payroll or invoicing, then reconcile to find what got mangled.
Rounding
With WorkMonitor
An integer-cent pre-flight that has to balance before a run can be exported.
Timer-based time tracking
Floating-point maths in a spreadsheet, discovered at audit as a recurring few pence.
Proving the hours
With WorkMonitor
A finalized invoice seeds a certificate the client checks themselves, without an account.
Timer-based time tracking
A line item and a total. The client either accepts it or opens a thread about it.
Who signs it off
With WorkMonitor
Multi-stage approval that refuses a self-approval rather than warning about it.
Timer-based time tracking
Whoever has the file, which is usually more people than anyone intended.
The question we get asked
We are on a free plan for the whole company. Why would we start paying?
If the hours are only ever read internally, you probably would not — that is a real answer and free is hard to beat. The moment they leave the building the calculation changes: a client questioning an invoice, an auditor asking how the number was produced, a dispute over a timesheet nobody can reconstruct. Free timesheets are cheap until one of them is challenged.
Reports & digests — scheduled delivery to email and Slack
What WorkMonitor ships, with its real status
- Productivity scoring (score, heatmap, category breakdown, rollups)
- Score explainability / breakdown
- App classification & category overrides + per-app privacy deny-list
- Focus & deep-work analysis
- Workload capacity signal (feeds AI Burnout Guardian)
- BI warehouse export (connector in Integrations)
Switching
Your Clockify history comes across
Nobody switches tools if it means abandoning a year of history. The importer carries a mapper for Clockify exports, so the CSV you already have is the CSV we take — and it lands on the same ledger as everything captured after it.
What the importer reads from a Clockify export
emailuserstart datedate- date
duration (h)durationtime (h)- minutes
project- project
task- task
descriptionnote- note
Durations arrive as a clock duration like 1:30:00 and are parsed into whole minutes. First matching header wins, so a renamed column still lands.
After the import
Where your Clockify history lands
Imported hours sit on the same ledger as everything captured after them, so a week from before the switch and a week from after it are read the same way. Corrections append with an author and a reason rather than overwriting, which is what lets you answer why a number changed long after anyone remembers.
Projects — budget burn and margin, live
When Clockify is the better answer
Budget is the binding constraint and a free tier for unlimited users decides it.
If that is the deciding requirement, buy that instead. Nothing on this page is worth reading if the unflattering half is missing from it, which is also why every capability above carries its real status rather than a tick.
Questions
Moving from Clockify
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- Can I import my Clockify data into WorkMonitor?
- Yes, with a mapper rather than by hand. The importer reads email or user for the person, start date or date for the day, and duration (h), duration or time (h) for the length, parsing clock durations into minutes, with project, task and description carried across.
- Does WorkMonitor have a free plan?
- Two seats, free permanently and without a card. It is a genuinely free tier rather than a trial, but it is two seats — not unlimited users, which is the honest difference worth weighing here.
- Is WorkMonitor free for unlimited users?
- No — two seats are free and above that it is per-seat. If an unlimited free tier is the deciding factor, that is a legitimate reason to stay, and it is why this page says so rather than burying it.
- What do I get for paying that a free timesheet does not give me?
- Hours captured rather than typed, corrections that append with an author and a reason, approval that refuses a self-approval, budgets that show margin as it burns, a payroll run that has to balance before export, and a certificate a client verifies without an account.
- Can WorkMonitor produce invoices from tracked time?
- Yes — approved hours seed the invoice through the same rate engine that feeds payroll, so the two cannot disagree, and a finalized invoice seeds a verifiable certificate for the client.
- How hard is it to switch from a free tool?
- The import is one CSV with a preset behind it, so the history comes across on the first pass. The larger cost is agreeing internally what gets captured — which is why capture policy is per team and per region rather than one global switch.
Ask AI
Ask anything about your team
Plain-language answers about your own workforce data, with the figures behind them. Pick a question to see how it reads.
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Take these with you
The software is the easy part of a rollout
Here is what we would send a manager doing one for the first time: how to read a productivity number, what to say to a remote team before anything is installed, and a policy you can adopt as written.
Point it at one team for a week.
Create the account, put the agent on a handful of desks, and leave it alone. On Friday you read the week instead of reconstructing it: hours against their projects, focus and idle per person, and the timesheets already filled in.
Free for two seats. No card, and no sales call to sit through.