Insight by Hyring · Free Trial
Free Time Tracking Software
Thirty days completely free with every Pro feature and unlimited users, no credit card. This page also does the arithmetic on what permanently free tools cost you, because that number is rarely zero.
30 days
Free, every Pro feature
Unlimited
Users during the trial
No card
Required to start
Carries over
All data on upgrade
Direct answer
Insight by Hyring is free for 30 days with every Pro feature, unlimited users, and no credit card required. After the trial, Pro costs $7 per user per month and Enterprise $14, under the founding offer for the first 7,000 companies, against list prices of $14 and $21.
There is no permanently free tier. Several competitors offer one, and this page explains honestly when that is the better choice and when it costs considerably more than it saves.
| Duration | 30 days |
|---|---|
| Features included | Every Pro feature, nothing withheld |
| User limit | Unlimited |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Data on upgrade | Carries over in full |
| Price after trial | $7 per user per month, Pro |
Is Insight by Hyring Free
Free for 30 days with nothing held back, then $7 per user per month.
Most trials in this category are a reduced product with a countdown attached. This one is not. Every company starts on the full Pro tier: the companion avatar, focus music rooms, wellbeing reminders, kudos, screenshots with privacy controls, the AI business intelligence bot, and unlimited history and exports. Unlimited team members, no card, and everything you generate carries over if you subscribe.
What we do not have is a permanently free plan. That is a real difference from some competitors and worth stating plainly rather than burying, because for a certain kind of buyer it settles the question.
What Free Actually Costs
Free measures what you pay. It does not measure what it costs, and in time tracking those are very different numbers.
| Free tool: licence cost | $0 |
|---|---|
| Free tool: unrecorded hours never invoiced | $780,000 |
| Insight by Hyring Pro: licence cost at $7 | $1,680 |
| Insight by Hyring: unrecorded hours | $0 |
Free measures what you pay, not what it costs. A manual timer asks the user to supply the data, and reconstructed time runs lower than actual time consistently and in one direction, because nobody invents a call they did not take.
The mechanism is simple. A free timer asks the user to supply the data. Someone has to remember to start it, remember to stop it, and reconstruct whatever they missed at the end of the week. Every organisation that has run one already knows the result: reconstructed time is lower than actual time, consistently, because people forget calls and rarely invent them.
For a team where nothing is billed by the hour, that gap is a reporting inaccuracy. For an agency, a law firm, or a consultancy, it is revenue that was earned and then never invoiced, and it does not appear as a line item anywhere.
What Free Tiers Withhold
Usually a timer with the useful parts removed.
What free tiers typically withhold
| Free tier scope | Insight by Hyring 30-day trial | |
|---|---|---|
| Withheld | 70% | — |
| Basic timer | 30% | — |
| Every Pro feature | — | 100% |
Common gating across free plans in this category
Most free plans in this category are a timer with the useful parts removed: no activity data, no screenshots, no approvals, no integrations. The Insight by Hyring trial withholds nothing for 30 days, including the companion, focus rooms, AI, and unlimited users.
The pattern across the category is consistent. Free plans give you the stopwatch and gate the rest: activity levels, screenshots, approval workflows, integrations, advanced reporting, and anything resembling analysis. That is a reasonable commercial decision and it means the free tier answers exactly one question, how long, which is the least valuable of the questions you probably have.
What the Trial Includes
Everything, for 30 days, at unlimited scale.
Desktop companion
A floating avatar that reads the day and speaks to the employee before any manager sees it. Offers a sprint, checks in on suspicious perfection, celebrates a good run.
Shared focus music rooms
Teams listen in sync across curated channels, with room presence showing who is deep in work. No competitor in this category has built this.
Wellbeing reminders
Water, stretch, the 20-20-20 eye rule, end-of-day wind-down, and custom prompts, with notifications muted during focus sessions.
Kudos and team pulse
Recognition and presence in the same product as the work data, rather than a separate culture tool nobody opens.
An AI you can ask
Plain questions, plain answers. Who is closest to burnout, where did the sprint go, who is finishing after nine.
Employee-first visibility
Every person sees their own data before anyone else, and no keystroke content is ever captured. Permanent design, not a setting.
Insight by Hyring is the only product here connected to a hiring platform, so work data flows into people decisions and into the next hire. No standalone tracker can close that loop.
The Pro feature set active on a trial account: companion, focus rooms, kudos, screenshots, and the BI bot, with unlimited seats.
When Free Is the Right Answer
Three situations where a permanently free tool beats paying anything, including us.
- Your budget is genuinely zero. Not "we would prefer not to spend", actually zero. Free tiers with unlimited users exist and they work. Use one.
- Nothing is billed by the hour. If tracked time never becomes an invoice, the accuracy gap costs you a slightly wrong report rather than money.
- You need durations and nothing else. If the only question is roughly where hours went, a timer answers it and everything above that is unused capability.
Outside those three, the calculation runs the other way quickly, and it is worth doing with your own numbers before defaulting to free.
Pricing After the Trial
Pro at $7 per user per month, Enterprise at $14, frozen for the life of the subscription.
Pro is $7 per user per month and Enterprise is $14, under the founding offer for the first 7,000 companies. List prices are $14 and $21. Your rate is frozen for as long as the subscription stays active, not for the first year. Before that, 30 days free with every Pro feature, unlimited users, and no credit card.
Price against capability, per user per month
| Tier | Typical free tool | Insight by Hyring |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Permanent, basic timer only | 30 days, every Pro feature |
| User limit on free | Often unlimited, features gated | Unlimited, nothing gated |
| Activity and screenshots | Paid tier, typically ~$10 | Included in Pro at $7 |
| Companion, focus rooms, reminders | Not sold at any price | Included in Pro at $7 |
| AI answers | Not sold at any price | Included in Pro at $7 |
Adithyan RK is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyring, an AI-native recruitment platform that has run over 900,000 AI interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. He has spent 18 years building technology businesses, starting with a digital consultancy in 2008 and a staff augmentation firm in 2017, before founding Hyring in 2022 to rebuild hiring around evidence instead of guesswork.
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Surya N is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hyring, where he architected the AI interviewing engine that has now conducted over 900,000 interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. A mechanical engineer who moved into artificial intelligence, he spent 6 years building AI applications inside a technology consultancy before co-founding Hyring, and wrote the first version of its AI interviewer from scratch: a system that listens, adapts its questioning in real time, and flags fraud rather than following a fixed script.
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FAQs
Yes. Several products offer permanently free tiers, most notably ones allowing unlimited users on a basic timer. What they withhold is usually activity data, screenshots, approvals, integrations, and any form of reporting depth. Insight by Hyring gives 30 days completely free with every Pro feature and unlimited users, then $7 per user per month.
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