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Timelapse Videos

Review a full workday in a short timelapse video

See how work progressed without opening hundreds of screenshots one by one.

A Worktivity timelapse video is built from the screenshots already captured while someone was clocked in. Nothing new is recorded: the server puts those captures in order and produces a short video a few minutes after a stretch of work ends.

How it works

How timelapse videos are made

Made from existing screenshots

Each video is stitched from captures the Screenshots screen already shows. With screenshots off, no video can be made.

Ready minutes after work stops

The server checks every ten minutes for people who stopped tracking and builds their video then, so it appears shortly after the work rather than at a fixed hour.

Each capture used once

An interrupted day can produce several videos, and every card says how many frames went into it.

Filters for the day you need

Narrow by date range, team and employee, then step from one video to the next in the player.

In practice

Why teams use timelapse

A video is quicker to review than a grid of captures.

  • A day in minutes

    Watching a stretch of work takes far less time than opening its captures one by one.

  • The shape of the work

    Seeing a design, a document or a spreadsheet grow over a day says more than any single capture.

  • Useful when work is questioned

    When delivered work is disputed, the video from the hours involved shows how it was produced.

  • Nothing extra to install

    Timelapse uses the same desktop app and the same captures. There is no separate recording.

Limits

What it does not do

What timelapse does not do.

  • No video without screenshots

    Screenshots and Build timelapse videos both have to be on, and at least ten unused captures have to pile up. Short stretches are skipped.

  • Not on every plan

    Timelapse videos are a plan feature. Where your plan does not include them, the setting is not available.

  • Deleted one at a time

    Videos are deleted individually, with no bulk delete or download. Deleting a video leaves the screenshots it was built from in place.

Who uses it

Teams that get the most out of it

Timelapse is most useful where the work itself is visual, or where hours have to be shown to someone else.

  • Design studios

    A day of design work seen as it grew, useful in reviews and when a client asks questions.

  • Agencies

    The work behind billable hours, in a form a client can watch.

  • Staff augmentation

    Clients see the work of remote staff without scrolling through captures.

  • Content and media teams

    Writing and editing days reviewed quickly.

  • Software teams

    A quick look back at a long debugging or release day.

  • Remote teams

    Managers catch up on a day of remote work in minutes.

See a full day without reviewing every screenshot

Switch on screenshots and timelapse, and the first video appears a few minutes after a stretch of work ends.

No credit card required