Insightful
documents a hidden mode and then tells you not to use it.
the only vendor whose own documentation recommends against its covert mode — and it has a real on-prem option.
insightful's knowledge base describes stealth mode precisely: 'when stealth mode is enabled on a user's machine, the insightful icon will not appear in the system tray or on the desktop. tracking will continue running silently in the background', invisible except in task manager, with staff unable to access their own productivity data. that is a covert capability and it is documented as one.
what makes it different is the sentence next to it. insightful's own guidance recommends visible mode 'no matter the employee status'. visible mode shows a desktop icon, lets employees start and stop shifts manually, and gives them access to their own dashboards. a vendor documenting a hidden mode while advising customers against it is doing something none of the other stealth-capable products here do — teramind, controlio, interguard and veriato all market concealment as an advantage.
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
- $8/seat/month
- website
- insightful.io
the only vendor whose own documentation recommends against its covert mode — and it has a real on-prem option.
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.