# Controlio review (2026): is it worth $6.67 a month per user, billed yearly? > Employee monitoring with time logs, screen video and app tracking Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Controlio is employee monitoring software that logs work time, apps and websites, scores productivity and can record screens as continuous video. It runs as a cloud service or on a company's own servers, and its agent has an optional stealth mode. Plans are priced per user with a 14-day trial. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** EfficientLab, LLC - **Website:** https://controlio.net - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if your team uses Linux or phones, as agents run on Windows and Mac only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Controlio is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $6.67 per user / month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $6.67 per user / month, billed annually | 5 to 10,000 users: productivity and time reports, behavior rules, screen live stream and video, 6 months of storage. | | Advanced | $9.99 per user / month, billed annually | Adds workload and burnout views, mouse jiggler detection, REST API, single sign-on and location tracking. | | Enterprise | Custom | For 100+ users: private cloud, custom storage and SLA, onboarding and priority support. | Read from https://controlio.net/prices.html on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Controlio before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 17% with annual payments** (Annual discount): The pricing page labels annual payments as 17% off compared with monthly payments. Source: https://controlio.net/prices.html ## Key features - **Productivity measurement:** AI-based categorization of activity as productive or distracting, with scores for users and departments. - **Work time logging:** Breaks the day into applications and websites, with attendance and working-hours reports. - **Screen recording:** Records screens as continuous video instead of periodic screenshots, and offers a live view of user desktops. - **Behavior rules:** Alerts on rules about apps, websites, keystrokes, USB devices, sessions and idle or active periods. - **Cloud or on-premises:** Runs as a hosted dashboard or on-premises, with server support for AWS, Windows and Linux. - **Compliance modes:** Offers a GDPR mode, and says on-premises deployment can be used to meet HIPAA. ## Good for - Companies that want video-level visibility of staff screens - Organizations that need monitoring data on their own servers - IT-managed teams that want rules and alerts on user behavior ## Worth knowing - Endpoint agents run on Windows and macOS only. - The agent can run in a stealth mode with no visible icon, so local monitoring laws matter. - Prices shown are for annual billing; the monthly rate is not stated in the page text. - On-premises installs start at 10 users and private cloud at 100 users, on request. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Controlio measures productivity, logs work time and records screens, in the cloud or on your own servers. Prices are shown for annual billing only, the agents run on Windows and Mac only, and the stealth mode means local monitoring law matters. - **Value for money: C.** $6.67 per user a month billed yearly, which is the middle of time tracking. The monthly rate is not stated. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 14-day free trial with no card needed, and no free plan. - **Features: C.** Productivity reports, screen recording, behaviour rules and compliance modes, but the listing shows agents only on Windows and Mac and nothing on projects or invoicing. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Agents have to be installed on each computer and rules set before the reports mean much. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web dashboard with Windows and Mac agents; a REST API only on Advanced, one integration on record and no phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Controlio's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among time tracking apps - Controlio's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 4 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 12. - Its paid plans start at $6.67 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 27 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 26 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/time-tracking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Controlio you could make: time tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 53 of the 69 other time tracking apps grade higher. It costs $80.04 a year. - You could make: Time tracking: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Active Directory among them, and has an API. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: HIPAA. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Active Directory **Tags:** Time tracking, Screen recording, Self-hostable, Public API, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [Teramind](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teramind): Employee monitoring, insider risk and data loss prevention. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/controlio-vs-time-doctor) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://controlio.net/prices.html - https://controlio.net/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/controlio Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).