Approval TrailAn approval record you can hand to an auditor.
Multi-step approvals on monday.com items, kept in a record that is never edited in place. Every entry is hashed together with the one before it, so if the stored record is altered the app says so instead of showing you a clean history.
Recording approvals, the item view, the board view and single-item CSV export are free and stay free.
The problem it is built for
Approvals in a work tool usually live in a status column and a comment thread. Six months later someone asks who approved the vendor contract, on what date, and against which version. The status column has been changed since, the comments have been edited, and nobody can tell whether what is on screen now is what was there then.
Approval Trail keeps the decisions separately, in an append-only log. Nothing is overwritten. A withdrawal is another entry, not an erasure, so the history reads as what actually happened rather than as a tidied version of it.
What it looks like
Forty five seconds of it running
What it does not claim
The hash chain shows whether the record stored by this app has been altered. That is all it shows. It is not proof that what someone typed was true, that the right person was asked, or that your process was followed.
It is not a guarantee of legal admissibility, and installing it does not make you compliant with SOX, ISO, or anything else. It can be part of how you show what happened. It cannot do the complying for you.
The full version of this is in the terms.
How it treats your data
What is stored
Ids, decisions, timestamps and any comment typed into the approval panel. Item contents, column values, names and email addresses are not copied into this app.
Permissions
It follows monday's own board permissions. If you cannot open a board in monday, you cannot see its approvals here.
If you uninstall
The access token is deleted immediately and the records 30 days later. Reinstalling inside those 30 days cancels the deletion, because an uninstall is often a mistake and an approval record cannot be rebuilt.
Getting it out
Any single item's record exports as CSV on every plan, including the free one. An audit tool that can hold your own record hostage is not an audit tool.
The privacy page has the exact list.
Who makes it
Approval Trail is built and run by an independent developer with thirteen years of backend and web work, not a company. Support goes to one person who answers, within two business days: globalmatchhub@gmail.com (written out in case your reader hides links: globalmatchhub@gmail.com).