# Personio > European HR platform for records, absences, time and recruiting Personio is an HR platform that describes itself as built for Europe, covering core HR, payroll and recruiting with more than 200 integrations. Employees request time off, track working hours, approve requests and open documents in its web app and mobile apps. A public API and webhooks let partner tools, such as shift planners, sync employees, absences and attendance. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Personio SE & Co. KG - **Website:** https://www.personio.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Personio's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Employee records and documents:** One place for employee data and HR documents, which staff can open, download or share from the mobile app. - **Absences and time off:** Employees request time off and see their balance, and can check upcoming absences and team availability where the company allows it. - **Working-time tracking:** Staff record and review their hours on the web or phone, and approved times from partner apps can be sent back into Personio. - **Inbox for approvals:** Managers see open requests and tasks in one inbox and approve or decline them, including from the mobile app. - **Recruiting:** Applicants can be passed into Personio's recruiting module through its Recruiting API, alongside core HR and payroll. - **API, webhooks and marketplace:** Custom integrations read employees, attendance, absences and documents through the API, and webhooks push changes in real time. ## Good for - Companies in Europe wanting core HR, payroll and recruiting together - HR teams that want records, absences and hours in one system - Companies connecting a separate shift planner or payroll tool ## Worth knowing - Prices could not be confirmed: personio.com and its help center answered with a bot check, so plans, prices and any trial are not recorded. - It presents itself as built for Europe; the pages read do not list the countries where its payroll works. - The mobile app covers absences, time, approvals and documents; other workflows and set-up need the web app. - Shift planning comes through partner apps that sync with Personio, where shifts are created and changed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Personio is HR software built for Europe, with records, time off, working hours, approvals and recruiting, plus payroll and 200+ integrations. Staff handle time off and hours from the app. We couldn't read its prices, plans or trial, so you'll have to ask. - **Value for money: C.** We couldn't read a price: Personio's pages turned our reader away, so plans and prices aren't on record and we can't say what a ten-person company pays. With no figure to compare, it's a C. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial on record. Its pages turned our reader away, so a trial may exist that we couldn't confirm. - **Features: C.** Records and documents, time off, working hours, an approvals inbox, recruiting and payroll, with an API and webhooks. The basics are there, but the listing shows no reviews or onboarding, and shifts need a partner app. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. The app covers absences, hours, approvals and documents, and everything else, setup included, happens on the web. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with a public API, webhooks and more than 200 integrations. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Personio's own pages on 18 October 2026. Its pricing page and help centre turned our reader away, so its prices, plans and any trial are not on record. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Personio's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 9 other HR software we grade. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 of 9) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Personio you could make: employee records, time off, time tracking and applicant tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 9 other HR software grade higher. - You could make: Employee records, time off, time tracking and applicant tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Time tracking, Applicant tracking, Public API ## Alternatives - [HiBob](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hibob): HR platform for mid-sized global firms, with US and UK payroll. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hibob-vs-personio) - [Factorial](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial): HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-personio) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.personio.com/pricing/ - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/personio/id1470197212 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.personio&gl=US&hl=en - https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api.md - https://developer.personio.de/docs/key-points-for-implementing-shift-planning-integration-with-personio-hris.md - https://developer.personio.de/llms.txt Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/personio Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).