---
title: "DeskTime Alternatives | Workfolio"
description: "Before you choose a replacement for DeskTime, check that renewals need your consent, how quickly support answers, and how the monitoring looks to the people it covers."
---

# Alternatives to DeskTime

Before you choose a replacement for DeskTime, check that renewals need your consent, that cancelling stops every charge, how quickly support answers, how the monitoring looks to the people it covers, whether it has the features you need, and that its mobile app signs in and works for your team.

### DeskTime's strengths

- Automatic time tracking, on every plan
- Project tracking, on every plan
- Screenshots at random intervals, on Premium and Enterprise
- Blurred screenshots for privacy
- Stealth mode, for tracking without the employee's knowledge

### DeskTime's limits

- Shift scheduling, on Premium and up
- Custom API on request, on Enterprise only
- Employee training, on Enterprise only

## Timely

Invasive monitoring: Timely takes no screenshots and no mouse tracking.

Consultancies, agencies, professional services firms, SaaS businesses, and enterprises.

### Strengths

- Automatic time tracking, on every plan
- Apps and websites, from Starter
- Automatic reminders, on every plan
- Budget milestone alerts, on Premium and Unlimited
- Invoices sent to QuickBooks Online, on Premium and Unlimited

### Limits

- No screenshots
- Team management, on Premium and up
- Capacity management and reporting, on Unlimited only
- Starter seats five users

$20.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

[Workfolio vs Timely](/workfolio-timely)

## Workfolio

Billing: you can cancel at any time, and trying needs no credit card.

Remote and hybrid teams

### Strengths

- Unlimited tracking
- Unlimited teams
- Unlimited Storage
- Screenshots every 1 minute
- Free Forever

### Limits

- Last 14 days data retention, on Basic
- 10 GB file storage limit, on Basic
- After utilising the 10 GB free storage, tracking will be limited to timesheet, on Basic
- API: Coming Soon
- Invoice: Coming Soon

$4.99/user/month (Billed Monthly)

## Traqq

Invasive monitoring: Traqq takes no screenshots and records no keystrokes.

Teams of any size, from enterprises and small and medium businesses to agencies, hybrid and remote teams, independent contractors, and freelancers.

### Strengths

- Time tracking from web, desktop and browser
- Offline tracking, on every plan
- Automatic timer, on every plan
- Shared time-off calendar, on every plan
- Client invoices, on Business and up

### Limits

- No app or website tracking
- No screenshots
- No idle time tracking
- Project forecasting, on Business and up
- Focus metrics, on Scale and Enterprise only

$9.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

[Workfolio vs Traqq](/workfolio-traqq)

## Harvest

Invasive monitoring: Harvest takes no screenshots and tracks no apps or websites.

Teams of all sizes and types, in advertising and marketing, architecture, construction, law firms, accounting and finance, consulting and IT, design, and software development.

### Strengths

- Invoicing, on every plan
- Invoices sent from Harvest, with late payment reminders
- Project budgets with cost alerts
- Project estimates before kickoff, on Free, Teams and Enterprise
- Accounting and payment integrations, on Teams and Enterprise

### Limits

- No app or website tracking
- No screenshots or video
- Single sign-on, on Enterprise only
- Timesheet approvals, on Enterprise only

$11.00/user/month (Billed Monthly)

[Workfolio vs Harvest](/workfolio-harvest)

## Get Started with Workfolio Today!

Unlimited Features. No Commitment. Free to Try.

[Start your 14 day free trial](https://app.getworkfolio.com/signup/pro)