From sign-up to your first report in ten steps
What happens on the first day, every day after that, and over the months that follow.
You create an organization, decide what is recorded, invite the team and have each person install the desktop app or the Chrome extension. From then on hours, breaks, idle time and application use are recorded while people work, and the reports fill themselves.
No credit card required. Cancel any time.
Get set up in four steps
Everything in this phase is a one-off. Most teams finish it in a single sitting.
Sign up
Create your organization with an email address. There is nothing to install on a server and no sales call to sit through before you can look around.
Create your accountInvite your team
Invite people by email, one at a time. Each person joins with a team and a role: co-owner, manager or employee. A manager sees their own team, an employee their own records.
Invite your teamCustomize settings
Set the time zone and working hours first, then decide what is recorded: screenshots and how often, blurring, the idle threshold and whether website addresses are kept. Changes reach the computers within about fifteen minutes.
Open tracking settingsInstall the agent
Each person installs the desktop app on Windows, macOS or Linux and signs in with their Worktivity account. Nothing is recorded until they clock in.
Install the desktop agent
The desktop app does the measuring. While a shift runs it records working, break and idle time, the application and website in use and, if you turn them on, screenshots and timelapse videos. Before the first shift it shows the person what your organization collects.
- Signs in once with the same account as the web app
- Records only between clock-in and clock-out
- Works offline and sends the records once the connection returns
- Available for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a Chrome extension and a mobile app alongside
Windows 10 or newer · 64-bit
Then Worktivity does the work
Once the agent is running, nobody has to remember to start a timer or fill in a sheet at the end of the week.
Start tracking
Hours, breaks and idle time are recorded as people work. Time the app could not see, such as a client visit, is added as a manual entry that a manager approves.
See the day as it happens
Overview shows who is working, on a break, idle or not started yet, and the Team screen shows how each person's day compares with the expected hours.
Analyze reports
Timesheet, Work times and the other reports split time by person, team, project and task, and export to Excel for payroll or a client report.
Three screens you will live in
The same tracked data, presented three different ways depending on the question you are asking.
Live time tracking
See who has clocked in, what they are working on and how long each task has taken. Start and stop times, breaks and idle periods are all on one timeline.
Productivity analysis
Applications and websites are rated productive, neutral or unproductive, team by team. You rate them once, then compare people, teams and periods.
Timesheets and reports
Hours roll up into a timesheet per person and per day, ready to export for payroll or to back up a client invoice. The activity behind every hour is there if anyone asks.
Improve, month after month
The value is not in watching a live screen. It is in what the last three months tell you about how work actually gets done.
Share and rebalance
Go through the reports with managers and the team. Talk about where the hours went, and move work around before someone runs out of steam.
Set targets from real numbers
Set targets from real baselines instead of guesses, and watch whether a change to process, staffing or tooling actually moved the number.
Close the month from the same records
Payroll, customer invoices and capacity planning all start from the same tracked minutes, so there is one set of numbers to discuss instead of three.
The questions everyone asks first
How long does setup take?
Creating the workspace and inviting a team takes a few minutes. Installing the desktop app takes about a minute per computer, and IT teams can roll it out to many Windows machines with the MSI package.
Do employees know they are being tracked?
Yes. Before the first shift the app shows each person what your organization collects, and everyone can see their own hours and activity under My activities. Background mode can hide the window on some Windows and Mac installs, but it changes what is shown, not what is collected.
Does the agent work without an internet connection?
It keeps recording locally and uploads the data once the machine is back online, so travel and dropped connections do not create gaps.
Can I use Worktivity without screenshots?
Yes. Screenshots and timelapse videos are optional features you can switch off entirely and still get time tracking, app usage and reporting.
See your team's real working day
Set up your workspace, install the agent and look at your first full week of data before you decide anything.
No credit card required. Cancel any time.