DoneThat vs Monitask

The short answer

Monitask is the cheap, straightforward end of employee monitoring: screenshots, activity levels and idle-time tracking from $5.32 per user per month. It does not pretend to be anything else, and there is something to be said for that clarity.

DoneThat is not a cheaper Monitask. It is a different product for a different buyer — the person doing the work rather than the person checking on them.

Pricing and what each tier gets you

As of 11 August 2026. Annual billing saves 18%.

10-day trial, no free plan, no seat minimum on the self-serve tiers.

The tier detail that matters: app and website monitoring is not in Pro. If the reason you are looking at Monitask is to see which applications your team uses, the relevant price is Business, not the $5.32 headline. And Business Premium's "full URL and page tracking" is page-by-page browsing history — worth naming for what it is rather than reading past as a feature bullet.

DoneThat is subscription-based with a 14-day free trial; current prices are on the DoneThat download page.

What it measures, and what that means

Monitask infers productivity from internet and idle time. That is a presence metric. It can tell you someone was at their keyboard; it cannot tell you whether the two hours produced anything.

Screenshots are on every tier, including the cheapest. There is no configuration of Monitask that does not capture them.

For the market it serves — hourly work, distributed teams, clients who want assurance — that is the product working as designed, and it is priced accordingly. It is also why it answers a different question from the one an individual asks about their own week.

The alternative model

If what you want from a team tool is shared signal rather than evidence:

• Dashboards on high-level summaries, not screenshot feeds.
• Relative trends shareable instead of absolute per-person hours, so the data supports a conversation rather than a ranking.
• Visibility chosen per summary by the person it belongs to — private, team, org or public.
• Optional mood tracking, so what a lead sees is burnout risk rather than activity volume.
• Screenshots are never stored. Processed in real time, immediately deleted; only the derived structured activity persists. Excluded apps are redacted on your machine before anything is sent. With your own Gemini or OpenAI-compatible model, raw activity never reaches our servers. The desktop app is open source.

The trade is explicit: no proof of work. If a client contract requires documentation that someone was working, this model cannot supply it and Monitask can.

Platform support

Where Monitask is the better choice

• You need cheap proof of work. Nothing in this comparison undercuts it meaningfully.
• You pay hourly for work you cannot observe.
• You want simple tiers. No add-on matrix to price.
• You need page-level browsing visibility, and have a defensible reason for it.
• You have no seat minimum tolerance. Self-serve tiers do not impose one.

Where DoneThat is the better choice

• You are tracking yourself. Monitask's entire feature set assumes someone else is reading it.
• You want to understand your work, not document it.
• You want coaching. Don nudges you onto goals, blocks calendar time, flags low-value work while you can still fix it, checks your mood, reminds you of meetings, suggests breaks.
• You want a team model that does not cost trust.
• You want AI tools to have your work history through MCP and an API.
• You want peer accountability rather than oversight. Follow others, share summaries, Slack and Discord, accountability groups — all opt-in.
• You do not want screenshots to exist.

How we compared these

Everything stated about Monitask comes from its public pricing page, read on 11 August 2026 and linked below. Claims about DoneThat are first-hand: we build it.

Monitask is cheaper than we are and matches our platform coverage; both are stated plainly. We have described its monitoring features as capabilities buyers deliberately choose rather than as a scandal — the disagreement is about who the tool is for.

Questions people ask about Monitask

How much does Monitask cost?

As of 11 August 2026: Pro $5.32 per user per month billed annually ($6.49 monthly), Business $7.37 ($8.99), Business Premium $10.65 ($12.99). Annual billing saves 18%. There is a 10-day trial, no free plan, and Enterprise requires 100+ employees.

Does Monitask take screenshots?

Yes, on every tier including Pro — automatic screenshot capture is core to the product. DoneThat never stores screenshots: they are processed in real time and immediately deleted, with only the derived structured activity kept.

What do I lose on the cheapest Monitask plan?

Website and app monitoring, which needs Business, and full URL and page-level tracking, which needs Business Premium. Pro gives you screenshots, time tracking and activity or idle monitoring — so if app-level visibility is why you are buying, price Business rather than Pro.

Is there an alternative that does not screenshot my team?

DoneThat's team model runs on high-level summaries rather than raw feeds, shares relative trends instead of per-person hours, and lets each person set visibility on their own summaries, with optional mood tracking so the signal is burnout risk rather than activity volume. It cannot produce proof-of-work evidence, which is the trade.