Best Employee Monitoring Software

BrowseReporter is the internet and application monitoring module of the CurrentWare suite, built by the Toronto based company CurrentWare Inc. It tracks the websites and software employees use, measures active versus idle time, monitors bandwidth consumption, and can capture screenshots as an add on, presenting the data through real time dashboards and reports by user, device, or department.

It is priced per user per month as a standalone SaaS module or bundled with CurrentWare's other tools, BrowseControl, AccessPatrol, and enPowerManager, into a discounted annual suite. CurrentWare also offers on premises deployment for BrowseReporter, along with optional stealth or transparent notification modes so organizations can choose how visibly the monitoring runs.

StaffCop Enterprise is an insider risk management and data loss prevention platform that records employee activity across roughly 22 system objects, including screens, applications, websites, files, emails, chats, and VoIP calls. It includes a keylogger, session recording with history playback, and DLP controls covering USB devices, printing, clipboard use, and cloud uploads, with behavior based rules to flag risky actions such as copying files to external drives.

StaffCop is licensed by the number of monitored endpoints with a minimum of 5, available as perpetual, 12 month, or 24 month terms, but the company does not publish self serve pricing and requires prospective customers to request a quote. It is developed by Atom Security, based in Novosibirsk, Russia, and offers a free trial.

Work Examiner is employee monitoring software offered in two on premises editions, Standard and Professional, plus a cloud based edition called WE Controlio. It captures desktop screenshots and low frame rate video for playback, logs keystrokes across applications, chats, and webmail, and provides internet access control with allow and deny rules to block sites by URL, keyword, or category. It also captures email content from webmail and desktop clients including attachments.

On premises licenses are perpetual and priced per PC, decreasing at higher volumes, while the cloud edition is billed per user monthly or annually. Work Examiner is built by EfficientLab, LLC, the same company behind Controlio, and offers a free 30 day trial along with one year of included support and updates on paid licenses.

Wolfeye is live screen monitoring software built for small and mid sized businesses and IT service providers managing remote Windows PCs. It streams a live view of each monitored computer to a password protected browser dashboard roughly every 3 seconds, with an optional screenshot history feature, rather than offering a full monitoring suite with logs and analytics.

The product is developed in Germany and sold directly through wolfeye.co, since the wolfeye.io address in circulation is an inactive server directory listing and does not host the live product. Pricing is a flat per seat annual fee with a 5 seat minimum, offered in a Live Monitoring tier and a Live plus History tier, backed by a free trial and a 60 day money back guarantee.

Controlio is a cloud based (with optional on premises and private cloud) employee monitoring solution for Windows and macOS. It tracks application and website usage, keystrokes, file activity, printing, and idle versus active time, and can capture continuous screen recordings or a live desktop view. Productivity scores are generated from categorized behavior, and administrators can set alerts or automatically block distracting or risky apps and sites.

Pricing runs from a Basic plan through an Advanced plan with department level analytics, Active Directory sync, and REST API access, up to a custom Enterprise plan with managed private cloud hosting. Controlio is built by EfficientLab, LLC, which also operates the related Work Examiner product line, and offers a 14 day free trial with GDPR and HIPAA compliance modes.

CleverControl is employee monitoring software that gives managers a live view of what staff are doing on company computers. It captures screenshots, records screens, logs keystrokes and chats, tracks website and application use, and can block sites or record calls depending on the plan, all viewable through a secure web account.

Pricing is billed per monitored computer across 3, 6, or 12 month terms, with three tiers: Standard for core tracking, Pro which adds screen recording and live viewing, and Ultimate which adds call recording. CleverControl is offered as a cloud hosted service, an on premises deployment, or a local edition for small offices, with volume discounts for larger computer counts.

Kickidler, now also marketed under the name KeepActive, is computer monitoring software that records full video of employee screen activity rather than just periodic screenshots, alongside a keylogger that is synced to the recorded video. It offers real time live viewing of employee screens, remote access, time and attendance tracking with idle time detection, and a data loss prevention module with endpoint controls.

The product is sold in three tiers, Time Tracking, Employee Monitoring, and DLP, licensed per user with discounts for longer commitment periods from one month up to perpetual licenses. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints and offers a free trial with no credit card required, making it suitable for small teams up to large enterprises.

Prodoscore is a workforce intelligence platform that turns activity inside everyday business tools into a single productivity score. Rather than recording keystrokes or screenshots, it connects to email, calendar, chat, CRM, and other systems such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Zoom, and Slack, then analyzes engagement patterns, tool adoption, and collaboration.

The Basic plan is priced per user per month with a monthly minimum, aimed at teams of 25 to 500 seeking core visibility, while Premium and Enterprise tiers add unlimited API integrations, flight risk and burnout signals, role benchmarking, and dedicated support, with pricing available only through Prodoscore's sales team. A free trial supports up to 25 users.

Veriato provides user activity monitoring (UAM) and insider risk management (IRM) software that tracks telemetry such as websites, applications, email, chat, file transfers, keystrokes, and idle time across an organization. Its UAM plan focuses on productivity scoring, configurable reporting, sensitive data detection, and website blocking, while the IRM plan layers on AI driven behavioral risk scoring and sentiment analysis to flag potential insider threats before they escalate.

Veriato is priced per user rather than per device, with a 5 user minimum for UAM and a 20 user minimum for IRM, billed annually. It targets small and mid sized businesses through large enterprises that need investigation ready activity records, and offers a free trial plus cloud or on premises deployment options.

SentryPC is a cloud based monitoring and access control tool built for both parents and businesses. It tracks activity on Windows, Mac, and mobile devices, capturing screenshots, keystrokes, browsing history, and application use, then reports the data through an online dashboard that can be checked from anywhere.

Plans are sold as yearly licenses per device, starting with a single license Basic plan and scaling up through Business tiers for 50 to 250 devices, with volume pricing available through a quote calculator for larger deployments. The software also supports website and application blocking, scheduled access windows, and real time behavior alerts, making it useful for productivity monitoring, IT compliance, and parental control.