Stay on top of your team's activities with Screenshots

DeskTime's screenshots are optional, taken at random intervals you control, and can be blurred so sensitive data is never exposed, giving 20 to 100-person service businesses proof of work without compromising employee privacy.

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TL;DR: DeskTime screenshots are an optional feature that can be used to provide visual proof of work by periodically capturing employee screens at set intervals (5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes). This feature can be enabled for all employees, specific teams, or certain employees. For added privacy, screenshots can be blurred to see the device usage without capturing any sensitive information. Screenshots will be marked as "suspicious" if they are captured within unproductive apps. Screenshot feature can be used to ensure accountability and prevent misuse of company devices, especially for remote teams.

How do DeskTime Screenshots work?

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Enable screen capture

The feature is optional – turn it on for your entire team or individual users.

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Choose the screenshot interval

Screenshots are taken at random times within 5, 10, 15, or 30-minute intervals.

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Blur screenshots for more privacy

You get the general idea of what everyone's doing, but sensitive info stays private.

See DeskTime Screenshots in action

Here’s how DeskTime captures screenshots to help you get a sense of your team’s work habits.

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Gain peace of mind that everyone's getting the job done

Time tracking with screenshots gives you an extra boost of certainty that everyone's hard at work.

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Proof of work

No more wondering if people are working on their assignments or only pretending to be immersed in their work.

Data security

If you work with sensitive data, check in to make sure all the proper precautions to prevent data leaks are observed.

Productivity boost

Screenshots have been shown to help employees focus on their tasks and increase their productivity in the long run.

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Screenshots that respect employee privacy by design

Optional, not mandatory

Screenshots are off by default and can be enabled or disabled for a team or an individual at any time.

Blurred by default option

When blur is enabled, screen contents are unreadable. Admins see activity confirmation, not personal data.

Private Time gives employees control

Employees can pause all tracking, including screenshots, at any moment using Private Time, no justification required.

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Marc Miquel

Senior User Researcher, Enterprise

"Desktime helps me stay productive and to limit time"

"I know that at the end of the week, I want not to exceed a certain number of hours, but I also set myself some productivity % goals (time focused on certain apps / total time). I have used it for more than 7 years."
Sreejith B.

Assistant Manager, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity insights with DeskTime"

"I am an IT admin as well as a project lead. My job is to monitor and manage my employees, who mainly work from home. With DeskTime, we can measure their productivity, monitor their worktime activity, and evaluate their performance based on their time efficiency."
Diego Carballo

CISO, Mid-Market

"Highly efficient tool"

It allows me to see where I spend my day, find opportunities to improve my productivity, and balance my work with necessary breaks. It’s a tool that gives me clarity without being intrusive. It also allows me to control my work team and measure their level of productivity.
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Tarun S.

Head of Product, Small-Business

"Amazing choice for tracking performance of employees"

DeskTime provides valuable intelligence and support for managing our distributed teams. It offers easily digestible performance metrics for our remote employees. Their competitive pricing further solidified our decision.
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Abhay Singh Rana

UI/UX Designer, Mid-Market

"Perfect activity tracking"

It helps our company's hybrid culture by tracking the productivity of every employee working from home and generating weekly reports to review everyone's performance accurately. The software also helps employees focus more on their tasks without being distracted by unproductive apps or sites.
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Verified User

Computer Software, Mid-Market

"Efficient and user-friendly time tracking tool"

With its detailed reports and automatic time tracking, we can optimize workflows, improve project planning, and ensure accurate billing for client work. This has led to better productivity insights, more efficient time management, and enhanced team performance overall.
Natasha Sierra

Practice Manager, Mid-Market

"Has improved our staff's productivity"

DeskTime assists us in monitoring productivity, tracking time spent on tasks, and identifying workflow inefficiencies. It provides valuable information, which supports better team management and accountability.
Parminder Singh U.

CEO, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity enhancement with DeskTime"

With DeskTime’s automatic idle time and break detection features, we easily monitor the work-life balance within teams. It eliminates the need for manual reporting, leaving no room for error.
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Verified User

Computer Software, Small-Business

"One of the best tools for remote teams management and instant reporting."

I really like that it has clock-in, clock-out, and holiday management. It's easy to use, and I implemented it very fast. The support that I was offered was great!

How DeskTime works

With DeskTime, you can see your employees' arrival and departure times, analyze their productivity, schedule shifts, oversee absences, maintain a healthy work-life balance, keep track of specific projects, and more.

Step 1 to start using DeskTime: Sign up and download the desktop app
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Step 2 to start using DeskTime: Add your employee details and create teams
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Step 3 to start using DeskTime: Start tracking time and see productivity insights
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Frequently asked questions about Screenshots

Yes, DeskTime offers time tracking with screenshots, among other functionalities. The feature is optional – you can turn it on or off for your team or even particular team members. You can also specify the screenshot interval (screens are captured at random times within these intervals) and blur the images to ensure greater privacy for your team members.
Yes, DeskTime provides time tracking software with screenshots, an optional feature you can turn on depending on your team's needs. The Screenshots feature is only available for the Premium and Enterprise pricing plans. If you decide to use screenshots, you can also choose whether or not you want the images blurred – by blurring them, your team members can feel more relaxed that their private info will not be accidentally captured. You can also encourage your team members to use the Private time option – if Private time is turned on, no computer activity is tracked, including screen capture.
DeskTime's screen monitoring software can take screenshots at 5, 10, 15, or 30-minute intervals. The screenshots are taken at random times within the chosen interval to ensure that employees don't try to cheat the system by knowing the exact moment when a screenshot is taken.
Since DeskTime uses mouse movements and clicks to determine a user's activity, technically, a mouse jiggler could show the user as falsely active. One option is to turn off mouse movements and/or clicks as activity tracking measurements. Additionally, DeskTime offers time tracking software with screenshots – if you combine the app's other capabilities with screen capture, cheating the system becomes much harder. All you have to do is glance at the captured screenshots to notice suspicious patterns.
Even though screenshots are typically a feature favored by team managers, some freelancers also find them a helpful tool to keep tabs on their work. The DeskTime time tracking app offers various freelancer-friendly features, including project time tracking. If you want to add screenshots, you can also enable them for your freelance account. If you track project time and use screenshots, they can serve as proof of work for your customers showing that you were indeed working on the specific task at the time for which you're billing them.
No, not all time trackers offer screenshots among their range of features. Additionally, the screen capture functionality itself can differ from one tool to another. That's why taking advantage of the available free trials is always a great idea to see if the particular tool satisfies your needs. The DeskTime app, for example, lets you choose the screenshot interval, highlights potentially unproductive apps in use during that time, and more.
If you're managing a remote team and wish to learn more about how they spend their work hours, an app like DeskTime – time tracking and screen capture monitoring software – will be a great choice. The DeskTime software works automatically, starting to track time the moment you turn on the computer; it stops tracking when the computer is turned off or when it's been idle for more than 3 minutes. The optional Screenshots feature captures employee screens randomly within the time intervals you choose; by using time tracking with screenshots you can definitely prove that no one's slacking during work hours.
The DeskTime app automatically collects data about the users' activities throughout the day, logging their arrival and departure times, how long their breaks were, what apps and URLs they visited during the day, etc. To take advantage of all of DeskTime's features, you should make sure everyone installs the desktop app on their computers. Otherwise, such features as screenshots will not work.
Screenshots capture the computer screen exactly as it is when the screenshot is taken; essentially, anything that is open at that time can be visible there, including text. To ensure greater privacy for the users and to prevent sensitive data from accidentally being captured in the image, DeskTime offers the option of blurring the screenshots. This way, the text and other details in the screenshot will not be legible, but admins can get a general idea of what the employee was doing without digging into potentially private data.
If you enable the screen capturing feature for your account, the screenshots taken will be visible to the company owner and admins. They are displayed in the Screenshots tab in the sidebar, the Dashboard, and each user's My DeskTime page (where users can see their screenshots). The time tracking screenshots showing unproductive apps as active or in the background will be highlighted so you don't need to look at all images individually.
The DeskTime app can keep track of PC activity – it can log the apps and URLs visited throughout the day and even take screenshots within specified time intervals for extra certainty that everyone's working, not slacking. DeskTime does not offer features like keystroke capture or video recordings of employee screens. Additionally, it's recommended to keep the screenshots blurred – this way, admins will get a general idea of what their team members are doing, but employees' privacy will stay protected.
All of DeskTime's features, including screenshots, can be turned on or off based on your team's needs. Company owners and admins can turn off screenshots by going to Settings – you can enable or disable screenshots for the entire account or specific users if you wish to keep a closer eye on someone in particular. User managers and employees cannot change the app settings by themselves.
DeskTime does not take continuous screenshots. The feature is optional, captures one image at a random moment within a 5 to 30-minute interval, and can be blurred so screen content is never legible. Employees can also enable Private Time to pause all capturing instantly.
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