⚡ vs. Hubstaff

Hubstaff monitors employees. Chronixo monitors work - with privacy built in.

Hubstaff stores screenshot data on their servers. Chronixo routes all screenshots to your own AWS S3, GCP, or Azure Blob - so your employee data never leaves your cloud. Plus a native client portal and sprint planning.

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Chronixo vs. Hubstaff

Everything Hubstaff leaves you piecing together - and how Chronixo delivers it in one platform.

What Hubstaff is missing

Screenshots stored on Hubstaff servers - data sovereignty concern for NDA clients

No client portal - clients cannot self-serve project progress or approve timesheets

No native sprint planning - needs Jira, Asana, or another PM tool alongside

No formal multi-level timesheet approval chain at any pricing tier

Keystroke tracking available - raises employee trust and legal concerns in some regions

More expensive per user for comparable monitoring features

What Chronixo gives you

BYOS S3 - screenshots route to your own cloud, never Chronixo servers

Client portal included - clients get branded self-service access to their projects

Native sprint planning with velocity and burndown - no third-party PM tool needed

4-level timesheet approval chain - not available in Hubstaff

Transparent monitoring - employees are always notified when monitoring is active

No keystroke logging - ever. Chronixo monitors work, not people.

Feature comparison

Hubstaff vs. Chronixo, feature by feature

A feature-by-feature look at where Hubstaff stops short and Chronixo keeps going.

Feature	Hubstaff	Chronixo
Screenshot monitoring	✓	✓BYOS S3 - your cloud
Client portal	✗	✓Yes Included
Sprint planning	✗	✓Yes Exclusive
4-level approval	✗	✓Yes Exclusive
Keystroke logging	✓	✗Never
BYOS S3 storage	✗	✓Yes Free on paid plans
Activity % tracking	✓	✓

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Where your screenshot data lives

Hubstaff

Screenshots → Hubstaff servers → Your dashboard Your employee data lives on a third-party server.

Chronixo with BYOS S3

Screenshots → Your AWS/GCP bucket → Your dashboard Chronixo only receives metadata. Your data never leaves your cloud.

Why teams switch

Why agencies move from Hubstaff to Chronixo

The real reasons agencies replace Hubstaff with Chronixo.

Privacy and data sovereignty

Hubstaff stores screenshots on their servers. For agencies with NDAs, healthcare clients, or GDPR obligations, that creates a compliance exposure. Chronixo's BYOS S3 routes every screenshot directly to your cloud - Chronixo only receives metadata.

No client portal

Hubstaff has no built-in client portal. Clients wanting to see project status or review timesheets get a PDF export at best.

No sprint planning

Hubstaff is monitoring and time tracking. There is no sprint planning, velocity tracking, or native project management - agencies using Scrum still need a separate PM tool.