# Time Doctor — Time Tracking & Attendance

Time Doctor by Time Doctor LLC 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: Time Doctor LLC (https://timedoctor.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/time-doctor
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/time-doctor/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/time-doctor/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: Time Doctor LLC
- 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
- Starting price: “Then keep Time Doctor for as little as $6.70 per user/month.” (vendor’s words) [S8]

## The panel's verdict

Time Doctor is a time tracking and attendance product from Time Doctor LLC. Payroll export scores highest at 4 to 5, built on direct integrations to Rippling and Xero AU with manual or automatic timesheet approval, though judges note the lists mix in payment services and name no German payroll system. Time capture and project and billing sit at a flat 4, on offline tracking that stores locally and auto-syncs across computers, tablets and mobiles, and a Projects Report with per-user, per-project breakdowns and CSV, XLS or PDF export. The weakest scores are working time law at 1 to 2, where judges found no public information on break, maximum-hour or rest-period rules or the German recording duty, and sovereignty and pricing transparency at 0 to 1, with no sovereignty attributes on record and no public prices — only a free trial with no credit card required. The split is absence and planning at 1 to 4: judges differed over how far leave tracking and CSV work schedules go when no public information appears on entitlement, carry-over, sickness or holiday calendars.

**Speaks for it:**
- Offline time tracking on computers, tablets and mobiles, with all tracked data stored locally and auto-syncing when the connection returns.
- Direct payroll integrations named as Rippling and Xero AU, with manual or automatic timesheet approval and setup for salary or hourly employees.
- A Projects Report that analyzes time per user per project, filters for unassigned time, and exports to CSV, XLS or PDF.
- Manual time entry plus timesheet approval gives a correction path with sign-off.
- A free trial with no credit card required and onboarding team assistance for teams of 20+ employees.

**Held against it:**
- Working time law scored 1 to 2, with judges finding no public information on break, maximum-hour or rest-period rules, retention, or the German recording duty.
- Sovereignty scored 0 to 1, with no sovereignty attributes on record and no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors.
- Pricing transparency scored 0 to 1, with judges finding no public per-user figures, tier names, billing period or minimum seats.
- Judges found no German payroll system such as DATEV among the named platforms, which the captured pages list differently and mix with payment services.
- Capture reads as one person one device, with no public information on shared terminals, kiosks or badge readers, geofenced check-in, or an audit trail of who changed a correction.

**Best for:**
- You run a desk-based services team that bills time against projects and needs exportable per-user, per-project reporting.
- Your payroll already runs on a named platform such as Rippling or Xero AU and you want approved timesheets delivered there without re-keying.
- Your people work across computers, tablets and mobiles with patchy connectivity and need capture that stores locally and syncs on reconnection.
- You plan work in Asana, Basecamp, Wrike or Salesforce and want tracked time tied to those tools.

**Avoid if:**
- You must evidence German working-time law — breaks, rest periods, maximum hours — with a record that survives inspection; working time law scored 1 to 2.
- You need published per-user prices or tier names to budget an annual invoice before talking to the vendor.
- Your payroll runs on a German system such as DATEV or depends on night, Sunday or holiday surcharges, on which the judges found no public information.

## 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 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Working-time law & audit record | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Absence & shift planning | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Project, cost-centre & billing | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Payroll handoff | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **1/5** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **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).

**Compliance**
- Certifications: yes · yes · yes · yes [S8]
- GDPR: yes [S1]
- HIPAA: yes [S1]
- ISO 27001: yes [S1]
- SOC 2 type2: yes [S1]

**Integrations**
- Count: 60+ · yes [S1]
- Payroll direct: Direct integrations to payroll platforms; no exports, reformatting, or re-keying [S8]
- Payroll platforms: Rippling · Xero AU · Paypal · Payoneer [S8]
- Payroll transferwise: Payoneer · Paypal · TransferWise [S8]
- Project tools: Asana · Basecamp · Wrike · Salesforce [S8]
- Projects report export: yes · CSV · XLS · PDF [S6]

**Pricing**
- Entry price: 6.7 [S8]
- Trial: yes · 14 [S8]

**Product**
- Activity monitoring: live activity view across people, projects, locations [S1]
- AI included all plans: yes [S1]
- Batch payments: Automated timesheets for batch payments and bulk billing [S8]
- Employee data visibility: yes [S1]
- Features nav: Benchmarks AI · Employee Monitoring · Time Tracking · Payroll · Time Management · Screen Monitoring · Attendance · Unusual Activity Report [S1]
- Free trial no card: no [S8]
- Manual time entry: yes [S1]
- Mcp connection: Time Doctor MCP connection for AI assistants [S1]
- Offline local storage: yes · yes [S2]
- Offline tracking: yes [S2]
- Onboarding support: Onboarding team assistance for teams of 20+ employees [S8]
- Payroll customization: Optional pay periods and currencies [S8]
- Payroll integration: Send verified timesheet data directly to payroll platforms without manual updates or reformatting [S8]
- Payroll ready hours: yes [S1]
- Platform support: Computers, tablets, mobiles; online and offline time tracking [S8]
- Productivity monitoring: yes · yes · yes [S8]
- Projects report: Projects Report analyzes time spent on each project by each user, filterable by user, project, or date range [S6]
- Projects report expand collapse: daily breakdown · total time per user per project · yes [S6]
- Projects report filters: user · project · unassigned time · date range incl. custom range [S6]
- Role based permissions: yes [S1]
- Salary and hourly: yes · yes [S8]
- Screenshot blurring: yes [S1]
- Timesheet approval: yes · yes [S8]
- Timesheet automation: Automatic timesheets uploadable to payroll method of choice [S8]
- Verification toggles per role: yes [S1]
- Work schedules CSV import: Work schedules can be set up using CSV import; a tutorial video exists on using work schedules [S4]
- Workload view: yes [S1]

**Support**
- Availability: 24/7 [S4]
- Tutorial videos: yes [S4]

## Questions

### Is Time Doctor European?

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

### Where does Time Doctor store data?

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

### Does Time Doctor have a free plan?

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

### What are the best alternatives to Time Doctor?

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: [Time Doctor alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/time-doctor/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 38 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.
- 3 support 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 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://timedoctor.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://help.timedoctor.com/does-time-doctor-support-offline-time-tracking (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://support.timedoctor.com/knowledge/does-time-doctor-support-offline-time-tracking (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap: https://support.timedoctor.com/knowledge/work-schedule (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap: https://support.timedoctor.com/knowledge/how-to-use-leave-tracking-in-time-doctor (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://help.timedoctor.com/projects-reports- (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://support.timedoctor.com/knowledge/the-projects-and-tasks-report-what-it-is-and-how-to-read-it (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://www.timedoctor.com/features/payroll (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://support.timedoctor.com/knowledge/how-to-use-time-doctors-custom-export-feature (checked 2026-10-13)

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

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