Never be blindsided by missed productivity targets.
Tru Hours gives operations leaders precise, real-time visibility into where productive hours go — so risks surface before they become costs.
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Built for the way modern operations teams work
Acme Co
Northwind
Globex
Initech
Vandelay
Pied Piper
How Tru Hours works
Precise data. Proactive insight. Better outcomes.
Four steps from quiet observability to measurable productivity gains.
Track silently
Native desktop apps detect activity, idle time, and the apps in active use. No browser extensions, no surveillance theatre.
Classify automatically
Your rules decide what counts as productive. Every minute is auto-labeled in real time — no spreadsheet audits.
See the patterns
Trends by team, project, and individual. Spot the drift before it shows up in a missed deadline.
Pay for output
Payroll counts approved productive seconds — not butt-in-seat time. Honest work, honestly compensated.
"The first time-tracking tool we've deployed where employees didn't ask for an exception. Privacy-first by design, not by marketing."
Operations Director
Distributed engineering team, 40 members
Real impact
Outcomes teams report after switching
+23%
Productive hours per FTE
"We finally saw which projects were sucking time and reallocated. Three months later, billable hours were up nearly a quarter."
— Head of Operations, SaaS startup
−40%
Payroll disputes
"Members can see their own data the same way managers do. Disputes about 'were you working?' just stopped happening."
— Founder, distributed agency
< 5 min
Per-week admin overhead
"Auto-classification means I'm not adjudicating timesheets every Friday. The system does what I used to do."
— Manager, customer-success team
Built with security & privacy in mind
Privacy-first architecture
Screenshots never on user disk
Encrypted at rest
AES-256-GCM for tokens
GDPR principles
Export & delete on demand
Audit-logged actions
Every admin change tracked
Actionable precision
Know exactly where productive hours go
Every active minute is captured with the app and window context. Auto-classify by your rules. Drill from team to individual to specific session in two clicks.
- Active app + window title captured per minute
- Per-workspace productivity rules (no one-size-fits-all)
- Drill from aggregate → member → session → screenshot
- Members see their own data, the same way managers do
Proactive approach
Catch the drift before it becomes a deadline miss
Productivity trends per project, per team, per individual. Set up alerts when patterns deviate from baseline. Stop reacting to lagging indicators.
- Trend lines by member, project, and tag
- Idle threshold + auto-stop policy per workspace
- Anomaly highlighting on the team dashboard
- Daily/weekly digest emails for managers
Outcome control
Only productive time gets paid
Auto-approval rules handle the obvious cases. The approval queue handles the edge cases. Payroll counts productive seconds — not idle time, not unproductive minutes.
- Hourly rate + currency per member
- Auto-approve rules per workspace
- Manual queue with bulk-approve + by-member views
- Payroll CSV export or push via API
Everything in the box
The full Tru Hours feature set
Every plan includes everything below. No "Enterprise — call us" gating on the features that matter.
Native desktop timer
Windows + macOS apps. Detects idle, captures the active app, survives reboots.
Privacy-first screenshots
Streamed encrypted to your server. Never written to the employee's disk.
Productive vs unproductive
Auto-classify every minute using rules you define per workspace.
Payroll on productive seconds
Hourly rate per member. Idle and unproductive minutes don't bill.
Auto + manual approvals
Auto-approve clean sessions, queue edge cases, bulk-approve by member or day.
Custom roles & permissions
Override role baselines per workspace, grant or revoke permissions per member.
Projects, tasks & sprints
Custom task statuses + priorities per workspace. Cascade member removal cleanly.
By-member analytics
Drill from team totals to per-member breakdown to a single session in two clicks.
Platform admin console
Cross-workspace control: plans, branding, suspensions, audit-logged impersonation.
Device management
See every device tracking time. Revoke any one. Require approval for new devices.
Audit logs
Every admin action recorded. Diff metadata stored. Filterable, exportable.
CSV export & API
Push to your payroll provider or BI stack via REST. CSV for everything else.
Recognition
Recognized for the work, not the marketing
Best for privacy
Quarterly review
Easiest to use
Member-reported
Best value
2026
Top rated
By admins
G2
4.7/5
Capterra
4.8/5
GetApp
4.7/5
Trustpilot
4.6/5
FAQ
Frequent questions
See where your productive hours actually go.
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