LazyWork review (2026): pricing, features and caveats

LazyWork is a full-featured activity simulator for Windows and macOS, sold only as a monthly or yearly subscription from $7.99 a month. What to check before you pay: there's no free plan, its download files are named after other apps, and its marketing promises more than any app of this kind can.

A disclosure first. We make Stayaway, which competes with LazyWork. So every fact below links to where we read it and says when, and there's a section on where LazyWork is better than our app. We have not installed or run LazyWork, so this review covers what it publishes and what we could check from the download itself. If something here is out of date, write to hello@stayaway.app and we'll correct it.

What LazyWork is

LazyWork is sold from lazywork.xyz. It keeps a computer registering as active by moving the mouse, pressing keys, scrolling and switching apps, with clicking and browser-tab switching on the higher plans.

• Platforms: Windows, and macOS on Apple silicon (older Intel builds exist), per its download page. Linux is listed as in progress.
• Versions: 3.0 is the current stable release, from December 2025. 3.1 is a beta, from September 2026.
• Installer size: 69.9 MB for 3.1 and 79.8 MB for 3.0 on Windows. It's a Python app packaged with PyInstaller. We measured both ourselves; Stayaway's installer is 4.0 MB.

Pricing

From its pricing page, read on 16 October 2026:

• No free plan and no one-time price. Every plan is a subscription.
• A 7-day free trial on Personal and Professional, once per customer. The page says a second sign-up starts a paid subscription straight away.
• No published refund policy. The page mentions a "satisfaction guarantee" but doesn't say what it covers.

For comparison, Stayaway has a free plan for mouse activity, and Pro is $9.99 a month, $99 a year or $178 once, on up to three computers, with a 7-day trial that needs no card and a 30-day refund.

Features by plan

• Personal: mouse movement, keyboard activity, scrolling, app switching and free updates, on one computer.
• Professional (the plan it marks most popular) adds mouse clicking, browser tab switching, scheduled runs, use on more than one computer, and a mode that runs without showing the app.
• Elite adds a tool that answers on-screen "are you there?" prompts, early access to new versions and custom features. The page presents Elite as having limited places.

LazyWork's pricing page doesn't mention starting a run automatically when you step away, or stopping when you come back. Stayaway calls those Auto Detect and Smart Resume. If you want hands-free starts and stops, ask LazyWork before you subscribe.

We don't build anything like Elite's prompt-answering tool. A prompt like that asks whether a person is present, and answering it for them isn't what an activity simulator is for.

The download

LazyWork's download page links to files on Dropbox. The Windows downloads are named Chrome.exe and the Mac ones Notes.dmg: the names of other apps, not LazyWork.

We downloaded the Windows builds of 3.0 and 3.1 on 14 September 2026 to measure them. Neither was digitally signed, and in Windows both files' details name the product as Google Chrome and the company as Google LLC.

That matters for two reasons. A file named after another app makes it harder to tell what's running on your computer, for you and for anyone who looks after it. And antivirus tools often flag unsigned files that describe themselves as a well-known app. If you do install it, check that you got the file from LazyWork's own page.

Stayaway isn't code-signed yet either. Windows shows a SmartScreen warning when you install it, and we explain why. But the file is named Stayaway, describes itself as Stayaway, and each installer's SHA-256 is published on the download page.

The claims to read carefully

LazyWork's pricing page lists not being detectable by tracking software as a feature of every plan, and its download page says it's designed to avoid detection by trackers like Time Doctor and Hubstaff.

No activity simulator can honestly promise that, ours included. These apps keep a computer registering as active. They don't change the screenshots a tracker takes, the apps and websites it logs, or anything it records about how you work. We cover what trackers can see in can mouse jigglers be detected.

What other buyers say

We found no Trustpilot page for LazyWork when we checked on 16 October 2026. Most discussion of it we found is in Reddit threads, which we can't verify, so we don't quote them here.

Where LazyWork is better than Stayaway

• It runs on a Mac. Stayaway is Windows-only for now.
• A lower price to start: $7.99 a month for Personal.
• Scheduled runs on Professional and Elite, to start at set times.
• More releases behind it. Its changelog shows several updates a year since at least 2024; Stayaway launched in 2026.

Where Stayaway is different

• A free plan, and a one-time lifetime price as well as monthly and yearly.
• Auto Detect and Smart Resume (Pro): a run starts when you step away and stops the moment you use the mouse or keyboard.
• A 4.0 MB installer named and described as what it is, with its SHA-256 published.
• A published 30-day refund.
• No promises about trackers. We say what the app does and what it can't do.

For the two side by side in a table, see Stayaway as a LazyWork alternative, or the three-way comparison with IdleBuster.

FAQ

Is LazyWork free? No. It has a 7-day trial on Personal and Professional, once per customer, then a subscription from $7.99 a month.

Does LazyWork work on a Mac? Yes, on Apple silicon Macs. Older Intel builds are also listed.

Why is the LazyWork download called Chrome.exe? LazyWork doesn't say on its download page. The file is LazyWork, named after Google Chrome. Check where you got it before running it.

Does LazyWork have a lifetime plan? No. Every plan is monthly or yearly.

Will LazyWork stop my employer seeing what I do? No app of this kind can. It keeps the computer registering as active. It doesn't change screenshots, app and website logs, or what a tracker records.

Sources

All checked on 16 October 2026 unless a date is given.

• LazyWork homepage, pricing and download pages
• Trustpilot: no page found for lazywork.xyz
• Installer sizes and file details: measured by Stayaway from the Windows downloads of 3.0 and 3.1, 14 September 2026; the files were never run