Every category where a model named Apploye for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Employee monitoring	Workforce planning and analytics	12%	3 of 75	9%	11	accepted challenger
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	87 of 114	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22%	goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	36 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apploye yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Apploye across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct5 labels1

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative6 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained17 labels11

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative36 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 13 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For most budget-conscious small businesses, Apploye or DeskTime offer the best combination of affordability and essential monitoring features.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice

“The best employee monitoring tool for a company with a limited budget is Apploye, which is considered the best budget-friendly option for small teams.” Llama 4 Maverick · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice

“Offers the lowest starting price among many options, and its free plan covers up to 10 users, making it ideal for very small teams or startups.” Mistral Small · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want to pay $0.00 and your company has fewer than 10 employees, Apploye is widely considered the best option currently available.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Treat those as enhanced-due-diligence flags, not a finding that each vendor broke the law” GPT-6 Luna · People analytics · negative prompt · soft negative

“Specific Platforms to Be Cautious About ... Apploye” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apploye, over the 36 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apploye was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Hubstaff27 of 366Compare →

Time Doctor18 of 362Compare →

DeskTime18 of 361Compare →

ActivTrak16 of 365Compare →

Monitask13 of 361Not among the top eight

Insightful12 of 361Compare →

Teramind11 of 361Compare →

TMetric8 of 361Not among the top eight

Clockify6 of 362Not among the top eight

Jibble5 of 363Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apploye. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 36 of the 36 answers that named Apploye and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

currentware.com25

tmetric.com24

forbes.com21

insightful.io21

jibble.io17

peoplemanagingpeople.com16

employee-monitoring.net15

fitsmallbusiness.com12

learn.g2.com12

worktime.com11

174 of the 174 domain citations in answers naming Apploye came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

currentware.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software24

tmetric.com/best-software/best-employee-monitoring-software24

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-monitoring-software19

jibble.io/best-employee-monitoring-software15

fitsmallbusiness.com/employee-monitoring-software12

insightful.io/blog/employee-activity-monitoring-tools-compared11

learn.g2.com/best-employee-monitoring-software11

business.com/categories/employee-monitoring-software9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

apploye.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Apploye takes 12% of first choices and ActivTrak takes 33%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “employee monitoring tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “employee monitoring tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 480 a month (“apploye”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 45,528 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 8,497 · 281 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,750
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

5 ads · 3 text, 2 image · 1 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2025, as SpaceSoft Limited, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 5 in the year. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 3 of 75 in employee monitoring

Segment leader

33%

ActivTrak

First choices: 12 across its categories
Named in: 36 answers
Its own site cited: in 36 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on apploye.com

1,039

subdomains included

Content

540

counted in the table below

Documentation

307

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	414	7	2026-09-07	Workforce management sui, Time and attendance
Comparison	80	1	2026-07-13	Performance management
Case study	23	0	2020-09-09
Report or ebook	11	undated
Glossary or explainer	10	4	2026-09-26
Template or tool	2	0	2025-11-06

Most recent

2026-09-26Glossary payroll billing terms glossary or explainer
2026-09-26Glossary apploye time activity terms glossary or explainer
2026-09-07Employee attendance tracker templates blog
2026-08-18Problems time tracking solves blog
2026-08-18Why track time salaried employees blog
2026-08-17What employees accept monitoring blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page apploye.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow Apploye

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Apploye is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Next Generation Employee Productivity Platform
apploye.com
For: Desk, Mobile and Remote Teams
apploye.com
Price stated: Free, Elite, Power, Enterprise apploye.com
Starting price: 0 apploye.com
Free plan or trial: Start free trial; No Credit Card Required apploye.com
Integrations claimed: 4 apploye.com
Certifications: GDPR CompliantHIPAA Compliant
Customers named: JezwebWingAssistantHubXpertDentistFindIT ServicesMarketing & Advertising CompanyDouglas Tech AcademyBrandMojo
Not stated on the pages read: Hosting

What Apploye's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: apploye.com, apploye.com/pricing, apploye.com/customer-stories, apploye.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Apploye's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Apploye, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Apploye by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Apploye is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Apploye, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Apploye is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Apploye is among the products AI models recommend first in Employee monitoring this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/employee-monitoring/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/apploye--employee-monitoring-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Employee monitoring, October 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Employee monitoring standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/employee-monitoring/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/apploye--employee-monitoring-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Employee monitoring, October 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Employee monitoring standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/employee-monitoring/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/apploye--employee-monitoring-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Employee monitoring, October 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Employee monitoring standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.