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WorkMonitor vs Time Doctor
Workforce analytics and performance reporting built around tracked time and distraction alerts.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against Time Doctor’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
We have built our weekly management routine around a specific set of reports. Do we rebuild all of it?
The scheduled reports and digests are the part that transfers most directly: you save a report once and it is delivered weekly or monthly to email or Slack, scoped to whoever reads it, so a manager sees their team and an executive sees the org. What changes is that every figure in it opens into the activity underneath, which is usually the thing the old routine could not do.
Reports & digests — scheduled delivery to email and Slack
What WorkMonitor ships, with its real status
- WORM-anchored certificates (from a finalized invoice)
- Public no-login verifier
- Selective disclosure
Switching
Your Time Doctor history comes across
Nobody switches tools if it means abandoning a year of history. The importer carries a mapper for Time Doctor 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 Time Doctor export
emailuserdate- date
timeduration- minutes
project- project
task- task
notenotesdescription- 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 Time Doctor 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.
What We See — every person's own view of their record
When Time Doctor is the better answer
You want a decade-deep library of pre-built reports above all else, and are content for the hours behind them to rest on the vendor’s word.
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 Time Doctor
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- Can I import my Time Doctor data into WorkMonitor?
- Yes. The importer carries a Time Doctor mapper: it reads email or user for the person, date for the day, and time or duration for the length, parsing clock durations like 1:30:00 into minutes, with project, task and note carried across on the same pass.
- Does WorkMonitor send distraction alerts to managers?
- It sends anomaly alerts, which is a narrower thing on purpose. The signal goes to a person to weigh rather than to an automated nudge, and the subject can see their own record, so an alert starts a conversation instead of arriving as a verdict.
- Does WorkMonitor run on Windows?
- Yes, as a native C# agent shipped as an MSIX package. It counts key presses and clicks through global Windows hooks without ever reading what was typed, captures each attached display, and enrols, uploads and checks for signed updates over the same API as the macOS and Linux agents. One fleet, one record shape.
- Can employees see what WorkMonitor records about them?
- Yes, and it is not a setting an administrator can quietly turn off. Every person gets a view of their own record, a dispute route with a right to human review, and the log shows who looked at their data — investigators included.
- Does WorkMonitor replace our reporting stack or feed it?
- Either. There is a typed read-only v1 API, HMAC-signed webhooks and a SIEM export, so WorkMonitor can be a source for tools you already run rather than one more console with its own login.
- Is WorkMonitor priced per seat?
- Yes, per seat and per month, with the first two seats free and no card required. Every tier is published on the pricing page, so the price does not depend on who is asking or how the conversation goes.
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
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- WorkMonitor vs HubstaffTime tracking with screenshots, activity rates and GPS, aimed at distributed teams that bill by the hour.
- WorkMonitor vs InsightfulTime and activity tracking for hybrid teams, with visible and stealth monitoring modes.
- WorkMonitor vs ProdoscoreA single productivity score derived from activity across the business tools a team already uses.
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.