Use this app already more than 1.5 years. Purchased for fun. But then I got involved. And started to analyze all my work at the computer. Main insight: what we don't measure - we don't have to control. It's time to take your time at the computer under control!

UI / UX

Não sei

I've been using Desktime for at least 3 years now and love it so much that I refer this to everyone who mentions about tracking their online behavior and productivity.

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Some features are buggy, for eg. tracking time project-wise

Our company uses DeskTime to track time spent on client projects and time spent away from the office. It offers fantastic functionality for tracking time, projects, and exporting data.

The breadth of capabilities. It shows us so much information.

Customer service takes awhile to respond.

I like the visibility it creates on who is working on what and when. It's interesting to look at real data on how much time has been spent on various projects at the end of the month.

There should be the notification that alert users when to take a break if they've been working for X number of hours. Work life balance is important and we want to encourage breathers to keep their work high in quality.

We really like the idea behind DeskTime. There are little things that could make this product fantastic. In the month view calendar, clicking on a day should take you to that day. We have been on DeskTime since last October and the report export does not export the data as the correct data type. This makes the export useless unless we spend time editing each cell to get the right data type in. It would be very helpful to us if we could distinguish between time in the office and time outside the office so we know if people work at home but we also want to track what time they get in the office and what time they leave the office. Making the IP restriction more robust could solve this. There are other little things but we will work through support.

Easy to use. Doesn't take much effort to have it give you good feedback.

Bugs, iOS app does not work, slow getting simple features into the product.

Was easy to use and easy to set up, the more I used it the more I understood how best to categorize and track my time.

If you need to specify what time you’re spending on particular projects or account, this is great software. It also helps you see if you are as productive in general on your computer time as you think you are.

Did not like that the times were listed in military format. I was always converting the time back-and-forth and that was bothersome to me.

Desktime is not only good to actually know what your colleagues are doing, but also to measure your own productivity. I like to check out how much I spent on software and tasks to estimate the time needed for future projects

the widgets with your productivity details and the section where you can check which app you use the most

the projects part is a bit hidden, and I'm not using it at all I think it should be exhibited in another way. Also for a social media manager, most of social media app are productive tools for him/her, while it shouldn't be for other members of the team. We should be able to set an app productive/unproductive for a particular person and not by group.

I like desktime, it gives great visibility into what staff are doing. It's kind of a pain to keep updating what is and isn't productive every few weeks, but it is what it is.

Great visibility into how active people are on their workstations

When there is a lot of different activity, managing what is / isn't productive can be cumbersome.

It is a very useful tool to track your productivity, plus it does not distract you at all since it works without even noticing

It does not require me to set up anything to be working

I´d like to have more stats

Great to measure your performance or to see in what tasks your labor day has been used, I found myself wondering in what things I've spent most of time, because it really goes fast once you focus on something... so this app is great for that!

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Some minor crashes

I am using DeskTime service for more than 3 years already, and I am happy how the company makes progress with this product. I track only my personal time, and I am happy that free plan fits all I need. I believe companies should use a paid plan to track their employees productivity, this gives much broader pictures of what is happening comparing to usual ways of collecting this kind of info.

Free, linux client present, graphs.

Mark apps productive/unproductive became less easy. Desktop client loves to ask for login-logout, sometimes doesn't want to auto-update itself.

The app essentially runs in the background, yet it captures everything that you are currently "focusing" at, even tabs, and that's why it's so prolific. There's no lie, just facts: you will confront your time spent actually working and procrastinating... And it's worse than it sounds: you are not working with quality. That brings us to the shift: why the app statistics shows us so many inefficient time? You will be marveled by how it can redefine the way you look at your job.

We really love to use your software every day. I have little improvement suggestion request about view productivity in a separate project on the same day, but I am happy using DeskTime.

Easy to read and easy to use reports.

I would like to view in reports productivity about two or more project at the same day in general report.

I have never used any time trackers before DeskTime and never thought about personal productivity. I just was doing my job well and everything was ok. After installing Desktime I was wondered that I'm not so productive as I was thinking! I found that I work hard and do the job but waste time for things like messengers and social networks, for couple (or three or five) coffee breaks and so on. Desktime showed me that and I changed my work style. Now I do the same amount of work in 5-6 hours instead of 8 hrs. I don't do more but I do it faster now. Thank you, DeskTime!

Simple and seamless

It shows how you are lazy sometimes, haha :)

Time entry accuracy is 100% using desktime. Working for an MSP as an engineer makes for fast-paced days. It’s hard to stay 100% up-to-date on time entry as a result. Having desktime to track your time and allow you to review screenshots of your day make it easy to go back and enter time for days that became too hectic to update tinesheets.

Desktime really assists with ensuring time entries are accurate and detailed. The screenshot feature allows me to calture specifically what I was working on at any given time during days that are too busy to stop and enter time. The graph that shows what applications you were in, and active/idle time makes it easy to enter breaks for those days as well.

I’d only request that the applications you are in show the title of the document you were working in on the graph.

I had been using DeskTime for a couple of years already. Even that I use it for personal goals - I love it: how it shows your productive time and the other time spent on not so important things. I can track my time easily and see where are my sins. I wasn't using it as a company tool, but I see the pros having this tool in the whole team. Works even better in Agile environments. Appreciate your work, guys! Great tool!

Nice and informative charts and that I can find out what I was doing on the specific time

Mostly positive.

I love the insights into how my time is distributed across applications and websites. I definitely use it passively, but occasionally I check in to see how my time breaks down. I just let it run in the background and check the dashboards for fun. Once upon a time, I pitched it to the leadership at an organization where I worked, but it was early in the product's maturity so that didn't pan out. I'm a longtime fan and I'm pleased with how the feature set has evolved.

I believe the pricing structure is misaligned with customer segments. This is more relevant to corporations than to individuals. It's a nice to have for me, but I can live without it if I must pay. This would fall into the category of something that should be extended to workers for free, but at a cost to organizations with two or more users. Extend more features to single license accounts.

I love this software. It is very useful for figuring out what I have done during the day, if I forget to put it on my time sheet.

I use DeskTime to track personal productivity. It works great for that and there are some real opportunities to tie in some light task/project management functionality as well. Great software and easy to use.

It works really well for exactly what it is.

There seem to be some obvious extensions that would allow for more project specific time management that isn't "turned on." I guess because it seems so natural, it is a little frustrating.

Really like your software. It would be great to have more granularity and see exactly the files one has worked on. Thank you!

I like this software a lot. It has been tracking my activities on PC and MAC for many years, since it was lunched as early beta. it could be great if u could add functionality see review of full year, for example 2016. it could give me information how to better manage my time in year 2017 :)

easy tu use, multi platform, browser support

hard to compare month by month, to adrese beter time management

A great service that allows tracking and reporting on computer use - its scalability, ease of installation and general ease of use allow it work very well for my organization and for many others, I assume.

-Great reporting for activities

-Lacking significant alerts

I use it personally to monitor my time spent and to analyze my productivity. Where is my time going? What applications am I using, how much time I'm spending on different tasks or projects?

Cross-platform compatibility (MacOS-X, Windows, iOS, Android), Simplicity, Beautiful design, simple application assignment

I'd love to drill into details about a certain time period, productivity status etc. For example, if I have a block of an unproductive period, I'd like to be able to click on it in a report to see where have I spent the unproductive time (or productive, or neutral).

The software is great, its what I have been after for a long time. One area I would like to see improvement is in the categories of Apps. They are a bit too generalised at the moment.

How accurate it tracks the sites and applications I work on

Not enough categories

Desktime has helped me keep track of the time I spend at work. After categorizing my software usage, it provides insights into how I spent my day which is both valuable and easy to understand. Its silent background monitoring means zero-disturbance and the detailed statistics tell you what when on and when. It has greatly helped boost my overall productivity.

Ease of use, zero-disturbance, detailed reporting.

Missing set of features like automatic private time, adding scheduled breaks etc.

There are things I am good at, but keeping track of my time is not one. I had searched for a few years trying different programs, or plug-ins, or techniques and I always ended up with "time holes" in my day. And then I found Desktime. It starts when my computer comes up and starts tracking automatically. I use Chrome and have the extension for Desktime that captures the URLs of sites I visit so I can also keep track of what I was working on by where I was on the Internet. And then there is the Project's feature. It is super simple to set up a new project, and as easy as choosing from a dropdown list when you need to switch from one project to another for individual job tracking. In the course of a day I rarely work on one thing and then the next and so on. It is more of a series of hopping from one job to another and back again and the ease of switching between projects makes that a non-issue. And because no person is perfect Desktime also has a Private Time feature. There is also the ability to keep up with how long meetings are or lunch even because Desktime tracks offline time. When your computer is idle for more than a few minutes Desktime stops counting time. When you come back, in the timeline there is a gap to which you can assign whatever may be appropriate. If it was a production meeting, click in the blank space and a pop-up comes up and you can tell it what you were doing, what project it was for, if applicable and even if the time was productive or not. I suppose depending on the meeting that could be subjective. And if you were out to lunch, leave it blank and no time is recorded so that at the end of the day you have an accurate record of how much "desktime" you have put in. It is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Time tracking without thinking.

I really wish it would track minutes in unites of 100, like time has to be submitted for payroll. The hour time is not a factor but the minutes, it is always 38 min x .60 to get time to submit. Or if not doing the actual math, it is looking it up on a conversion chart. Just give me an option to track it how I need it to.

Being able to track employee productivity in a work-from-home remote environment, where you're not able to track employee productivity easily without such a tool like DeskTime.

What I like most is the clean User Interface, and simple stats that are easy to digest, and understand where employees are slacking, and where they excel.

I can't think of any negatives in using DeskTime at this time.

I enjoy using this software. However, I wish it were more user-friendly when it comes to editing offline time gaps as well as assigning URL tasks to the three categories of productivity.

Time tracking for internet website usage is very helpful to refer back to when trying to figure out where the time went in a day.

Difficult to reassign URLs to their proper productivity category

Helps in a systematic approach to achieving work goals as all the employee activities are tracked. Saves a lot of time for the employer and ensures that all employees are productive

Might put a negative effect on employees when all of their activities are tracked and recorded.

It's not convenient to go to the special area to mark the type of the app: Productive/Non-productive.

It's automatic.

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It's been easy to use and incorporate into our company. We don't have to check it often but it's good to know that it's there if we need it to fall back on.

It helps a company who is mostly work at home employees keep up with who is doing what. Let's us see if one person is doing more than another. Keeps everyone honest.

There isn't really anything, the set up is a little odd at first but once you do the first few it becomes very easy.

I am using DeskTime for personal use (motivate myself to work hard and more careful ). I did the pause for using your tool and after the pause in 1 year, I feel more difficult with DeskTime.

Love being able to track the performance of my team against the amount of time they spend doing quality activity.

Can be somewhat ambiguous concerning what employees are doing with their time pertaining to specific sites.

We use for years to measure productivity and reward our best contributors each week. Very complete and trustful

Its economical, easy to use, really helpful, easily accessable, saves alot of time, manages your work hours.

Sometime its not that accurate about your working time which can effect your payroll.

I would like to share my thoughts about DeskTime. As an Ubuntu user, I would like to say that DeskTime is the best app out there so far. It can easily installed on Ubuntu and successfully tracks all my activities. I remember that I faced a problem to install DeskTime while upgrading my Ubuntu version, so I have submitted a ticket to the support team. I have received a detailed description about the installation process which helped me a lot. Sometimes, DeskTime keeps tracking the time of some of the processes (e.g. nautilus) while I am away from my machine which boosts the productivity but in fact it does not. I believe this is a related to the operating system more but hopefully to be fixed in the next versions.

Simple - easy - compatible with Ubuntu.

Sometimes keeps tracking of some processes while I am away from my machine (but I believe it is related to Ubuntu systems only).

great time tracker software

I use this DeskTime software to ensure the productivity of my staffs. This is really a great software to track the idle time. Also, other features are available.

If the monthly report can track and calculate monthly hours would be more preferable to us. Hope, they will consider it.

The softphone freezes from time to time and the recent update causes it freeze more often especially from idle and when the phone rings

Quick support response time

Freezes from time to time

I'm using DeskTime as a logger for my freelance work and refers to the data collected when sending invoices. The new addition of tasks are great and gives me a better organized workflow.

Looks great. Many good features

Not tailored enough for freelance work

Very good overall experience personally.

Easy tracking of active softwares used.

Paid version strips off all the good functionality.

Very difficult to fill it in. Not starting up with windows. Should send some automated reminders so that the employees are notified when they have not completed their page. I never contacted the customer service and i don t pay for it, so i cannot rate the last 2 categories.

Keeps record on the computer activities.

Quite frustrating to use. by Draugiem Group on 27/08/2019 Hello, Adela!Thank you for your review.Over time we have worked on the simplicity and ease of use of DeskTime, to make time tracking quick and simple.The app starts automatically with the computer, so all you need to do now is to open the app to see your tracked data at the end of the day - it's that simple!

I've been using Desktime for over a year and I'm very pleased with how everything worked out so far. After trying several project monitoring solutions I think it is safe to say that this is one of the best

Well, I use this app mostly for project duration monitoring which works great. Also, the productivity and efficiency calculators are pretty amazing

It would be great to have some detailed reports on projects. For example, see a list of projects where you can select a project and see more details about it. I know there is something similar, but works only on maximum monthly.

This is a must-have tool ver every professional. It will help you to be in good health and do your job more effectively.

I need to keep an eye on my monitor for possible data bridge, so I installed desk time to get all the URL and drive and keep an eye on activity. I found desktime can do much more.

I don't use a lot of features for desk time and I will update if I found any bugs here. The price is really affordable compared to the competition.

I must say for only one user it is really good.

I like how quickly I can set up and start using this time and project tracking software. The dashboard is minimalistic and has enough information. Productivity bar gives a nice chart for a quick view.

I couldn't see the projects I created into my web dashboard.

I really love the UI.

It's not my first choice if it's about time tracking app but its the most beautifull for sure. Great UI, great dashbards, and multiple operating system support. Free trial and free 'lite' version (1 user).

Little pricey compared to other similar apps.

With better mobile apps, this could be a great piece of software. The concept is very good for small businesses where time management matters.

The desktop app is very intuitive and easy to set up.

The app just would not work for us. On android it just would not log us in and on IOS it was very buggy. by Draugiem Group on 26/08/2019 Hello!Thank you for your review. We are glad to hear that you like the desktop application.In regards to the mobile apps for android and IOS, we are almost ready to release a new version for both to better reflect the tracked data and give you insights on your employees. Stay tuned!

I don't think that we are using this as intended, but it has been great to track how the time of our salary employees is being spent. We are then able to take that information and determine what tasks each person should be doing.

I wish that the program itself had a way to let us turn the information into statistics for us.

Used it for a short time; we liked it but didn't believe it was scale-able for our purposes

-Perfect for click-counting

-A bit obtrusive

If you want to start managing your time get DeskTime. This is a great software to know where your time is really going.

I wish there was a way to export data and receive comprehensive stats even with the Lite plan. But for free, DeskTime can't be best.

DeskTime integrates with several popular project management tools, including JIRA and Basecamp. I hope that they add integration to Wrike in the future.

I work in a place of employment where I am encouraged to bill as much of my time as possible. However, how do I know which client to bill my time to when my day is split between sometimes innumerable tasks? The screenshot feature helps me piece together what I was doing over the course of a day so I can be accurate in my time recording.

It's a nice program for what it does, but it needs more granularity in what it reports.

It tracked time in multiple applications, of which I could set as 'productive' 'nonproductive' 'neutral'. This was helpful somewhat in allowing me to track time for contract work.

The tracking did NOT include Youtube video URLs. There are tons of tutorial videos on youtube, some of which I spent hours watching for my last job.

Dropped it after a couple months, contractors were billing me for time spent on apps yet they did not accomplish much in that time.

It was not helpful. It did not make my employees any more productive in terms of actual completed tasks. I need to know what they actually did that day not how much time they spent on an app.

There is no way to track actual activities or accomplishments of employees. It just shows what apps they used. For example, my employee might spend 5 hours on linkedin and only contact or message a few connections. I need to know how many she contacted and the results. so productivity really is not addressed with using Desktime.

I liked it, I didn't love it - the product works as intended, I don't know if it's the best tool for me in how I work, and I don't need to micromanage my team's time. I may try using it again, I'd definitely recommend it if you're analytical and have issues with focusing on one task.

I like that it showed how I was REALLY spending my time. Working for a consulting firm, our product is essentially time, and this highlights inefficiencies in how I spend my time throughout the day on time stink sites.

I found myself not using that that often - I keep tabs open all the time, and I wasn't sure how accurately it was tracking my time in how I used apps and websites.

I really enjoyed DeskTime for personal use. Sadly, a few of our team members tested out the software and we found that it just wasn't what we were looking for as a company. To be clear, we did not end up choosing a competing software. Instead, we decided that it wasn't in the best interests of our team to constantly track minute-by-minute productivity.

My favorite feature was the productivity tracker. As part of my job, I'm constantly getting interrupted or distracted throughout the day. Using the productivity tracker allowed me to see what time during the day I was able to be most productive an allowed me to schedule important tasks during those times.

There were a few things that felt a little intrusive. I see the necessity for them in other companies, but for our own, we didn't like the idea of being able to take screenshots of our agents computer screens or track all of their web activity.

This software is an essential part of our performance evaluation mechanism, allowing users to track their time, and classify it based on the tasks they are working on.

We're running a distributed organization and have been using DeskTime since they were a small startup. It works perfectly on desktop/laptop machines (duh!) but we haven't tried using it on mobile devices (since we only use it for tracking office crew hours).

"Time at work" stat is a little bit confusing and is meant for linear days (e.g. if you log in for 15 mins at midnight, just to check your email, it will think that it's the start of a working day, and when you log in back in the morning, the time at work will be 8 hrs, so we learnt to ignore this stat completely.

It´s a great tool to keep track of what everyone is doing, when do they start working, when they leave, and how much of the day they are actually productive.

it would be awesome if you could break down even more specifically which file you were working on on seeveral programs, and not just the program as a whole, so i have to use another app to track that, for example if i use photoshop all day i would like to know how much time i spent on each file, so i have to track this ¨manualy¨ with another app.

Practical attendance and performance tracking application

DeskTime allows managers to keep track of their employees activities resultig in increased productivity. The timesheets and the reports are detailed to allow monitoring

Can often lead to micromanagement and loss of privacy by allowing monitoring of employees activities

Great reporting for activities Administrative rights are defined correctly This is really a great software to track the idle time.

-Lacking significant alerts -Private time can't be mapped to specific periods within the day -Full-screen applications override private-time notifications

Tracks when computer is idle, productivity is calculated smart. Does not require much cnofiguration.

From some reasons there is no stats about hours in the month overworked/underworked. That would be nice to have monthly reports.

I can easily see how much time the team have spent working on my project and where they spent their time. It tells me what websites they were on and you can customise this to see which are marked as productive and unproductive. Simple to get an overview and relatively low hassle to set up from my side.

I find it quite hard to navigate and find specific products and users if I want to see what they have been working on specifically and I forget every time I log back in. Quite expensive for the service you get - for a very small number of users and small functionality..

We found desktime to be very easy and a perfect solution for tracking our overall performance. It was very easy to figure out the time spent in different applications required during our everyday use. We were able to track efficiency and even the most effective hours during operations. We were also able to track work of our employees when they were working from home and also tally everyone's performance in contrast to everyone else's. Also, different departments and their work efficiency was made easier to track with the help of desktime. Loved the app, thank you for creating it. :)

Easy time tracking feature with no/little room for human errors.

Sometimes gets unresponsive and need to restart the software

I've been using desktime for years for the managament of time spent in front of a pc. It's possible to track any activity you perform on pc in terms of time spent. This is useful to categorize where your time is addressed over the weeks and months, and highlighting where some time is wasted in unproductive activities. Very nice the chance to create projects, where you can select particular activities. Also the time on the internet is tracked, making it possible to judge your web navigation in productive or unproductive.

it make it simple and fun your time tracking both for job related or for spare time activities.

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I have found that using DeskTime to monitor employee productivity makes managing our staff very easy and convenient. The staff also likes to watch their "ranking" throughout the day as everyone strives to be #1 and the most productive. I could also see using DeskTime as part of tracking productivity and using the ranking for monthly incentive programs. Either way DeskTime is a win win situation for Management and staff alike.

Easy of use. Reporting. The staff seems to like watching their daily ranking.

NA

It is a good product but navigation on the site is not intuitive. It is very helpful for me to keep track of my billable hours for clients

Exactly as we need it. Location or accessing functionalities is not as easy as initial version. Most needed is a better and more frequent and visible alert when Desktime timer is disabled when working. Also, dashboard not useful. Maybe allowing user to customize the dashboard by project will be great.

We have not had a positive experience with the upgrade and wished that we could have the functionality back from before. Other than that complaint, all else runs sufficiently.

The report functions

It is not as customizable as we wished it were. We would also like the options of accepting the upgrades. One size does not fit all.

I am not using this for anything other than curiosity but have enjoyed it so far. Interesting to see where i spend my time and when my most productive times of day are. Great app for my needs.

the data it gives me

None, really

I use it to monitor my programmers who work remotely. It's a good tool to gauge productivity, especially for remote teams. Also, helps understand time spent per project

Easy to use and not very expensive

Android app does not work and not been updated in more than 5 months after web app has been updated by Draugiem Group on 27/08/2019 Hello, Tapan!Thank you for your review.DeskTime has worked on improving the mobile application, with a fresh new version ready to be released in the app stores. There you will be able to see all the relevant data of your own or your employees' work, absences and productivity.Try it out!

I am a defense attorney who bills my time for a living. Desktime is a great supplement to my billing software and works really well to fill any gaps. i'm hoping for some additional functionality in supplemental releases, such as the ability to comment on things that I'm doing live, but for the most part, this app is great!

Ability to capture gaps in time

I wish i could see a more detailed analysis, instead of total time on each program, I wish it would show: From 11:49am - 12:00pm you were on capterra website. From 12:00pm-1:30pm you had "Word document Name" open.

We're a small web design and development company here in Taiwan with about 10-15 person.

Some features such as project controls, site controls, groups, etc.

The price and app stability I guess

I am using it for personal use. And it helps me tracking my work, acknowledgement of my productivity and many other things.

DeskTime is an extremely easy to use tool to track time. We've been using it since 2014 and its automated reports are used to analyze how the team is using their time and to send timesheet reports to our customers.

It's an automated way to track time.

I have been using DeskTime for around 3 - 4 years. I haven't had any problems with it. I'm using it to track time I spend to my clients so I can write them an invoice with specific hours. Great tool.

Fácil de usar.

New features could come out faster.

I have been using DeskTime for more than a year and it never failed, increased my productivity by 40%!

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no cons!

As for customer support, it is great so far as well as the quality of service. I also have to mention that some of the features provided are also very impressive and interesting. Although you can't rely on this software as a "supervisor" to your employees, I do recommend this product as a work log for each employee.

I noticed that the Desktime is missing some features that could make it better. I find the charts and information a little confusing to understand at times. It won't fetch all information and sometimes it causes some misunderstandings. I hoped some of these issues would be addressed on the official released of the new Desktime software, but apparently it won't.