# Timebutler review (2026): is it worth €29.95 a month? > German time tracking and leave planning with a flat team price Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Timebutler is a German web app for recording working hours and managing vacation and absences. It adds overtime accounts, shift planning, digital personnel files and a DATEV export, and says its data is hosted in a data center near Frankfurt. Every feature is included at one team price rather than per-feature tiers. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** Timebutler GmbH - **Website:** https://timebutler.de - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need English prices, since the pricing page is German. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Timebutler is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €29.95 per month for the whole team of up to 5 people, excl. VAT. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 6 weeks free for the whole team, no card needed; ends by itself. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Up to 5 people | €29.95 per month for up to 5 people, excl. VAT | One price for the whole team, with every feature included. | | 6 to 35 people | €59.95 per month for up to 35 people, excl. VAT | One price for the whole team, with every feature included. | | 36 to 200 people | €59.95 per month, plus €1.39 per person above 35, excl. VAT | Base price for 35 people plus €1.39 a month for each additional person; 50 people costs €80.80. | | Over 200 people | Custom | Individual quote for teams larger than 200; sold through sales. | Read from https://timebutler.de/preise/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Timebutler before buying. ## Key features - **Time recording:** Staff clock in with a virtual time clock in the browser, enter hours by hand or punch in at a shared tablet or terminal. - **Vacation and absence planning:** A color-coded team calendar shows who is away, with leave limits, request approval and sick-note handling. - **Overtime accounts:** Tracks each person's overtime balance, with Excel export and an API to sync the data to other systems. - **Shift planning:** A weekly calendar shows who works when and which shifts still have gaps. - **Digital personnel file:** Stores employee records and uploaded documents, with custom fields you define yourself. - **DATEV export:** Exports hours and absences as a DATEV ASCII file for import, for example into DATEV LODAS. It is a file export, not a live sync. ## Good for - German and EU companies that need legally compliant hour records - Small teams wanting a fixed monthly price with every feature - Firms that run payroll through DATEV ## Worth knowing - Pricing is in euros, excludes VAT, and the pricing page is in German; the free period is a 6-week trial, not a free plan. - Prices cover the whole team by user count, and teams over 200 people get an individual quote. - Time rules are built around German working-time law, and direct debit is offered only in Germany. - After the term ends without renewal the account is frozen: data stays viewable and downloadable but cannot be changed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Timebutler gives a whole team time recording, leave planning, overtime and shifts for €29.95 a month for up to 5 people. The pricing page is in German, the rules follow German working-time law, and direct debit works only in Germany. - **Value for money: C.** €29.95 a month for the whole team of up to 5, about €6 a head, excluding VAT. €59.95 up to 35 people. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 6 weeks free for the whole team with no card, then it ends. No free plan. - **Features: C.** Time clock, leave, overtime, shifts, personnel files and a DATEV file export. Aimed at German rules, and DATEV is a file, not a sync. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. The pricing page is in German, and rules and calendars need setting up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with an API and DATEV export. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Timebutler'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 - Timebutler's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 23 of the 98 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 17. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 26 of 98) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $33.46 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.99 for the category: 80 of the 80 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 41 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 Timebutler you could make: time tracking, time off, employee records and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 58 of the 98 other time tracking apps grade higher. It costs $401.52 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, time off, employee records and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - 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, DATEV, DATEV LODAS and hard&softWERK 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 DATEV, DATEV LODAS, hard&softWERK, Conni **Tags:** Time tracking, Time clock, Time off, Shift scheduling, Employee records, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Clockodo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clockodo): Work time and project time tracking for service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clockodo-vs-timebutler) - [TimeTac](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetac): Work hours, leave and project time tracking for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/timebutler-vs-timetac) - [timr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timr): Working time, project time and mileage tracking for companies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/timebutler-vs-timr) - [Jibble](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jibble): Free time clock and attendance tracker with GPS and face recognition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jibble-vs-timebutler) - [Kimai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kimai): Open-source time tracking with invoicing, self-hosted or cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kimai-vs-timebutler) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://timebutler.de/preise/ - https://timebutler.de/preise-faq/ - https://timebutler.de/ - https://timebutler.de/timebutler-app/ - https://timebutler.de/features/zeiterfassung/ - https://timebutler.de/features/datev/ - https://timebutler.de/features/hardware/ - https://timebutler.de/impressum/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/timebutler Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).