Worktivity vs ActivTrak
ActivTrak is an employee productivity and analytics platform with workforce insights.
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ActivTrakWorktivity and ActivTrak, side by side
- Starting price
- Worktivity$3.99ActivTrak$10.00Entry plan, per user per month. Competitor figures are annual-billing rates, the lowest each vendor publishes; ours is the monthly list price.
- Pricing model
- Worktivityper user/monthActivTrakper user/monthBoth products bill per seat rather than per tracked hour.
- Free trial
- Worktivity14 daysActivTrakAvailableWorktivity gives every plan a 14-day trial without a card.
What each product covers
Rows come from the same shared capability list. A dash means the capability was not part of this comparison, not that it is missing from the product.
| Capability | Worktivity | ActivTrak |
|---|---|---|
| Time Tracking | Worktivity: Time Tracking included | ActivTrak: Time Tracking included |
| Screenshot Monitoring | Worktivity: Screenshot Monitoring includedUnlimited | ActivTrak: Screenshot Monitoring includedLimited |
| Unlimited Screenshots | Worktivity: Unlimited Screenshots included | ActivTrak: Unlimited Screenshots not included |
| Timelapse Videos | Worktivity: Timelapse Videos included | ActivTrak: Timelapse Videos not included |
| Activity Level Tracking | Worktivity: Activity Level Tracking included | ActivTrak: Activity Level Tracking included |
| App & Website Tracking | Worktivity: App & Website Tracking included | ActivTrak: App & Website Tracking included |
| Focus Time Tracking | Worktivity: Focus Time Tracking not included | ActivTrak: Focus Time Tracking included |
| Productivity Reports | Worktivity: Productivity Reports included | ActivTrak: Productivity Reports included |
| AI-Powered Analytics | Worktivity: AI-Powered Analytics included | ActivTrak: AI-Powered Analytics included |
| Workforce Insights | Worktivity: Workforce Insights not included | ActivTrak: Workforce Insights included |
| Payout Management | Worktivity: Payout Management included | ActivTrak: Payout Management not included |
| Affordable Pricing | Worktivity: Affordable Pricing includedStarting at $3.99/user | ActivTrak: Affordable Pricing not included |
| 14-Day Free Trial | Worktivity: 14-Day Free Trial included | ActivTrak: 14-Day Free Trial included |
Where Worktivity differs from ActivTrak
Each point below maps to a row in the table above.
- 60% more affordable: $3.99/user against ActivTrak's $10/user
- Unlimited screenshots across all plans
- Integrated payout and invoicing management
- Timelapse video creation
- Better value for time tracking needs
- Simpler setup and implementation
ActivTrak in balance
No tool wins on everything. Here is what ActivTrak is good at, and what teams tend to weigh against it.
What ActivTrak does well
- Advanced analytics
- Workforce insights
- Focus time tracking
What teams weigh up
- Premium pricing
- Limited time tracking features
- Complex setup
Reading the comparison
Pricing
Worktivity starts at $3.99 per user per month, against $10.00 per user per month for ActivTrak. The ActivTrak figure is its annual-billing rate, the lowest price it publishes, while ours is the monthly list price. Paid annually Worktivity drops to $3.32, so the real gap is wider than the numbers above. Both are billed per seat, so it grows with headcount.
ActivTrak pricing was read from the vendor's official pricing page on August 22, 2026. See ActivTrak pricing
Which one fits your team
Worktivity is the better fit if:
- ActivTrak analyses behaviour; it does not hand you a timesheet you can bill from. Worktivity builds timesheets out of the same automatic record and takes them through to payouts and invoicing.
- The reporting has money in it: hours, cost, billable amount and profit percentage per task and per project, so a project is judged on what it returned rather than on how busy it looked.
- If part of your fleet runs Linux it is covered. The agent ships as .deb and .rpm packages on Intel and ARM machines, updates through the system package manager, and records the foreground application on GNOME Wayland sessions.
ActivTrak is the better fit if:
- You are measuring an organisation, not a team. ActivTrak's strength is company-level workforce analytics with benchmarks and comparisons across a large headcount.
- Focus and deep-work time is the number you care about. ActivTrak measures it directly and Worktivity has no equivalent.
- You want analytics with no billing layer attached. ActivTrak stays deliberately on the analytics side, which is simpler when your finance stack is already settled.
Switching from ActivTrak
The awkward part is not the export, it is that the two products count different things, so an ActivTrak behavioural history will never line up with a Worktivity timesheet record. Treat the switch as a fresh baseline, and remember that ActivTrak sells annual plans, so your exit is a renewal date rather than a cancellation you make this week.
How the move usually goes
- 1
Export the ActivTrak reports that matter and file them as a closed chapter, since the metric definitions behind them do not carry across.
- 2
Start Worktivity at the beginning of a reporting month so your first period is complete and comparable to the ones after it.
- 3
Keep ActivTrak read-only until the renewal date you are already committed to, then let it lapse; nothing in Worktivity depends on it once the agents are installed.
Questions people ask
The three that come up most often when a team is weighing this move.
Can I keep my ActivTrak history?
Only as an export. There is no importer, and the two products measure different things, so a merged history would be misleading even if one existed. Export what you need, then read the Worktivity record as a new baseline that starts at installation.
Does Worktivity report focus time?
No. Focus and deep-work measurement is one of the places ActivTrak is genuinely ahead. Worktivity reports the split between working, break and idle time, and within working time the productive, neutral and unproductive share, plus a written per-person analysis of working rhythm.
Can Worktivity handle the same headcount?
Worktivity is built for desk-based teams of roughly ten to two hundred people. If you are rolling out to thousands of seats and want role-level benchmarking across an organisation, ActivTrak is the better shaped product and we would rather say so.
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