If Required vs WhatPulse

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If Required compared with WhatPulse
Detail	If Required	WhatPulse
What it does	Write down what your family will need to know	Track keystrokes, clicks, applications and websites to understand your computer usage and productivity patterns
Stage	Not given	Established
Founded	Not given	2003
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Free to start. Essentials: $12.99/year. Personal Follow-Up: $34.99/year. Subscriptions renew annually and can be cancelled anytime.	Premium plans available monthly and yearly with discount for annual billing. Free plan includes basic tracking up to 3 computers. Premium removes computer limit and adds unlimited history, web insights, application heatmaps, network traffic breakdown, time tracking profiles, CSV exports and dashboar
Key features	Write personal letters and instructions Choose who receives each item Encrypted storage of information One to three trusted contact confirmations required Optional Check-In Care to verify wellbeing Personal Follow-Up with human contact attempts Offline information handling Share with children without email addresses Private by design, shared only when needed Start with one thing, add more when ready	Keystroke and keyboard heatmap tracking Mouse click counting and movement tracking with heatmaps Application usage breakdown by time and input Website and domain tracking without content monitoring Window title tracking and project categorization Network bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis Uptime and idle time tracking CSV data export and custom reports Time tracking profiles for projects and contexts WhatPulse Leagues weekly competitive rankings
What makes it different	Combines personal letters with practical family information in one private app Flexibility to keep sensitive information offline while documenting where to find it Built by an engineer with military experience for maximum reliability Human follow-up support available for unconfirmed deliveries	Competitive Leagues feature with weekly rankings and divisions Multi-platform support for Windows, macOS and Linux Detailed window-level insights for granular productivity analysis
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	5 +1 (up) since last check	54 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	11	55
Citation Flow (Majestic)	26	46
Referring domains (Majestic)	150	2105

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