Ultimate Guide to Hubstaff and How It Can Be Tricks (2025)
Introduction
Purpose of this page: To understand how it works, what its limits are, and how certain automated behaviors may bypass its logic.
🔍 What is Hubstaff?
Keyboard & mouse activity tracking (to calculate productivity percentage)
Random screenshots of the user’s screen
App and URL tracking
Idle time detection
Optional GPS/location monitoring (for mobile or field workers)
Manual time entry controls and approvals
It’s used by employers to ensure that logged work time matches actual productivity, and to prevent time theft or fake work logs.
How It Tricks Hubstaff
Hubstaff Feature
AM&ACCapability
Bypass Explanation
Keyboard & Mouse Activity
Auto-typing and auto mouse movement with left/right click,
scroll, and double-click actions
Simulates human-like behavior, maintaining high or moderate
activity % readings
Idle Time Detection
Sends continuous input events even when user is not present
Prevents idle time alerts and pauses; Hubstaff continues
tracking as if user is active
Activity Percentage Levels
Customizable low, medium, high activity profiles (e.g., 10–30%,
40–60%, 70–80%)
Produces believable engagement levels to avoid triggering
suspicion
Screenshots of User Desktop
Random app switching + natural-looking mouse/click patterns
Screenshots look busy and realistic even during automation
App and URL Monitoring
Switches between apps to simulate multitasking across
work-related software
Tricks app usage logs by mimicking real workflows
Manual Time Entry Controls
Not directly affected Tool focuses only on real-time active tracking bypasses, not manual time control.
Not directly affected Tool focuses only on real-time active tracking bypasses, not manual time control.
