DeskTime
markets its own lack of a hidden mode as the reason to buy it, and lets employees pause tracking themselves.
the only vendor here that gives the monitored person a control of their own, at the cheapest verified price on the page.
desktime's own comparative content states that it 'offers no stealth monitoring capability', and positions that against competitors who do. the data is described as transparent and visible to both managers and employees — the person being tracked can see what was recorded about them, which is a different relationship from the tools where the employee has no account at all.
the private time feature is the part worth noting. employees can pause tracking themselves. none of the stealth-oriented vendors offer anything comparable, and several are architecturally incapable of it — you cannot give a pause button to someone who is not supposed to know the software exists. combined with url, app and document-title tracking plus ip-based location, it covers the ordinary management use case without covert capability.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- employee monitoring tools
- pricing
- $6.42/user/month
- website
- desktime.com
the only vendor here that gives the monitored person a control of their own, at the cheapest verified price on the page.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.