# memtime — Time Tracking & Attendance

memtime by memtime GmbH holds a panel rating of 1.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: memtime GmbH (https://memtime.com)
- Category: [Time Tracking & Attendance](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/memtime
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/memtime/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/memtime/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: memtime GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

memtime, from memtime GmbH, is a desktop time tracker for desk professionals: background capture on Mac, Windows and Linux records actively used programs, documents and calls, and the activity timeline stays a single offline copy on the user's machine. Strongest: project and billing (4 to 5) and payroll export (4 to 5) — billability reporting across projects, clients, services and team members, export to 100+ project tools, and bulk entry creation in DATEV EO Comfort. Weakest: absence and planning, scored a flat 0, where the only calendar capability shown is a one-way CalDAV import, and working time law (1 to 2), whose only shown limit is a task-timer auto-stop of 0 to 10 hours. Pricing transparency scored 0 to 1: beyond a 14-day trial with no credit card required and storage never charged, we found no public prices, tiers or billing periods. Scores spread no more than a point on any criterion, so no genuine split emerges; sovereignty (2 to 3) pairs the vendor's German origin and local-first posture with unanswered questions on where synced entries are hosted.

**Speaks for it:**
- Automatic background capture on Mac, Windows and Linux records actively used programs, windows, documents and calls, offline by design
- The activity timeline stays a single offline copy on the user's machine, never uploaded to the cloud, and only the time entries a user creates are shared
- Billability reporting spans projects, clients, services and team members, with unlimited time entries and unlimited PDF timesheet exports
- Time entries export to 100+ project tools plus Xero, QuickBooks Time and Freshbooks, and can be sent directly to ClickUp, Jira, Asana and Harvest
- Time entries can be created in bulk in DATEV EO Comfort instead of one by one, the one German payroll system named on the captured pages

**Held against it:**
- Absence and planning scored a flat 0 — the only calendar capability shown is a one-way CalDAV import of appointments, and we found no public information on vacation, sickness, entitlement or roster handling
- Working time law scored 1 to 2: the only limit shown is a task-timer auto-stop of 0 to 10 hours, and we found no public information on breaks, rest periods or retention
- Corrections are limited to users renaming or deleting their own tasks; we found no public information on an approval workflow or a trace of who changed what
- Capture covers the desk only, with the mobile offering a responsive dashboard; we found no public information on mobile capture, shared terminals or badge check-in
- Pricing transparency scored 0 to 1: beyond a 14-day trial with no credit card required and storage never charged, we found no public information on per-user prices, tiers, billing period or minimum seats

**Best for:**
- You run a desk-based agency, consultancy, legal, architecture or development team and bill project time — project and billing scored 4 to 5 with billability reporting across projects, clients, services and team members
- Your payroll or accounting runs on DATEV EO Comfort — bulk creation of time entries there is a documented handoff, and payroll export scored 4 to 5
- You prize local-first privacy — the activity timeline stays on each user's machine, and the vendor states it cannot see what users are working on
- Your team already tracks work in ClickUp, Jira, Asana or Harvest and wants time entries sent directly there

**Avoid if:**
- You need vacation, sickness, entitlement or shift-roster handling — absence and planning scored a flat 0 and the only calendar capability shown is a one-way CalDAV import
- You must satisfy German working-time-recording duties — working time law scored 1 to 2, the only limit shown is a task-timer auto-stop of 0 to 10 hours, and edits are self-service renames and deletes of one's own log
- Your crews work away from a desk — the capture app shown covers Mac, Windows and Linux desktops and the mobile offering shown is a responsive dashboard
- You need published per-seat prices to budget — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Operations Lead | The Payroll Officer | The Works Council Advocate | The Agency Owner | The Field Supervisor | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capture in the real workplace | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Working-time law & audit record | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Absence & shift planning | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 |
| Project, cost-centre & billing | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Payroll handoff | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **1.5/5** | **1/5** | **1/5** | **1.5/5** | **1/5** | **1/5** |

### The judges

- **The Operations Lead** (v1.0): Runs a 200-person operation with office, workshop and field staff, and has to record all of them since the BAG ruling. Wants capture that fits each of those groups and a roster that reflects reality. Unmoved by a beautiful desktop timer that half the workforce cannot use.
- **The Payroll Officer** (v1.0): Turns the recorded month into an payroll run and answers for it. Cares about surcharges for night, Sunday and holiday work, time accounts that reconcile, and corrections that arrive after the close. Treats "export to CSV" as an admission that the handoff was never designed.
- **The Works Council Advocate** (v1.0): Has co-determination over how working time is recorded (BetrVG §87 (1) 6) and will not approve a system that watches more than it measures. Asks what GPS actually stores, who can read an individual's day, what is logged and what can be switched off. Reads "productivity insights" as a warning.
- **The Agency Owner** (v1.0): Bills forty people's hours to clients and lives on the gap between recorded and billable. Wants project structure, rate cards that survive a mid-project change, budget warnings before the overrun, and an export the invoicing system takes. Attendance compliance is the floor, not the product.
- **The Field Supervisor** (v1.0): Supervises crews on sites with no reliable signal and no desks. Judges everything by whether it works in a basement at 6am: offline capture, a shared terminal, corrections a foreman can make without a support ticket. A cloud-only app is a tool that will be filled in from memory on Friday.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read a great many pages claiming to be "BAG-konform" and wants to know which feature makes that true. Reads compliance claims for what they do not say: which module, at which tier, and whether the terminal in the photograph costs extra.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Hosting**
- Origin: Germany [S3]
- Origin: Germany [S4]
- Platforms: Mac · Windows · Linux [S2]
- Platforms: Mac · Windows · Linux [S4]

**Integrations**
- Accounting software: Xero · QuickBooks Time · Freshbooks [S1]
- Builtin 2way: ClickUp · Jira · Asana · Harvest [S3]
- Caldav 1way: yes [S3]
- Custom API: yes [S3]
- Export 100 plus: Export to 100+ project tools [S5]

**Legal**
- Company: 2016-2026 · memtime GmbH [S2]
- Company: memtime GmbH · 2016-2026 [S6]
- Entity: 2016-2026 · memtime GmbH · Germany [S1]
- Entity: memtime GmbH · 2016-2026 [S3]
- Made in germany: Germany [S2]
- Made in germany: Germany [S1]

**Pricing**
- Free trial no card: no [S6]

**Product**
- Activity capture: Records actively used program/window; timeline can include browser tabs, file and document names, email subjects, terminal window titles [S3]
- Activity log auto: automatic chronological daily activity log, customizable by renaming/deleting tasks [S2]
- Auto capture: desktop app captures activity in all programs, emails, documents, and phone calls in the background [S5]
- Auto stop limit range: 10 · 0 [S2]
- Automatic tracking upsell: Memtime product offers automatic time tracking without timers [S2]
- Billability reporting: Billability reporting across projects, clients, services, and team members [S4]
- Bulk export: yes · yes [S6]
- Data sharing scope: only created time entries · yes [S4]
- Data transfer: yes [S6]
- Device sync: Time entries sync from any device or user; activity tracking stays offline [S4]
- Encrypted data: data encrypted with Enterprise-grade security; Memtime cannot see user activity [S5]
- Entry creation methods: click and drag; transform a captured activity; automation via suggestion rules [S5]
- Exportable time entries: yes · yes [S3]
- Free online task timer: Free online task timer [S2]
- Install appimage: AppImage [S3]
- Install steps: desktop app install, configure settings, automatic activity tracking, review day [S1]
- Integration count claim: Zoho BugTracker · Azure DevOps · Jira Server · 100+ [S3]
- Interval detail: 1 · 60 [S1]
- Local storage: yes [S3]
- Local storage: activity data remains on device forever; revisit any past day [S5]
- Local storage: local offline single copy · no [S6]
- Memory aid intervals: Memory Aid™ displays day in any interval between 1-60 minutes [S5]
- Mobile dashboard: yes [S4]
- No screenshots keystrokes: no · no [S3]
- Offline privacy: keeps activity data offline on device only [S1]
- Offline tracking: yes [S4]
- Offline work: yes [S3]
- Pdf open browser tab: exported PDF opens in new browser tab [S2]
- Pdf timesheet export: yes [S2]
- Pdf timesheets unlimited: yes [S2]
- Platforms: Mac · Windows · Linux [S6]
- Setup existing users: Existing users add Memtime Projects via Connected Apps [S4]
- Team timesheets: Collect team members' time entries; roles and permissions assigned on invite; tasks and real-time progress tracking [S4]
- Timeline review increment: 1 · 60 [S3]
- Timer controls: timers can be paused, reset, deleted; task names editable anytime [S2]
- Timers unlimited: yes [S2]
- Tracking accuracy claim: 75 · 95 [S3]
- Trial: 14 · no [S3]
- Trial: 14 · no [S4]
- Unlimited time entries: yes [S5]
- Use cases: Accounting & finance · Marketing & advertising agencies · Consultants · Legal services · Designers & creatives · Software development · IT Services · Architects & engineers · Remote teams · Freelancers [S1]
- X11 support: GNOME · KDE Plasma · XFCE · X11 [S3]

## Questions

### Is memtime European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where memtime is based.

### Where does memtime store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does memtime have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to memtime?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [TimeTac (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timetac), [clockodo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/clockodo) and [ZEP (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/zep) highest among the other 25 Time Tracking & Attendance products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [TimeTac](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timetac) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [memtime alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/memtime/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on compliance on the pages we read (memtime.com, memtime.com/online-task-timer, memtime.com/linux-time-tracking, memtime.com/integrations/memtime-projects, memtime.com/features/project-time-entries, memtime.com/integrations/datev-eo-comfort). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 30 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 legal fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://memtime.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://www.memtime.com/online-task-timer (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://www.memtime.com/linux-time-tracking (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://www.memtime.com/integrations/memtime-projects (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://www.memtime.com/features/project-time-entries (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://www.memtime.com/integrations/datev-eo-comfort (checked 2026-10-13)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "memtime — Time Tracking & Attendance", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/memtime

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