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Timely’s automation and privacy-first approach makes it the definitive Yaware alternative. Trade Big Brother screenshots and webcam photos for empowering, privacy-first automatic time tracking.
“Timely is simply the best tool for tracking time accurately while protecting individual user privacy. Everyone feels comfortable using the tool knowing that their data is kept private to them.”
Timely and Yaware both automatically track the time you spend on different work activities without the need for manual timers. But the tools diverge sharply over the purpose and ethics for capturing that data.
Yaware is an employee monitoring tool in the most dystopian sense of the term. It automatically tracks the time employees spend in different apps and websites and directly shares this information with their employers. It is also able to take timed screenshots of employee screens and remotely access their computer webcams to take period photos of them to “prove” they are working. With few features to help actual users manage or report their time, Yaware is a top-down tool designed for paranoid employers.
In extreme contrast, Timely is a privacy-first automatic time tracking tool built to empower employees. It captures the time each user spends in websites and apps throughout the day to streamline timesheet logging and support personal time management. Crucially, all captured data stays 100% private to each individual—no colleague or boss can ever access it or take screenshots. The objective is to enable employees by minimizing essential admin and providing insights into the way they work, rather than creating a mechanism to police them.
In this context, Yaware’s free trial matters relatively little. Ultimately, a robust automatic time tracking solution should satisfy a very basic purpose: capturing hours as accurately and easily as possible without destroying team trust and culture.
Offering timesheets, real-time project dashboards, capacity management, task management and reporting, Timely is quite a step up from Yaware’s basic feature set. Crucially, it actually protects employee privacy and is designed to help everyone manage and improve their personal productivity. Here are a few reasons why Yaware 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
Yaware
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 Yaware 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
Yaware
