Best ActivTrak Alternative for Employee Monitoring

Employee Monitoring

CurrentWare’s BrowseReporter is the best ActivTrak alternative for monitoring employee efficiency; its detailed reports provide valuable employee productivity insights that can be used for monitoring employee breaks, analyzing team performance, and ensuring remote productivity by verifying hours worked.

BrowseReporter supports idle time tracking, internet activity monitoring, employee productivity grading, social media monitoring, and other key features you need from employee tracking software.

Last updated January 2023

✅	User-level Blocking	❌
✅	Computer-level Blocking	⚠️ Paid Add-On
✅	Category Filtering	⚠️ Paid Add-On Previously Visited Sites Only
✅	Allow URLs & Domains	❌
✅	Block URLs & Domains	⚠️ Paid Add-On
✅	Wildcard URL Filtering	❌
✅	Block Applications	⚠️ Paid Add-On
✅	Custom Warning Message	❌
✅	Scheduled Blocking	❌
✅	Internet Quota & Timer	❌
✅	Port Filtering	❌
✅	Enforce Google SafeSearch	❌
✅	Block File Transfers to Cloud Storage	❌
✅	Block File Downloads	❌

 

Web Filtering

CurrentWare’s BrowseControl provides the best alternatives to ActivTrak for blocking websites such as Google Drive, pornography sites, and distracting websites.

While ActivTrak is not designed to be web filtering software, for an extra cost you can get the “Screen Details” add-on that adds screenshot monitoring, alarms, additional web activity details (title bars, URLs, subpages), and the website blocking function.

By leveraging BrowseControl’s and BrowseReporter’s web content monitoring in tandem you can optimize your team’s performance by ensuring they are focused during work hours.

Last updated January 2023

✅	Block USB Devices	✅
✅	Allowed Devices List	❌
✅	USB Activity Alerts	⚠️ Paid Add-On
✅	USB Activity Reports	❌
✅	USB File Transfer Tracking	❌
✅	Block File Transfers to Cloud Storage	❌
✅	Block File Downloads/Uploads	❌
✅	Track File Transfers To/From Network Share Drives	❌
✅	Track Downloads/Uploads	❌
✅	Pop-Up Warning for Users	❌
✅	Block Transfers by File Type	❌

 

Data Loss Prevention

CurrentWare has the best alternatives to ActivTrak for protecting sensitive information from being illicitly transferred to portable storage devices, cloud storage services, and other egress points.

While user behavior analytics are valuable for detecting insider threats, ActivTrak is missing several key features for protecting sensitive information against insider security threats.

For example, ActivTrak’s USB security features are limited to real time alerts that require a paid add-on. ActivTrak does not provide reports or dashboards to audit USB activity.

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Setup & Deployment

One of the key advantages of ActivTrak’s employee productivity platform is that it is natively cloud hosted, allowing you to get started with employee productivity monitoring right away.

That said, the lack of an on-premises deployment option may have businesses with stringent data security, residency, and compliance requirements searching for on-premises alternatives to ActivTrak such as CurrentWare.

While ActivTrak is compatible with both MacOS, Chromebooks, and Windows, they only provide support for Agents running on OS versions that are capable of receiving up-to-date security patches from their vendors.

For this reason ActivTrak is not suitable for environments that need to monitor devices whose operating systems have reached end-of-support/end-of-life status, such as Windows 7.

Last updated January 2023

Customer Support

Even the best ActivTrak competitors need to have a reliable support team to ensure that its customers get the services they need to make the most of their employee monitoring solutions. 

* ActivTrak’s support hours vary based on whether you stick with their Standard support  tier that is included with all of their paid subscription plans or if you opt to pay extra for their Premier or Signature support plans.

ActivTrak’s Standard support tier includes 24×7 access to onboarding and educational resources as well as live chat, email support & scheduled calls for active support cases.

Their Premier support tier adds faster response times, on-demand coaching sessions, and technical configuration and tuning once per year.

Their Signature support tier includes the Premier tier’s perks alongside a dedicated technical account manager, annual health checks, priority ticket routing, a dedicated customer success manager, guided onboarding and 1:1 support, a tailored customer success plan, and up to 10 hours of integration support. 

ActivTrak’s support hours are:

1. Live Chat: Standard (M-F 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT) / Premier (M-S 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT) / Signature (24×7)
2. Email operating hours and response times: Monday through Friday (8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT), Standard < 12 hours / Premier < 8 hours / Signature < 2 hours

Last updated January 2023