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Hourtick: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hourtick is a work platform that combines a task board, team chat and time tracking for people and AI agents. It is aimed at businesses that bill by the hour, such as agencies, consultants, accountants and software teams. AI agents can be assigned tasks and log their own time; you track hours with a timer in the browser or the Mac menu bar, and invoices go out through your own Stripe account. A REST API and an MCP server are available. Hourtick is delivered as a hosted service.

Hourtick is operated by WeCode A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to its privacy policy, the application servers and the database run on Akamai Cloud in Frankfurt and files are stored in the EU by default; a workspace administrator can instead choose US file storage. The company lists US-based subprocessors such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Stripe and Google and relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers. Hourtick is not open source.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
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-645
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 5, 2026

Headquarters	DK (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (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	hourtick.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Hourtick

The European alternatives to Hourtick 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 Hourtick

Hourtick is headquartered in DK and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Hourtick 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.

Hourtick 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 Hourtick 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 Hourtick?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Hourtick 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 Hourtick?

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

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

Hourtick is headquartered in DK (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Hourtick 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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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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