Comparison
TimeChamp is a serious time-tracking tool with deep activity instrumentation. EmployeeSight runs the same job with privacy controls your team will actually accept — and adds the full HR side of the platform.
The detail
| Feature | EmployeeSight | TimeChamp |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing & contract | ||
Per-employee monthly (entry) | ₹399 — Work plan | ≈ $4 / ₹330 — Starter |
Annual discount | 20% off | ≈ 15-20% off |
Free trial | 14 days, no card | 14 days, card optional |
Per-feature add-ons | – | yes (screenshots, GPS) |
| Privacy & employee trust | ||
Screenshots default | off | on |
Private hours (zero record) | – | |
Per-employee opt-out | limited | |
Plain-English 'what's tracked' | policy doc | |
Keystroke logging | never | available as add-on |
| Time tracking | ||
Manual + automatic | ||
Per project, per client | ||
Idle / active signals | ||
Project hours export | CSV, Excel, API | CSV, PDF |
Productivity scores | 90-day trend | daily snapshot |
| HR side of the house | ||
Payroll (Indian compliance) | yes — Platform | – |
Attendance + leave management | yes — Platform | partial — attendance only |
Onboarding workflows | yes — Platform | – |
Document vault + e-sig | yes — Platform | – |
Unified employee profile (HR + Work) | yes — Platform | – |
| Integrations & data | ||
Slack / email notifications | ||
Tally / Zoho Books / QuickBooks | yes — HR | – |
Public REST API | ||
SSO (Google, Microsoft) | yes — Platform | yes — Enterprise |
| Hosting & compliance | ||
Data residency | Mumbai (AWS ap-south-1) | Hyderabad (IN) · US |
DPDP Act 2023 compliant | Partial | |
SOC 2 | in progress | |
ISO 27001 | roadmap | |
Source citations · COMPARISON_SOURCES.md in the repo · Verified November 2025
Where TimeChamp wins
Honest comparisons matter. These are three scenarios where TimeChamp is the defensible choice — said out loud.
Scenario · 01
TimeChamp's deeper out-of-the-box screenshot and activity instrumentation may match a workflow where every minute needs to be on the record. Our privacy defaults are aimed at teams where the engineer revolt is the bigger risk than the audit revolt.
Scenario · 02
If you've already standardised on a separate HR system and don't want the platform integration, TimeChamp's narrower focus and lower entry price for the time-tracking-only use case is reasonable. We're more compelling as a platform.
Scenario · 03
TimeChamp has been SOC 2 certified longer. Our SOC 2 audit is in progress (target FY 2025-26 close) — if your security review can't wait, that's a real consideration. ISO 27001 is on the roadmap behind it.
Switching
We’ve done this enough times that the path is boring. Your free first payroll review and engineering Slack channel are included.
Pull a CSV of users, projects, and the last 90 days of time entries from TimeChamp's admin → Export.
We auto-match projects and clients by name; you confirm the 5-10 ambiguous ones. Takes about an hour.
We email every active user a private setup link. Their previous time-tracking habits carry over; private hours and opt-outs are on by default.
Keep TimeChamp active for two billing cycles to compare totals. Most teams find EmployeeSight reports within ±2% on the same projects.
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