The invention relates to a method for monitoring touchscreen events (3) of a handheld device (6), wherein —a monitoring application (1) is provided, —at least one touchscreen event (3) on a display screen (61) of said handheld device (6) is detected by means of said monitoring application (1), wherein the touchscreen event (3) is directed to a foreground application (2), —event data (4) is generated for said at least one touchscreen event (3) by means of said monitoring application (1), wherein said event data (4) comprises a time stamp (41) of said at least one touchscreen event (3) and an identification (42) of said foreground application (2), —said event data (4) is stored by means of said monitoring application (1). The invention further relates to a computer program for executing the steps of the method according to the invention.