See why teams switch from ActivTrak to CurrentWare.
ActivTrak takes a monitoring-first approach that can make employee buy-in harder. CurrentWare combines workforce intelligence with privacy-first controls, web filtering, application control, and USB device control -all in one platform.
- Workforce intelligence with built-in data loss prevention
- On-premises and cloud deployment options
- No features locked behind premium pricing tiers
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Why IT Teams Switch from ActivTrak to CurrentWare
| Parameter | ActivTrak | CurrentWare |
|---|---|---|
| Passive Monitoring Vs. Proactive Prevention + Monitoring | ❌ Analytics locked in higher tiers, forcing admins to manually catch bandwidth spikes or policy breaches. | ✅ Turns raw data into action: block malicious URLs, restrict apps, and manage bandwidth live. |
| Hardware & Endpoint DLP | ❌ No USB or peripheral control, leaving storage ports open to data theft and malware. | ✅ Full endpoint control with USB blocking, transfer auditing, and read-only rules for HIPAA, GDPR. |
| Infrastructure Flexibility | ❌ SaaS-only, creating data sovereignty hurdles for healthcare, finance, legal, and government organizations. | ✅ Choose where your data lives, whether on-premises or fully managed cloud. |
| Transparent, Modular Pricing | ❌ Extended retention, advanced reporting, data exports, and key integrations require costly tiers or add-ons. | ✅ Transparent, predictable pricing with full core feature access and no hidden upgrade fees. |
| Citrix, RDS, and Virtual Environment Native Support | ❌ Multi-session terminal servers and VDI can cause licensing bloat or tracking glitches. | ✅ Native multi-user terminal server support, tracking activity per virtual session without workarounds. |
| Comprehensive Activity Monitoring | ❌ Tracks high-level productivity trends, not granular logs across apps, files, and hardware. | ✅ Unified real-time monitoring across your workforce, giving full visibility without invasive surveillance. |
| Insider Threat Detection & Risk Prevention | ❌ Workforce engagement tool with no endpoint security controls, so risky file movements surface late. | ✅ Real-time alerts and automated enforcement catch insider risks and exfiltration before breaches happen. |
| Compliance-Ready Reporting | ❌ Reporting delivers productivity scores, not the audit-grade documentation regulatory frameworks require. | ✅ Audit-ready evidence for HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR proves enforcement to any auditor. |
ActivTrak vs. CurrentWare : A Quick Feature Comparison
See why organizations choose CurrentWare over ActivTrak for security, compliance, and control.
| Feature | ActivTrak | CurrentWare |
|---|---|---|
| Employee Activity Monitoring | ✅ | ✅ |
| Productivity Analytics | ✅ | ✅ |
| Website & App Tracking | ✅ | ✅ |
| USB / Device Control | ❌ | ✅ |
| Application Blocking | ❌ | ✅ |
| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Insider Threat Detection | ✅ | ✅ |
| On-Premise Deployment | ❌ | ✅ |
| Compliance Reporting (HIPAA, NIST, etc.) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Screenshot Capture | ✅ | ✅ |
| Role-Based Access Controls | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pricing | $17/user/month | $12/user/month |
Real Results. Measurable ROI
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“CurrentWare is a gamechanger! We use it nearly every day to get insights into things like software adoption rates, employee productivity, and proof of work for our clients.”
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“Since we’ve let employees work from home we’ve had to have them connect remotely to the office. Thanks to BrowseReporter we know exactly what they’re doing during work hours.”
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“It was going onto the employee’s machine and hoping that they didn’t clear out their history, things of that nature. The more requests I got from our HR department requesting to know what the user was doing at a particular point in time, it became apparent that we needed to get a central management system in place for monitoring web activity.”
Where Activtrack lacks
We sifted through ActivTrak’s reviews to understand where its users commonly run into challenges
1. Auto-renewal you can't get out of
Reviewers report being billed for another full year without notice, one firm for five years on a system nobody used, with refund requests met by recycled notice-period language.
With CurrentWare, perpetual licensing means you buy your licenses once and keep them, and on-premises deployment keeps the software running on your own infrastructure, so access never depends on a live contract.
2. Snapshots, not evidence
ActivTrak captures periodic still images with no video option, leaving gaps exactly when detail matters most, like reconstructing an incident after the fact.
With CurrentWare, every screenshot sits alongside a full activity timeline of apps, URLs, active/idle time, and file and USB transfers, so a still image is never your only evidence.
3. Weeks of setup before your first useful report
Users call the platform overwhelming to navigate, and they have to hand-categorize websites as productive or unproductive before the reporting means anything.
With CurrentWare, a built-in URL category database classifies sites out of the box, and scheduled reports land in managers’ inboxes instead of waiting to be found.
4. Activity data that misreads deep work
As one reviewer put it, the software can’t tell deep focus from someone who walked away for coffee, and an opaque score becomes an accusation nobody can verify.
With CurrentWare, transparent activity data sits behind every number, with idle thresholds you configure per team, so a research role isn’t measured with a support-desk stopwatch.