Time Doctor is built for whoever signs your timesheet. Stunda is built for whoever sends the invoice.

Its top tier detects mouse jigglers, flags irregular keyboard activity and records video of screens. That is a serious answer to a question employers ask. If nobody is auditing you, and the document you need at the end of the month is an invoice rather than a payroll report, you are buying an apparatus pointed at the wrong person.

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Stunda and Time Doctor, line by line

Workforce analytics for employers, priced per seat, with activity-faking detection on the top tier. Rows are marked for whichever product actually wins them.

Feature comparison between Stunda and Time Doctor, checked 15 August 2026
Feature	Stunda	Time Doctor
Free plan	Free forever for one user	None. 14-day trial of Premium
Client invoicing	Tracked time becomes a branded PDF or a shareable link	Payroll-ready reports. No client invoicing on their pricing or features pages
History retained	Unlimited, on every plan including Free	3 months on Basic, 6 on Standard, 2 years on Premium
Screenshots	Off by default, your own machine, never mandated	Included from Basic, configured by the organisation
Keystrokes	Counted, never recorded. No content, ever	Irregular Keyboard Activity reporting on Premium
Video screen recording	Not offered, deliberately	On Premium, or a paid add-on below it
Activity-faking detection	Not offered, deliberately	Mouse jiggler and clicker detection on Premium
Payroll and attendance	Not offered	Payroll, schedules, attendance, leave and time approvals
Platforms	macOS and Windows, plus the web dashboard	Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome and mobile
API access	Included on every plan, including Free	Open API access starts at Premium
Works offline	Desktop app keeps tracking if the internet drops	Online and offline tracking from Basic
MCP server	First-party, read and write, any user, every plan	None published

One person Time Doctor: $6.67 Stunda Pro: $4.49

5 people Time Doctor: $33.35 Stunda Team: $22.45

Time Doctor at $6.67 per seat a month, billed annually. Basic is the cheapest way in and it retains three months of history. Standard is $11.67 per seat and Premium $16.70, both on annual billing, or $8, $14 and $20 month to month. Open API access and single sign-on start at Premium; several reports are per-seat add-ons on the tiers below it. Stunda Team is $4.49 per person a month, with no seat cap. That is where the two models separate: 1.5x at 5 people.

The top tier measures whether you are faking it

Premium adds mouse jiggler and clicker detection, irregular keyboard activity flags, an unusual activity report and video screen recording. Read together, those are not productivity features, they are integrity checks, and they only make sense if someone has a reason to doubt the person being measured. Stunda has no equivalent and will not grow one. Its tracker increments counters and discards the events, so there is no content to review, no video to scrub and nobody on the other end of it.

History with a shelf life is a billing problem

Time Doctor's Basic tier retains three months of tracking data, Standard six, and two years arrives at Premium. If you are running a workforce, three months is usually enough. If you are the person who has to reconstruct what you did on a project that ran from January, or answer a client querying an invoice from two quarters ago, a retention window is the thing that fails you at exactly the wrong moment. Stunda keeps your full history on every plan, including the free one, because the record is the product.

Payroll and invoices point in opposite directions

Time Doctor's financial output is a payroll report: hours verified against activity so an employer can pay staff. Stunda's is an invoice: hours turned into a branded PDF or a shareable link so a client can pay you. Both start from tracked time and they are not interchangeable. Neither Time Doctor's pricing page nor its features page mentions client invoicing at all, so a freelancer who buys it still ends up exporting hours into something else to get paid, which is the step that made the timer feel pointless in the first place.

Your time, inside the assistant you already use

Time Doctor's AI sits on Premium or arrives as per-seat add-ons: Benchmarks AI compares your people against a pool of other companies, and the Unusual Activity report analyses keyboard and mouse patterns to catch simulated work. Both are pointed at the person being tracked, on behalf of somebody else. Stunda's AI is pointed at your own day and answers to you: a digest of where the hours went, plain-language questions resolved against your own rows, and a workload reading that refuses to guess under about two weeks of history. The MCP server is the sharper difference. Time Doctor publishes none, so your data is reachable through their API only from Premium at $16.70 per seat. Stunda's is on every plan including Free, runs strictly as you, and can log an entry as well as read one.

Your hours, readable from your own AI client

Stunda hosts an MCP endpoint, so Claude, Cursor, Codex and VS Code can answer questions about your tracked week without an export. It runs strictly as you, on every plan including Free, and it uses no AI quota.

How the AI layer is built

Time Doctor is a serious product for a job Stunda does not do

If you are responsible for a distributed workforce, Time Doctor gives you attendance, schedules, leave, time approvals and payroll-ready reports in one place, on Linux and mobile as well as desktop, with benchmarks drawn from a large pool of other companies. Those are real capabilities built for a real problem, and Stunda has none of them. It is also honest about what it is: their own FAQ says the aim is to measure how effective teams are so you can protect the business. That is a coherent product for an employer. The question is only whether you are one.

Moving over from Time Doctor

Nothing here is a migration project. The honest version is that tracking starts fresh and your history comes across as a file.

Export your history from Time Doctor as CSV and keep it. It is your record of what you already billed, and it does not need to live in Stunda for that to be true.
Install Stunda and let it run for a week alongside Time Doctor. The two do not conflict, and a week is long enough to see whether the sessions it records match what you would have typed in. Time Doctor has no free plan, so the overlap week runs on its trial. Start Stunda first and you will not be racing a clock.
Re-create your active projects and rates, which for most people is a handful of rows. Historical entries can be posted through the API or logged by an assistant through MCP if you want them in one place.
Invoice from Stunda once before you cancel anything. If the number it produces matches the number you would have sent, the switch is done.

Time Doctor and Stunda: common questions

How much does Time Doctor cost?

Time Doctor has no free plan, only a 14-day trial of Premium. Basic is $6.67 per user a month billed annually or $8 month to month, Standard is $11.67 annual or $14 monthly, and Premium is $16.70 annual or $20 monthly. Enterprise is custom. Their own FAQ describes annual billing as two months free, a 16.6% discount. Checked 15 August 2026.

Does Time Doctor have a free plan?

No. Every tier is paid, and the trial is two weeks of full Premium access with no card required. Stunda's free plan is not a trial: one user, unlimited history, and three invoices a month, with no clock running. Checked 15 August 2026.

Can Time Doctor invoice my clients?

Not as far as their published material goes. Time Doctor documents payroll-ready reports and time approvals, which are about paying staff, and neither its pricing page nor its features page mentions generating client invoices. If invoicing is why you are tracking time, that is the gap. Checked 15 August 2026.

Does Stunda detect mouse jigglers or idle-faking?

No, and it will not. Stunda has idle detection so that time away from the machine does not land on an invoice, which protects your client. It has nothing that reports on you to somebody else, because there is nobody else in the product for a solo user, and in a Team workspace what an admin can see is sessions and reports, never typed content or video.

I run a small agency. Is Time Doctor the better choice?

It depends on what you need at the end of the month. If you need attendance, schedules, leave and payroll for employees, Time Doctor covers ground Stunda does not. If your team bills clients by the hour and the deliverable is an invoice, Stunda is the shorter path, and at five people the rate comparison above is on this page.

Does Stunda run on Linux?

Not today. The desktop app is macOS and Windows, and the web dashboard runs in any browser for reviewing sessions and sending invoices. Time Doctor ships Linux, Chrome and mobile clients, so if Linux tracking is a requirement it is the one that has it.

Where these numbers come from

Every Time Doctor figure on this page was read off Time Doctor's own public pages on 15 August 2026, and we quote their cheapest advertised rate rather than their most expensive. Prices change; if you find one here that no longer matches theirs, it is our mistake and telling us fixes it for everyone.

Stunda's own prices come from our pricing page, and the plan limits described here are the ones the API actually enforces rather than marketing copy about them.