Non-EU vendorTime TrackingHeadquarters: CA

actiTIME: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

actiTIME is web-based timesheet software with project and task tracking, budget control, billing and invoicing, and leave management. It is offered as a hosted web service, actiTIME Online, and as a self-hosted edition that an organisation runs on its own servers. It is aimed at businesses that want to track hours and costs per project. The product is proprietary, and the vendor traces it back to 2004, when it began as an internal tool for a software development company.

The company behind actiTIME is actiTIME Inc, which describes itself as a Canadian company with a distributed team. Canada is outside the EU and the EEA. According to its security policy, the hosted service runs in Amazon Web Services data centres in the United States and Germany, customers can choose between the two, and data of European customers is stored exclusively in Germany. Its data processing agreement also lists Hetzner in Germany and other sub-processors in the United States, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates. The vendor states that the service is GDPR compliant.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (CA)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 13, 2026

Headquarters	CA (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Time Tracking
Type	Product
Website	actitime.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to actiTIME

The European alternatives to actiTIME come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with actiTIME

actiTIME is headquartered in CA, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

actiTIME hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

actiTIME is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs actiTIME together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to actiTIME?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to actiTIME include askDANTE, Beebole and Clockodo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to actiTIME?

Our list of EU alternatives to actiTIME is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is actiTIME GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

actiTIME is headquartered in CA (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Time Tracking

Time Tracking: Apps for tracking time spent on tasks and projects. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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