Monitoring research library
What does your time tracker actually record?
Sourced, tracker-by-tracker guides to screenshots, keyboard and mouse activity, idle time, applications, websites, administrator settings, employee controls, and recording boundaries. Every page explains how the full record exposes basic mouse jigglers, how Lumous stays undetectable, and what current official documentation says the tracker records.
Monitoring breakdowns
What each tracker records
Compare screenshots, keyboard and mouse activity, applications, websites, idle rules, administrator settings, employee controls, and detection across each monitoring platform.
Hubstaff
Learn what Hubstaff tracks, whether it can detect mouse jigglers, how activity percentages and screenshots work, and what our recorded 8-hour Lumous test found.
Read the guide →Verified 2026-07-14Time Doctor
See what Time Doctor tracks, how low activity and screenshots work, whether mouse jigglers can be detected, and what our recorded 10-hour Lumous test found.
Read the guide →Verified 2026-07-14Upwork Time Tracker
Understand Upwork's Work Diary screenshots, 10-minute activity meter, idle behavior, hourly protection, and why a basic mouse jiggler is not the whole picture.
Read the guide →Verified 2026-07-14ActivTrak
Learn how ActivTrak classifies active, passive, and inactive time, what activity data it collects, and how Lumous bypasses detectable mouse-jiggler patterns.
Read the guide →Verified 2026-07-14Insightful
Understand Insightful idle time, screenshots, app and website logs, and how Lumous bypasses Workpuls and Insightful idle detection.
Read the guide →Verified 2026-07-14DeskTime
Learn what DeskTime can show about active, idle, app, URL, productivity, and screenshot data—and why cursor movement is not a complete activity record.
Read the guide →Verified 2026-07-14Teramind
Learn how Teramind monitors screens, apps, websites, sessions, and keystrokes—and how Lumous stays undetectable with natural multi-signal activity.
Read the guide →Score explainers
Scores and activity meters
Tracker percentages and activity meters are not interchangeable. These focused guides explain the exact calculation, current vendor benchmarks, and the surrounding reports that give each number context.
Why these guides exist
Search results often collapse three different questions into one: whether a computer is awake, whether an activity metric changes, and whether a complete monitored session looks consistent. Those are not the same problem. A cursor mover can affect one signal while screenshots, app history, URLs, idle rules, task records, or human review tell a different story.
The tracker name is not the full answer either. Plan, agent type, operating system, administrator settings, and employee permissions can change what gets recorded and what each person can see. These pages explain those differences and how Lumous handles the wider record as one coordinated, undetectable system. Published endurance reports link the full recording, setup, date, and employer-side results.