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Every tracker counts hours. One knows who worked them.
Sixteen time trackers side by side: pricing, screenshots, monitoring, invoicing. The others measure presence, keyboard input, open windows, or lines of code, so minutes spent supervising an AI agent read as idle, vanish, or blur into app time. Tockly scores those minutes for what they are.
| Product | Human vs AI-agent split | Screenshots | Invoicing | Free tier | Entry price (annual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tockly | Every minute: hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle | Every 10 minutes, tied to the minute they capture | Free for up to 3 clients, unlimited on Pro | Full capture, unlimited activity history | Free. Pro $12, Team $16 per seat/mo |
| Hubstaff | No | Capped per tier; stored 6 months at most | Yes | 1 user, 100 screenshots/mo | $4.99/seat/mo, 2-seat minimum |
| Time Doctor | No | All paid tiers; video on Premium or a $3 add-on | No | None, 14-day trial only | $6.67/seat/mo |
| Clockify | No | Pro plan only, about every 5 minutes | Standard plan and up | Up to 5 users, 1-month report window | $3.99/seat/mo |
| Toggl Track | No | Never, by pledge | PDF generation on every plan; no in-app sending | Up to 5 users | $9/seat/mo |
| ActivTrak | Measures AI-tool adoption, not who did the work | Only via the $2/seat Screen Details add-on | No | 3 users, 30-day history | $10/seat/mo, annual only, 5-seat min |
| Insightful | Detects AI-tool presence as a compliance risk | Included at entry, deleted after 60 days | No | None, 7-day trial | $8/seat/mo |
| TMetric | No | Business tier, 6-month storage | Professional tier and up | 2 seats, 7-day activity retention | $5.83/seat/mo |
| DeskTime | No | Premium tier and up | Not published as a feature | None, 14-day trial | $6.42/seat/mo |
| Teramind | Flags bot-speed command streams; a security signal, not labor accounting | Continuous screen video plus stills | No | None, 5-seat minimum | About $14/seat/mo, billed monthly |
| Harvest | No | Never, by policy | The category's most mature, with payments | 1 seat, 2 projects | $9/seat/mo plus usage fees |
| TimeCamp | AI assigns time to projects, not to human vs agent | Ultimate tier, every 10 min, 60-day retention | Starter tier and up | Unlimited users, keyword tracking, no app detail | $3.99/seat/mo |
| RescueTime | No | Never, by design | Timesheets with billing rates, no invoices | 2 weeks of history, 1 goal | $7/mo billed yearly ($84/yr) |
| WakaTime | Attributes lines of code to AI vs human, not minutes to a driver | No | Premium tier, generated from code stats | 1-week dashboard history | $8.25/dev/mo |
| Rize | Measures time inside AI apps, not who did the work | Never, by policy | Exportable client reports, no invoices | None, 7-day trial | $9.99/mo |
| Timely | AI files time to projects, not to human vs agent | Never, by policy | Native invoices from tracked time, plus QuickBooks sync | None, 14-day trial | $9/seat/mo |
Competitor details verified against each vendor's public pricing and documentation, most recently June and July 2026. Products change; check each vendor's site for current numbers. Product names link to the full head-to-head comparison.
Head-to-head comparisons
Hubstaff is the best-known monitoring-first time tracker: screenshots, keyboard and mouse activity rates, app and URL tracking, GPS, and payroll, sold per seat with a heavy add-on model.
See the full comparisonWorkforce analyticsTockly vs Time DoctorTime Doctor is a long-running workforce-analytics and monitoring suite: screenshots, optional screen video, app and URL usage, activity levels, and productivity ratings rolled up into manager dashboards and payroll.
See the full comparisonTime trackerTockly vs ClockifyClockify is the high-volume free time tracker: unlimited tracking at $0 for up to 5 users, with invoicing, approvals, and scheduling in paid tiers and screenshots gated to its Pro plan.
See the full comparisonTime trackerTockly vs Toggl TrackToggl Track is the anti-surveillance time tracker: a fast manual timer with a private autotracker, an explicit pledge never to build screenshots or monitoring, and reporting aimed at billable hours.
See the full comparisonWorkforce analyticsTockly vs ActivTrakActivTrak is one of the largest workforce-analytics platforms: app and website usage, productivity scoring, and an AI Insights suite measuring AI-tool adoption, with screenshots gated behind a paid add-on.
See the full comparisonEmployee monitoringTockly vs InsightfulInsightful (formerly Workpuls) is an enterprise-leaning monitoring platform for operations teams: screenshots, app tracking, productivity labeling, and time mapping, with shipped shadow-AI and AI-adoption reporting, plus an AI chat layer still limited to private beta.
See the full comparisonTime trackerTockly vs TMetricTMetric is a budget time-tracking suite for SMBs and freelancers: timers, budgets, invoicing, and a monitoring layer with screenshots and activity levels in its Business tier at $7.50 per seat.
See the full comparisonEmployee monitoringTockly vs DeskTimeDeskTime is an automatic time tracker with productivity monitoring: silent app and URL capture scored productive or unproductive, screenshots on Premium, plus shift scheduling and an AI daily summary.
See the full comparisonEmployee monitoringTockly vs TeramindTeramind is the forensic ceiling of employee monitoring: continuous screen video, keystroke logging, OCR of on-screen text, DLP, and insider-threat detection, sold to security and compliance buyers.
See the full comparisonTime tracking and invoicingTockly vs HarvestHarvest is the premium time-and-invoicing suite for agencies and consultancies: a fast manual timer wired into client invoicing with online payments and accounting sync, and a firm no-monitoring policy.
See the full comparisonTime trackerTockly vs TimeCampTimeCamp is an automatic time tracker with an AI push: keyword and ML auto-categorization plus the TIC agent that pre-fills timesheets, with app tracking and screenshots in upper tiers.
See the full comparisonProductivity trackerTockly vs RescueTimeRescueTime is the long-running personal productivity tracker: automatic app and site logging scored on a 0 to 100 Productivity Pulse, privacy-first by design, with no screenshots and no manager-facing detail.
See the full comparisonAI coding analyticsTockly vs WakaTimeWakaTime is the open-source-friendly developer time tracker: IDE plugins measure coding time per project and language, and its 2026 AI dashboard attributes lines of code to AI versus human across Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.
See the full comparisonAutomatic time trackerTockly vs RizeRize is a native macOS and Windows automatic time tracker: menu-bar capture with AI categorization, focus coaching, and a 2026 teams push that measures how much time your team spends in AI tools, with no screenshots by policy.
See the full comparisonAutomatic time trackerTockly vs TimelyTimely is the AI-timesheet product for agencies and consultancies: a private background tracker records app and window metadata, and its AI drafts billable time entries you approve, with a strict no-screenshots policy.
See the full comparisonFrequently asked
What is AI-aware time tracking?
Time tracking that can tell who was driving the work in each minute: the human hands-on, an AI agent running while the human watches, or the human steering an agent. Conventional trackers measure keyboard and mouse input, so they can only say active or idle. Tockly reads agent activity directly and scores every minute across four states, which makes AI-assisted work measurable, billable, and fair to the person doing it.
Why does my time tracker show me as idle when I'm using AI tools?
Because it measures work as keyboard and mouse movement. When you kick off an AI agent and supervise it, your input drops to near zero, so activity-scored trackers like Hubstaff, Time Doctor, TMetric, and Insightful record those minutes as idle or low-activity. Some flag the quiet stretch as suspicious. The work happened; the instrument just cannot see it.
Which time trackers count AI agent time as work?
Of the products in this comparison, only Tockly classifies AI-agent minutes as work. Some competitors get partway: ActivTrak and Rize report how much time AI tools were used, Teramind captures AI-chat content for security, and WakaTime attributes lines of code to AI versus human in the editor. None of them classify the wall-clock minute, whether the agent was working while the human watched or the human was steering it. That per-minute split is the measurement Tockly was built around.
How does Tockly know an AI agent is working?
The agent itself reports in. Coding agents like Claude Code emit events as they work, and Tockly's desktop app listens to that feed, so agent-running and steering minutes come from the agent's real activity rather than guesses about mouse movement. Screenshots every 10 minutes back the record, and the input monitor counts events only, never keys or content.
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