Full Team Visibility Without Micromanagement
Grade: C — Score: 55/100
Modge utilizes a lightweight desktop agent to automatically track time, classify app and website usage, and manage shift attendance, providing a seamless experience for both employees and managers. Compatible with macOS and Windows, it requires minimal setup and offers real-time insights into team productivity.
The software streamlines workflows by automatically generating payroll-ready timesheets and facilitating attendance management without manual entry. With features like productivity dashboards and idle time tracking, Modge empowers managers to make data-driven decisions and optimize team performance.
By highlighting potential risks such as burnout and suspicious activity, Modge allows organizations to address issues proactively, ensuring a healthier work environment. This focus on prevention rather than punishment fosters a culture of accountability and transparency.
Basic: $5/seat/month billed monthly, or $4/seat/month billed annually; billable-seat scope needs clarification
Pro: $7/seat/month billed monthly, or $5.50/seat/month billed annually; billable-seat scope needs clarification
Premium: $9/seat/month billed monthly, or $7/seat/month billed annually; billable-seat scope needs clarification
Enterprise: Custom quote; annual billing and volume pricing
More Screenshots (add-on): Advertised $2/seat/month in addition to the plan
Extended Data Retention (add-on): Advertised $2/seat/month, or $1.67/seat/month with annual billing, in addition to the plan
Consider switching to Toggl: Toggl offers similar time tracking features but lacks comprehensive workforce management tools.
Modge's capture guide says it counts keystrokes, clicks and scrolling without recording the typed keys, microphone audio or webcam video. It can still record focused apps, window titles and supported browser URLs during active tracking sessions. If screenshots are enabled, visible private content on connected displays may be captured.
Yes, an authorised administrator can turn off screenshot capture in monitoring settings. Sessions, project tracking, app usage and activity counts continue with screenshots disabled. Capture intervals, blur and individual monitoring overrides are also documented, but they should not be treated as a guarantee that no sensitive information is collected.
The detailed classification guide describes hosted processing of app names and browser URLs or domains, excluding screenshots, window titles and user input; its introduction also mentions window titles, so the input scope needs clarification. Administrators can disable classification or leave auto-apply off, but those controls do not establish a training-specific opt-out. The homepage promises no AI training on team data, while the privacy policy permits training algorithms and analytics models with personal data in pseudonymized or aggregated form. Their relationship remains unclear, and the DPA lists OpenAI as a subprocessor.
Modge calculates productive app time as a percentage of productive plus unproductive app time, using the configured classifications and job-title overrides. Neutral app time, idle time and breaks are excluded from that score. A high score therefore does not establish that all recorded hours were active or that the employee produced high-quality work; review it alongside hours, activity and the work itself.
Modge documents desktop support for macOS and Windows, while its system requirements explicitly say there is no supported Linux installer. A dashboard available in a browser should not be assumed to provide equivalent desktop capture on Linux. Clockify documents a Linux app if that device support is essential, with capabilities varying across platforms and plans.
A mobile GPS or geofenced clock-in workflow was not established in the reviewed Modge documentation. Its attendance workflow compares scheduled shifts with desktop-tracked hours, with scheduling and adherence available from Pro. Connecteam documents mobile GPS and job-site geofencing for field attendance, subject to its device permissions and plan coverage.
Yes, Modge combines tracked sessions, manual entries and approved leave into timesheets and pay periods, with access governed by roles and scope. Most edits to tracked entries require a reason, and approved pay periods lock hours and rates until the period is unlocked. Leave workflows require an eligible plan, and the resulting payroll export still needs processing in your external provider.
Modge documents payroll preparation, not payroll tax calculation or a direct-deposit service. Owners can export payroll snapshots as generic, Wise-formatted or PayPal-formatted CSV files containing hours and pay amounts. The export guide excludes tax withholdings and direct-deposit bank details, so tax administration and payments remain with your payroll or payment provider.
Yes, Pro adds online client billing through your own Stripe account, with Stripe processing fees charged separately. Setup uses your Stripe API keys and a webhook, and payments go to your Stripe balance. Card and ACH payments are documented, with ACH limited to US bank accounts. Confirm the permitted client-facing use of reports and outputs, because Modge's terms reserve output rights and restrict third-party service use despite its client-billing offering.
Modge documents report and payroll-file exports, additional export requests, and deletion through organisation controls or support. Deletion can preserve anonymized hours and audit records, with backup and legal-retention exceptions. Cancellation help describes access through the billing period, while the terms make fees non-refundable and can require remaining order payments. Pricing windows, role-based history access and storage retention are not clearly mapped, so export before access ends and confirm the applicable deletion schedule.
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