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TimeMonkey: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TimeMonkey is software for time recording and staff management from MonkeyMed, aimed at medical and dental practices, care providers, pharmacies, small businesses and mid-sized companies. Employees record working time with a PIN code or an NFC key fob. The product also covers absence planning for leave, sickness and training, working-time reports, task management, digital personnel files, recruiting and shift planning with an AI assistant; some of these, such as AI shift planning and recruiting, belong to the Pro plan. It runs as a web app and as an iOS app, with an Android time clock in beta.

The provider is MonkeyDent GmbH in Bergheim, Germany. According to the vendor, data is processed in line with GDPR on servers in Germany. TimeMonkey is not open source and is offered only as a hosted service. For a European organisation this means that, according to the vendor, staff data stays under German and European law; you can request the data processing agreement and the hosting location from the vendor.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • 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 October 5, 2026
Headquarters
DE (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
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to TimeMonkey

The European alternatives to TimeMonkey 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 TimeMonkey

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

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

TimeMonkey 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to TimeMonkey?

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

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

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

TimeMonkey is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes TimeMonkey 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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