European Time Tracking Software

#1 Toggl Track

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.

Standout feature. The only tracker here that refuses to add monitoring features as a matter of principle.

#2 Timeular

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.

Standout feature. A physical dice on the desk — the only answer here to the real reason time tracking fails.

#3 clockodo

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.

Standout feature. Working time records built to survive an audit, not to produce an invoice.

#4 MOCO

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.

Standout feature. From timer to invoice on one record, so project margin is a report rather than a reconstruction.

#5 Kimai

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.

Standout feature. The only tracker here where the timesheet database can simply be yours.

#6 awork

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.

Standout feature. Planning, tracking and capacity on one dataset, so the hours match the plan.

#7 TimeCamp

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.

Standout feature. Time, attendance and billing from one vendor instead of three subscriptions.

#8 Papershift

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.

Standout feature. Rota planning and the statutory time record in one place, for teams that work in shifts.