Non-EU vendorTime TrackingHeadquarters: US

Clockify: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Clockify is a time tracking application for individuals and teams. Users record hours with a timer or timesheet, a calendar, an auto tracker for apps and websites and a kiosk mode for clocking in on a shared device. It also offers reports, rates and budgets, scheduling, time off, timesheet approval, invoices based on billable time and expenses. It is available as a web app with browser extensions, as a desktop app and as a mobile app, and data is synced online.

Clockify is owned by CAKE.com Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and falls under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. Workspace owners on the Pro and Enterprise plans can choose a data region: the USA, the EU (Germany), the UK or Australia; without a choice, data is stored in the global region. Time entries, activity data and invoice details are then stored in the chosen region, while member profiles and service logs remain outside it, in the CAKE.com account. The software is proprietary and not open source.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
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-615
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 8, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Time Tracking
Type	Product
Website	clockify.me ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Clockify

The European alternatives to Clockify come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Clockify

Clockify is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Clockify hosts data in US, EU. 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.

Clockify 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 Clockify 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 Clockify?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Clockify?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Clockify include solidtime. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Clockify is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. 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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