The 7 Best Hubstaff Alternatives

Good Hubstaff alternatives do exist, but you’ll want to make sure the tool you are moving to is an improvement in all the right areas for your particular application. We’ll show you seven strong options if you are looking for a time tracking tool to replace Hubstaff, and we’ll discuss how each one compares against Hubstaff.

Be sure to review these important reasons why most time tracking software is flawed before making your decision. For a quick feature comparison of the Hubstaff alternatives we list, take a look at this handy table:

Feature
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Price	$5 to $9.99	$8	$9 to $15	$5 to $9	$15 for 10 projects	$4 to $17	$10 to $18	$6 to $10
Screenshot Capture	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Webcam Shots Capture	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
3rd Party Integrations	36	Some	3	31	4	1	43	0
Keyboard & Mouse Activity Monitoring & Reporting	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Website & Application Usage	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Differentiate Between Real Time and Manual Time	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Ease of use Getting to Reports	1 Click	Desktop	1 Click	2 Clicks	2 Clicks	1 Click	0 Clicks	0 Clicks
Automatic Time Capture	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
Invisible Option	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Custom Tasks	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom Projects	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Website Blocking	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Full Free Trial Period	30 Days	None	14 Days	14 Days	30 Days	3 Users	30 Days	30 Days
Desktop Time Tracking Required for Live Time	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Popup Productivity Reminders	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Payroll Features	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Client Access of Real Time Data	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mobile App for Time Tracking	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Client Side Desktop App	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Feature	Time Doctor	Sapience	Rescue Time	Hub staff	Proof hub	prima ERP	Less time spent	Staff .com

Time Doctor

Full disclosure, we are Time Doctor! We do our best to build out the features and options that are most useful for our customers so naturally we’ll have the largest feature set that we feel is important. Unlike Hubstaff, Time Doctor doesn’t charge extra for client data access, integrations, payroll, or scheduling features. Time Doctor makes a good Hubstaff alternative thanks to the distraction control pop ups and reminders that help keep users on task as they work. We also have absent and late reports to help keep workers operating during their peak hours and make it easy for them to communicate time off needs.

Sapience

As a Hubstaff alternative, Sapience has fewer integrations, but that doesn’t matter if it has the one you need. Time in Sapience is not tracked on a task or in a project but is categorized based on what app or website was being used. This means it can be more automated and requires less user interaction than with Hubstaff. Sapience allows for greater granularity in website and application tracking categorization, and offers server side monitoring which is rather unique.

Rescuetime

If you need automatic time capture, website blocking, or productivity popups, then Rescuetime is going to be an improvement over Hubstaff. In many other areas, Hubstaff comes out ahead, such as keyboard & mouse monitoring and screenshot capturing. Don’t let the small number of direct integrations fool you though. Rescuetime integrates with Zapier which opens up many other integration options – this is why it’s a solid choice as an alternative to Hubstaff.

Proofhub

Proofhub has no desktop tool, so the monitoring data it can collect is limited. Some consider this as an advantage though as there is nothing to install, and you can track time right from inside a web browser. Hubstaff requires that you track time from the desktop application. Proofhub also lets you customize the task and project names, whereas Hubstaff only lets you customize the project name. Another big advantage as a Hubstaff alternative for time tracking comes from its affordable project based pricing. You can have unlimited users working on up to 10 projects for just $15 per month. Proofhub is more of a complete project management tool than a time tracker so it does some things very well and suffers in other areas.

PrimaERP

PrimaERP has a name that’s impossible to pronounce, but it also has very strong client invoicing, billing, and payroll features. Like Proofhub, the time tracking features are web-based only for better or worse. Compared to Hubstaff, this will leave you without screenshots and web & app usage data but it will make it easier for you and your team to add and track time since there is no installation required. PrimaERP is also completely free for up to three users forever, and lets you fully customize both tasks and projects. It does have an API, but Hubstaff’s integrations are much more diverse.

ClickTime

This Hubstaff alternative focuses more on the project management than monitoring aspects of time tracking. ClickTime does a very good job at matching its language to the existing workflow in your company, and it also has even more integrations than Hubstaff. The time tracker accuracy does suffer with ClickTime because the default method of adding time is manual time entry additions – there is no way to track time live on a desktop app. As with Proofhub, tracking time in a web browser may be seen as a positive depending on your use case, so long as you don’t need the screenshot or web & app data. The ClickTime company dashboard is great, and can be rearranged to suit.

Staff.com

Staff.com is a bit different as it’s focused more on in-office time tracking and time analytics for non-remote staff members. There is an option for an interactive version of the tool (so the user can choose tasks or projects), or you can use it in “silent mode” where no user interaction is required. Like Hubstaff, Staff.com can capture screenshots and keyboard & mouse activity. Staff.com is stronger when it comes to categorizing productive time use accross an endless sea of websites and applications. The Staff.com API is powerful but new, so the integrations are lacking as of this writing. The main Staff.com dashboard is also fantastic as it shows all the most important, actionable productivity analytics at a glance.

What is your favorite Hubstaff alternative? Let us know in the comments below!