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WorkMonitor vs Jibble
Free time and attendance with a clock-in focus, facial recognition and shift management.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against Jibble’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
Attendance is what we actually need. Is a proof platform overkill?
For attendance alone, yes. The distinction worth testing is whether anybody ever asks you to prove attendance rather than just record it — a client, an auditor, a regulator, or an employee disputing a deduction. Attendance derived from actual activity per local day, on an append-only record, answers that; a clock-in button records a button press.
Team — everyone tracked, and the hours behind each of 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 Jibble 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 Jibble 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 Jibble 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.
Activity board — who is working, on what, right now
When Jibble is the better answer
You need attendance clock-in with facial recognition for a deskless workforce today.
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 Jibble
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- Does WorkMonitor do facial recognition clock-in?
- No, by choice. Biometric data raises a consent and retention problem in most of the jurisdictions we publish guidance for, and we would rather record presence with a geofence than hold a faceprint of every worker. If biometric clock-in is a hard requirement, this is the wrong tool and the comparison should stop here.
- How do I move my Jibble 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. Clock-in events map onto the time series. Attendance from that point is derived from first and last activity per local day rather than from a button press.
- How does WorkMonitor track attendance without a clock-in button?
- It derives first and last activity per member per local day. That works across time zones without agreeing a shared day boundary, and it cannot be satisfied by pressing a button and walking away.
- Is WorkMonitor free?
- Free for two seats with no card. Above that it is published per-seat pricing, so a team clocking in at scale is a paid deployment rather than a free one.
- Does WorkMonitor manage shifts?
- No — there is no roster builder. Capacity planning shows workload against a healthy band so you can see who is overloaded, which is a different job from scheduling who works when.
- Can WorkMonitor prove attendance to an auditor?
- That is the design: an append-only record where corrections carry an author and a reason, a hash-chained access log, and certificates that verify on a public page without an account.
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.
Pick a question above and WorkMonitor AI will answer from your team's real numbers.
Also comparing
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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.