When comparing Time Doctor vs Qbserve, the Slant community recommends Time Doctor for most people. In the question“What are the best time tracking apps for freelancers?” Time Doctor is ranked 16th while Qbserve is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Time Doctor is:
You can start tracking time in just 1 click. Also the reports are really useful to track productivity and improvements.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easy to use and great UI
You can start tracking time in just 1 click. Also the reports are really useful to track productivity and improvements.
Pro Time Doctor tracks work hours and productivity
Excellent at productivity and time monitoring. The desktop client is discreet, the web-based reports are very accurate.
Pro Has email notifications
Users can set up email notifications through the app in order to get activity reports send at certain intervals.
Pro All data encrypted
Everything that is sent to Time Doctor's servers is encrypted, so no worries about security.
Pro Invoice generation
It's possible to generate PDFs with invoices based on tracked project time or create ones from scratch.
Pro Automatic project tracking
Qbserve categorizes project time automatically based on opened documents and web pages.
Pro Dynamic icons
The dock icon will change color depending on what you are currently doing, acting as a reminder to get back to work when you've become distracted. You can also set goals, and in the status bar you will see a percentage of how close you are to your daily goal.
Pro Data is stored locally
Pro Wide database
There are over 7500 apps/sites/games in the database which provides lots of data for more accurate tracking.
Pro Differentiates between work and play
Qbserve can determine the difference between productive and distractive activities. It doesn't use a static algorithm either - it will read content page-by-page to determine whether or not it is productive or not. this allows certain chats to count as work, and other chats to not count, even if you are using the same chat service for both.
Cons
Con Expensive
At $10 a month there are cheaper solutions out there for employee monitoring and time tracking.
Con No synchronization
Since Qbserve is a serverless solution – you can't sync your database between multiple Macs.
Con Short free trial
While it's good that there is a 10 day free trial, 10 days isn't very long. A longer trial would allow for better judgement of how much more productive the software made you.