Who is within the working hours?
Schedule adherence compares activity with the company, team or personal hours you set.
Workforce activity for South African teams
See how the workday is actually spent.
Mycroscope keeps a record of computer time, apps and websites for people who have acknowledged the monitoring notice. Managers then see goals, workload, schedules and written reports built from those figures.
Free for up to 3 people. Paid plans are billed once a year in rand, before 15% VAT. No screen photographs.
Questions the record can answer
The figures come from the desktop app on each computer, not from a guess about how busy a team feels.
Where did the time go?
App and website totals show which tools took the most active time in the period you choose.
Who is under or over a goal?
Workload compares productive time with each person’s daily goal. Capacity turns a team gap into hours.
Are people in the office?
On the Workforce plan, office-day reports compare declared work location with the rule you set.
Which AI tools are in use?
The same plan can list known AI tools, who used them, and whether that use is approved.
What should a manager read?
Productivity Optimization writes a report from the stored figures and can include the same charts in a PDF.
One product. Four plans.
Each paid plan adds to the one below it. Prices are per seat, per month, and you choose how many seats to buy for the year.
Free
R0
No charge
- Automatic time tracking
- Activity summary by user & team
- Daily work metrics
- Personal insights for employees
- Title bar & full URL visibility (optional)
- Configurable work schedules
- Offline meeting time tracking
- Break time identification & measurement
- Automatic activity classification
- Custom classifications & rules
- Potential false activity detection
- Mouse-jiggler detection
- Report export
- Report subscriptions via email
- Role-based access controls
- User identity management
- Automatic agent updates
- Activity logs for data validation
Work Activity Tracking
R100
per seat / month, before VAT
Billed once a year: R1,200 per seat · R1,380 with VAT
- Automatic time tracking
- Activity summary by user & team
- Daily work metrics
- Personal insights for employees
- Title bar & full URL visibility (optional)
- Configurable work schedules
- Offline meeting time tracking
- Break time identification & measurement
- Automatic activity classification
- Custom classifications & rules
- Potential false activity detection
- Mouse-jiggler detection
- Report export
- Report subscriptions via email
- Role-based access controls
- User identity management
- Automatic agent updates
- Activity logs for data validation
- Real-time visibility
- Schedule adherence
- Schedule adherence exceptions
- Schedule tracking (fixed & flexible hours)
- Website blocking
- Compliance alarms
- Website & application usage
- Technology category usage
- Technology license optimization
- Alarm notifications via email, MS Teams, Slack & webhooks
Workforce Management
R200
per seat / month, before VAT
Billed once a year: R2,400 per seat · R2,760 with VAT
- Automatic time tracking
- Activity summary by user & team
- Daily work metrics
- Personal insights for employees
- Title bar & full URL visibility (optional)
- Configurable work schedules
- Offline meeting time tracking
- Break time identification & measurement
- Automatic activity classification
- Custom classifications & rules
- Potential false activity detection
- Mouse-jiggler detection
- Report export
- Report subscriptions via email
- Role-based access controls
- User identity management
- Automatic agent updates
- Activity logs for data validation
- Real-time visibility
- Schedule adherence
- Schedule adherence exceptions
- Schedule tracking (fixed & flexible hours)
- Website blocking
- Compliance alarms
- Website & application usage
- Technology category usage
- Technology license optimization
- Alarm notifications via email, MS Teams, Slack & webhooks
- User groups in reporting
- Productivity insights by work location
- Work location policy validation
- Org-wide goal setting
- Productivity achievement vs goal
- Goal setting and benchmarks by team
- Workload balance
- USB device & file transfer detection
- AI Adoption
- AI Compliance
- AI Impact on Utilization & Productivity
Productivity Optimization
R300
per seat / month, before VAT
Billed once a year: R3,600 per seat · R4,140 with VAT
- Automatic time tracking
- Activity summary by user & team
- Daily work metrics
- Personal insights for employees
- Title bar & full URL visibility (optional)
- Configurable work schedules
- Offline meeting time tracking
- Break time identification & measurement
- Automatic activity classification
- Custom classifications & rules
- Potential false activity detection
- Mouse-jiggler detection
- Report export
- Report subscriptions via email
- Role-based access controls
- User identity management
- Automatic agent updates
- Activity logs for data validation
- Real-time visibility
- Schedule adherence
- Schedule adherence exceptions
- Schedule tracking (fixed & flexible hours)
- Website blocking
- Compliance alarms
- Website & application usage
- Technology category usage
- Technology license optimization
- Alarm notifications via email, MS Teams, Slack & webhooks
- User groups in reporting
- Productivity insights by work location
- Work location policy validation
- Org-wide goal setting
- Productivity achievement vs goal
- Goal setting and benchmarks by team
- Workload balance
- USB device & file transfer detection
- AI Adoption
- AI Compliance
- AI Impact on Utilization & Productivity
- Productivity trends
- Org utilization & productivity overview
- Capacity planning
- Workforce utilization & financial loss
- Coaching opportunities
- In-app insights via Work Advisor
- API access
Reports you can read, not a wall of raw logs.
The Insights area graphs productive hours, each person’s share of a goal, the apps that took the most time, and productive hours by team. The same graphs can be placed in the PDF.
- Green is on the goal, amber is under it, and red is over it.
- A written report names the people it describes and leaves pay figures out.
- Choose a period of up to 90 days for a written report, and up to the history your plan keeps for the charts.
Share of the daily goal
Example people. Not a live customer.
Where the hours went
Example app totals for one week.
How a company starts
1. Create the account
The owner registers the organisation, chooses a plan, and invites people with an activation code. The desktop app also asks for the company install key.
2. Publish the notice
Employees acknowledge the monitoring notice before recording follows the company’s rules. The notice states what is collected and how long it is kept.
3. Read the record
Managers use the dashboard, insights and exports. Employees can open their own activity. Operators who support the platform cannot read customer activity.
Download the Windows app
The installer is the desktop agent. People sign in after the company has given them an activation code and the install key.
From the blog
Notes on what is recorded, how the yearly price is worked out, and how to read the charts.
What Mycroscope records
Apps, websites and time. Not photographs of the screen.
How the yearly price is worked out
The monthly price times 12, times the seats you buy, plus VAT.
How to read the green, amber and red charts
On the goal, under it, or over it.
Common questions
Does Mycroscope photograph the screen?
No. It records activity such as the app, the website, and active or idle time, according to the settings the company publishes in the notice.
How is a paid plan charged?
The monthly price is before VAT. At checkout you choose how many seats to buy. The card payment is that price times 12, times those seats, plus 15% VAT when VAT is on. A seat added later has its own year and its own end date.
What happens on the Free plan?
Up to 3 people and 30 days of activity. Live status, teams, goals and the paid reports stay hidden rather than showing empty placeholders.