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As we started work from home culture in our company due to Covid-19 epidemic. But we needed a software that can monitor employee work. Then we found WorkPuls fitted best in our scenario. Now our emplo... See more
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Insightful is a Work Intelligence platform that helps organizations understand how work actually happens across people, processes, and AI so they can improve performance, optimize workflows, and reduce operational waste. When work is spread across people, locations, and tools, small gaps add up quickly. Time goes missing, work slows down, and problems surface too late. Insightful makes this visible in one platform built to help organizations optimize People, Process, and Technology through three core capabilities: Workforce Analytics to measure workforce productivity, utilization, and performance with real-time visibility into how work gets done; Workflow Optimization to identify bottlenecks, eliminate inefficiencies, and optimize workflows across teams and processes; and Work Intelligence to measure AI adoption, usage, and business impact so organizations can maximize the ROI of their AI investments. With a customizable dashboard, users can create layouts with configurable widgets to surface the KPIs and insights most relevant to their role. They can see where time is going, how AI is being adopted across the organization, how teams are performing, and where work is breaking down without relying on manual tracking or guesswork. Insightful helps organizations understand how work happens across teams, processes, and AI; spot drops in utilization and output early; track AI adoption, usage, and business impact; view their most important KPIs and insights at a glance; identify where work slows, stalls, or creates rework across workflows; compare performance across teams, roles, or locations; use real activity data to review work and resolve disputes; and automate time tracking and reporting. More than just another monitoring tool, Insightful is a Work Intelligence platform designed to deliver measurable business impact. It combines automatic time tracking, activity data, analytics, and reporting in one place so organizations can improve performance, optimize operations, and make better day-to-day decisions without adding unnecessary overhead. Built for remote, hybrid, and office teams, the Insightful platform comes with advanced workforce analytics and optimization. Insightful is trusted by over 5,000 companies worldwide. Teams choose Insightful because it provides deep visibility, actionable insights, and operational control without the cost or complexity of heavier enterprise tools. With 50+ integrations, Insightful fits into your existing tools, like Slack, Jira, Asana, and Microsoft Teams. It’s designed to grow with your business and adapt to your workflows.
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Was Excelent
September 26, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Adan,
Thank you for the kind words! We’re thrilled to know your experience with Insightful was excellent. Simple feedback like this says a lot, and we truly appreciate you taking the time to share it.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
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Luka and Marija were very helpful and…
Luka and Marija were very helpful and patient eventhough sometimes I took a very long time to respond, they answered all my questions and helped my through all the processes needed to have everything up and running.
September 19, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Montserrat,
We’re glad to hear Luka and Marija were able to support you with patience and care until everything was up and running. Feedback like this keeps our team motivated! And we'll definitely work to ensure our response times are consistently quick.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
It was great experience while reaching…
It was great experience while reaching out for support and received quick replies that's the best thing. I appreciate and thank Marija for her awesome support and providing great experience.
Thank you!
Vinit
September 16, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Vinit,
We’re so glad to hear your experience with our support team, and especially Marija, was such a positive one. Quick and helpful replies are what we aim for, and it’s wonderful to know that made the difference for you. Marija will be thrilled to hear about your appreciation.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
Very Helpful Support.
September 15, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Rasch,
We’re happy to hear you found our support team very helpful — that’s exactly the kind of feedback that keeps us smiling. Helping our customers succeed is what we do best, and we’re always here whenever you need us.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
CS provided the exact information I was…
CS provided the exact information I was looking for.
September 1, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Lily,
It’s great to hear that our customer support team was able to provide you with exactly the information you needed. We know how important it is to get clear and precise answers, and we’re happy we could deliver. Thanks for sharing your experience with Insightful!
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
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The employees were able to answer all…
The employees were able to answer all my questions and get me up and running fast and explained it so you can understand it all
August 18, 2025
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Richard,
We’re really pleased to hear that our team was able to get you set up quickly and explain everything in a way that made sense. Clear guidance and seamless onboarding are exactly what we aim for, and it’s rewarding to know the experience met your expectations. Thank you for choosing Insightful — we’re here anytime you need support along the way.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
Stefan was amazing!
August 27, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Digna,
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience! We’re delighted to hear that Stefan was able to provide such great support. We’ll be sure to share your kind words with him, and we look forward to continuing to support you whenever you need us.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
The customer support is super helpful!
August 26, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Alice,
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! We’re really glad to hear that you’ve found our customer support team helpful. Being reliable and responsive to our customers is very important to us, and it’s wonderful to know we’ve met your expectations. We hope you're enjoying your experience with Insightful.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
Consistently Helpful and Professional
I’ve had an excellent experience working with Luka from Insightful. He has always been incredibly kind, professional, and responsive. No matter how complex my questions were, he made sure I had all the information I needed to resolve my issues quickly and effectively. It’s rare to find such consistent and reliable support. Thank you, Luka, for making the process so smooth and stress-free!
August 22, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Tony,
Thank you so much for sharing your kind words! We’re thrilled to hear that Luka has provided you with such professional, responsive, and reliable support. It means a lot to us that your experience has been smooth and stress-free. Luka is a star and we’ll be sure to share your feedback with him. We’re so grateful to have people like him and yourself as part of the Insightful community.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
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Marija Djurdjevic Help
Marija Djurdjevic was a great help in solving my problem. She deserves a raise.
August 22, 2025
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Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Lino,
Thanks a bunch for taking the time to highlight Marija’s support! We’re proud to have team members always dedicated to providing great support and creating a positive experience. Your feedback means a great deal to us, and we’ll make sure she knows how much her efforts are valued and are rewarded accordingly.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
Reliable
I have very good experience with Insightful.io and support team is great.
August 21, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Janko,
We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with Insightful! We’re delighted to know that you’ve found the platform reliable and that our support team has been there for you. Your feedback means a lot to us, and we’ll continue doing our best to support you whenever you need it.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
Great product and great support
Great product and great support, able to easily scale and adapt to our various business needs.
August 15, 2025
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi,
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with Insightful! We’re thrilled to hear that we have been able to scale with your business and adapt to your needs. Our team is always here to ensure you get the most value from the platform, so don’t hesitate to reach out if we can support you further.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
improved tracking and productivity
August 15, 2025
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi,
We really appreciate your feedback! It’s great to know that Insightful is making a positive impact on both tracking and productivity in your business. Our goal is to help teams work smarter, and we’re here if you’d ever like to explore more ways to get value from the platform.
Best,
The Insightful Team
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Charged for Phantom Employees
I've had 2-3 incidents where new users were randomly created due to "Active Directory" and there is no way to disable this. There is no notification of a "new employee" and they refuse to refund for the unused seat despite clear evidence that there is no activity for past 3 months by said "employee". You have to be diligent in spotting this when you receive your monthly bill. Unscrupulous practices, buyer beware. The software itself is adequate.
July 30, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Nat,
We’re sorry to hear that your experience with Insightful hasn’t met expectations.
To clarify, Insightful automatically adds as “employee” any user who logs into a computer with the software installed. This functionality exists to support scenarios where multiple employees share a single workstation, but also for security reasons - such as identifying who was logged into a device if any unwanted activity occurs.
However, we do offer the option to exclude specific usernames (e.g., “administrator”,“support”, or specific domain) from being added to the platform and tracked as an active license. If you'd like, we can ask our Development Team to disable creation of these users on your account. This will help significantly with managing active licenses.
While refunds aren’t available, we’d be happy to offer account credit for any unused licenses during this period.
Please feel free to contact our Customer Success team at csm.team@insightful.io to proceed with the next steps.
Best regards,
Jana
🚫 Business Owners Beware: Insightful Will Cost You — Not Save You
I rarely write reviews, but my experience with Insightful (formerly Workpuls) demands a public warning to every business owner who is considering this app for employee time tracking.
❗ The Problem: You Will Overpay Employees for Time They Didn't Work
The biggest and most dangerous issue with Insightful is how it treats scheduled shifts. If you assign a scheduled shift (say, 8am to 4pm), and your employee clocks out for lunch, Insightful doesn't end the shift or subtract the time they were off the clock.
Instead, the system continues counting that time as “idle” — but still within the shift, meaning it is included as work time in reports. In other words, your employee could be completely clocked out, and you could still be paying them as if they were working, based on Insightful's reports.
This is not just a bug — this is a system design choice that can quietly cheat you out of hundreds or thousands of dollars over time.
🧩 Customer Support's Explanation Makes It Worse
When I contacted customer support about this obvious flaw, they told me my employee should use the “break” button in the app rather than clock out.
But here's the catch:
That option wasn’t even visible or available in my employee's app.
The default behavior — what any normal person would expect — is that clocking out stops the work timer. Not with Insightful.
Instead of acknowledging the issue or fixing it, support said they’d “pass it along to the development team” and defended the system’s current behavior.
💰 They Refused a Refund
When I pointed out that the software misrepresented work hours and caused potential financial losses, I asked for a refund of the fees I paid. Their answer? No. No apology. No accountability. Just a polite brush-off.
🐛 Oh, and It’s Buggy Too
In addition to the core issue of misleading time tracking, the app itself is buggy. The interface can be inconsistent across devices, and expected features don’t always show up (like the missing break button). This leads to a poor user experience, both for admins and employees.
⚠️ Final Verdict: Avoid at All Costs
If you’re a business owner trying to track time accurately, Insightful is not just ineffective — it’s dangerous. It misrepresents work time, inflates hours, and exposes you to unnecessary payroll liability.
The very foundation of a time tracking app should be accuracy and trust. Insightful fails miserably on both counts.
I have canceled my account and am actively exploring alternatives with accurate time reporting and transparent break handling.
Don’t learn the hard way like I did. Stay far away from Insightful.
July 1, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Robert,
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience, and we're truly sorry to hear that Insightful didn’t meet your expectations.
We’d like to clarify that our shift scheduling feature was designed to help businesses compare scheduled hours with their actual work — whether employees started early or late, worked overtime, undertime, or had larger periods of inactivity. This gives our customers more visibility into how closely scheduled time aligns with productive time.
Many of our customers, especially those using Insightful for payroll purposes, base their compensation on Productive Time or Utilization %, rather than scheduled hours. This allows for a more performance-based approach to payroll.
Regarding breaks, we understand your concern. In order for the Break feature to be used properly, the employee must have the necessary permission enabled in their settings, and then double-click the Break button. We acknowledge that this workflow may not be intuitive for all teams and are actively working on ways to make it more seamless and visible across all devices.
As for the refund request — we genuinely regret that you felt disappointed. While we’re unable to issue refunds for the full period of past usage, we’d be happy to explore together how Insightful can better support your needs. If you’re open to it, we’d like to jump on a call and discuss how Insightful can be utilized for your needs and allow a certain period of free POC so you can take full advantage of the platform’s features and see if a tailored setup works better for your team.
We appreciate your feedback — both the critical and constructive parts — as they help us improve Insightful for all our users. If you’d be open to a conversation, we’d love the opportunity to better understand your expectations and how we can help.
Please reach out to our Customer Success Team at csm.team@insightful.io if you're open for a call.
Kind regards,
Customer Success Team
Insightful
Terrible experience and we got nearly 700$ stolen
Absolutely terrible experience, the employees management is confusing and once an employee uninstall the agent or reset their PC is nearly impossible to recover that user and that's by design, so that you'll add new employees and they will charge you for that.
We got wrongfully billed 691$ because of that and after contacting the support they said they cannot refund because their Terms of Service (haha of course!).
At least they have removed my credit card so I won't be wrongfully charged again.
We spent over a thousand dollars on this and I really regret.
I'm currently wasting a lot of time to set up those agents and users, and I am a software engineer, not some kind of computer-illiterate manager.
And to whoever will reply to this review, don't tell me to contact your support, I've already done, and don't hide behind your terms of service, that's despicable. I don't want credits on the next invoice, I want a refund.
I DO NOT advise anyone to use insightful.io services.
April 28, 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Mich,
We’re genuinely sorry your experience with us was so frustrating. When tools meant to bring clarity end up creating stress, especially around user management and billing, that’s understandably upsetting and we recognize the impact that had on you and your time.
Since then, we’ve continued to put effort into making user and seat management more straightforward, and it’s something we will continue to improve further. Our model is designed to capture productivity consistently, regardless of which or how many machines people are using, and that approach works well for the vast majority of our customers. Nonetheless, we have also recognized opportunities to make it more flexible and customizable. That feedback has been shared directly with our product and development teams and continues to shape how the platform evolves.
While we can’t undo what happened in this case, we do want to acknowledge it and say plainly that we’re sorry for the experience you had. Insightful reflects lessons learned from situations like this, and we remain committed to doing better.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
The tool would be better if it allowed make the 3 points detailed above
The tool would be better if it allowed manual time to be entered by clicking on the spaces marked as idle time, since it is difficult to calculate the start and end time of idle time.
We need to be able to grant permits on the same day of the event, today they must be entered until the end of the shift.
Downtime should be turned off automatically when computer activity is detected, just as downtime should be automatically turned on when no activity is detected.
January 15, 2025
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Nixa,
These are very thoughtful suggestions, and we appreciate you taking the time to lay them out so clearly. Feedback like this is genuinely valuable to us, and we’re constantly reviewing ideas from our users to help guide how the product evolves.
We’ve shared your input with our product team so it is taken into consideration as we continue improving Insightful.
Best regards,
The Insightful Team
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It seems very useful
It seems very useful, but I am always charged more than what I really use. Sometimes, when I check the Active Emply list, I see new users who are not mine.
October 31, 2024
Unprompted review
Reply from Insightful.io
Hi Shota,
Thank you for the feedback, we appreciate it.
Whenever you install Insightful agent on one of the computers in your company, employees who use that computer are added to your Insightful dashboard.
If you don't want to track all of them, you can deactivate them and won't be charged for their license.
Our support team will be more than happy to help you with that, feel free to reach out to them at support@insightful.io
Visibility and alert tracking
I like that I can see real time status from my team. I can also set up alerts. Still lacks comprehensive reports as those should be built from zero.
September 17, 2024
Insightful is Awesome!
The app is very straightforward so it's easy to check what I need to make sure our team remains productive.
September 2, 2024
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