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Add to SafariWhen comparing Hubstaff vs Epesi, the Slant community recommends Epesi for most people. In the question“What are the best productivity time management software tools for Windows?” Epesi is ranked 2nd while Hubstaff is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Epesi is:
New functionality can be added with modules available in Epesi Store. Some are free and there are commercial solutions available.
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Pros
Pro Automatic payments and payroll
Set up your team to automatically get paid for the hours they log using the Hubstaff app. Just input their hourly rate, the schedule you want them to be paid on (weekly, monthly, bi-weekly?), and integrate with your favorite payment service (PayPal, Payoneer, etc.)
Pro Integrations
Hubstaff integrates with multiple project management tools and will automatically sync to update your task list.
Pro Screenshots
Hubstaff takes randomized screenshots while users are logging time. Frequency can be adjusted and screenshots can be blurred.
Pro Idle time indicator
Hubstaff detects when someone has been idle and will notify the user.
Pro URL tracking
View the URLs you've visited while tracking time on Hubstaff, and how long you spent on each one.
Pro Works offline
Users can track time offline. The software will upload screenshots, activity levels and time logs once the user reconnects to the Internet.
Pro Automatic time reports and timesheets
Hubstaff will generate reports based on time tracked by users. These can be filtered by user, project and date and exported as a PDF, CSV or in Quickbooks
Pro Activity levels and productivity measures
Activity levels are measured based on keystrokes and mouse movements (which keys were used are not recorded) and give an indication of how productive a user has been while their Hubstaff timer was running.
Pro Application monitoring
See which apps you've used while tracking time to Hubstaff and for how long.
Pro Work notes
Hubstaff users can attach work notes to their time entries to describe what has been done.
Pro Budgets
You can limit how many hours an individual in your organization is allowed to work per week to stay within budget.
Pro Has a free tier and trials for paid plans
Free for one user.
Pro Modular and extendible
New functionality can be added with modules available in Epesi Store. Some are free and there are commercial solutions available.
Pro Easy installation
Can be installed with few mouse clicks via cPanel and Softaculous Autoinstaller.
Pro On-premise self hosted and SaaS option available
On-premise gives freedom of choice of hardware or cloud vendor, but Epesi Cloud which is SaaS and PaaS offering is very affordable.
Pro Free
Free and open source MIT license.
Pro Over 15 years on the market
Translated by user community to 40 languages.
Pro No per user license fee
Allows an unlimited number of users per installation.
Pro PHP Scripting Language
Extremely popular and easy to use language for web development well supported on all platforms and therefore very portable.
Pro No vendor lock-in
Pro Ability to host Epesi app on a dedicated and private Epesi Cloud.
Cons
Con Task Mangement
Built-in task manager is not too great, it's best to use a third party app for that. It could be much simpler to create and assign tasks, (5/18/2018).
Con Free options are fairly limited
Hubstaff has a free tier and two paid tier options with free trials. The free tier allows 1 user with time-tracking and activity levels functionality. If you want the rest of the functionality, you'll have to pay $7 or $10 per month for the basic or premium plan respectively. You can see the full comparison between the tiers on their website.
