Effex

Know who is working, without watching what they do

Effex tells you which workstations are in use right now and how the working day actually went — reconstructed from one thing only: whether someone touched the keyboard or mouse.

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What it measures

Presence, minute by minute

Each machine reports once a minute: who is signed in, and when input last happened. A gap shorter than your idle threshold counts as work; a longer one counts as idle — all of it, retroactively, once the length of the gap is known.

A day you can read

Working hours per day as a calendar heatmap, the shape of the day at fifteen-minute resolution, and the day itself as plain intervals: 09:12–11:40 work, 11:40–12:15 idle.

Nothing you did not ask for

No screenshots. No window titles. No list of running programs. The difference between «nobody was there» and «someone was there and not working» is visible; what they were working on is not.

Built to be told about

The client is signed, listed in Add or remove programs, and visible in the task manager. Covert monitoring is a different product with different consequences — and in most places, a legal problem. Effex is meant to be announced to the people it measures.

Pricing

Free

$0forever

Up to 50 machines

  • Who is online right now
  • Active, idle and locked time
  • Per-machine and per-person history

Business

$15per user, per month

or $150 per user, per year

  • Everything in Team
  • Screenshot capture and retention
  • Advanced analytics