Best Alternative to ActivTrak Employee Monitoring Software
Looking for an ActivTrak alternative that’s flexible, intuitive, and fairly priced?
CurrentWare has the user activity tracking, web filtering, and data loss prevention 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.
Starting at $3.99 USD per license per month
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CurrentWare’s Data Security and Computer Monitoring Software
Starting at $3.99 USD user/month
Employee Monitoring
BrowseReporter is a versatile employee monitoring software to track productivity and efficiency. Easily monitor web browsing and application usage with intuitive user activity reports.
✓ Make informed decisions with user activity monitoring
✓ Detailed evidence of web activity, the perfect tool for enforcing internet use policies
✓ Automatically capture screenshots of employee desktops
Web Filtering
BrowseControl is an easy-to-use website blocking software for restricting internet access.
Enforce internet use policies, block distracting websites, and improve internet security with granular internet access control policies.
✓ Block websites based on URLs and content categories
✓ Prevent users from running certain programs
✓ Control internet access with allow and block lists
Device Control
AccessPatrol is a data loss prevention and USB control software to protect sensitive data against theft to portable storage devices.
Block USB devices and other peripherals to mitigate the threat of USB malware and data leakage.
✓ Block USB devices, network storage, & other peripherals
✓ Get alerts of USB file transfers and device use
✓ Block file transfers based on name and filetype
PC Power Manager
enPowerManager is an effective solution for remotely managing PC power policies across an enterprise to conserve energy and reduce costs.
With a simple click of the mouse computers can be remotely shutdown or booted automatically at different times during the day.
✓ Remotely schedule and manage computer power states
✓ Configure advanced power policies for all users
✓ Track logon, startup, and shutdown activities
Employee Monitoring, Web Filtering, PC Power Management, & Device Control Software
Improve employee productivity, data security, and business intelligence with advanced awareness and control over how technology is used in your organization.
Each solution operates from the same central console, allowing you to easily manage the entire CurrentWare Suite from the convenience of a web browser.
✓ Get advantageous pricing when you purchase all four solutions
✓ Seamlessly add new solutions without redeploying the clients
✓ Includes BrowseReporter, BrowseControl, AccessPatrol, and enPowerManager
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Compare ActivTrak vs. CurrentWare Key Features
CurrentWare has the best ActivTrak alternatives for employee monitoring. The CurrentWare Suite has the key features you need to monitor time spent on applications and websites, giving insights that helps businesses understand how much time their employees spend on non-business tasks.
Review both employee monitoring software solutions so you can choose the right fit for your company.
Employee Monitoring
| ✅ | Bandwidth Usage Tracking | ❌ |
| ✅ | Search Keyword Monitoring | ❌ |
| ✅ | Websites & Applications Tracking | ✅ |
| ✅ | Idle Time Tracking | ✅ |
| ✅ | Employee Productivity Score | ✅ |
| ✅ | User logon & Shutdown Tracking | ❌ |
| ✅ | IP Address Location Tracking | ❌ |
| ✅ | Web Category Tracking | ✅ |
| ✅ | Email Reports & Alerts | ✅ |
| ✅ | Computer Screen Capture | ✅ |
| ✅ | Monitor Remote Employees | ✅ |
Web Filtering
| ✅ | User-level Blocking | ❌ |
| ✅ | Computer-level Blocking | ✅ |
| ✅ | Category Filtering | ✅ |
| ✅ | Whitelist URLs & Domains | ❌ |
| ✅ | Blacklist URLs & Domains | ✅ |
| ✅ | Wildcard URL Filtering | ❌ |
| ✅ | Block Applications | ❌ |
| ✅ | Custom Warning Message | ❌ |
| ✅ | Scheduled Blocking | ❌ |
| ✅ | Internet Quota & Timer | ❌ |
| ✅ | Port Filtering | ❌ |
| ✅ | Enforce Google SafeSearch | ❌ |
USB Device Control
| ✅ | Block USB & Storage Devices | ❌ |
| ✅ | Email Reports & Alerts | ✅ |
| ✅ | Device Blacklists & Whitelists | ❌ |
| ✅ | Block External Devices | ❌ |
| ✅ | Block Transfers by File Type | ❌ |
Setup & Deployment
| ✅ | On-Premises | ❌ |
| ✅ | Database Access | ⚠️ Paid Add-On |
| ✅ Self Hosted Cloud | Cloud Platform | ✅ |
| ✅ | Local & Remote Client Install | ✅ |
| ✅ | Command-Line Deployment | ✅ |
| ✅ | Active Directory Sync | ✅ |
| ✅ | Windows OS | ⚠️ No Windows 7 Support |
| ❌ | macOS | ✅ |
| ✅ | Remote Workforce Management | ✅ |
| ✅ | Citrix Ready | ✅ |
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Compare CurrentWare vs ActivTrak Pricing
CurrentWare Pricing
CurrentWare’s ActivTrak alternatives are a cost effective solution for tracking the computer usage of your team members.
- When purchased individually, CurrentWare’s solutions start at $3.99 USD per license/month.
- The full suite (BrowseControl, BrowseReporter, AccessPatrol, enPowerManager) starts at $8.99 USD per license/month.
CurrentWare’s advantageous pricing includes discounts for the pre-purchase of multiple year plans, large volumes of licenses, and education/non-profit organizations.
ActivTrak Pricing
ActivTrak has three pricing tiers for their employee monitoring and time tracking software.
- Free – Limited to 3 Users & 3GB Storage
- Advanced – $9 USD PUPM
- Premium – $15 USD PUPM
Their Advanced tier includes unlimited storage, USB device and file transfer detection, employee productivity tracking, remote installation, and alarm-triggered screenshots. Their Premium tier adds additional features such as productivity goal setting, a personal insights dashboard for employees, and inefficiency and distraction analysis.
Shady Maple Transforms Their Employee Productivity With Computer 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.”
Why Choose CurrentWare?
Affordable Pricing
CurrentWare provides employee monitoring at a fraction of the cost
Protect USB Ports
Don’t just monitor USB activity—Block access to unauthorized devices
Deals for MSPs
Managed Services Providers and resellers get up to a 20% margin on their licenses
Purchase the Exact Solutions You Need
ActivTrak and CurrentWare both provide solutions for user activity monitoring, USB activity alerts, and web filtering. Unfortunately with ActivTrak if you only need one feature set you’re still paying the added costs of supporting all of the other features.
Why pay for more features than you need? Each CurrentWare solution can be purchased individually, giving you access to the key features you need without paying for the features you don’t.
Have Full Control Over Your Data
With CurrentWare’s on-premises solutions you’re in complete control. Sensitive employee monitoring 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.
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Monitor Employee Computer Activity
to Measure Employee Productivity & Security
Make Informed Decisions with User Activity Monitoring
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.
- Boost productivity and efficiency 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
- BrowseReporter can be configured to automatically delete older screenshots to reduce storage requirements
- Screenshots are tagged with the website or application that was being used, the time, and the name of the computer that was captured
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Employee Computer Activity
Dashboards & Reports
BrowseReporter’s user activity dashboards and detailed reports give you the insights you need to identify
workplace productivity leaks, detect excessive bandwidth usage, and improve business intelligence.
Granular User Activity Data Dashboards
- Use the collected data to review aggregated results of your entire workforce or drill down to individual users
- Select the date range and activities you want to populate the dashboard with
- Use the activity log to review raw data; add/remove columns, sort data, and export to .XLSX or .PDF
Productive vs Unproductive Web Browsing
- View time spent on productive vs unproductive web browsing
- Customize to what is considered productive in your organization
- Compare trends in aggregated & individual productivity over time
Idle Time Tracking
- Track how long users are away from their computers
- Customize idle time based on the last keyboard/mouse inputs
- Discover which departments or employees are the most active
See What Websites are Browsed the Most
- Find out what the top browsed productive, unproductive, and neutral websites are
- See which groups are the most active internet users
- Review what categories of websites are being visited
Monitor Bandwidth Consumption
- Detect bandwidth hogging websites on your network
- Review bandwidth usage trends to inform network capacity planning
- See which individual users or groups have the greatest bandwidth usage
Track Application Usage
- Detect the use of unauthorized software applications
- Find out what the most popular apps are and how long they're used for each day
- Determine software adoption rates through user activity data
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Employee Monitoring Software Features to Improve Transparency & Respect Employee Privacy
CurrentWare’s ActivTrak alternative provides the flexibility you need to monitor employee computer activity while respecting workplace privacy expectations. Here are the features you need to bring transparency into your productivity monitoring strategy.
End-User Reports
Give your employees access to their own computer activity data. They can see exactly what internet and application usage data is being captured and use the time tracking their own benefit.
Custom Data Retention
Automatically delete user activity data after a set period of time. Maintain auditable records of employee computer usage and time tracking for only as long as needed.
Monitor Software Notifications
Display a custom message from time-to-time to notify your employees that their computer activity is being monitored.
Show in System Tray
Enable this feature to make the CurrentWare Client visible in the system tray of your employee’s computers.
Console Permissions
Restrict access to employee monitoring data with a password-protected console and unique data access permissions for each manager. Easily provide access on an as-needed basis.
Schedule Employee Monitoring
Schedule BrowseReporter’s user activity tracking to only collect data during work time. Turn off monitoring during non-work hours and personal browsing periods.
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CurrentWare Features
Internet ON/OFF
One click to completely block
the Internet
URL Filter
Allowed list or Blocked list for
specific URLs
Category Filtering
Block websites based on
content categories
Internet Scheduler
Set unique restrictions at specific
times of the day
Internet Monitoring
Track what websites are being
visited by employees
Web Activity Reports
15+ different detailed web
activity reports
Track Application Use
See what applications are being
used by employees
Email Reports
Automatically email reports of web
usage to managers
Block USB
Block unauthorized USBs to protect
against data theft
Block External Devices
Easily block DVDs, external drives
& other peripherals
Device Permissions
Set full access, read only or no
access on storage devices
Allowed List
Allow specific storage devices on
your network
Centralized Console
Manage all your users from the
centralized console with Active
Directory import or syncing
Remote Client Install
Only a few steps to remotely install
the CurrentWare Client on all of
your computers
Offsite Management
Extend onsite Internet usage
policies to laptops running outside
the corporate network
SQL Server Supported
Database scaled for enterprise and
large business operations using
Microsoft SQL Server
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