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WorkMonitor vs Everhour
Time tracking that lives inside project tools, with budgets and estimates against tasks.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against Everhour’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
Our team tracks time inside the PM tool because that is the only place they will do it. Does that survive?
It stops being necessary, which is a different answer than "yes". Hours attribute to the ticket automatically from the work edges — the commits, the issue, the document — so the attribution happens whether or not anybody remembers to start something. If your requirement is specifically an embedded timer widget inside the PM UI, that is theirs and not ours.
Proof Ledger — deliverables, and the hours behind them
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
Bringing your Everhour history across
Nobody switches tools if it means abandoning a year of history. Export yours as CSV and the importer maps it onto our columns. There is no dedicated Everhour preset yet, so expect to line the columns up once rather than not at all.
The columns your export needs to line up with
- date
- minutes
- project
- task
- note
Six columns, mapped once on the first import. Rows that cannot be normalised still pass through, so the importer reports exactly which ones need attention rather than rejecting the file.
After the import
Where your Everhour 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.
Timesheets — submitted hours against recorded hours
When Everhour is the better answer
Your team will only track time inside the PM tool itself and nowhere else.
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 Everhour
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- Does WorkMonitor have a timer inside Jira, Asana or Trello?
- Not as an embedded widget in their UI. The connectors read the work itself, so hours attribute to the ticket without anybody starting a timer in the tool. Check the integrations page for which project tools are live today.
- How do I move my Everhour data into WorkMonitor?
- Export it as CSV and the importer maps it onto our columns — email, date, minutes, project, task, note. There is no dedicated preset for this vendor yet, so the columns get lined up once on the first import. Task links do not survive as links, but once the connectors are running, hours attribute to tickets automatically from the work edges rather than from an import.
- How does WorkMonitor know which task an hour belongs to?
- From the work edges: the repository and branch, the ticket that was open, the document that was edited, the active tab. That is the same evidence the proof layer uses, which is why the attribution and the certificate agree with each other by construction.
- Can WorkMonitor track estimates against actuals?
- Yes — budgets in hours and in money, with burn and margin updating as work lands, so an estimate going wrong is visible during the project rather than at the end of it.
- Does WorkMonitor work if we live entirely in our PM tool?
- The reports and digests come to you — scheduled to email or Slack, scoped to the reader — so the day-to-day does not require opening another dashboard. Approvals and disputes do need the app.
- Does WorkMonitor charge for integrations?
- No. Connectors are included rather than metered per connection. Two seats are free and every paid tier is published on the pricing page.
Ask AI
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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.