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Tyme: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Tyme is a time-tracking app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, for freelancers, self-employed people and teams; a web login is in beta. The app offers parallel timers, Siri Shortcuts, global hotkeys, overviews of projects, budgets and deadlines, statistics, team administration with roles, calendar sync, reminders, location-based clock in and out, and mileage and expense tracking. Data can be exported to PDF, CSV or JSON. Plugins support invoicing with Lexware Office, sevdesk, GrandTotal and WISO MeinBüro.

Tyme is made by Unit Numberfive oHG in Hamburg, Germany. Users who enable sync send timers, projects and time entries to the cloud service they select, Apple iCloud; the developer has no influence on how Apple processes that data. Team data is stored on the Tyme server, which according to the privacy policy is hosted by Host Europe in Strasbourg, France. The software is not open source. European organisations using sync or team features can assess these two data flows separately.

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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 July 2, 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
Hosting signal	GODADDY-SXB - Host Europe GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Time Tracking
Type	Product
Website	tyme-app.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 Tyme

The European alternatives to Tyme 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 Tyme

Tyme 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 Tyme scores best on data residency.

Tyme 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 Tyme 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 Tyme?

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

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

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

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

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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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