Timely

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.