WebWork and Insightful are both popular time tracking apps. Thousands of businesses use them to boost productivity in their teams. However, which one is the right fit for your company and employees? We’ll help you decide between the two in this article.
Overview of WebWork and Insightful
Let’s start our comparison with a brief overview of both options.
What is WebWork?
WebWork Time Tracker is a feature-rich AI-powered time tracking app. It helps companies of all types and sizes manage their workflows more effectively to perform better than ever. Besides tracking work hours, WebWork also allows you to manage your team and many aspects of their work process. These include projects, finances, schedules, and employee absences. In short, WebWork is a full-fledged productivity and management app that can help you get the most from your team and work time.
What is Insightful?
Insightful is a popular, yet flawed time tracking and employee monitoring app. It focuses on the latter quite heavily, offering the option of deploying a hidden tracker. Insightful monitors every move you make on your computer without you ever being aware of its existence. The app acts more like spyware in this mode instead of being meant to help your staff perform their best.
Comparing the Offerings of WebWork and Insightful
Let’s now compare what each of the time trackers offers to its customers and users. While we’ll cover features, we’ll also take a look at a couple of other factors that can make or break your time tracking experience: pricing and availability.
WebWork’s offerings
- Core Features:
WebWork offers a wide variety of productivity and management tools, along with an AI assistant at an affordable price. These include Task Management, Leave Management, Shift Scheduling, Team Chat, and more. These tools are meant to not only help you monitor and manage your team’s workflows but also for your staff to do so on their own. While you’ll get plenty of value from WebWork as a leader, your staff won’t be missing out either.
WebWork AI
Continuing with WebWork’s offerings, another important one is our AI functionality: WebWork AI. Through it, you can get accurate predictions, productivity recommendations, and much more. Simply ask WebWork AI what you want to know like a human, and the assistant will answer your query in no time.
WebWork AI is available on all of our plans with differing amounts of AI credits. You can also purchase additional AI credits for your entire workspace and use them without an expiration date.
- Pricing:
WebWork offers an affordable price, compared to Insightful. Its plans start at just $4.99 per user per month for monthly billing and just $3.99 per user per month for yearly subscriptions. At the same time, our entry-level Pro plan offers more functionality than the cheapest offerings of other time trackers, including Insightful.
- Availability:
WebWork is available on a lot of different devices across several platforms. To take advantage of its most advanced features, you should deploy our Desktop Time Tracker. The app is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux computers.
If you’d like to track your on-site staff’s locations, then you should use our Mobile Time Tracker with employee GPS tracking. The mobile app is available on Android and iOS smartphones.
For tracking only browser activity, WebWork offers a Chrome Extension Time Tracker. As implied by the name, this version of WebWork is available only on the Chrome Store.
Lastly, if you only intend to track time and use our management functionality, you can use our Web Tracker. While it doesn’t offer many productivity tracking features, the Web Tracker is available on any device with an internet connection.
Insightful’s offerings
- Core Features:
While WebWork offers value to both you and your staff, Insightful is a bit tricky. It doesn’t have a lot of functionality meant to be used by your team. Instead, it’s mostly just a monitoring tool with features that a lot of professionals would consider privacy-invasive. This includes one of the most invasive screen monitoring tools on the market.
Through it, leaders looking to micromanage employees can get real-time access to their screens without leaving a trace. Even Insightful themselves acknowledge that their product can be used irresponsibly on their website: “Though some screen recording apps have a stealth mode option, it is always best practice to disclose the use of screenshots to your employees.”
- Pricing:
Besides offering features that your team will likely resent, Insightful is also quite expensive. Its most basic plan starts at $8 per user per month. Annual billing options, meanwhile, start at $6.40 per user per month.
It’s also important to mention that if you have a larger team, you’ll have to get one of the app’s most expensive tiers. Teams of over 50 have to get the Process Improvement plan, which costs $15 per user per month. Firms with more than 100 employees, on the other hand, have to apply for a custom quote for Insightful’s Enterprise Solution plan.
- Availability:
Insightful isn’t available on as many platforms as many competing time trackers, including WebWork. Its site doesn’t even explicitly mention what devices you can use the app on. That said, we can infer from Insightful’s help center that it’s only available on the desktop.
Why WebWork is the Best Time Tracker for Your Team
Having explored the offerings of both options, it’s safe to say that WebWork offers far better value. Besides productivity tracking, you can use WebWork to manage lots of different things in your business. You can use it to help your staff manage their work and perform their best. You can simplify your finances with the help of Payroll Tracking, Invoicing, and Payments. You can even use WebWork as a collaboration tool with its built-in chat and video calling capabilities.
Insightful, on the other hand, is only a good option for those looking to spy on their staff and spend a fortune in the process.
Final Thoughts
Both WebWork and Insightful offer time tracking functionality to businesses around the world. However, with its richer feature set and more affordable pricing options, WebWork is the better choice in almost all cases. It offers much more than just time tracking with its management features. These will help your staff perform their best, helping your business grow sustainably.
