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Time Cockpit: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Time Cockpit is software for project and employee time tracking, project controlling and billing, aimed at project-based service companies such as IT firms, system integrators, consultancies, and architecture and engineering firms. Features include a graphical calendar, optional Windows activity tracking, budgets, hourly rates and invoices created directly from booked time. Fields, forms and workflows can be customised. There are REST, OData and TCQL web APIs, an MCP server and single sign-on through Microsoft Entra ID. The service runs in the browser on PC, Mac, Android and iOS.

Time Cockpit is developed and operated by software architects gmbh in Leonding, Austria. According to the vendor, it runs in ISO 27001-certified Microsoft Azure data centres in the EU, in Amsterdam and Dublin, with a dedicated database per customer; a data processing agreement is provided. Because the infrastructure comes from Microsoft, a US company, this is relevant when you assess jurisdiction. Time Cockpit is not open source.

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Sovereignty score

49 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (EU (Microsoft Azure))
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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU (Microsoft Azure)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US (US)Technically measured
Category	Time Tracking
Type	Product
Website	timecockpit.com ↗

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 Time Cockpit

The European alternatives to Time Cockpit 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

28 European Time Tracking vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Time Cockpit

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

Time Cockpit hosts data outside the EU (EU (Microsoft Azure)). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Time Cockpit 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 Time Cockpit 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 Time Cockpit?

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

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

Is Time Cockpit GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Time Cockpit is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU (Microsoft Azure). That makes Time Cockpit 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

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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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