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The Insightful alternative with a live office.

Horapod tracks hours and takes screenshots, like Insightful. It also shows your team at work in a live office, from $1 per worker a month.

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The Horapod office: the team at their desks, three of them in the meeting room.

The short answer

  1. Horapod Starter, with screenshots, is $1 per worker billed monthly. Insightful starts at $8 a seat a month, billed yearly. 1
  2. Horapod shows your team in a live office.
  3. Insightful offers screen recording and a workflow analytics plan. 1

Prices

USD per worker per month. Billed monthly.

Horapod

  • Free $0
  • Starter $1
  • Premium $2.99

Same price billed yearly.

Insightful 1

  • Workforce Analytics Monthly price not published $8 a month billed yearly
  • Workflow Optimization (beta) Monthly price not published $12 a month billed yearly
  • Combo Monthly price not published $16 a month billed yearly
  • Enterprise Custom

Insightful's pricing page shows yearly-billed prices per seat only, and charges extra for some screenshot options. 1

Side by side

Horapod and Insightful, feature by feature
Feature Horapod Insightful
Free plan Yes Unlimited users No free plan. 7‑day trial, no card. 1
Live office view Yes Starter, $1 A Real-Time Overview comes with Workforce Analytics. No office view is listed. 1
Screenshots Yes Starter, $1 Included in Workforce Analytics. On-demand screenshots $4 and more frequent screenshots $3 per seat a month, extra. 1
Screenshot blur Yes Premium, $2.99 Yes. The admin sets the blur level. 4
Idle detection Yes Starter, $1 Yes: active and idle time, and idle time alerts. Plan not stated. 1
Activity level Yes Starter, $1 Not confirmed on their pages. 1
Apps and sites Yes Starter, $1 Yes: app and website usage, in Workforce Analytics. 1
Meeting status Yes Starter, $1 Reports only: time on online meetings. Not a live status. 2
Fake input detection Yes Premium, $2.99 Yes, in all plans. An after-shift alert flags keyboard jamming, mouse click jamming and input-simulation software. Not live. 3
Clock-in photo Yes Premium, $2.99 Not listed on their pages. 2
Timesheet approval Yes Premium, $2.99 Not listed on their pages. Only automatic timesheets are listed. 1
Windows and Mac Yes Windows 10 and later, and macOS 11 and later. Linux is in beta. 5
Phone apps and GPS Yes Not supported on phones or tablets. GPS is not listed. 5

Where Horapod is different

Starter, $1

A live office, not a list.

On Starter, your team shows up in a live office, desk by desk: working, idle or in a meeting.

Desks in the Horapod office, each person at work on their own screen.

Starter, $1

Screenshots from $1.

Horapod Starter is $1 per worker a month. Insightful starts at $8 a seat a month, billed yearly. 1

Premium, $2.99

Fake input detection on Premium.

Mouse jigglers and fake typing get flagged on Premium, $2.99.

Free

Free for unlimited workers.

Hours, attendance and who is clocked in, free for any team size. Insightful has no free plan. 1

Where Insightful is better

  • Screen recording.

    $4 per seat a month, extra. 1

  • Workflow analytics.

    A Workflow Optimization plan, $12 a seat a month billed yearly, in beta. 1

  • Large teams.

    Enterprise plans, and on-premise for 250 employees and up. 1

  • Fake input alerts on every plan.

    An after-shift alert, included in all plans. 3

Pick Insightful if you want screen recording, or run a large team that needs on-premise. 1

Questions

Is Horapod cheaper than Insightful?

Horapod Starter is $1 per worker a month, billed monthly or yearly. Insightful's pricing page shows $8 a seat a month, billed yearly. 1

Does Horapod work on Mac?

Yes. Windows and Mac.

Is Horapod free?

Yes, for unlimited users: hours, attendance and who is clocked in. Screenshots, idle detection and apps and sites start on Starter, $1.

Can I try Horapod without a card?

Yes. The Free plan is free for unlimited users, with no time limit and no card needed.

Sources

  1. 1 Insightful pricing page From Insightful insightful.io/pricing Checked October 23, 2026
  2. 2 Insightful features page From Insightful insightful.io/features Checked October 23, 2026
  3. 3 Insightful help centre From Insightful help.insightful.io/en/articles/16663834 Checked October 23, 2026
  4. 4 Insightful help centre From Insightful help.insightful.io/en/articles/5653329 Checked October 23, 2026
  5. 5 Insightful help centre From Insightful help.insightful.io/en/articles/3666225 Checked October 23, 2026

Insightful is a trademark of its owner. Horapod is not affiliated with Insightful.

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