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Timely: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Timely is a time-tracking product for agencies, consultancies, SaaS companies and other professional-services teams. It aims to fill timesheets without manual timers: the software records in the background which web and desktop applications are used, and an AI feature drafts time entries and assigns them to projects and clients, which users then approve. Timely also offers project dashboards, planned time, billable rates, invoices and reports, plus integrations with tools such as Asana, Jira, Microsoft Teams and QuickBooks and an API. It is delivered as a cloud service.

Timely AS is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, an EEA country outside the EU. According to its own sub-processor list, hosting runs on Amazon Web Services in the EU. The list also names US-based processors for email, network security and AI processing, with transfers relying on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. Timely states that it holds ISO 27001:2022 certification. The software is not open source. European organisations should review the sub-processor list.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EEA: the GDPR applies directly
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • 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 July 2, 2026
Headquarters
NO (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
timelyapp.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 Timely

The European alternatives to Timely 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 Timely

Timely is headquartered in NO, which falls under the GDPR through the European Economic Area. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Timely scores best on data residency.

Timely 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 Timely 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 Timely?

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

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

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

Timely is headquartered in NO (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Timely an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

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

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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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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