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Timetell: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Timetell is software for time registration, leave and sickness registration, attendance registration, planning and expense claims, made by TimeTell B.V. of Voorburg in the Netherlands. Employees record their hours, managers check and approve them, and the software applies the rules agreed within the organisation, such as working times and collective agreements. The offering includes an app, a time-clock system, reports and integrations with other systems.

TimeTell B.V. is based in the Netherlands and describes itself as an independent family-owned company; no foreign parent company is mentioned. For the online version, the vendor works with the hosting partners Avantage and Uniserver. The data centres are in Amsterdam and Almere, so customer data is processed in the Netherlands. According to the vendor, its services comply with the GDPR, and it has a data processing agreement and a data-breach protocol. For a European organisation this means a Dutch supplier with Dutch hosting and no US parent company. Whether other forms of delivery exist is best confirmed with the vendor.

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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 17, 2026
Headquarters
NetherlandsVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
timetell.nl ↗

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European alternatives to Timetell

The European alternatives to Timetell come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Timetell

Timetell is headquartered in the Netherlands 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 Timetell scores best on data residency.

Timetell 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 Timetell 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 Timetell?

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

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

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

Timetell is headquartered in the Netherlands (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes Timetell 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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