Momentum vs. ActivTrak
ActivTrak is a powerful monitoring suite. Momentum delivers comparable analytics with a deliberately fairer posture — aggregate-first reporting, self-visibility, and optional (never default) screenshots.
Three differences the checkboxes miss
Feature grids flatten real design decisions. Here's how Momentum and ActivTrak actually diverge in approach.
Moving from ActivTrak in four steps
A realistic migration path — most teams complete it inside a month, with a parallel-run period for confidence.
Export your ActivTrak productive/unproductive categorisations and recreate them as Global App Rules — then improve on them with department overrides where one verdict never really fit everyone.
Deploy Momentum's agent department by department, approving machines from Pending as they enroll. Running both agents briefly on a pilot group is fine for validation.
Use the switch to re-onboard employees: show them their own Timeline and Activity views, state what is and isn't collected, and set screenshot policy explicitly rather than by inherited default.
Recreate your coaching and alert workflows on Momentum's thresholds and Workforce Dashboard, verify a month of trends against expectations, then retire the old deployment.
The bottom line
Choose Momentum if you want the insight of a monitoring suite without the surveillance reputation that stalls adoption.
Switching from ActivTrak, answered
Will we lose analytical depth by leaving ActivTrak?+
The core loop — capture, classify, score, trend — carries over: Timeline, Activity scoring, and the Workforce Dashboard with department and per-user drilldowns. Audit your ActivTrak reports first and confirm each has a Momentum equivalent before cutover.
What does 'aggregate-first' mean in practice?+
Leaders start from department and org rollups — KPIs, trends, time distribution — and drill into individuals when there's a reason to. Individual Timelines exist, but the default posture is patterns over people-watching.
Can employees see what's recorded about them?+
Yes. Every employee has self-visibility into their own Timeline, activity, and scores. That transparency is a feature, not a leak — it's usually what makes rollouts stick.