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hakuna: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

hakuna is a time-tracking application for Swiss small and medium-sized businesses, developed by hakuna AG in Zurich. Staff record working time in the browser, in a mobile app or at a terminal; the software calculates overtime and holiday balances. Further modules cover absences, project time, reports, Swiss Labour Act checks, expenses, a digital personnel file and shift planning. It is a web service with an API.

hakuna AG is headquartered in Zurich; Switzerland is not an EU member state but an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. According to the sub-processor list and privacy policy, time-tracking data is stored only in Swiss data centres at Amazon Web Services, contracted through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL in Luxembourg. Amazon states on its own site that this entity is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., a US company, so the US CLOUD Act may in principle apply even when data stays in Switzerland. Other providers, some in the USA, handle e-mail, payments and support. A data processing agreement is part of the terms.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 17, 2026
Headquarters
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
hakuna.ch ↗

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European alternatives to hakuna

The European alternatives to hakuna come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 hakuna

hakuna is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

hakuna hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

hakuna 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 hakuna 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 hakuna?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to hakuna include 123erfasst, ADMIA Chrono and amacos. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to hakuna?

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

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

hakuna is headquartered in Switzerland (EFTA) and hosts data in Switzerland. That makes hakuna an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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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