Comparisons
Open source productivity tracking vs a hosted team account
An open-source productivity tracker and a hosted one answer different constraints. One keeps the data on the machine. The other runs an account a manager can open.
ActivityWatch
ActivityWatch is free, open source, and automatic. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Activity stays on the device rather than on a vendor’s server. That fits a person who wants a local record and is willing to run the software. The project documents this on activitywatch.net.
Mycroscope
Mycroscope is hosted software for an organisation. The company has one account, a monitoring notice, roles, and a dashboard in the browser. The app that records the day runs on Windows. Prices are in rand. Mycroscope staff cannot read a customer’s activity contents. The product does not photograph the screen.
How to choose
Choose the open-source tracker when the data must stay on each person’s machine and there is no shared manager view to operate. Choose Mycroscope when the organisation wants one place to read the team, and wants people to acknowledge a notice before that recording follows the company’s rules.