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by memtime GmbH · memtime.com

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memtime at a glance

Vendor
memtime GmbH
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates memtime 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. 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. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Field Supervisor

Weighted verdict

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.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Field Supervisor

Panel median The Field Supervisor This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Field Supervisor
Capture in the real workplace 2 of 5 1.5 of 5
Working-time law & audit record 1 of 5 0.5 of 5
Absence & shift planning 0 of 5 0 of 5
Project, cost-centre & billing 2 of 5 2 of 5
Payroll handoff 2 of 5 2 of 5
European sovereignty 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Pricing transparency 0 of 5 0 of 5

Capture in the real workplace

How this is scored

How time actually gets recorded across the workforces a buyer has — desk staff, field and site crews, shift and deskless workers — and what happens when the network is not there.

0 — One browser timer and nothing else; anyone away from a desk records nothing.

3 — Web plus a mobile app, but no offline capture, no shared terminal, and corrections are an admin task rather than a workflow.

5 — Web, mobile and at least one shared capture point (kiosk, terminal or badge), with offline capture that syncs, and a correction workflow with approval.

8 — Several capture paths including hardware terminals or badge readers, reliable offline handling, GPS or geofenced check-in where the vendor states its limits, and bulk correction with an audit trail of who changed what.

10 — Capture fits the workforce rather than the reverse: desk, deskless, field and shift models all first-class, offline as a designed state rather than a failure mode, and every correction attributable, reasoned and reversible.

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The Field Supervisor

Capture is a personal desktop app on Mac, Windows and Linux that records your programs in the background and keeps the raw activity offline on the machine — offline as a designed state, which I respect, but it is one person per computer. I found no public information on a capture-capable mobile app (only a mobile-responsive dashboard for viewing), a shared terminal or badge for a crew, GPS or geofenced check-in, or any correction workflow with approval; edits are limited to pausing, resetting and renaming your own timers. 1 3 4 5

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Working-time law & audit record

How this is scored

Whether the record satisfies the German recording duty (BAG 2022, § 3 ArbSchG) and the ArbZG rules around it — breaks, maximum hours, rest periods, retention — and whether it survives being inspected.

0 — Hours are summed and nothing else; no break handling, no limits, no retention statement.

3 — Break deduction exists but is a flat rule; no daily maximum or rest-period checks, and no stated retention period.

5 — Configurable break rules, warnings on the 8/10-hour daily maximum and the 11-hour rest period, and per-employee reports covering the recording duty.

8 — The ArbZG rules are modelled rather than approximated: break and rest enforcement with documented exceptions, overtime and time-account rules, the two-year retention handled by the system, and an export built for an inspection.

10 — The vendor treats the record as evidence: tamper-evident entries with full change history, retention and deletion executed per statute, documented handling of on-call, standby and travel time, and published guidance mapping features to the ArbZG sections they serve.

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The Field Supervisor

The only limit shown anywhere is a toggle that auto-stops a task timer after up to ten hours, which is a personal guardrail rather than a working-day rule. I found no public information on break handling, the eight- and ten-hour daily maxima, the eleven-hour rest period, retention of the record, or any export built for an inspection. 2 6

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Absence & shift planning

How this is scored

Vacation, sickness and the shift or duty roster — the half of attendance that decides whether the time data means anything.

0 — No absence handling; vacation lives in a separate calendar or spreadsheet.

3 — Vacation requests with approval, but entitlement is manual, carry-over is not handled and there is no rostering.

5 — Automatic entitlement and carry-over, sickness recording, an absence calendar, and basic shift planning with availability.

8 — Public-holiday calendars per location, pro-rata entitlement, substitution and swap workflows, shift templates with qualification and rest-period checks, and coverage warnings before publication.

10 — Planning and recording are one system: rosters that respect statutory rest and the works agreement, absence that reflows the plan automatically, and forecast-versus-actual reporting a team lead can act on.

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The Field Supervisor

Nothing in the captured pages covers vacation, entitlement, carry-over, sickness or any kind of roster — this is a task timer, not a workforce planner. The nearest capability shown is a one-way CalDAV import that pulls one person's appointments into the app. 2 3

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Project, cost-centre & billing

How this is scored

Whether recorded time can carry the allocation an agency, workshop or professional-services firm needs — project, task, cost centre, billable status — through to an invoice or a client report.

0 — Attendance only; no project, task or cost-centre dimension at all.

3 — A free-text note or a single project field, with no rates, no billable flag and no per-project reporting.

5 — Projects and tasks with a billable flag and per-project reports, plus a rate per person or per project.

8 — Multi-level structure (client, project, task, cost centre), rate cards by person, role and project, budget tracking with warnings, and an invoice-ready export.

10 — Time becomes revenue without re-entry: approval before billing, rate rules that survive a rate change mid-project, client-facing reports, and a maintained handoff into named accounting or invoicing systems.

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The Field Supervisor

Time entries carry project and task detail, teams share timesheets under roles and permissions, and billability can be analysed across projects, clients, services and team members, with exports into accounting tools like Xero, QuickBooks Time and Freshbooks and a hundred-plus project tools. I found no public information on rate cards per person or project, budgets with warnings, or a cost-centre dimension, so the path from recorded time to an invoice's rate maths is not shown. 1 3 4 5

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Payroll handoff

How this is scored

How the recorded month reaches payroll — DATEV, Lohn und Gehalt, an in-house system or the tax adviser — and how much of it is automated rather than retyped.

0 — No payroll path stated; the month leaves as a spreadsheet someone retypes.

3 — Generic CSV said to be usable for payroll, with no named system, no defined format and no handling of surcharges.

5 — A named payroll integration or a documented export format for at least one major system, covering hours, absences and overtime.

8 — Vendor-maintained integration with a named provider, covering night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, time accounts and mid-month changes, with a lock step before transmission.

10 — Payroll is designed for, not exported to: several named systems maintained, an auditable approval and lock, retro handling for corrections after the close, and the tax adviser given their own scoped access.

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The Field Supervisor

There is one named payroll-side connection: time entries can be created in bulk in DATEV EO Comfort instead of one by one, alongside unlimited PDF timesheets. I found no public information on how night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, overtime or absences are carried, on a lock step before transmission, or on handling corrections after the close. 2 6

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the data lives, who the contracting entity is, who the subprocessors are, and whether that is documented rather than assumed. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting region unstated or non-EU, subprocessors not named.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option, but the contracting entity is non-EU or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but the subprocessor chain includes non-EU providers without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, full subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor in the EU, data-centre certification published, and an on-premises or private-cloud option for buyers who need it.

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The Field Supervisor

The vendor presents itself as German and the activity timeline never leaves the user's own machine, which is a privacy posture I rate. I found no public information on where the sync of time entries between devices and users is hosted, or on a published subprocessor list for that sync. 3 4 5

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual invoice for their headcount — including terminals, modules and minimums — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-user headline exists, but hardware, modules or a minimum seat count are unpriced or unmentioned.

5 — Per-user prices public for the main tiers with the billing period stated, but at least one commonly needed piece (terminal hardware, planning module, payroll export) sits in an unpriced bundle.

8 — Every tier and module priced publicly with per-user maths, billing period, minimum term and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom work lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator or table producing the annual invoice for a given headcount and module selection, including hardware, setup and renewal terms.

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The Field Supervisor

The only pricing facts published are a free 14-day trial with no credit card required and a statement that storage is never charged for. I found no public information on per-user prices, tiers, billing period, minimum seats or term, so no buyer can compute an annual invoice from the pages. 4 6

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Questions about memtime

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), clockodo (3/5) and ZEP (3/5) 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 (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: memtime alternatives.

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Sources (6)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page memtime.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.memtime.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.memtime.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.memtime.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.memtime.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.memtime.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →