The Insightful alternative: DeskTime

Flexible and easy to set up, DeskTime adjusts to fit your team from day one.

What is Insightful?

Insightful is a workforce productivity management and time tracking tool for remote and hybrid teams. It offers productivity insights, insider threat detection and screen monitoring. It’s well suited for teams that need basic help with remote team capacity planning and operational management.

Why look for an Insightful alternative?

Unlike DeskTime's easy, few-step installation process, Insightful's complex setup may require potential customers to pay for deployment and onboarding support, which is only offered to enterprise clients. It’s something to consider when deploying a larger remote or hybrid team.

Insightful is a solid option for basic team management and workforce insights. But limited customization and a complex setup will hold your team back. DeskTime adapts to your needs with no compromises and full flexibility.

DeskTime vs. Insightful

Automatic time tracking
Manual time tracking
Offline time
Document title tracking
Exports
Private time
Break time reminders
Mobile app
Insider threat detection
Real-time screen monitoring

Why switch from Insightful to DeskTime?

DeskTime isn't just for the management, it offers essential employee well-being features to keep the whole team happy.

Management made easy

DeskTime admin dashboards keep all the essential insights in one place. No more blind hunting for the info you truly need.

Employee trust

The true core of company productivity is employee trust and satisfaction. Your employees will appreciate the private time feature and break time reminders.

Tailored to your needs

DeskTime offers customizable settings, making it possible to meet each team’s unique requirements. No need for a “one size fits all” policy.

A time tracker that won’t interrupt your team’s workflow. Ever.

Forget manual entries and distractions. With DeskTime, time tracking runs on autopilot—zero effort needed.

How DeskTime works

With DeskTime, you can see your employees' arrival and departure times, analyze their productivity, schedule shifts, oversee absences, maintain a healthy work-life balance, keep track of specific projects, and more.

Sign Up
Create an account and download the DeskTime app
Add your team details
Add your employees individually or in batches and sort them into teams
Start tracking!
Read this article on how to use our time tracking tool and communicate it to your employees.

DeskTime key features

Here’s why DeskTime is a great choice for teams of all sizes and needs.

  • Automatic time tracking

    Time tracking with DeskTime is seamless. It starts right as you start your computer, pauses after inactivity, and stops once the computer is shut down.

  • Reports

    DeskTime reports let you see and compare data amongst different teams, employees and time periods. Spot the top performers and identify the bottlenecks.

  • Data exports

    DeskTime knows that sometimes info needs to be shared externally. Exports make it easy to extract only the data needed for the occasion.

Automatic time tracking

Time tracking with DeskTime is seamless. It starts right as you start your computer, pauses after inactivity, and stops once the computer is shut down.

Reports

DeskTime reports let you see and compare data amongst different teams, employees and time periods. Spot the top performers and identify the bottlenecks.

Data exports

DeskTime knows that sometimes info needs to be shared externally. Exports make it easy to extract only the data needed for the occasion.

What industries is DeskTime suited for?

Discover the industries that benefit most from DeskTime's intuitive time tracking and productivity tools.

IT & software companies

DeskTime Jira and GitLab integrations are essential to any software development team. No more guessing how much time was spent on that Jira ticket.

Outsourcing & offshoring

Managing large remote teams can be a challenge. DeskTime attendance management will help you manage through the time zone differences and more.

Agencies

Transparency in client billing is extremely important for a successful long-term partnership. DeskTime projects can help you track time on specific clients and tasks.

Team onboarding made easy

Learn how to get started with DeskTime

Built to meet global standards

DeskTime follows strict international data and information security standards, ensuring a smooth, safe, and reliable time tracking experience for every user.

ISO 27001 compliant

Our practices align with ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 standards, ensuring robust information and privacy management across our systems.

GDPR compliant

The services provided by DeskTime and the data generated using the application comply with the rules set by GDPR.

Privacy policy

Visit our Privacy Policy to learn what data we collect, how we use it, and how we protect your privacy.

Data encryption

All data that DeskTime users share with our servers is encrypted both in transit and at rest by default.

Two-factor authentication

Users can add an extra layer of security to their account by enabling two-factor authentication in their profile settings.

Backups and reliability

With a system uptime of 99.95%, DeskTime ensures maximum reliability through continuous, restorable backups.

Don’t take our word for it

Want to hear from our users? Discover their reviews on G2.

Book a 1:1 introduction call

Planning to onboard a large team of 10+ users?

Schedule a chat with our product expert to learn how DeskTime can be tailored to fit your needs and requirements.

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Want to explore other time tracking tools?

Here are some other popular productivity and time tracking tools.

Hubstaff

Hubstaff offers basic time tracking for field management and location tracking. Ideal for construction businesses, less so for office work.

Toggl

Toggl is best for freelancers and personal use. Their mobile app is a great addition to manual time tracking options.

Activtrak

Activtrak is great for office admins and easy tracking. It’s best used for planning your office space and managing your team's workload.