BiBoTracking
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BiBoTracking
A free, open-source Hubstaff alternative for macOS & Windows. BiBoTracking measures active app & window time, keystroke volume, periodic screenshots and browser activity — stored locally on each computer, and rolled up for owners in a clean web dashboard.
Free for 2 years, then $1/month · open source & self-hostable · Universal macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) & Windows 10+.
Who it's for
Track just yourself, your team, or your family — the same honest signals and local-first privacy. You decide who, if anyone, sees the data.
Track your own app time, activity and screenshots — 100% local. No account, and nothing ever leaves your computer.
No account neededActive time, screenshots and activity for staff or freelancers, rolled up for you in one clean web dashboard.
Free accountKeep an eye on your kids' screen time with the same gentle, transparent signals — so you can talk about it together.
Free accountWhat it captures
Four lightweight signals give an honest picture of the workday — without screen-scraping content or logging what people type.
Idle-aware active time per app and window. Idle gaps are hatched out, not counted.
Counts only — a measure of typing activity. Actual keys are never captured or stored.
Automatic captures on a set interval, compressed under 50 KB, with an auto-delete retention window.
A featherweight Manifest V3 extension reports active page and time — to the local app only.
Everything lands in a single local SQLite file. Sync to the owner dashboard is optional and one-way.
A quiet menu-bar (system-tray on Windows) indicator shows tracking, idle or paused — and lets you start, stop or open the app.
See it in action
The desktop app the employee runs, and the web dashboard owners sign in to. Real product, real data.
The desktop app — dashboard, activity, screenshots, browser and org-managed settings.
The owner dashboard — drill into any employee's activity, keystrokes, browser and screenshots.
How it works
The employee installs BiBoTracking on macOS or Windows and grants the requested capture permissions (Accessibility, Input Monitoring and Screen Recording on macOS). Status auto-updates the moment they're granted.
Optional. The Manifest V3 extension auto-discovers the local app and reports browser pages to 127.0.0.1 — never to the cloud. Get it on the Chrome Web Store →
Activity syncs one-way to the dashboard, where owners review time, keystrokes, browser history and screenshots per employee.
Inside the product
The same data, presented for whoever's looking — flat, minimal, dark or light.
BiBoTracking vs Hubstaff
If you use Hubstaff for app, screenshot and activity monitoring, you already know the workflow. This is the open-source, local-first version — for a flat price, or free if you host it yourself.
| Feature | Employee Tracker | Hubstaff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free 2 yrs, then $1/mo flat | Paid, per user / month |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Self-hostable | Yes | No |
| Local-first storage | Yes | Cloud only |
| App & window time | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic screenshots | Yes | Yes |
| Activity / keystroke level | Yes — counts only | Yes |
| Browser / URL tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Owner web dashboard & reports | Yes | Yes |
| No per-seat pricing | Yes | No |
Comparison based on publicly listed Hubstaff plans and features. “Hubstaff” is a trademark of its respective owner; BiBoTracking is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hubstaff.
Privacy by design
Transparency isn't a setting — it's how the product is built.
The keyboard signal is a count of presses per bucket. The keys themselves are never read or stored.
All activity lands in a local SQLite file. Sync to the dashboard is optional, one-way and idempotent.
Browser tracking can store just the domain instead of the full URL — your policy, your call.
Screenshots auto-delete past a set window, and the whole capture policy is managed centrally by the org.
Pricing
No trials, no seats to count, no credit card to start. Just install and go.
Every feature, every signal, the full web dashboard — free for your first two years.
A single flat dollar a month keeps the hosted service running. That's it.
Open source
BiBoTracking is open source — the Go backend, web dashboard, desktop app (macOS & Windows) and Chrome extension are all yours to read, audit and run on your own machine, free forever. The hosted service here is just the convenient option.
One Go binary serves the API and dashboard, backed by Postgres. Your infrastructure, your rules.
Read the source and verify exactly what's captured — and what never leaves the device.
Your data lives in your own SQLite and Postgres. Export it, move it, keep it — anytime.
Download the desktop app and sign up — no card, no trial clock. After two years it's just $1/month, or self-host it for free.