Hubstaff vs RescueTime

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.)

Hubstaff integrates with multiple project management tools and will automatically sync to update your task list.

Hubstaff takes randomized screenshots while users are logging time. Frequency can be adjusted and screenshots can be blurred.

Hubstaff detects when someone has been idle and will notify the user.

View the URLs you've visited while tracking time on Hubstaff, and how long you spent on each one.

Users can track time offline. The software will upload screenshots, activity levels and time logs once the user reconnects to the Internet.

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

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.

See which apps you've used while tracking time to Hubstaff and for how long.

Hubstaff users can attach work notes to their time entries to describe what has been done.

You can limit how many hours an individual in your organization is allowed to work per week to stay within budget.

Free for one user.

Users and team leaders can get weekly emails that summarize what everyone has been spending their time doing.

Starting out with RescueTime is as easy as making an account and installing the software. It really is pretty simple and does not take much time at all.

Users can customize what constitutes productive time and not, this allows for good flexibility depending on what ones job requirements are.

The app allows setting goals and helps keep track of progress towards them in the dashboard and weekly email to motivate you.

Reports show how you allocate your time between various apps, websites and categories of tools as well as tell you how productive you were and if you've achieved set goals.