Time Doctor is a focused time-tracking tool. Peoplifi delivers the same desktop agent plus full HR and payroll, replacing three subscriptions with one.
Time Doctor is excellent if all you need is desktop time tracking, screenshots, and productivity reports. The moment you need to also manage time off, run payroll, or onboard new hires, Peoplifi consolidates everything into one tool that costs less than Time Doctor + a separate HRIS.
Time Doctor is a dedicated workforce-analytics platform serving BPOs, agencies, and remote-first teams. It offers a mature desktop agent, productivity reports, and a Workforce Intelligence dashboard. Pricing is $7 to $20 per user per month depending on the tier. There is no built-in HR system or payroll — those live in separate tools.
Basic: $7/user/mo. Standard: $10/user/mo. Premium: $20/user/mo. Workforce Intelligence add-on extra. No HR or payroll.
Starter $3/seat/mo. Growth $6/seat/mo. Business $12/seat/mo. Time tracking + HR + payroll bundled.
Pure-play time-tracking customers — BPOs, agencies, and outsourcing teams that already have HR handled separately and want the deepest workforce-analytics features.
Teams that want to replace Time Doctor + BambooHR + Gusto with one tool, and that value a unified employee experience over standalone analytics depth.
Time Doctor's Workforce Intelligence dashboard goes deeper on advanced analytics (focus time, distraction frequency, productivity benchmarks). Peoplifi covers the core: app categories, idle vs active, screenshots, and per-project hours. For most SMBs that's plenty.
Yes, on Growth and Business plans. Set hourly rates per project per employee and export billable hour reports for invoicing.
Yes. Time Doctor exports timesheet history as CSV — Peoplifi imports up to 12 months. Older data can be archived as PDF on Business plans.
Yes. Peoplifi provides MSI (Windows), PKG (macOS), and DEB/RPM (Linux) installers compatible with Jamf, Kandji, Microsoft Intune, and Workspace ONE.
Time Doctor is one of the longest-running time-tracking and productivity-monitoring platforms with strong adoption among BPOs (particularly in the Philippines, India, and Pakistan), software development agencies, virtual-assistant companies, and remote-first organisations serving distributed clients. Strengths include sophisticated desktop-agent activity tracking, screenshot capture with configurable frequency, distraction alerts when employees navigate away from work apps, integrated payroll for some markets, project-based time allocation, and detailed productivity reporting. Like Hubstaff, Time Doctor's limitation is that it's a time-tracking tool first — payroll for most jurisdictions, leave management, performance reviews, onboarding, and compliance reporting require separate platforms.
Peoplifi's bundled time-tracking on every plan delivers most of Time Doctor's core capabilities (desktop agent, screenshot capture, idle detection, app categorisation, productivity reporting) at no additional cost as part of broader HRIS. For typical SMBs, the bundled approach delivers comparable time-tracking plus full HR functionality (payroll, leave, performance, onboarding, compliance) in a single integrated platform. The operational simplicity of one system vs two — fewer integration points, fewer vendor relationships, fewer per-employee licensing fees, single source of truth for employee data — is materially valuable.
Time Doctor retains advantages for specific scenarios. (1) **BPO and outsourced-services operations** where Time Doctor's productivity-and-distraction analytics align with operational management norms. (2) **Companies prioritising productivity-scoring over HR depth** — performance management driven primarily by productivity metrics. (3) **Multi-currency contractor invoicing** with Time Doctor's native client-billing capabilities. (4) **Established Time Doctor deployments** where switching costs exceed bundled-platform benefits. For these contexts, Time Doctor's specialised depth justifies the separate-platform overhead.
Time Doctor's pricing tiers run USD 5.9-19 per employee per month depending on tier and features. Adding HR-payroll-leave functionality through separate platforms can add USD 8-20 per employee. Peoplifi's per-seat pricing includes time-tracking bundled with full HRIS — typical 50-person team Peoplifi cost is USD 300-400/month vs Time Doctor Premium at USD 600+/month plus separate HRIS investment of USD 400-1,000+/month. The total-cost differential is substantial for organisations needing both time-tracking and HR.
Time Doctor-to-Peoplifi consolidation involves (1) Export Time Doctor employee master, project structures, and historical timesheets (typically up to 12 months); (2) Bulk-import to Peoplifi via the migration wizard; (3) Configure Peoplifi's desktop agent for the workforce — MSI for Windows, PKG for macOS, DEB/RPM for Linux, all MDM-compatible (Jamf, Kandji, Intune, Workspace ONE); (4) Reconfigure project structures and rate cards if used for client billing; (5) Cutover at a clean payroll boundary. Most migrations complete in 1-2 weeks of HR effort. Older Time Doctor timesheet data can be archived as PDFs through Concierge migration on Business plans.
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