clockodo vs Toggl Track

clockodo

Browser, desktop and smartphone apps sit alongside a shared time-recording terminal, times captured offline sync automatically once a connection returns, and employees may file forgotten times themselves rather than queue at an admin desk. We found no public information on GPS or geofenced check-in, on bulk corrections, or on a change history naming who altered what and why — the only evidenced trail is a general Vermerk on a changed entry, which is thin for a works agreement on corrections.

Toggl Track

Desktop, browser, web and mobile timers with idle-time detection cover the office, and I note the timeline and auto-tracker are opt-in with their records visible only to the employee concerned — that is how it should be. But we found no public information on a shared terminal or kiosk for shift and deskless crews, on offline capture, or on GPS or geofenced check-in and what it stores, and correction rides on Premium timesheet approvals with no stated audit trail of who changed what.

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The vendor cites the BAG 2022 duty, lets break rules be configured and enforced in company settings, warns employee and employer alike when working times are breached, and annotates every changed entry — the warning reaching the employee too is a point in its favour. But the help text itself states that automatic break deduction books no break period, so on inspection it would not be evident when the employee actually paused. We found no public information on rest-period or daily-maximum checks, on retention tied to the recording duty, or on tamper-evident change history.

Toggl Track

Nothing captured addresses the German recording duty: no break rules, no warnings on the eight-hour maximum or eleven-hour rest period, no tamper-evident change history, no on-call, standby or travel-time handling. The retention figures I found — seven years for contract and billing records, ninety days for logs — sit in the privacy policy and are not a working-time record kept for inspection.

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Vacation accounts with remaining leave computed automatically, country-specific public holidays, ten absence types with approval set per type, sickness and child-sickness, mobile requests with supervisor notification and a shared team calendar — the absence half is solid and maps cleanly onto a works agreement. We found no public information on shift rosters, shift templates, substitution or swap workflows, availability or coverage checks; the drag-and-drop planner places absences, not duties.

Toggl Track

PTO, public holidays and flexible hours appear as capacity basics, and a Time Off Pro add-on connects leave management with capacity planning, but we found no public information on automatic entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording or a request-approval workflow. The planning views on display are boards, task lists, timelines and calendars for projects — not shift rosters with qualification or rest-period checks.

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Entries carry customer, project, subproject, service, employee, description and hourly rate at capture; budgets in hours and money trigger warnings before a project slides into loss; and recorded times become invoice drafts handed to Lexware Office, sevdesk or easybill without retyping, with reports exported as PDF or CSV. We found no public information on a cost-centre field, a billable flag, or how rates behave when they change mid-project.

Toggl Track

This is the product's home ground: unlimited projects and tasks, billable rates from the Starter tier upward, fixed-fee projects, labour costs and profitability reports, and dashboards of time against estimates. We found no public information on cost-centre levels, rate cards per role, budget warnings or an invoice-ready export into a named invoicing or accounting system.

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A maintained DATEV Lohn & Gehalt connection is documented in detail — client and consultant numbers from the tax adviser, personnel-number type, wage-type mapping before export — and absences are stated as ready for preparative payroll, with interfaces to payroll programs and CSV as fallback. The export is restricted to hourly wage earners and excludes employees with surcharges, and we found no public information on a lock step before transmission, retro corrections after the close, or scoped access for the tax adviser.

Toggl Track

The month leaves as a CSV or PDF export. We found no public information on any named payroll system, a defined payroll format, surcharge handling for night, Sunday or holiday work, or a lock step before transmission — for payroll, this is a spreadsheet someone retypes.

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The contracting entity is a German GmbH, the product pages state data sits on German servers, a trust centre publishes the processing agreement, technical measures and data-centre information, and processors are named — Mittwald and HubSpot in Germany, PayPal in Luxembourg, Stripe in the USA with the Data Privacy Framework given as basis — while logfiles are bounded at thirty days, a bound I welcome. We found no public information on ownership or data-centre certification, the product is cloud only with no on-premises option evidenced, and registration stores IP addresses for abuse prevention — a watchful detail I note without applause.

Toggl Track

The default controller and processor is Toggl OÜ with processing in Estonia, and even customers contracting through the Delaware sister entity have their processing delegated to Toggl OÜ in Estonia, with international transfers documented through adequacy decisions or Standard Contractual Clauses with impact assessments. But the referenced sub-processors page was not among the captures, so the chain beyond the internal Toggl group cannot be verified here, and no data-centre provider is named.

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Every tier carries a public per-user price — Basic 4 €, Pro 8 € for the first twelve months then 10 €, Pro Plus 10 € then 12 €, plus package +2 € per user per month — with monthly or annual billing, cancellation at month's end, no base or setup fee, net prices plus statutory VAT, and a single user free permanently. We found no public price for the time-recording terminal, and the vendor invites firms with at least twenty users to request an individual offer, so a buyer cannot compute the annual invoice for a larger headcount from public pages alone.

Toggl Track

Starter at $9 per user per month and Premium at $16 per user per month are published with monthly billing stated, alongside an annual option advertised as 4 months free, a free tier and a full feature-comparison page. The Enterprise plan is contact-sales only and the Time Off Pro and expert-onboarding add-ons carry no public price, so the real annual invoice for a given headcount cannot be computed from public pages alone.