# KeepActive (formerly Kickidler) review (2026): is it worth $4.17 a month per user, billed yearly? > Employee monitoring and time tracking with screenshots and recordings Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. KeepActive, previously sold as Kickidler, is employee monitoring software that tracks work time, attendance, apps and websites. Its Time Tracking edition adds dashboards and screenshots; the Employee Monitoring edition adds live screens, recordings and remote access. Licenses are bought upfront per computer. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** TELE LINK SOFT (TLS) CY LTD - **Website:** https://www.kickidler.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want shorter terms, as the page shows only yearly prices and no monthly rate. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, KeepActive (formerly Kickidler) is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $4.17 per user / month, billed annually ($50 per license). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial; terms are shown at registration. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Time Tracking | $4.17 per user / month, billed annually ($50 a license) | Time and attendance, productivity reports, apps and websites, screenshots, manual time and anomaly alerts. | | Employee Monitoring | $5.50 per user / month, billed annually ($66 a license) | Everything in Time Tracking plus live screen streams, video and audio recording, remote access and keystroke logging. | Read from https://www.kickidler.com/price.html on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with KeepActive (formerly Kickidler) before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Longer terms cost less per month** (Other savings): Prepaying 3 months is 10% off the monthly rate, 6 months 20%, 1 year 30% and 3 years 40%, as the pricing page states. Source: https://www.kickidler.com/price.html ## Key features - **Time and attendance:** Tracks working hours, attendance and timesheets against schedules, with manual time entries that a manager approves. - **Productivity analysis:** Classifies apps and websites as productive, unproductive or neutral and compares employees and teams. - **Live activity and screenshots:** Shows who is online, idle or offline with the current app, and can take an instant screenshot. - **Screen recording:** The Employee Monitoring edition streams screens live, records video and audio, and exports clips. - **Anomaly alerts:** Flags unusual activity, including possible mouse jiggler use, and sends scheduled PDF or email reports. - **On-premises deployment:** Can be installed on a company's own servers, including a version with no internet access on request. ## Good for - Companies that want screen-level visibility of staff - Teams that must keep monitoring data on their own servers - Managers who prefer buying licenses upfront ## Worth knowing - The page shows prices for a 1-year term; shorter terms cost more per month and the monthly rate is not shown. - One license covers one computer, and licenses are paid upfront for the term. - Data loss prevention is a separate product, listed at $8.25 a month on a yearly term. - Concierge setup is an optional paid service: $20 per server plus $5 per employee computer. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Kickidler sells time tracking and live monitoring by the computer on a one-year term. The $4.17 monthly figure only holds on yearly billing, and a free trial's terms are shown only when you register. - **Value for money: B.** $4.17 a month per licence on a one-year term ($50), inside the cheaper quarter of time tracking, which ends at $4.50. Monitoring is $5.50. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A free trial exists, but its length and card terms are shown only at registration, and there is no free plan. - **Features: C.** Time, attendance, screenshots, live screens and recording, with no project or billing side on record. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Agents go on each computer and the server option has to be installed. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Windows, Mac and Linux programs only, with no integrations or phone apps on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from KeepActive (formerly Kickidler)'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 - KeepActive (formerly Kickidler)'s GPA of 2.0 is higher than 4 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 47 of 69) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 4). - Its paid plans start at $4.17 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 14 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 14 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 KeepActive (formerly Kickidler) you could make: time tracking and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 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 $50.04 a year. - You could make: Time tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: Live Activities. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Time tracking, Reports, Screen recording, Self-hostable ## Alternatives - [Teramind](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teramind): Employee monitoring, insider risk and data loss prevention. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kickidler-vs-teramind) - [ActivTrak](https://toolgpa.com/tools/activtrak): Workforce analytics that tracks activity and work time automatically. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/activtrak-vs-kickidler) - [Insightful](https://toolgpa.com/tools/insightful): Workforce analytics with automatic time tracking and attendance. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/insightful-vs-kickidler) - [Controlio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/controlio): Employee monitoring with time logs, screen video and app tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/controlio-vs-kickidler) - [Time Doctor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/time-doctor): Employee time tracking and workforce analytics for remote teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kickidler-vs-time-doctor) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.kickidler.com/price.html - https://www.kickidler.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/kickidler Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).