Every European time tracking software tool reviewed
Tallinn, Estonia
Free tier + per user, per month
Demo on request
Best for: Agencies and teams billing time who do not want employee monitoring
Toggl Track is an Estonian time tracker built around a single timer button and a reporting layer behind it, with one-click timers on web, desktop, mobile and browser extensions, projects and clients with billable rates, budgets and estimates.
It is deliberately not an employee monitoring product, and the company has been explicit that this is a design decision rather than a missing feature. No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity scoring — which in most European jurisdictions removes a works council conversation before it starts.
Toggl OÜ is based in Tallinn and has been fully remote since long before that was ordinary. The free tier is genuinely usable for small teams, with per-user plans adding billable rates, project budgets and admin controls above it.
What Toggl Track does well
- One-click timer with negligible friction
- No surveillance features, by design
- Billable rates, budgets and estimates
- Genuinely usable free tier
- Integrations with project tools and invoicing
- Estonian company, EU jurisdiction
Where Toggl Track falls short
- No statutory working time features
- No DATEV export
- Reporting is capable rather than deep
- Not a project management tool
Standout feature. The only tracker here that refuses to add monitoring features as a matter of principle.
Graz, Austria
Per user, per month
Demo on request
Best for: People who forget to start the timer
Timeular is an Austrian time tracker best known for its hardware: an eight-sided dice on the desk, each face assigned to an activity. Flip it, and the timer switches. It addresses the actual failure mode of time tracking, which is not reporting but remembering.
The dice sounds like a gimmick and is not. Starting a timer requires a context switch at exactly the moment you are already switching context; a physical object removes that. The software also captures app, document and calendar activity locally, so a day you forgot to track can be reconstructed.
Timeular is based in Graz. The automatic tracking is explicitly local — the record of which applications you had open stays on your machine until you choose to turn part of it into an entry, which is a meaningful distinction from cloud-side activity monitoring.
What Timeular does well
- Physical tracker removes the friction
- Automatic capture stays local to the machine
- Billable rates and team reporting
- Exports for invoicing and payroll
- Austrian company, EU jurisdiction
Where Timeular falls short
- Hardware is a separate purchase
- Software alone loses most of the point
- Smaller feature set than the agency tools
- No statutory working time module
Standout feature. A physical dice on the desk — the only answer here to the real reason time tracking fails.
Osnabrück, Germany
Per user, per month
Demo on request
Best for: German employers who must record working time by law
clockodo is a German time tracking service that treats working time recording as the legal duty it now is, rather than as a productivity feature. It covers both sides: billable project time, and the statutory working time record.
Since the courts made systematic recording of working time mandatory, employers need records that satisfy an auditor rather than an invoice. clockodo handles break rules, overtime accounts, absences and the documentation obligations — precisely the part international tools leave to the customer.
clockodo is based in Osnabrück and built specifically around German labour law, with DATEV export for the payroll and accounting handover. That is a category of product a US vendor cannot really localise into, because the rules are the product rather than a setting.
What clockodo does well
- Built for the statutory working time obligation
- Break, overtime and absence handling
- DATEV export
- Project time and billing alongside it
- German company and hosting
- Free trial without a card
Where clockodo falls short
- German and Austrian focus
- Interface functional rather than polished
- Less suited to non-German employers
- Working time features sit in the higher tier
Standout feature. Working time records built to survive an audit, not to produce an invoice.
Hamburg, Germany
Per user, per month
Demo on request
Best for: Agencies that want time, projects, planning and invoices in one place
MOCO is a Hamburg product for agencies and consultancies where time tracking is the entry point to something larger: the same hours drive project budgets, capacity planning, invoices and the handover to accounting.
It answers the agency stack problem — a timer in one tool, projects in another, invoices in a third, and nobody sure which is right. Because the hours, the budget and the invoice are the same record, project profitability is a report rather than a monthly spreadsheet exercise.
MOCO is based in Hamburg with German hosting, and its accounting exports are built for German practice rather than translated into it. Planning and invoicing are included rather than tiered separately, which usually compares favourably against a stack of single-purpose subscriptions.
What MOCO does well
- Time, projects, planning and invoicing in one system
- Project profitability without a spreadsheet
- DATEV and German accounting exports
- Resource planning included
- API and integrations for the rest
Where MOCO falls short
- More system than a solo freelancer needs
- Agency-shaped — less general purpose
- German market focus
- Per-user pricing across the whole team
Standout feature. From timer to invoice on one record, so project margin is a report rather than a reconstruction.
Vienna, Austria
Free self-hosted + paid cloud
Demo on request
Best for: Teams that want their timesheet data on their own server
Kimai is an open-source time tracker developed in Vienna, run either on your own server for free or through the maintainer's hosted Kimai Cloud — the same AGPL application either way, which is unusual in a category built entirely on SaaS.
Self-hosting timesheets removes a question rather than answering it. Hours worked, per person, per day is employment data; keeping it on infrastructure you control means there is no processor agreement to negotiate and no export to arrange if you later change vendor. Tracking runs against customers, projects and activities with budgets and rates, and invoicing, exports and a REST API are in the box.
The project is developed and maintained from Vienna without VC funding, on paid plugins and the hosted service. Kimai Cloud is hosted in Germany for teams who would rather not run a PHP application themselves.
What Kimai does well
- Open source and free to self-host, with no seat limit
- Timesheet data stays on your own infrastructure
- Invoicing, budgets and rates included
- REST API and a plugin ecosystem
- Hosted option in Germany if you do not want to run it
Where Kimai falls short
- Self-hosting means you run and update a PHP application
- Some functionality sits in paid plugins
- Interface is plainer than the commercial trackers
- Small team behind it rather than a large vendor
Standout feature. The only tracker here where the timesheet database can simply be yours.
Hamburg, Germany
Per user, per month
Demo on request
Best for: Agencies whose tracked hours end up on an invoice
awork is project management software from Hamburg that merges three things most teams pay for separately: task and project planning, time tracking, and capacity planning across the people doing the work.
Tracking hours where the work is planned is what makes the numbers trustworthy. When a timer starts from the task rather than from a separate app, the timesheet reflects the project plan instead of a reconstruction at the end of the week — the difference between billable hours you can defend and hours you estimate. Lists, boards and timelines sit alongside workload planning, budgets and billable rates.
awork GmbH is based in Hamburg, ISO 27001 certified and hosted on servers in Germany. Its audience is service businesses — agencies, consultancies, studios — where tracked hours end up on client invoices, which is also where the capacity planning earns its place.
What awork does well
- Time tracking inside the project plan, not beside it
- Capacity and workload planning per person
- Budgets and billable rates on projects
- ISO 27001 certified, hosted in Germany
- Cheaper than a project tool plus a separate tracker
Where awork falls short
- More tool than a team that only needs tracking
- Per-user pricing across a whole agency adds up
- Reporting is good rather than deep
- Strongest fit is agencies specifically
Standout feature. Planning, tracking and capacity on one dataset, so the hours match the plan.
Wrocław, Poland
Free tier + per user, per month
Demo on request
Best for: Teams that want automatic tracking plus attendance in one tool
TimeCamp is a Polish time tracking platform combining manual timers with automatic capture of applications and sites used, plus attendance tracking, billing rates and a long list of integrations.
It covers more ground per subscription than most: project time, automatic activity capture, attendance with clock-in and leave, and billing all in one product with a free tier underneath. For a small company that would otherwise buy three tools, that breadth is the argument.
TimeCamp is based in Wrocław. The automatic activity capture is precisely the feature that needs a clear legal basis under the GDPR and, in many countries, a works council agreement — worth configuring deliberately rather than leaving on by default.
What TimeCamp does well
- Time, attendance and billing in one tool
- Automatic activity capture available
- Free tier for unlimited users on basics
- Wide integration list
- Polish company, EU jurisdiction
Where TimeCamp falls short
- Automatic capture needs a legal basis and works council agreement
- Attendance features less deep than a dedicated tool
- Interface busier than Toggl Track
- Billing features behind paid tiers
Standout feature. Time, attendance and billing from one vendor instead of three subscriptions.
Karlsruhe, Germany
Founded 2014
Per employee per month, published plans
Demo on request
Best for: Retail, hospitality and care teams working in shifts
Papershift is a German platform for shift-based work: rota planning, working time recording and absence management for teams where the question is who is on tomorrow rather than which project this hour belongs to.
That is a genuinely different problem. Shift planning has to respect rest periods, availability, qualifications and labour law constraints, and the resulting hours feed payroll rather than a client invoice — which is why general time trackers fit these teams badly.
Papershift is based in Karlsruhe, covering the statutory working time record alongside the rota, with the payroll handover built for German practice. It appears here cross-listed from Payroll Software, where its page lives.
What Papershift does well
- Shift and rota planning with labour rules
- Statutory working time recording
- Absence and holiday management
- Payroll handover built for German practice
- Mobile access for shift staff
Where Papershift falls short
- Not aimed at project or billable time
- German market focus
- Per-employee pricing across the whole roster
- Overkill for a team without shifts
Standout feature. Rota planning and the statutory time record in one place, for teams that work in shifts.
Munich, Germany
From €2/user/month excl. VAT across all plans (Go, Easy, Pro); custom pricing above 50 employees
14-day free trial
Best for: German SMEs that want shift clock-in without a big HR suite
Crewmeister is a Munich time-clock app aimed squarely at shift-based small and medium businesses: mobile and terminal clock-in with GPS tagging, a vacation planner, sick-leave tracking, overtime accounts and Excel export, sold at a flat rate rather than assembled from a module calculator with sales calls attached.
The product reads as deliberately unglamorous, which for a bakery chain or a care-home operator choosing between three competing time-clock apps is closer to a compliment than a criticism — it does the recording duty and the roster maths and stops there.
It started as an independent Munich startup and is now owned by ATOSS Aloud GmbH, itself part of the publicly listed German workforce-management group ATOSS Software SE. That ownership matters for the jurisdiction question this directory cares about: the product stays a German-registered entity with a German imprint after the acquisition, rather than being folded into an offshore holding structure, and it inherits a large group's scheduling expertise instead of losing investment as an orphaned acquisition often does.
Pricing is unusually simple for this category: all three tiers, Go, Easy and Pro, cost the same €2 per user per month excluding VAT, and the difference between them is which features are switched on rather than a rising per-seat price as you move up the ladder.
That flat structure means a small team can adopt the full feature set without a separate negotiation for every added module. Companies above 50 employees move to a custom Enterprise quote, and a 14-day free trial is available before any commitment is made.
What Crewmeister does well
- Flat €2/user/month across all tiers
- GPS-tagged mobile and terminal clock-in
- Vacation, sick leave and overtime in one app
- Backed by ATOSS's workforce-management expertise
- 14-day free trial
Where Crewmeister falls short
- No project-level time tracking or billing
- German-market focus
- Custom pricing only above 50 employees
- Less depth than a dedicated PSA tool for agencies
Standout feature. The only tracker here where every plan costs the same €2 per user, whatever features are switched on.
Ditzingen, Germany
ZEP Clock from €2/user/month, ZEP Compact from €7/user/month, ZEP Professional from €18/user/month, all excl. VAT; discounts for non-profits and startups
14-day free trial
Best for: German consultancies that bill projects and must also record statutory hours
ZEP is a Ditzingen-built platform that treats project time tracking and the statutory working-time record as one problem rather than two separate tools bought from two separate vendors: ZEP Clock covers the legal recording duty on its own, ZEP Compact adds project time, project management and project controlling on top of it, and ZEP Professional layers on full project planning, receipt capture, hourly and daily rates and revenue-versus-cost calculation for firms that bill clients by the hour.
That tiered structure means a firm can start with plain compliance recording — the thing every German employer now needs regardless of ambition — and grow into full project accounting without migrating data to a different vendor later. That matters specifically for consultancies and agencies whose statutory recording obligation and their client billing otherwise live in two spreadsheets that quietly disagree with each other by month end, which is exactly the reconciliation problem a combined tool is built to remove.
ZEP GmbH prices from €2 per user per month for the base Clock tier up to €18 for the full Professional edition, all excluding VAT, with DATEV, Personio and HubSpot integrations, an AI assistant for chat-based reporting, and discounts of up to 50 percent for non-profits and startups. A 14-day free trial is available before any commitment, with free onboarding and data migration included.
What ZEP does well
- Statutory recording and project billing in one product
- Three tiers from plain compliance to full project accounting
- DATEV, Personio and HubSpot integrations
- Discounts for non-profits and startups
- German company and hosting
Where ZEP falls short
- Full project and billing features sit in the top tier
- German-market focus
- Pricing rises quickly once you need Professional
- Less agency-shaped than MOCO
Standout feature. The statutory recording duty and project billing built as one upgrade path instead of two separate tools.
Brussels, Belgium
Founded 2008
Free for up to 5 users; Essential from $9/user/month (annual) or $10 monthly; Advanced from $18/user/month (annual) or $20 monthly; discounts for nonprofits, education and teams above 50 users
30-day free trial, no credit card
Best for: Multi-currency agencies who want resource planning alongside the timer
Beebole is a Brussels time tracker bootstrapped since 2008 by a small Belgian team, aimed at agencies and consultancies that need project time, resource planning and cost tracking working together rather than bolted on as afterthought add-ons to a simple timer.
The company reached €1 million in annual revenue after a decade of deliberately independent growth, without outside investors, a history it tells openly as part of how it pitches itself against venture-funded competitors that change direction with every funding round.
The plan structure reflects that agency focus directly: a genuinely usable free tier for up to five users covers basic project tracking, resource planning and custom reports, Essential adds billing rates, multi-level approvals and multi-currency support for firms invoicing clients in several currencies, and Advanced adds cost tracking, expense management, project budgets and custom roles for larger operations. Pricing is published in dollars rather than euros, which is unusual for a Belgian vendor but consistent across the site.
Beebole s.r.l. is registered in Brussels, offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, and gives further discounts to nonprofits, educational institutions and teams above 50 users, with SEPA direct debit alongside card payment. For a European buyer comparing this category, it sits between Toggl Track's simplicity and MOCO's full agency stack, closer to the latter in ambition but lighter in German-market specifics such as DATEV export.
What Beebole does well
- Genuinely free tier for up to 5 users
- Multi-currency billing and multi-level approvals
- Resource planning and cost tracking included
- 30-day trial, no credit card
- Independent Belgian company since 2008
Where Beebole falls short
- Prices published in dollars, not euros
- No DATEV export
- Interface less polished than newer entrants
- Advanced tier needed for project budgets
Standout feature. Eighteen years of independent, bootstrapped growth from Brussels, still priced with a genuinely free tier.
Oslo, Norway
Starter from $9/user/month (annual) or $11 monthly, up to 5 users; Premium from $16/user/month (annual) or $20 monthly; Unlimited from $22/user/month (annual) or $28 monthly; Enterprise on request; Tasks add-on from $5/person
14-day free trial
Best for: Consultancies that want AI-drafted timesheets without surveillance
Timely is an Oslo time tracker built around automatic timesheet drafting rather than a start-stop button: it reconstructs a working day from calendar entries, documents and app activity, and proposes draft time entries for a person to review and approve at the end of the day, which answers the adoption problem that kills most time tracking — the moment of remembering to press start in the middle of doing something else.
The company is explicit that this stays privacy-first rather than sliding into monitoring: no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity scores anywhere in the product, positioned directly against the US monitoring-first tools that otherwise dominate this category's search results. That design choice is backed by ISO 27001:2022 certification, renewed through annual surveillance audits, with customer data held in EU-based AWS data centres under multi-zone redundancy and a GDPR-aligned data processing agreement.
Pricing runs from Starter at $9 per user per month on the annual plan for teams up to five users, through Premium at $16 and Unlimited at $22, with monthly rates roughly 20 to 25 percent higher, a Tasks add-on from $5 per person, and a 14-day free trial. It is effectively the automatic-capture answer that, unlike TimeCamp's cloud-side activity logging, does not open a works council conversation before rollout.
What Timely does well
- AI-drafted timesheets from calendar and app activity
- No screenshots, keystrokes or activity scores, by design
- ISO 27001:2022 certified, EU-hosted on AWS
- 14-day free trial
- Norwegian company, EEA jurisdiction
Where Timely falls short
- Priced in dollars, not euros
- Starter tier capped at 5 users
- No statutory working-time module
- No DATEV export
Standout feature. Automatic timesheet drafting that reconstructs the day without capturing screenshots or keystrokes to do it.
Hamburg, Germany
From €4.99/user/month on the annual plan; a separate monthly plan is also available
14-day free trial
Best for: Freelancers on Apple devices who want one tool from timer to invoice
Tyme is a Hamburg time tracker native to Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, developed by the same small team, Unit Numberfive oHG, continuously for more than a decade rather than assembled through a string of acquisitions the way several larger vendors in this category have been — a genuinely different profile from the cross-platform web apps that dominate the rest of this list, and one that shows in how deeply it integrates with Apple's own frameworks.
Because it is a native app rather than a browser tab kept open all day, starting and stopping a timer is as fast as tapping a watch face or a menu-bar icon, and project budgets and statistics stay available offline without waiting on a server round trip. Plugins connect tracked time directly to invoicing tools including GrandTotal, Lexware Office, WISO MeinBüro and sevdesk, so freelancers are not left re-typing the same hours into a separate invoicing app by hand.
The annual plan costs €4.99 per user per month, with a separate monthly option for anyone who would rather not commit upfront, and a 14-day free trial before either. Tyme reports more than 50,000 users and a 4.7-star average rating after a decade on the market. A web client exists in beta for cross-platform access, but Tyme's real strength remains the tightly built Apple ecosystem rather than serving larger, mixed-device teams.
What Tyme does well
- Native apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
- Fast timer with no browser tab needed
- Invoicing plugins for GrandTotal, Lexware and sevdesk
- €4.99/user/month, among the cheapest here
- Over a decade of continuous development
Where Tyme falls short
- Apple platforms only; web client still in beta
- Smaller team than the larger vendors on this list
- No statutory working-time module
- Less built for larger teams than for individuals
Standout feature. The only tracker here built natively for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch instead of a browser.
Konstanz, Germany
From €7.90/user/month billed annually, or €8.90/user/month billed monthly, excl. VAT
14-day free trial, no credit card
Best for: Microsoft 365 shops that want time tracking inside Teams and Outlook
timeghost is a Konstanz-built time tracker that runs inside Microsoft Teams and Outlook rather than existing as a separate app people have to remember to open, using Microsoft 365 activity — meetings attended, documents opened, calls taken — to suggest time entries automatically, so a working day can largely be logged from what is already on the calendar rather than reconstructed from memory at five o'clock.
That integration is the whole pitch, and it is a reasonable one: for a company already standardised on Microsoft 365, a tracker that lives where people already work removes much of the adoption problem that quietly kills most time-tracking rollouts elsewhere. Single sign-on through Microsoft 365, role-based permissions, unlimited projects and clients on every tier, and exports to Excel, CSV and PDF round out a product built to be a Teams tab rather than another browser bookmark.
timeghost GmbH prices from €7.90 per user per month billed annually, or €8.90 monthly, both excluding VAT — a modest saving for committing to a year rather than the steep discounts some vendors dangle. The company states DSGVO compliance and ISO 27001 certification, and offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. Outside the Microsoft ecosystem it plugs into, the case for switching is considerably weaker.
What timeghost does well
- Runs natively inside Microsoft Teams and Outlook
- Automated time suggestions from calendar and activity
- Single sign-on with Microsoft 365
- Unlimited projects and clients on both tiers
- German company, stated ISO 27001
Where timeghost falls short
- Only useful if the team is already on Microsoft 365
- No statutory working-time module
- Smaller vendor than the Microsoft ecosystem it plugs into
- No free tier, only a trial
Standout feature. Time entries suggested from Teams and Outlook activity, for teams that live in Microsoft 365 already.
Riga, Latvia
Founded 2011
Pro from $5.50/user/month, Premium from $8.25/user/month, Enterprise custom pricing for 200+ users; one month free on annual billing; prices excl. VAT
14-day free trial
Best for: Employers who want automatic tracking with screenshots, not a timer
DeskTime is a Riga time tracker that grew out of Draugiem Group, a Latvian business incubator, back in 2011, and it takes the opposite approach from most of this list: it tracks automatically in the background from the moment a computer is switched on, categorising which applications and websites were used into productivity scores rather than waiting for a person to remember to press start on a timer for each task.
The Premium tier adds periodic screenshots and shift scheduling on top of that automatic capture, which is a genuine employee-monitoring feature set — the same territory as the US-built surveillance tools this directory otherwise steers buyers away from — but built and operated by a Latvian company holding both ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification, rather than by an offshore vendor with no comparable accountability or EU establishment.
Pro starts at $5.50 per user per month and Premium at $8.25, both excluding VAT, with a 14-day free trial, one month free on annual billing, and custom Enterprise pricing above 200 users. That undercuts most of the timers on this list on price alone, which is part of how DeskTime competes against the free-to-cheap US monitoring tools it is really up against. Buyers considering the monitoring tier specifically should read this category's works-council guidance before switching screenshots on.
What DeskTime does well
- ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certified
- Automatic app and website tracking, no manual timer needed
- Screenshots and shift scheduling on Premium
- Latvian company, EU jurisdiction
- 14-day free trial
Where DeskTime falls short
- Screenshot and scoring features are genuine monitoring, needing a legal basis
- Not the choice for teams avoiding surveillance features
- Enterprise pricing only above 200 users
- Prices in dollars, not euros
Standout feature. The one European alternative here to the US monitoring-first tools, screenshots and productivity scores included.
Stockholm, Sweden
Founded 2005
No public pricing; custom quotes after a demo
Best for: Retail and hospitality chains that need scheduling and time-and-attendance together
Quinyx is a Stockholm workforce-management platform built for retail, hospitality, warehousing and healthcare, sectors where the central question is not billable hours but who is rostered on tomorrow and whether that roster complies with labour law, rest-period rules and collective agreements — AI-driven forecasting and schedule automation sit alongside the time clock rather than a project timer, because the product exists to solve staffing, not client invoicing.
Time-and-attendance is one module of a considerably larger system built for frontline, shift-based workforces: clocking feeds payroll integrations directly without a manual export step, and compliance rules are built into the scheduling engine itself rather than checked afterwards by a manager with a spreadsheet, which is the same shift-first logic as Papershift and Crewmeister elsewhere on this page but aimed at much larger multi-site retail and hospitality chains.
Quinyx AB, founded in Sweden in 2005 and still headquartered there, publishes no self-serve pricing anywhere on its site; quotes are given only after a demo, which is consistent with its focus on larger retail, logistics and hospitality operators evaluating a full platform purchase rather than a small team signing up for a monthly plan on a credit card.
That makes it a poor fit for the freelancers and small agencies this category otherwise serves well, and a reasonable one for a national retail chain.
What Quinyx does well
- Scheduling, forecasting and time-and-attendance in one platform
- AI-driven forecast-to-schedule automation
- Compliance rules built into the roster, not checked afterwards
- Swedish company, EU jurisdiction
- Twenty years of continuous operation
Where Quinyx falls short
- No public pricing; quotes only after a demo
- Built for large frontline workforces, not solo freelancers
- No project-based billable-time features
- Onboarding likely needs a sales conversation, not a self-serve signup
Standout feature. Time-and-attendance folded into full workforce scheduling, for chains where the roster is the real problem.
