Best ActivTrak Alternative for Employee Monitoring
Looking for an ActivTrak alternative for employee monitoring that’s flexible, intuitive, and fairly priced?
CurrentWare has the user activity tracking, web filtering, and DLP features you need to keep your business running securely and productively—at a fraction of the cost!
We offer fair prices and honest value to keep our products accessible to companies of all sizes.
Compare Key Features of
ActivTrak vs. CurrentWare’s Alternatives to ActivTrak
CurrentWare has the best ActivTrak alternatives for employee monitoring. The CurrentWare Suite has the key features you need to monitor time spent on productive vs unproductive applications and websites, giving insights that helps businesses understand how much time their employees spend on non-business tasks.
Review the key features of both employee monitoring software solutions so you can choose the right fit for your company.
✅ | Bandwidth Usage Tracking | ❌ |
✅ | Search Keyword Monitoring | ❌ |
✅ | Internet & App Usage | ✅ |
✅ | Idle Time Tracking | ✅ |
✅ | Employee Productivity Score | ✅ |
✅ | User Logon & Shutdown Tracking | ❌ |
✅ | Track File Transfers To/From Network Share Drives | ❌ |
✅ | Track Downloads/Uploads | ❌ |
✅ | Remote vs In-Office Insights | ✅ |
✅ | Web Category Tracking | ✅ |
✅ | USB Activity Reports | ⚠️ Alarms Only, No Historical Data Paid Add-On |
✅ | Email Reports & Alerts | ✅ |
✅ | Screenshot Monitoring | ✅ |
✅ | Monitor Remote Employees | ✅ |
✅ | Transparent & Stealth Modes | ✅ |
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.
Last updated January 2023
✅ | On-Premises | ❌ |
✅ | Database Access | ⚠️ Paid Add-On |
✅ Self-Managed Cloud | Cloud Hosted | ✅ |
✅ | Local & Remote Client Install | ✅ |
✅ | Command-Line Deployment | ✅ |
✅ | Active Directory Sync | ✅ |
✅ | Admin Activity Audit Logs | ⚠️ Enterprise Plan Only |
✅ | Windows OS | ⚠️ No Windows 7 Support |
❌ | macOS | ✅ |
❌ | Chromebooks | ✅ |
✅ | Remote Workforce Management | ✅ |
✅ | Citrix Ready | ✅ |
✅ | Transparent & Stealth Modes | ✅ |
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
8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST, Monday to Friday | Support Availability | ⚠️ Varies* |
✅ | Live Chat Feature | ✅ |
✅ | Phone Support | ✅ |
✅ | Training Videos | ✅ |
✅ | Email Support | ✅ |
✅ | Knowledge Base | ✅ |
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:
- 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)
- 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
CASE STUDY
Shady Maple Transforms Their Productivity With Internet Filtering and Monitoring Software
Being able to identify negative browsing trends and put a stop to them within a couple of hours has meant that our employees are focused on the job almost all of the time. We have become an extremely efficient workforce.
Compare CurrentWare vs ActivTrak Pricing
ActivTrak’s most basic paid plan starts at a staggering $10 USD user/month.
To unlock the full capabilities of their platform you’re forced to spend $17 user/month and purchase several add-ons ranging from an additional $1-3 user/month!
For only $8.99 user/month you can access the entire CurrentWare Suite with user activity monitoring, web filtering, USB device control, and PC power management capabilities.
Only need to monitor web browsing, app usage, employee productivity, and bandwidth use? Get BrowseReporter as a standalone module starting at only $3.99 user/month!
CurrentWare Pricing
CurrentWare’s ActivTrak alternatives are a cost effective solution for tracking the computer usage of your team members. CurrentWare offers fair prices and honest value to keep their products accessible to companies of all sizes.
CurrentWare’s solutions can be purchased individually for the greatest flexibility or as a full suite for the best value.
When purchased individually, the cost of BrowseReporter, BrowseControl, and AccessPatrol starts at $3.99 USD per user per month (paid annually). The full CurrentWare Suite includes all 4 modules starting at $8.99 USD.
Discounts Available:
- Pricing breaks are available for businesses that sign up for multi-year plans or have future growth planned and can commit to bulk orders.
- Volume license discounts are available starting for as low as 100 users, with discounts increasing depending on the number of licenses, and the length of the contract term.
- Educational organizations and nonprofits may qualify for a 10% license discount.
- Not satisfied with a competing vendor? Make the switch to CurrentWare today and you may save up to 25% on your first year!
ActivTrak Pricing*
ActivTrak has three pricing tiers for their employee and time tracking software.
- Free – Limited to 3 Users & 30 days data storage
- Essentials – $10 USD PUPM
- Professional – $17 USD PUPM
Their Essentials tier (formerly called “Advanced”) includes unlimited users, 6 months of data storage, USB device and file transfer detection, employee productivity tracking, remote installation, and screenshot monitoring.
Their Professional tier (formerly called “Premium”) provides 12 months of data history and adds additional features such as productivity goal setting, a personal insights dashboard for employees, and inefficiency and distraction analysis.
ActivTrak also offers annual subscription add-ons for priority support, extended data history, and the ability to use the data ActivTrak collects with other tools.
Due to the significant cost you may want to search for ActivTrak alternatives with a more advantageous starting price.
*Pricing last updated January 2023
ActivTrak Add-Ons
ActivConnect
- $3 USD per user/month
- Export & query data
- App integrations
- BI starter templates for Power BI, Google Data Studio, Tableau
Screen Details
- $2 USD per user/month
- Screenshots & Screen Views
- Alarms: App terminations, pop-ups, screenshots
- Web activity detailed title bars, URLs and subpages
- Website Blocking
Data History
- $1 USD per user/month
- Extends ActivTrak’s base data retention policy
- Available in 1-year increments up to 3 years
ActivTrak Add-Ons
ActivConnect—$3 USD per user/month
- Export & query data
- App integrations
- BI starter templates for Power BI, Google Data Studio, Tableau
Screen Details—$2 USD per user/month
- Screenshots & Screen Views
- Alarms: App terminations, pop-ups, screenshots
- Web activity detailed title bars, URLs and subpages
- Website Blocking
Data History—$1-3 USD per user/month
- Extends ActivTrak’s data retention
- 1-year increments (max 3 years)
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Why Choose CurrentWare’s ActivTrak Alternatives?
Stop Data Theft to Removable Media
For an extra $2 per user/month ActivTrak’s Screen Details add-on provides you with the ability to create USB activity alarms.
But by the time your USB activity alerts comes in you may already be too late…
CurrentWare’s USB control software AccessPatrol goes beyond alerts with the ability to proactively block any unauthorized USB devices.
AccessPatrol even provides access to historical USB activity data, allowing you to prove data theft attempts with ease.
Have Full Control Over Your Data
With CurrentWare’s flexible deployment options you’re in complete control over the retention, security, access, and residency of your data.
- Sensitive employee data stays secured to your standards rather than being sent to a third party
- Easily maintain data localization and residency compliance requirements by keeping employee data exactly where it needs to be
- Keep your data for as long as you want without the need to purchase an add-on
Installing CurrentWare is simple and intuitive. You’ll even have ongoing access to our expert technical support team to ensure your deployment is a success.
Windows 7 Support
ActivTrak no longer supports Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008.
ActivTrak only provides support for Agents running on OS versions that are capable of receiving up-to-date security patches from their vendors.
As the operating systems of your PCs reach End-of-Life status your ActivTrak agents will no longer be able to update to the latest version.
CurrentWare ensures your legacy Windows 7 PCs remain monitored and secured with access to the latest features.
We’re Here to Help
The CurrentWare team prides itself on its high-quality customer support. We will support you every step of the way—whether you’re just starting your free trial or actively using CurrentWare in your network.
At CurrentWare, customer success is our priority at every stage of your journey. We take pride in providing high-quality and reliable pre and post-sale support to make your experience exceptional.
We offer the same level of high-quality support to all of our customers—no extra fees or packages necessary!
Mike Noseworthy
Customer Support Lead
Product Training
CurrentWare provides the documentation, training, and other resources you need to take full advantage of the capabilities of our products.
Technical Support
Our expert support team is here to help you. Reach out to us over email, live chat, or phone from 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST, Monday to Friday.
Check Out Our Great Reviews
The reports are very easy to understand and the fact that they can be emailed to you on a schedule is amazing, and have made finding productivity killers VERY easy. Customer support has been fantastic every time I've had to reach out to them; I highly recommend them!
Kristen S., Associate IT Director
Specialty Coding Services Broker, 51-1000+ Employees
BrowseReporter is simple to use and provides our company with the information we were looking for. Having BrowseReporter installed has prevented any internet abuse. This was exactly what we wanted!
Denise P., IT Manager
Paper & Forest Products, 51-200 Employees
In my nearly 40 years in the IT business I’ve worked with a lot of support teams. I really appreciate CurrentWare going the extra mile to help me get the most out of the product. They’ve definitely outweighed any of the other competitors that I’ve looked at.
Jerry Slocum, Managed Services Provider
Haggerty Auto Group, 150-200 Employees
BrowseReporter is an extremely useful piece of software for monitoring our employees' devices while they are at work. It enables us to view data in real time, conduct detailed analyses of each employee's activities, and improve productivity where necessary.
Sebastian P., Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer
Retail Industry, 10,001+ Employees
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ActivTrak Reviews
✔️ What ActivTrak Customers Like
Ease of Use
Once the initial client deployment and setup is complete, ActivTrak is easy to use for novice and advanced users alike.
What I liked most about it is the ease of deployment and the stealth of the service, it is almost undetectable which makes it the perfect tool for the consulting services we offer as a company.
Source: Capterra Reviewer, 2020
Level of Insights
ActivTrak’s detailed reports and key features provide insights into a variety of metrics, making it suitable as a traditional employee monitoring tool, time tracking software, user behavior analytics, and keeping track of employee performance.
ActivTrak is well suited for companies looking to monitor the remote staff productivity and performance rather than sitting in front of the cams and watching many users at the same time to evaluate work efficiency
Source: TrustRadius Reviewer, 2023
I would recommend this to anyone who wants to make sure their employees are working at their best. It is an effective tool to weed out the ones who are more of a hindrance to a company.
Source: Trustpilot Reviewer, 2018
❌ What ActivTrak Customers Dislike
Billing & Renewal Management
ActivTrak has absolutely no reliable option to cancel a subscription, once it is ongoing. Furthermore – apparently they, not the customer, decide when the subscription plan should be upgraded cost-wise…
ActivTrak cancellation practices actually breach European Union laws – in failing to provide easily accessible cancellation option
Source: Trustpilot Review, 2023
As a customer, it is disheartening to observe a SaaS provider insisting on renewing when the customer does not want to do so. It is imperative for them to enhance their billing policy, as adopting a confrontational stance ultimately benefits no one.
Source: Trustpilot Review, 2023
Product never worked well or synced to devices. We asked to cancel midway through the contract as we had not used it at all for 5 months and they held firm, charging us in full even though they knew we were not using it.
Not great service. Just do right by your clients. Why hold our feet to the fire for a few bucks. Bad business culture to do that when you know we were not using it.
Source: Trustpilot Review, 2022
Get Advanced Activity Insights
BrowseReporter is a versatile employee monitoring software to track productivity and efficiency.
- Make informed decisions
- Enforce company policies
- Improve productivity
Block Harmful Websites
BrowseControl is an easy-to-use website blocking software for restricting internet access.
- Block URLs & categories
- Block unwanted apps
- Website allow & block lists
Stop Data Theft to USB Devices
AccessPatrol is USB control software to protect sensitive data against theft to portable storage devices.
- Block USB devices
- USB file activity alerts
- Block file transfers
Control PC Power States
enPowerManager is a remote PC power manager for centrally managing power settings across all endpoints.
- Track logon and logoff times
- Log PC power event history
- Remotely shutdown PCs
Monitor Employee Computer Activity
to Measure Employee Productivity & Security
Make Informed Productivity Management Decisions
BrowseReporter’s multiple reports provide managers with the activity data they need to better understand how in-house and remote team members are spending their time at work.
- Improve productivity management by identifying employees that are wasting work time on social media, games, and other distractions
- Track productivity and efficiency for your entire workforce, a specific team, and individual employees
- Find out the time slots that remote workers and other employees with flexible schedules are the most active
Enforcing Acceptable Use Policies Has Never Been Easier
Our employee computer monitoring software gives you detailed evidence of web activity, making it the perfect ActivTrak alternative for enforcing internet use policies.
- Empower anti-harassment initiatives with evidence of employees that are visiting inappropriate websites during work time
- Identify suspicious activity and insider threats with alerts when your employees transfer files to USB devices or visit high-risk websites including porn, torrents, and file sharing websites
- Monitor employees to collect evidence of unwanted computer usage, then use BrowseControl to block unwanted websites and applications
Automatically Capture Screenshots of Employee Desktops
With CurrentWare’s ActivTrak alternative you can see exactly what your employees are doing on their computers. With BrowseReporter you can easily capture screenshots when specific websites or applications are used.
- Capture high-resolution and compressed screenshots of your employee’s desktops
- Monitor desktops in real-time to watch for unsafe data handling and inappropriate behavior
- Screenshots are tagged with the website or application that was being used, the time, and the name of the computer that was captured
CASE STUDY
Boston Centerless Scales Production & Adapts to Remote Work With the CurrentWare Suite
CurrentWare has been nothing but supportive of us since we started. This is probably one of the best systems that we’ve ever invested in.
Once we got CurrentWare installed it opened the door for remote work for us; we could control the equipment and make sure our people were being productive and safe.
CurrentWare's Optional Features to Improve Transparency & Limit Privacy Impacts
The best computer monitoring software provides the flexibility you need to monitor computer activity while respecting privacy expectations
Here are some of the best privacy enhancing features of CurrentWare
End-User Reports
Give your users access to their own computer activity data so they can see exactly what data is being captured and use it for their benefit.
Custom Data Retention
Automatically delete user activity data after a set period of time. Maintain auditable records of computer usage for only as long as needed.
Monitoring Software Notifications
Periodically display a pop-up message to notify your users that their computer activity is being monitored. The notification's message can be customized.
Show in System Tray
Enable this feature to make the CurrentWare Client visible in the system tray of your users' computers.
Limit Access to User Data
Restrict access to user activity data with a password-protected console and unique data access permissions for each manager.
Schedule Monitoring
Schedule BrowseReporter’s computer tracking to only collect data during work time. Turn off monitoring during non-work hours and personal browsing periods.
Disable Computer Tracking
Take full control over what is being monitored with controls for choosing what is captured and excluding specific users from being monitored.
Admin Activity Logs
These audit logs help your security, auditing, and compliance teams answer “who did what, where, and when?” when it comes to configuration changes and data access within the CurrentWare Suite.
CurrentWare Features
User Activity Monitoring
Track web browsing, software use, search queries, and more
Screenshot Monitoring
Take automatic screenshots or remotely view desktops
Track Software Usage
Get insights into software usage trends in your organization
Transparent & Stealth Modes
Run silently in the background or provide notice of monitoring
Block USB & Other Devices
Set full access, read only or no access on storage devices
Device Whitelist
Allow only authorized storage devices to be used
Block File Transfers
Prevent files from being transferred to portable storage
DLP Activity Reports
Track file transfers, storage device use, file operations, and more
Block Websites
Block websites based on
URLs & content categories
Block Downloads/Uploads
Prevent uploading and downloading based on file type
Application Blacklisting
Block specific Windows
applications from launching
PC Power Management
Remotely track and control PC power states
Centralized Console
Manage all your users from the
centralized console with Active
Directory import or syncing
Platform Security
Protect your CurrentWare console
with 2FA, passwords, privilege
management, and more
Offsite Management
Extend onsite security policies to any remote computer running outside the corporate network
SQL Server Supported
Database scaled for enterprise and
large business operations using
Microsoft SQL Server
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