Stintt vs DeskTime
- No timer to start or stop
- Nothing installed on the laptop
- Timesheet drafted from calendar events
DeskTime measures people: screenshots, app tracking, a productivity percentage. Stintt measures work — from the calendar, with none of that collected.
DeskTimeDesktop activity trackers
- An app runs on every machine
- Accurate by watching all day
Calendar events, read-only
- The week is already written down
- Chat covers what never got booked
- No agent on anyone’s laptop
Accurate, but it means software watching every machine all day.
Automatic, but it measures the machine rather than the work.
Stintt vs DeskTime, row by row
The same twelve rows every comparison on this site uses, so nothing is cherry-picked for DeskTime. Where a capability is optional or plan-gated, it is marked partly rather than rounded either way.
DeskTime is employee monitoring software and does not pretend otherwise: screenshots at intervals, application and URL tracking, and a productivity percentage per person. It answers a manager's anxiety directly, and it works — at a cost that shows up later, in the people who leave and the ones who learn to game the score. Stintt is the deliberate opposite. Managers get utilization, meeting load, capacity and burnout signals; nobody gets watched, because the data that would let us watch them is never collected.
Compared August 2026 from each vendor's public documentation and pricing pages. Products change — check with the vendor before you decide.
Three steps, and none of them is a migration.
There is no import from DeskTime, and pretending otherwise would be the first promise we broke. There does not need to be — a connected calendar arrives carrying the history a new tracker would spend months collecting.
Connect a calendar
Read-only access, granted once. It cannot create, edit or delete an event, and there is nothing to install on anyone's machine.
The history is already there
Existing calendar events become a draft timesheet immediately, so the first week is a review rather than an empty grid waiting for data to accrue.
Review, approve, bill
Correct the draft, log anything off-calendar from chat, and approve. Only approved entries reach a client invoice, and discarded time stays on the record.
What DeskTime leaves on the table
Three specific things, not a feature count.
Trust survives the rollout
Monitoring software is the fastest way to lose the people you were trying to measure. A read-only calendar connection asks for nothing anyone objects to.
Managers still get their numbers
Utilization, capacity, meeting load, burnout signals and 1:1 prep briefs — aggregated from approved time, not from screen activity.
Staff can see everything held about them
Nothing is captured that the person cannot look at, which is not a claim a screenshot tool can make.
When DeskTime is the better choice
If you have a regulatory or contractual obligation to evidence attendance and screen activity, that is a requirement Stintt cannot meet by design, and a monitoring product is the honest answer.
If none of that describes your team, the rest of this page is the case for switching. If some of it does, DeskTime is a reasonable buy and we would rather you knew that here than after a trial.
What people ask about DeskTime and Stintt
No. The things DeskTime records — screenshots, app history, URL history, a productivity percentage — are not collected at all, because there is no agent on the laptop to collect them with. A manager sees logged and approved time for the people their role covers, and nothing else.
Every entry keeps its source and its review history — which calendar event or message it came from, who approved it, and what changed. That is evidence about the work. A screenshot is evidence about a computer.
You lose behavioural surveillance and keep the operational picture: where the hours went by client and category, who is over-booked, which recurring meetings are eating the week.
