When comparing Hubstaff vs Project Hamster, the Slant community recommends Project Hamster for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux time tracking apps for project management?” Project Hamster is ranked 2nd while Hubstaff is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Project Hamster is:
An overview of all tracked activity over a day, a week, or a month is available that helps get an understanding of how activity is distributed over time. The overview can also be exported to an HTML file that's intended for printing.
Specs
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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 Provides a good overview of activity
An overview of all tracked activity over a day, a week, or a month is available that helps get an understanding of how activity is distributed over time. The overview can also be exported to an HTML file that's intended for printing.
Pro Long-term support guaranteed
As a Gnome application it is supported by a mature community of more than 100 contributors.
Pro Multiple ways to categorize activity
All activity entries can be put into categories and have multiple tags assigned to them.
Pro Easy to use
One click to access the app.
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.
Con Only compatible with Gnome 3
If you use another desktop environment it will feel out of place as it is specifically developed with Gnome 3 in mind.
Con Does not scale for HIDPI displays
The text and buttons in this app do not scale for larger resolution displays making for a difficult to use app when using native 4k resolutions.
Con No activity is tracked automatically
Unlike other apps that automatically are capable of tracking for example which apps are open, Hamster requires add all activity manually.