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WorkMonitor vs TimeCamp
Automatic and manual tracking with project reporting, billing and attendance features.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against TimeCamp’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 already have automatic tracking and billing. What is actually different?
What happens between the hour and the money. Corrections append with an author and a reason instead of overwriting; approval is multi-stage and refuses a self-approval rather than warning about it; the payroll run has an integer-cent pre-flight that must balance before export. The tracking is the part that is similar — the chain of custody is not.
Invoices — backed by recorded work
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 TimeCamp 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 TimeCamp 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 TimeCamp 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 TimeCamp is the better answer
You want project time and billing without a proof layer or an approval chain.
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 TimeCamp
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- How do I move my TimeCamp 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. After the first pass it lands on the same ledger as captured hours, and from that point corrections append with an author and a reason rather than overwriting.
- Does WorkMonitor track attendance?
- Yes — first and last activity per local day, per member, weekly. Deriving it from actual activity rather than a clock-in button is what makes it work across time zones without everybody agreeing on a shared day boundary.
- What is an approval chain and why does it matter?
- It is who has to sign off before hours become money, in stages, with separation of duties enforced — a self-approval is refused rather than flagged. It is the control an auditor asks about first, and the one most time tools leave to convention.
- Can WorkMonitor bill different rates for different projects?
- Yes, through one shared rate engine that feeds both invoicing and payroll, so the rate used to bill and the rate used to pay come from the same place rather than from two spreadsheets that drift.
- Does WorkMonitor keep a history of timesheet edits?
- Every correction appends, carrying the author and the reason, with the original still readable. Nothing is overwritten, which is what lets you answer why a number changed six months later.
- Are approvals and payroll included in WorkMonitor's price?
- Yes, they are part of the platform rather than a separate module. Two seats are free, and per-seat pricing above that is published in full.
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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.