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Timely’s privacy-first, automated approach makes it the definitive ScreenshotMonitor alternative. Trade manual timer frustration and creepy screenshots for intuitive, culture-friendly time tracking.
“I always forget to start or stop timers. Manual timer apps also don’t give me any detail about what I did during that time.”
Feel Helena’s pain? You’re not alone. Almost every time tracking app currently on the market shares ScreenshotMonitor’s essential design flaw: manual timer input. While the app can monitor the time you spend on different websites and applications in the background as you work, it still requires you to manually start and stop the functionality for each task you work on and enter notes.
Constantly starting and stopping timers is an unnatural and inefficient way to track time — particularly if you regularly hop between projects or responsibilities. You only log the activities you remember working on, leading to incomplete timesheets . This subjectivity itself breeds striking inaccuracy — even if you remember to log your hours every day, studies show that timesheets that rely on manual input are only ever 67% accurate.
ScreenshotMonitor is also notorious for its flagrant violation of employee privacy. The clue is in its name—the entire software is built around taking regular screenshots of employee screens, which are then shared with managers, along with each employee’s personal browsing and application activity. Proudly advertising that it lets managers “know for certain that you are paying for actual work, not for time spent on Facebook or shopping”, it pedals a dangerous top-down time tracking model built around employee distrust.
In this context, ScreenshotMonitor’s free plan matters relatively little. Ultimately, a robust time tracking solution should satisfy a very basic purpose: capturing hours accurately without destroying team trust and culture.
Offering actual automatic time tracking, Timely is quite a step up from ScreenshotMonitor’s extremely manual reporting. Instead of making you track time on every task and plug in notes, Timely captures everything you work on down to the second! Being designed to enable end-users, it actually protects employee privacy—all tracked information stays completely private to each individual and there are no screenshots in sight. Here are a few reasons why ScreenshotMonitor users switch to Timely.
Timely automatically captures the time you spend on every piece of work in the background for you. No guesstimates or overlooked billable hours from struggling to remember what you worked on. By producing a completely accurate timeline of every day automatically, Timely ensures every billable detail actually makes it to your timesheet.
Instead of starting and stopping timers as you move between tasks, Timely lets you stay 100% focused on your work. In addition to automating daily time tracking, it also minimizes timesheet admin by drafting time entries for you. Free more time for the work that matters!
Timely makes it easy to translate masses of granular time data into accessible, professional reports for clients and stakeholders. Its real-time dashboards keep you on top of critical business information, including project budget spend, billable percentage, overtime and employee capacity.
Offering user-level privacy by design, Timely is a tracking tool that teams can actually trust. Every employee gets their own private work timeline and they control what information goes public. We will never support creepy surveillance functionality — your private work data is for your eyes only.
Timely is ready for wherever work takes you. With apps available on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android in addition to the web, you can move seamlessly between your laptop, phone and tablet. Our secure GPS location app also lets you automatically track the time you spend at different locations from your mobile — ideal for capturing travel, meetings, site visits and events, and logging time on the go.
Teams of all shape and sizes upgrade their time tracking with Timely to effortlessly capture and manage their time. But don't just take our word for it — see how independent G2 users rate Timely against
ScreenshotMonitor
Timely is ready for wherever work takes you. With apps available on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android in addition to the web, you can move seamlessly between your laptop, phone and tablet. Our secure GPS location app also lets you automatically track the time you spend at different locations from your mobile — ideal for capturing travel, meetings, site visits and events, and logging time on the go.
Teams of all shapes and sizes upgrade their time tracking with Timely to effortlessly capture and manage their time. But don't just take our word for it —independent G2 users rate Timely higher than ScreenshotMonitor in almost every performance category.
Teams of all shape and sizes upgrade their time tracking with Timely to effortlessly capture and manage their time. But don't just take our word for it — see how independent G2 users rate Timely against
ScreenshotMonitor
