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WorkMonitor vs Monitask
Lightweight screenshot and activity monitoring that runs while a timer is on.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against Monitask’s own site before you decide, and everything below about WorkMonitor is read from the same catalogue as our product pages.
Watching people work, or proving the work happened
workmonitor.vsScreenshot-based monitoring
What the evidence is
With WorkMonitor
A work-edge record built from commits, tickets, documents and active-tab URLs, with no pixel capture in the proof path.
Screenshot-based monitoring
Screenshots on an interval, plus an activity percentage derived from keyboard and mouse events.
Showing a client
With WorkMonitor
A signed, timestamped certificate they verify on a public page, disclosing only the fields you choose.
Screenshot-based monitoring
Export the screenshots into a deck, which exposes the client’s own data to prove you worked on it.
What "productive" means
With WorkMonitor
Focus and deep-work stretches with category overrides you control, and every score opens into its breakdown.
Screenshot-based monitoring
Input volume, which rewards fidgeting and penalises reading, thinking and pair work.
When a decision is challenged
With WorkMonitor
A transparency view of their own record, a dispute route with a right to human review, and a log of who looked — so the decision holds up when somebody pushes back on it.
Screenshot-based monitoring
Data collected about a person that the person cannot see and cannot contest, which is where the argument starts.
Capture cadence
With WorkMonitor
Randomised cadence, plus integrity signals that detect simulated input and downgrade any proof built on it.
Screenshot-based monitoring
A fixed interval, which everybody learns within a week and works around.
Operating across borders
With WorkMonitor
Capture policy per region, consent recorded against a version, and written guidance for 32 jurisdictions.
Screenshot-based monitoring
One policy applied everywhere, and a legal review that starts from scratch in each new market.
The question we get asked
Our people accepted monitoring because it only runs while the timer is on. Do we lose that?
No — that boundary is expressible here and it is enforced on the device rather than promised in a policy document. Capture stops when tracking stops, the deny list and blur mode apply to every capture path including the live one, and the person can pause. What you gain is that the boundary is auditable: the record shows what the policy was at the time.
Timesheets — submitted hours against recorded hours
What WorkMonitor ships, with its real status
- WORM-anchored certificates (from a finalized invoice)
- Public no-login verifier
- Selective disclosure
Switching
Bringing your Monitask 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 Monitask 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 Monitask 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 Monitask is the better answer
You want monitoring only while a timer runs, and nothing recorded outside it, with minimal configuration.
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 Monitask
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- How do I move my Monitask 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. Screenshots are deliberately not imported. The hours come across; the capture history stays where it is, which is usually what a privacy review wants anyway.
- Can WorkMonitor capture only while someone is tracking time?
- Yes. Capture policy is set per team and per region and is applied on the device, so it stops when tracking stops rather than relying on a server-side filter. Blur mode, the application deny list and the pause control apply to every capture path, including live view.
- Are WorkMonitor screenshots taken on a fixed interval?
- No, the cadence is randomised. A fixed interval is learned within a week and worked around, so integrity signals also detect simulated input and downgrade any proof built on it.
- How much configuration does WorkMonitor need to start?
- An agent install and nothing else for the default policy. Regions, categories, approval chains and budgets are all optional layers you add when a reason to add them appears.
- Does WorkMonitor work for contractors as well as employees?
- Yes, and the certificate layer is aimed squarely at that case: a contractor can prove the hours to a client on a public verifier page without exposing the client’s own material, and without either side needing an account.
- Is there a minimum team size for WorkMonitor?
- No minimum. Two seats are free with no card, and per-seat pricing above that is published in full, so a three-person team pays for three people.
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
Other employee monitoring tools
- WorkMonitor vs ActivTrakWorkforce analytics that classifies app and website use into productivity dashboards for coaching.
- WorkMonitor vs HubstaffTime tracking with screenshots, activity rates and GPS, aimed at distributed teams that bill by the hour.
- WorkMonitor vs Time DoctorWorkforce analytics and performance reporting built around tracked time and distraction alerts.
- WorkMonitor vs InsightfulTime and activity tracking for hybrid teams, with visible and stealth monitoring modes.
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.