WorkComposer vs Toggl Track: the same simple time tracking, plus screenshots and activity reporting.
Toggl Track is a clean timer app. WorkComposer is a clean timer app with the screenshots, app tracking, and reports your team needs to verify hours — for $3.99/user/month annual instead of Toggl Starter's $8.10. Same price band, more answers.
No credit card required · Cancel anytime · Full feature access during trial
For roughly the same money
Toggl doesn't ship screenshots or app monitoring at any tier — we do.
both prices per user / month, billed annually
Toggl Track is built for individual professionals who want to log hours and bill clients. It deliberately doesn't do screenshots or app monitoring — that's a feature for solo consultants, not a bug.
If you manage a team and need to see what was worked on (not just how long), you'll outgrow Toggl quickly. WorkComposer is the same simple tracker plus the team-visibility layer — at a comparable price.
What each tier actually costs.
If you're 1–5 people and don't need monitoring, Toggl Free is the right answer — we'll say that out loud. We're a better fit when you cross 5 users, want screenshots, or need app/URL tracking for client billing.
WorkComposer Standard
Timer + screenshots + app/URL tracking.
billed annually · $4.99 monthly
- Max users
- Unlimited
- Free trial
- 7 days, no card
- Screenshots
- Included
Toggl Starter
Their entry paid tier.
billed annually · $9 monthly
- Max users
- Unlimited
- Free trial
- 30 days
- Screenshots
- Not offered
Same price band, no monitoring layer at any tier.
Toggl Free + Premium
The bracketing tiers.
up to 5 users · just a timer
$18 monthly · still no screenshots
- Free trial
- 30 days
- Screenshots
- Not at any tier
Free is great for ≤5-user timer-only teams; Premium is a richer timer, not a monitoring upgrade.
Every feature on the table.
Sourced from each vendor's public pricing and features pages. Toggl explicitly markets itself as a no-monitoring product — the empty cells aren't omissions, they're product choices.
Manual time tracking + timer
Automatic activity tracking
Screenshots
App + URL monitoring
Activity-rate / productivity scoring
Idle time detection
Offline tracking
Billable rates per project
Project budgets + alerts
Reporting (custom + saved)
Calendar integration (Google, Outlook)
Integrations
Free plan
API access
Encryption at rest
Where each tool actually wins.
Toggl Track is genuinely stronger at
We won't pretend otherwise — these matter if your team needs them.
Free tier for up to 5 users.
If your team is 5 or fewer and you only need a timer + reports, Toggl's free plan beats us — full stop. We don't have a free tier.
Calendar-first workflow.
Toggl's Google Calendar and Outlook integrations are tighter than ours. If 80% of your "work" is meetings already in your calendar, Toggl's auto-import is hard to beat.
Integrations breadth.
100+ vs our ~10. If you depend on a specific niche tool (Notion, Linear, Asana subtasks), Toggl probably has the integration.
Pure-timer simplicity.
No screenshots, no activity score. For solo freelancers and consultants who explicitly don't want monitoring, that's the right product.
Privacy as default.
Toggl markets data privacy and doesn't capture activity data — a real differentiator if your team's concern is not being monitored.
Where WorkComposer wins
For team managers who need to verify hours, the answers stack up here.
Verifiable hours, not just logged hours.
Screenshots + app/URL tracking + activity-rate let a manager confirm what 8 logged hours actually contained. Toggl shows you the timer started and stopped — useful, but not the same evidence.
Single price for the team-monitoring use case.
$3.99 with screenshots + app tracking. Toggl Starter is $8.10 without those features — they don't sell them at any tier.
Built for managers, not just trackers.
Productivity reports per employee, idle alerts, configurable screenshot intervals. Toggl's reports are project + billable focused; ours are project + employee-activity focused.
AES-256 encryption disclosed publicly.
Toggl doesn't publish encryption-at-rest specifics on their marketing pages.
The right answer depends on your team.
We'd rather tell you the truth than win a click. Here's the prescriptive read.
| You are… | Best choice |
|---|---|
| Solo freelancer, no team | Toggl Free |
| 1–5 person team, just want a timer | Toggl Free or Starter |
| 5+ team, want screenshots + activity reports | WorkComposerThis is our ICP. |
| Need payroll automation or GPS field tracking | Hubstaff or Time DoctorWe don't fit this shape. |
| Need video screen recording or distraction alerts | Time Doctor Premium |
That ladder is on this page on purpose: it raises trust, it shows we know our ICP, and it gives you a sharper read on whether to click through to a trial.
Six steps from Toggl Track to WorkComposer.
Toggl is closer to "additive" than "replace" — many teams keep Toggl for individual time logging and add WorkComposer for the manager-visibility layer. If you're moving fully:
- 1
Export Toggl data.
Reports → Detailed → Export CSV covers timesheets and project assignments.
- 2
Sign up for WorkComposer trial.
- 3
Recreate project structure.
Set up your projects in WorkComposer manually — your Toggl project list maps 1:1 with minor cleanup.
- 4
Install desktop agent.
Both apps can coexist during the parallel period. Same machines, no interference.
- 5
Compare a week's data.
Toggl will show timer-based hours; WorkComposer will show timer + activity-rate-validated hours. Differences are usually idle/away time Toggl recorded as worked.
- 6
Cancel Toggl at the next billing date.
Or keep both: many teams use Toggl for personal time logging and WorkComposer for manager-visibility — they don't conflict.
Have 50+ seats?
Email our team and we'll help plan the parallel-run setup.
Keep the timer. Gain the layer.
Same simple time tracking, with the team-visibility layer Toggl deliberately doesn't ship. Full feature access, 7-day trial, no credit card.