Time Champ Alternative

The short answer

Time Champ is employee monitoring and workforce management, priced to be easy to roll out across a company. It calls itself a workforce intelligence platform: activity and app tracking, screenshots, attendance and shifts, timesheets, field staff tracking with GPS, and add-ons from project management to data loss prevention. From the Professional plan it can also run in silent mode, where employees cannot see that they are being tracked. Employers buy it to see and verify work they cannot observe.

DoneThat is built the other way round. Screenshots are never stored, the person doing the work is the person the data serves, and a team sees the summaries people choose to share. If you need attendance, screenshots or proof of work, Time Champ does that and DoneThat does not do it at all. If you want a team that shares where the work went because people opted in, that is what DoneThat is for.

Looking for a Time Champ alternative?

If you are a manager looking for one, you are usually after one of three things, and each leads to a different kind of tool.

The same job, with a different vendor. If you need screenshots, attendance, timesheets for payroll or GPS for field staff, the alternatives are other monitoring tools, not DoneThat. We compare Hubstaff, Time Doctor, ActivTrak, Insightful and Monitask on the same terms as this page. If DLP and insider risk are the point, Teramind is built around them.

Team visibility without monitoring. If you are leaving because silent tracking and screenshots hurt trust, or because nobody had time to look at them, DoneThat is the alternative we built. What a lead gets:

• Summaries, not screenshot feeds. Each person's day is reconstructed automatically and turned into a written summary of what they worked on.
• Sharing the person controls. Visibility is set per summary: private, team, org or public. Nobody is recorded into a manager's dashboard by default.
• Relative trends instead of per-person hours, so the data starts a conversation rather than a ranking.
• Optional, self-reported mood tracking, so a burnout signal comes from the person rather than being inferred from their activity.
• Summaries in Slack and Discord, where the team already talks.

What you give up, stated plainly: no screenshots, no attendance or shift tracking, no timesheet approvals, no mobile app or GPS, no DLP, no on-premises option and no proof about an individual. The team reporting surface is smaller than Time Champ's too. We argue the approach, not the breadth.

No software at all. Written weekly updates and outcome goals cost nothing and work if people write them. Our weekly status report template and the case for remote trust as a signal problem cover that route.

Credit where it is due

Time Champ packs a lot into one product at a low price, and that deserves saying first.

Low entry price. Starter is $3.90 per user per month billed annually, below Hubstaff's $4.99 Starter and Monitask's $6.49 Pro.

One vendor for the workforce. Attendance with automatic shift recognition, timesheets that can be edited, approved and pushed to payroll, and, as add-ons, project and task management and HR records. Its FAQ says it has no payroll module of its own, so payroll means an export. If you would otherwise assemble the rest from several tools, one vendor is genuinely simpler.

Field staff. The mobile app runs on Android and iOS with live GPS, geofenced attendance, route history and expense logging. On company-owned phones it can also track work calls. DoneThat has no mobile app and no location tracking at all.

Broad desktop coverage. Agents for Windows, macOS and Linux, with Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS and Debian named for Linux.

Security features. The DLP add-on covers USB blocking, file transfer and upload monitoring, email and cloud data protection and real-time alerts, and Enterprise adds suspicious activity reports. Most productivity tools stop well short of that.

Deployment and privacy options. Time Champ's FAQ says it supports on-premises deployment on Windows servers as well as cloud, and offers keeping confidential data in your own Azure, Google Cloud or AWS storage. Enterprise can blur screenshots. It lists HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR and ISO 27001:2022 compliance.

Where it is an employer's tool, by design

Starter tracks apps, websites and attendance in interactive mode, where the employee can see the tracker. From Professional up, Time Champ adds silent/invisible tracking and screenshots, which the plan lists at a frequency of two every ten minutes. Its FAQ says that in silent mode employees cannot see that they are being tracked, that the silent agent runs under an encrypted process name, and that employees cannot uninstall it in either mode. Its own employee monitoring page advises telling staff that monitoring is active, which is good advice. Whether silent monitoring is lawful depends on where you and your staff are, so check before you use it.

Enterprise adds live screens and real-time statuses. Screen recording, screen recording with audio and a keylogger are paid add-ons. Time Champ describes the keystroke feature two ways: the pricing page lists a Keylogger add-on for "Keystrokes Data Tracking", while its feature list says no actual keystrokes are stored.

The analytics describe the person to someone else: productivity scores by app category, late employee reports, suspicious activity reports, burnout early-warning alerts and attrition prediction, all inferred from behavioral signals. We found nothing on Time Champ's pages aimed at coaching the employee, the "you spent nine hours this week in a recurring meeting that produces nothing" kind of feedback. That is not the question the product asks.

On capture, DoneThat works the other way. Screenshots are never stored. They are processed in real time and immediately deleted; only derived structured activity persists. There is no keystroke logging. 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, so none of this has to be taken on trust.

The honest limit: DoneThat cannot prove anything about an individual, does not track attendance and has no DLP. If you need any of those, Time Champ is built for it.

Pricing

Time Champ pricing, as of 4 November 2026, per user per month in US dollars:

Three-year terms are quoted on request, and there is no monthly option. Add-ons, available with Professional and above, are listed per user per month from: screen recording $3 ($6 with audio), keylogger $2, project management including timesheet submission and approval $4, HR $1, field staff tracking $3 and DLP $4. Screen recording and keylogger data is kept for 7 days unless you pay for 30-day retention. The pricing page also adds implementation and training costs of $4 per user license purchased, with a $62.50 minimum. The 7-day free trial needs no credit card. Visitors from India see prices in rupees.

Two things to weigh. Quarterly billing costs roughly 50 to 65 percent more than annual, depending on the plan. And the headline price is the floor: screenshots and silent tracking need Professional, and recordings, keystrokes, project management, field tracking and DLP are each extra on top. Price the plan against the capability you actually need.

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

Platform support

Where Time Champ is the better choice

• You need attendance, shifts and timesheet approvals in the same tool as activity tracking.
• You pay for work you cannot see and want screenshots as evidence.
• You manage field staff and need GPS, geofencing and mobile tracking.
• You want a low per-seat price for a broad monitoring suite.
• You must keep the data on your own servers.
• You need DLP or USB blocking without buying a separate security product.

Where DoneThat is the better choice

• You want team visibility people opt into, built on summaries rather than screenshots and silent tracking.
• You want to understand the work rather than record it.
• You are the person being tracked, and you picked the tool.
• You want coaching during the work. 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 your own work history in your AI tools through MCP and an API.

How we compared these

Everything stated about Time Champ comes from its home, pricing, features, FAQ, employee monitoring, Linux and mobile pages and its help centre, read on 4 November 2026 and linked below. The US dollar prices are the ones Time Champ's pricing page loads for visitors outside India. Where its own pages disagree, on keystrokes and on payroll, we give both. Claims about DoneThat are first-hand: we build it, which is the bias to read this with.

Time Champ covers attendance, field staff and security work DoneThat has no answer to, and it runs on phones and on your own servers, which we do not. The disagreement is about who the tool answers to, not about whether its monitoring works.

Questions people ask about Time Champ

Can Time Champ track employees without them knowing?

Yes. Silent/Invisible Tracking is on the Professional plan and above. Time Champ's FAQ says that in silent mode employees cannot see that they are being tracked, that the silent agent runs under an encrypted process name, and that employees cannot uninstall it in either silent or interactive mode. Its own employee monitoring page advises telling staff that monitoring is active. Whether covert monitoring is lawful depends on where you and your staff are, so check before you use it.

Does Time Champ take screenshots and log keystrokes?

Screenshots are part of the Professional plan, which lists a frequency of two every ten minutes, and Enterprise, which adds blurring and live screens. Screen recording, with or without audio, and a keylogger are paid add-ons. Time Champ describes the keystroke feature in two ways: its pricing page lists a Keylogger add-on for keystroke data tracking, while its feature list says no actual keystrokes are stored. DoneThat never stores screenshots: they are processed in real time and immediately deleted, and there is no keystroke logging.

How much does Time Champ cost?

As of 4 November 2026, per user per month in US dollars: Starter $3.90 billed annually or $5.90 quarterly, Professional $6.90 or $10.90, and Enterprise $13.90 or $22.90. Screen recording, keylogger, project management, HR, field staff tracking and DLP are add-ons, and the pricing page adds implementation and training costs of $4 per user license with a $62.50 minimum. There is a 7-day free trial with no credit card required.

What is a good Time Champ alternative for a team?

It depends on why you are leaving. If you still need screenshots, attendance or proof of work, the alternatives are other monitoring tools such as Hubstaff, Time Doctor, ActivTrak or Insightful, which we compare on the same terms. If the monitoring itself is the problem, DoneThat is the alternative we built: it turns each person's day into a written summary, and each person sets who sees it (private, team, org or public). Teams share relative trends instead of per-person hours, mood tracking is optional, and screenshots are never stored. You give up screenshots, attendance, GPS, on-premises hosting and any proof about an individual.