The Time Doctor alternative: DeskTime

Time tracking works better when everyone’s included. Boost trust and transparency with DeskTime.

What is Time Doctor?

Time Doctor helps managers keep a close eye on how time is spent and where productivity could improve. It’s built more for oversight than collaboration, making it a better fit for teams that prefer structure over flexibility.

Why look for a Time Doctor alternative?

Time Doctor offers detailed “proof of work” through frequent screenshots and granular activity tracking, making it ideal for highly accountable environments.

However, it lacks employee-centric features like personal dashboards and private time—tools that help boost morale, self-accountability, and transparency. If you’re after a more collaborative approach, DeskTime might be the better fit.

DeskTime vs. Time Doctor
Attendance management
Document title tracking
Private time
Notifications
Productivity calculation
Break time reminders
Scheduling
Absence calendar
Unusual activity report
Video screen recording

Why switch from Time Doctor to DeskTime?

DeskTime offers a more user-friendly, flexible experience with better transparency for both managers and employees.

Data-powered decisions

Hours tracked by themselves don't tell the whole story of your team's productivity. DeskTime offers productivity calculations to accurately measure team productivity and efficiency.

Self-led insights for teams

DeskTime allows employees to manage their own time with user dashboards. It facilitates better time estimation for future tasks and pinpoints major distractions.

More than just monitoring

Keeping track of a larger workforce can be a challenge that requires extra help. DeskTime allows you to oversee employee attendance, schedules, and absences. No other HR tools are necessary.

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.

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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.

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DeskTime key features

Here are a few features that differentiate DeskTime from Time Doctor.

  • Exports

    DeskTime provides data exports for specific timeframes, teams, and use cases. This feature simplifies information sharing and facilitates in-depth examination of the exported data.

  • Notifications

    Get notified and stay informed with instant alerts for unproductive app use or work schedule requests. Notifications enable managers to address issues promptly and boost team efficiency.

  • Private time

    Private time allows employees to temporarily pause tracking for personal tasks, ensuring their non-work-related computer activity isn't monitored. Permitting privacy, fosters employee trust and loyalty.

Exports

DeskTime provides data exports for specific timeframes, teams, and use cases. This feature simplifies information sharing and facilitates in-depth examination of the exported data.

Notifications

Get notified and stay informed with instant alerts for unproductive app use or work schedule requests. Notifications enable managers to address issues promptly and boost team efficiency.

Private time

Private time allows employees to temporarily pause tracking for personal tasks, ensuring their non-work-related computer activity isn't monitored. Permitting privacy, fosters employee trust and loyalty.

What industries is DeskTime suited for?

Discover the industries that gain the most from DeskTime's user-friendly time tracking and productivity functions.

Outsourcing & offshoring

Admin dashboard and reports provide vital visibility into remote worker activity and productivity, which is essential for efficient project delivery across different locations.

Agencies

DeskTime helps agencies by automating time tracking for accurate client billing. In addition, detailed reports and exports boost transparency, trust, and long-term partnership with clients.

IT & software development

DeskTime helps developers focus and meet deadlines by tracking coding time, simplifying remote team management, and integrating with popular tools like Jira and GitLab.

Team onboarding made easy

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Built to meet global standards

DeskTime complies with top-tier international data protection protocols, delivering a secure and seamless time tracking experience trusted by teams big and small worldwide.

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.

Marc Miquel

Senior User Researcher, Enterprise

"Desktime helps me stay productive and to limit time"

"I know that at the end of the week, I want not to exceed a certain number of hours, but I also set myself some productivity % goals (time focused on certain apps / total time). I have used it for more than 7 years."
Sreejith B.

Assistant Manager, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity insights with DeskTime"

"I am an IT admin as well as a project lead. My job is to monitor and manage my employees, who mainly work from home. With DeskTime, we can measure their productivity, monitor their worktime activity, and evaluate their performance based on their time efficiency."
Diego Carballo

CISO, Mid-Market

"Highly efficient tool"

It allows me to see where I spend my day, find opportunities to improve my productivity, and balance my work with necessary breaks. It’s a tool that gives me clarity without being intrusive. It also allows me to control my work team and measure their level of productivity.
Tarun S.

Head of Product, Small-Business

"Amazing choice for tracking performance of employees"

DeskTime provides valuable intelligence and support for managing our distributed teams. It offers easily digestible performance metrics for our remote employees. Their competitive pricing further solidified our decision.
Abhay Singh Rana

UI/UX Designer, Mid-Market

"Perfect activity tracking"

It helps our company's hybrid culture by tracking the productivity of every employee working from home and generating weekly reports to review everyone's performance accurately. The software also helps employees focus more on their tasks without being distracted by unproductive apps or sites.
Verified User

Computer Software, Mid-Market

"Efficient and user-friendly time tracking tool"

With its detailed reports and automatic time tracking, we can optimize workflows, improve project planning, and ensure accurate billing for client work. This has led to better productivity insights, more efficient time management, and enhanced team performance overall.
Natasha Sierra

Practice Manager, Mid-Market

"Has improved our staff's productivity"

DeskTime assists us in monitoring productivity, tracking time spent on tasks, and identifying workflow inefficiencies. It provides valuable information, which supports better team management and accountability.
Parminder Singh U.

CEO, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity enhancement with DeskTime"

With DeskTime’s automatic idle time and break detection features, we easily monitor the work-life balance within teams. It eliminates the need for manual reporting, leaving no room for error.
Verified User

Computer Software, Small-Business

"One of the best tools for remote teams management and instant reporting."

I really like that it has clock-in, clock-out, and holiday management. It's easy to use, and I implemented it very fast. The support that I was offered was great!

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Want to explore other time tracking tools?

Here are some other popular productivity and time tracking tools.

Insightful

Insightful provides robust employee monitoring and detailed activity tracking, making it suitable for companies prioritizing extensive oversight and data collection on workforce behavior.

Teramind

Teramind stands out for its advanced security-focused monitoring and insider threat detection, making it a great choice for organizations prioritizing data loss prevention and employee oversight.

Hubstaff

Hubstaff provides detailed activity monitoring, GPS tracking, and integrations for project management and payroll. It's often chosen by businesses needing a robust solution for tracking both office and field teams.