Workforce analytics
Tockly vs Time Doctor
Time 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.
Tockly is work tracking that reads AI activity: every minute scored as hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle. Here is how the two compare, line by line.
At a glance
| Capability | Tockly | Time Doctor |
|---|---|---|
| Classifies human vs AI-agent minutes | Every minute: hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle | No |
| Credits time supervising an AI agent | Reads agent activity directly and credits it as work | Logs as idle time; dilutes the productive percentage |
| Screenshots | Every 10 minutes, tied to the minute they capture | All paid tiers; video on Premium or a $3 add-on |
| Activity tracking | Input event counts only, never keys or content | Input intensity drives Activity Level; productivity rated per app |
| App and site usage | Active app and window titles | Needs Standard ($14/mo) |
| Invoicing from tracked time | Free for up to 3 clients, unlimited on Pro | No |
| Free tier | Full capture, unlimited activity history | None, 14-day trial only |
| Entry price (annual) | Free. Pro $12, Team $16 per seat/mo | $6.67/seat/mo |
Time Doctor details verified against its public pricing and documentation as of July 2026. Products change; check Time Doctor's site for current numbers.
The minute Time Doctor can't see
Time Doctor measures engagement as keyboard and mouse intensity. A developer steering a coding agent produces almost no input, so those minutes land as idle time and a Low Activity Level on the manager's dashboard. They still sit inside total tracked time, which means they do not cut worked hours but do drag down the productive percentage the whole suite reports on. Its AI features benchmark humans against other monitored humans. None of them can see that an agent was doing the work.
Agent minutes score as nothing happening.
Hands-on, steering, and agent time, each credited for what it is.
Pricing
Tockly
- Personal: free. Full capture, invoicing for 3 clients, screenshots from this month and last.
- Pro: $12/seat/mo annual ($15 monthly). Unlimited clients, 12 months of screenshot receipts.
- Team: $16/seat/mo annual ($20 monthly). Org rollups, roles, per-person AI adoption.
Time Doctor
- Basic: $8/seat/mo monthly ($6.67 annual). Screenshots included, no free tier.
- Standard: $14/seat/mo monthly ($11.67 annual). App and URL reporting, productivity ratings, payroll.
- Premium: $20/seat/mo monthly (about $16.70 annual). Screen video, jiggler detection, Benchmarks AI, SSO.
Which should you pick?
Pick Time Doctor if you run a large distributed operation that needs payroll, attendance, scheduling, and 60+ integrations in one mature suite, and your team's work is mostly hands-on-keyboard.
Pick Tockly if any of your team's output now comes from AI tools. Time Doctor's activity model scores agent-supervision minutes as idle, so the hours where an agent did the most work read as the emptiest on a manager's dashboard. Tockly credits those minutes and tells you which kind of work they were.
Frequently asked
Does Time Doctor have a free plan?
No. Time Doctor has no free tier, only a 14-day Premium trial. Its cheapest plan is $8 per seat per month billed monthly, and the full monitoring experience with productivity ratings and app reporting starts at the $14 Standard tier. Tockly's Personal tier is free with full capture and unlimited activity history.
How does Time Doctor treat AI-assisted work?
As absence rather than work. Its activity levels are keyboard and mouse intensity, so supervising an agent reads as idle time. Those minutes stay inside total tracked time, so they do not cut your hours, but they pull down the productive percentage managers grade people on. Tockly takes the opposite approach: it reads agent activity directly and classifies each minute as hands-on, agent running, or steering.
Is Tockly cheaper than Time Doctor?
At the top tiers they are close on sticker: Time Doctor Premium is about $16.70 per seat per month annual and Tockly Team is $16. The difference is what you get for it. Time Doctor's premium buys more surveillance depth like screen video and jiggler detection. Tockly's buys measurement no tier of Time Doctor offers: the per-minute human versus agent split.
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