Monitask review (2026): is it worth $6.49 a month per user, billed yearly?
Time tracking with screenshots and activity logs for remote teams
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Monitask report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for screenshots and activity monitoring for remote teams
Monitask tracks time with screenshots and activity checks on every major platform. Pro keeps data for only a month and allows one integration, and the trial is 10 days.
Who Monitask is for
- Fits if you manage remote staff and want screenshots with their hours
- Works for teams on mixed Windows, Mac and Linux machines
Who Monitask is not for
- Tight if you stay on Pro, with 1 month of data storage and one integration
- Skip it if you need website and app tracking, as that starts on Business at $8.99
- Pricey if you need more than 30 screenshots an hour, a paid add-on from $2.40 a licence
- Watch out: Enterprise is for 50 or more employees, and the trial is only 10 days
Why Monitask gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$6.49 per user a month billed yearly ($7.99 monthly), around the middle of time tracking at $6.67.
- DFree plan and trial10-day trial with no card detail on record, and no free plan.
- CFeaturesTimesheets, screenshots, activity and stealth mode, but Pro keeps data for 1 month and allows one integration.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Agents and team rules need setting up first.
- APlatforms and integrationsWeb, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android, with an API and 2 integrations on record.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Monitask's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Monitask's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 17 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 7.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 47 of 69) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 4).
Its paid plans start at $6.49 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 26 of the 58 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 10 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 70 time tracking apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Monitask’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 14 of 69, level with 32
- DFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 69, level with 5
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 69, level with 41
- CEase of useAbove 2 of 69, level with 47
- APlatforms and integrationsAbove 47 of 69, level with 22
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 64 time tracking apps. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Monitask, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Monitask 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: 45 of the 69 other time tracking apps grade higher. It costs $77.88 a year.
What you could make
- Time tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, Zapier and PayPal among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Monitask’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Monitask?
Monitask is a time tracker for remote teams that records hours, captures screenshots and logs the apps and websites staff use. It runs in a visible or a stealth mode, and offers timesheets, reports and project and task management. Plans are priced per user with a 10-day trial.
Worth knowing
- Data storage is short: 1 month on Pro and 2 months on Business and Premium.
- The Pro plan allows only one integration.
- Screenshot frequency above 30 an hour is a paid add-on, from $2.40 per license a month on annual billing.
- Enterprise is for organizations with 50 or more employees.
Key features
- Time tracking and timesheets
- Records hours automatically and builds timesheets, with a clock-in and clock-out board and attendance reports.
- Screenshots
- Captures screenshots of work screens, with support for several monitors; frequency is set per license from 30 to 120 an hour.
- Activity monitoring
- Measures activity from keyboard and mouse use, plus idle time, and reports the apps and websites used.
- Visible or stealth mode
- The desktop app can run visibly or in a stealth mode; the pricing page lists stealth mode on the entry plan.
- Project, task and team management
- Projects on every plan, with task and team management and client logins on Business and above.
- Mouse jiggler detection
- Detects mouse jigglers so that tracked time reflects real activity.
Monitask pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Monitask is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $6.49 per user / month, billed annually ($7.99 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $6.49 per user / month, billed annually ($7.99 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 10-day free trial
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $6.49per user / month, billed annually ($7.99 billed monthly) | Stealth mode, timesheets, screenshots, basic projects, email reports, 1 integration and 1 month of data storage. |
| Business | $8.99per user / month, billed annually ($10.99 billed monthly) | Adds website and app monitoring, unlimited integrations, team management, scorecards and 2 months of storage. |
| Business Premium | $12.99per user / month, billed annually ($15.99 billed monthly) | Adds full URL and page tracking, search query and document tracking and location tracking. |
| Enterprise | $15.99per user / month, billed annually ($19.99 billed monthly) | Sold through sales for 50+ employees: audit logs, higher API limits, VIP support and custom storage. |
Read from monitask.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Monitask before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 18% with annual billing
Monitask's pricing page states that paying yearly saves 18% compared with the monthly rates.
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Common questions
Is Monitask open source?
Monitask is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Monitask have an API?
Yes. Monitask offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.