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Self-hosted / open sourceTime TrackingHeadquarters: CH

Lasius: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lasius is a free, open-source web application for tracking working time across multiple teams, organisations and projects. Users start and stop timers, attach labels and tags, save favourites for one-click bookings and install the app as a progressive web app. It offers statistics and reports per company, project or person, filtered CSV export, role-based access to projects and organisations, and links to the issue trackers GitLab, Jira and Plane. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

Lasius is developed by Tegonal Genossenschaft, a cooperative based in Bern, Switzerland; no foreign parent company is mentioned. You can run the software yourself on your own infrastructure using the Docker setup, which needs a MongoDB database, so data stays wherever you host it. Tegonal also offers to host and maintain a dedicated instance, for example on the Swiss cloud of Infomaniak or another provider you choose. Switzerland is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. The open source code allows European organisations to inspect what they run.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
tegonal.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Lasius

The European alternatives to Lasius come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 Lasius

Lasius 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.

Lasius 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.

Lasius is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Lasius 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 Lasius?

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

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

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

Lasius is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Lasius 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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