Die 10 besten Zeiterfassung Apps

Deel is an HR and payroll platform designed for businesses with distributed teams. It’s especially useful if you’re hiring across different countries, handling compliance, and managing international contracts. Deel covers everything from hiring and onboarding to payroll, benefits, and even expense management, giving you the tools to manage a global team in one place. 

Why I picked Deel: Deel’s time-tracking feature simplifies hour tracking for you and your team. With its clock-in and clock-out widget, available on both desktop and mobile, your team can quickly log hours and breaks, which are automatically recorded in their timesheets. Manual adjustments can be made as needed, while permissions can be set to control who edits or adds hours. This approach reduces errors and keeps payroll in sync with actual hours worked, helping you avoid surprises on payday and making your time management more accurate.

Deel Standout Features & Integrations

Features include an integrated time approval workflow that allows managers to review and approve team members' logged hours before they are synced to payroll. Its geo-tagging feature adds an extra layer of accountability, verifying the location of clock-ins and clock-outs for distributed teams. Furthermore, Deel supports automated overtime calculations and compliance with local labor laws, which helps streamline the time-tracking process for international teams.

Integrations include Google Workspace, Hubstaff, Brex, Personio, Sage, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workable, UKG Ready, QuickBooks, Xero, and BambooHR.

Monitask is an employee monitoring solution designed to help to boost productivity, efficiency, and accountability across your team. It's an easy-to-use time-tracking software designed for remote teams, and it includes automatic timesheets and screenshots of employees’ workstations as proof of work done. Screenshot monitoring is completely transparent to the employees and they control when the monitoring starts and when it stops.

Monitask was designed for companies of all sizes that have remote team members working on Windows and Mac computers, such as freelancers, contractors, remote employees, and employees that work from home occasionally. Monitask is also useful for freelancers that would like to show proof of work being done to their clients. Overall, it's a lightweight tool that offers simple, quick, and accurate time tracking for freelancers and contractors without having to manually create and itemize timesheets.

This time tracking software includes some simple and useful reporting features. For instance, managers can also access a dashboard to keep track of their team. For detailed information, businesses can log in and view employee’s timeline to see how much time was spent on different projects, the employee’s activity level, and applications that were running and the websites visited. All projects have individual reports that can be generated by employers, employees, freelancers, or contractors.

In terms of customer support, the company prides itself on providing high-quality customer service, with a team responding to every query.

There aren't any out-of-the-box integrations, but you can use Zapier to connect Monitask with different task tracking and project management tools.

Monitask's Pro account costs from $5.99/user/month. They also offer a free plan for personal use.

Replicon is a time tracking and timesheet software with a project time tracking product suite. This suite can help you manage project hours and costs, paid time off, and track billable hours and project expenses.

Why I picked Replicon: I chose this tool for the list because of its intelligent time tracking feature, which leverages AI and machine learning to help populate timesheets for employees based on the apps they use. The app will track employee activity across different platforms and pre-fill timesheets for them. Additionally, it will reconstruct the work week across multiple projects. Based on my research, it seems like all your people will have to do is review and submit, which will save you both hours of administrative tasks and money.

Replicon also has a mobile app that you can use to track time from any device. This makes it easy to track time while you are away from your computer, but also makes use of mobile device capabilities to expand its functionality. For example, you can take a pic and add it to your expense report using the phone's camera. I think that this feature makes Replicon perfect for employees on-the-go, since it can help them track their time quickly, easily, and without needing access to a computer.

Replicon Standout Features & Integrations

Features include advanced multi-level approval workflows that allow organizations to customize approval hierarchies for timesheets and project hours based on complex requirements. Its time intelligence system also offers predictive analytics that enable managers to identify patterns in time usage and proactively address inefficiencies or bottlenecks.

Integrations include SAP, ADP, Salesforce, Slack, Quickbooks, Jira, ServiceNow, Xero, Workday, Myob, Adobe XD, and Bamboo HR.

Accelo is a cloud-based platform designed to help professional service businesses manage client work from start to finish. It offers tools for tracking time, managing projects, and automating tasks, all within a single system.

Why I picked Accelo: One reason I like Accelo is its automated timesheets. Time spent on tasks, meetings, and emails is automatically recorded and added to an employee's weekly timesheet. This reduces manual entry and human error, giving administrators a clear view of logged time by employee, team, and billable rates.

Accelo also has built-in timers. These real-time timers allow your team to track how long they spend on specific tasks as they work. This feature is particularly useful for ensuring time logs are precise, especially for tasks that may otherwise be forgotten. By enabling your team to start, pause, and stop timers as they switch between projects, Accelo simplifies the time-tracking process without disrupting productivity.

Accelo Standout Features & Integrations

Features include built-in employee time tracking that monitors hours spent at every stage of client work, helping teams evaluate productivity and capacity. Additionally, timesheet reports provide detailed insights into time logged by employees and teams, which allows businesses to make data-driven decisions about resource allocation and project planning.

Integrations include Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Exchange & Microsoft Outlook, Xero, QuickBooks Online, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Jira, Continuum, Zendesk, Practice Ignition, Google Analytics, and others.

monday.com is a project management software with time tracking features that has done away with a lot of the trimmings of typical management tools and focused on simple, visually intuitive layouts that help clarify the sequence of work.

Why I picked monday.com: I think monday.com is great tool. You can use it to track project billable hours, employee productivity, and invoicing. More than being a time-tracking solution, you can also use it for your employee productivity needs. You can easily assign owners to new tasks, prioritize each item, set due dates and know exactly how every working hour is spent on each project and task. You can also keep track of time on their mobile app.

Overall, monday.com is a highly customizable software that I would definitely recommend using to help handle your projects, collaborate in real time, and track time so you can provide more accurate information to the client.

According to my research, time tracking is available on monday.com's Pro and Enterprise plans and has to be added to each board as a column.

monday.com Standout Features & Integrations

Features include an intuitive time-tracking column that integrates seamlessly into project boards, which allows teams to monitor hours directly within their workflows. Furthermore, monday.com's automation capabilities extend to time tracking, where triggers can be set to automatically start or stop timers based on task status changes.

Integrations include business apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Harvest, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform, and many more, accessible via Zapier.

Insightful is a workforce analytics suite focused on time tracking. It's both easy to navigate and pretty advanced, with remote team monitoring features like auto-grab screenshots and web usage tracking. For this reason, I think it's a useful tool for remote businesses that are scaling quickly—you can start with something relatively basic and adopt more advanced plans as you scale.

Why I picked Insightful: I chose Insightful as one of the best time-tracking tools because of its user-friendly interface and integration with various project management tools. The platform is well-designed and easy to navigate, making it a great choice for anyone who is new to time-tracking software in my opinion.

Insightful Standout Features & Integrations

Features include an automated time mapping feature that categorizes time entries based on the apps, websites, or documents used. The platform also provides stealth mode tracking, which allows time and productivity to be monitored discreetly. This feature is especially useful for roles requiring minimal interference.

Integrations include various project management tools like Asana, Jira, Slack, Trello, and others.

Resource Guru is a resource management tool that helps you and your team schedule work, manage workloads, and keep projects on track.

Why I picked Resource Guru: Although it doesn't have a real-time time tracker, Resource Guru's timesheet feature makes logging work hours straightforward. It pre-fills timesheets with entries from your schedule, so you can quickly confirm or adjust the time spent on tasks. This approach reduces the time you spend on administrative tasks and improves accuracy in time tracking. 

Additionally, Resource Guru provides a bulk log option, allowing you to review and log a week's worth of work with a single click. This feature speeds up the time-tracking process, letting you focus more on your projects. 

Resource Guru Standout Features & Integrations

Features include logged hours that are automatically aligned with scheduled activities to minimize discrepancies and manual edits. The platform also includes utilization heatmaps that provide a visual overview of how team members' tracked hours align with their capacity. Additionally, Resource Guru's integration with capacity planning allows you to compare planned versus actual time spent.

Integrations include Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, Calendly, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Sheets, Gmail, Asana, Salesforce, Jira Software, and Smartsheet.

Bonsai is a comprehensive business management software designed for agencies, consultancies, and professional service providers to streamline their operations. It offers a wide range of tools for managing client relationships, projects, financials, and more, including features such as CRM, scheduling, proposals, contracts, time tracking, file sharing, and invoicing.

Why I picked Bonsai: I selected Bonsai for this list for its time tracking solution designed to assist agencies of various sizes in managing their projects and ensuring accurate billing for clients. I like how the tool allows users to track their team's hours, generate timesheets, and produce instant activity reports, all fully integrated with project management and billing systems. 

Bonsai's time tracking capabilities also enable users to understand which projects and tasks consume the most time, thereby helping to manage billable hours more effectively. I particularly admire how the tool facilitates the conversion of billable hours into invoices with a few clicks and supports online payments to expedite the payment process.  

Bonsai Standout Features & Integrations

Features include a focus timer feature that combines time tracking with productivity techniques, enabling users to break work into focused intervals for increased efficiency. The platform additionally offers automatic time entry suggestions that are based on past activity to make it easier to log time without interrupting workflows. 

Integrations include Gmail, Google Calendar, Zapier, Slack, QuickBooks Online, Calendly, ClickUp, Trello, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Xero, and HubSpot.

Connecteam is a workplace software company that offers products for operational, communication, and skills management. The operational platform facilitates time tracking and employee scheduling.

Why I picked Connecteam: I am particularly impressed by Connecteam's operations management software, which offers a unique approach to time tracking, scheduling, and task management features. Employees can log their time in the system and it even provides GPS tracking to keep managers updated on the whereabouts of staff. You can also assign shifts and tasks to employees, and oversee their work with forms and checklists.

I also admire how the Connecteam's software can be connected with a payroll platform so you can easily use schedules and timesheets for pay administration. Additionally, I'm always on the lookout for customizable features, and Connecteam offers several customization tools for your team's unique tasks and timesheet needs.

Connecteam Standout Features & Integrations

Features include a geo-fencing feature that ensures employees can only clock in and out within a designated physical location, providing an added layer of accountability for remote or field teams. The platform's kiosk mode also allows multiple employees to log time from a single shared device, which is ideal for industries like retail or hospitality. 

Integrations include Paychex, Xero, Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll (online + desktop), Google Calendar and others.

BeeBole Timesheet is an employee time tracking software for organizations of all sizes. With it, you can efficiently measure the time spent on clients, projects, and tasks, as well as control budgets, costs, and leaves of absence. 

Why I picked BeeBole: According to my research, BeeBole offers a one-click timer to track time, as well as a drag-and-drop interface, which makes it easy to build dashboards and reports you need. For example, you can quickly generate, share, and print reports on employee time, budget, margin and profit, in addition to more than 30 customizable KPI reports.

In general, I've noticed that this tool is really flexible with a lot of useful features for larger organizations—you can choose how users can clock in, with daily, weekly or monthly timekeeping options. Managers can use the approval workflow to approve time entries, vacation (etc), and you can do it in bulk as well to save time.

This isn't on my list of criteria, but it's worth pointing out that BeeBole’s timesheets are DCAA and GDPR compliant. Another useful feature for international companies is that you can use BeeBole in multiple currencies, as well as multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Dutch.

BeeBole Standout Features & Integrations

Features include a multi-project tracking capability that allows users to log time across multiple projects or tasks simultaneously. Additionally, BeeBole’s built-in leave and absence tracking integrates seamlessly with its time tracking, making it easy to manage paid time off, sick leave, and vacation within a single system. The platform also includes flexible data visualization tools, such as charts and graphs, to help managers analyze time data and identify trends at a glance.

Integrations include a fully documented API for you to integrate your application or service. You can also simply export your reports to CSV, PDF or Google Drive, which makes creating a professional-looking report (complete with your logo and graphics) pretty simple. The tool also integrates with Google Suite so everyone in your org can log in using their Google credential. In fact, this tool was the first timesheet app to integrate with Google Apps and its one of the top-rated for Google users. It’s compatible with Office 365 and SSO, too.