Tengu compared with Hubstaff
A Hubstaff alternative without screenshots
Keep the timesheets, approvals, budgets and payroll export. Lose the screenshots and activity scores. Tengu tracks time on the work, not on the person.
Blog
Notes from the board
Guides to the dev loop, the Agent API, Tengu Bot and leaving Hubstaff, plus how we price and what we refuse to record. By the people who build Tengu.
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How Tengu bills: per seat, paid upfront, no minimum
Tengu bills per seat, paid upfront. What a seat is, what adding and removing people costs, annual plans, refunds, Tengu Bot's AI and design partners.
- pricing
- billing
6 min read
Tengu Bot: Slack threads, meetings and screen recordings become quests
Tengu Bot turns Slack threads into quests, answers questions about them, and on Studio turns meetings and screen recordings into tickets too.
- slack
- tengu bot
- agents
10 min read
The Agent API: give your agents a place to work
Scoped API keys, a small REST API, an MCP server and signed webhooks. How agents create, read, move and comment on quests in Tengu.
- agents
- api
- mcp
- webhooks
- guides
4 min read
Leaving Hubstaff without losing timesheets or payroll
Move time tracking from Hubstaff to Tengu one person at a time: a timer on each quest, weekly timesheets, approvals, pay periods and a payroll export.
- hubstaff
- time tracking
- payroll
- guides
6 min read
Time tracking without screenshots: what we record and what we never will
Exactly what Tengu stores when your team tracks time, who can see each part, and the things we will never record, with the tests that keep it that way.
- time tracking
- trust
- remote teams
8 min read
From ticket to shipped PR: Run in Claude Code
Set up Run in Claude Code: your own routine and fire token, Tengu's GitHub App and a repo link. Then follow one quest from ticket to production.
- claude code
- github
- dev loop
- guides
4 min read
Moving off ClickUp without rebuilding: import a list, check the counts, move
Import one ClickUp list into Tengu with its tasks, comments and attachments, check the counts per status, and move the team when it's ready.
- clickup
- migration
- guides
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Weighing a switch?
Side-by-side pages for the tools software teams use now, with list prices, what moving involves, and where the other tool is better.
Tengu compared with ClickUp
A ClickUp alternative for software agencies
Tengu is a board for agency delivery: tickets that go to Claude Code and come back as PRs, time without screenshots, and an importer for your ClickUp lists.
Tengu compared with Linear
A Linear alternative for agencies
Linear is fast and loved by engineers. Agencies also need time tracking, budgets and a QA step. Here is an honest comparison, and where Linear is better.
Tengu compared with Harvest
Harvest's price increase: your options for agency time tracking
Harvest's prices and usage fees changed after its 2025 acquisition. What to compare, where Harvest is still better, and how Tengu handles time.
Tengu compared with ClickUp
Migrate from ClickUp list by list
Move off ClickUp without a big-bang weekend: import one list with its comments and attachments, check the counts, then move the team.
Tengu compared with Linear, Jira, GitHub Copilot coding agent
Project management for teams that build with Claude Code
Give every ticket to Claude Code and ship from the board. How Tengu's loop compares with Linear, Jira, GitHub Copilot's coding agent, Shortcut and Plane.
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