# mite review (2026): is it worth €5 a month per user? > Simple web time tracking for freelancers and small teams Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. mite is a web-based time tracker from mite GmbH in Freiburg, Germany. Time goes against customers, projects and services, entered by hand or with a timer that keeps running on the server. It has reports, exports to XLS, CSV and XML, iOS and Android apps, a macOS menu-bar app and an open API. One price applies per active user. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** mite GmbH - **Website:** https://mite.de/en/ - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, macOS - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, because there isn't one. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, mite is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €5 per user / month, including VAT if required. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial, fully featured, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | mite | €5 per user / month, including VAT if required | One plan with every feature, billed monthly per active user; no minimum term. Businesses outside the EU pay €4.20 per user. | Read from https://mite.de/en/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with mite before buying. ## Key features - **Manual entry and server-side timer:** Add entries by choosing a project and service, or start a timer that keeps running after the browser tab is closed. - **Customers, projects and services:** Time is structured by customer, project and service. Any of them can be archived instead of deleted. - **Reports and exports:** Dashboards for the person, team and project, filters by time frame, customer, user or billable status, and export to XLS, CSV or XML. - **User roles:** Four roles: account owner, administrator, co-worker and time tracker, who can track only on projects an admin grants. - **Apps:** Official iOS and Android apps and the mite.nano menu-bar app for macOS are included in the user fee. - **Open API and connections:** An open API for every user, with invoicing apps such as Billomat and sevDesk importing tracked time. ## Good for - Freelancers and small agencies that want a plain time tracker - Teams in Germany or the EU that pay a single price including VAT - People who want to export hours to their own invoicing tool ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros per user; the €5 includes VAT where it applies, and EU businesses with a VAT ID pay the net amount. - There is no free plan, and data is deleted after a trial that is not paid for or after cancelling. - It is a hosted web application only; the vendor says there is no self-hosted version. - The official apps cover iOS, Android and macOS; the Windows client is third-party. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. mite is one plan at €5 a user a month with every feature, from a German maker. It's web, phone and Mac menu bar, but there's no free plan, no built-in invoicing and no Windows app from the vendor. - **Value for money: C.** €5 a user a month including VAT, €4.20 for non-EU businesses. That's between the cheaper quarter and the middle of time trackers. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 30-day trial with no card. No free plan, and data is deleted if you don't pay. - **Features: C.** Timer, customers, projects, services, reports and exports. It does tracking fully but has no invoicing of its own. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build customers, projects and services before tracking. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, iOS, Android and a macOS menu-bar app, with an open API and invoicing imports like Billomat and sevDesk. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from mite's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among time tracking apps - mite's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 41 of the 98 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 72 of 98) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $5.59 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.99 for the category: 32 of the 80 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 10 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/time-tracking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of mite you could make: time tracking and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $67.03 a year. - You could make: Time tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A native app living in the menu bar. - You could not: Apps for macOS, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Billomat, sevDesk and SalesKing among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Billomat, sevDesk, SalesKing, GrandTotal, memtime, Redmine, Mantis, Trac **Tags:** Time tracking, Reports, Public API, Menu bar app ## Alternatives - [Harvest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harvest): Time tracking that turns logged hours into client invoices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/harvest-vs-mite) - [Toggl](https://toolgpa.com/tools/toggl-track): Team time tracker with billing reports and capacity planning. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mite-vs-toggl-track) - [Clockify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clockify): Team time tracker and timesheets with a free plan for 5 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clockify-vs-mite) - [Tick](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tick): Time tracking against project budgets, priced by project count. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mite-vs-tick) - [Noko](https://toolgpa.com/tools/noko): Time tracking and invoicing for small agencies and consultants. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mite-vs-noko) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://mite.de/en/ - https://mite.de/en/tour.html - https://mite.de/en/platform/ - https://mite.de/en/faq.html Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mite Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).