# Zistemo review (2026): is it worth $15 a month?

> Project time tracking, attendance and invoicing in one app

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Zistemo is a Swiss-hosted business app that combines project time tracking, attendance and absence management, task management and invoicing. Its plans are flat monthly fees that include a set number of users rather than a per-user rate. Prices can be shown in euros, US dollars, Swiss francs or pounds.

- **Category:** Time Tracking
- **Made by:** DAYquiri GmbH
- **Website:** https://zistemo.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you work alone and want to pay little, since 1 user is $15 a month.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Zistemo is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $15 per month for 1 user, billed monthly ($158 per year).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $15 per month for 1 user, billed monthly ($158 billed yearly) | Unlimited invoices, estimates, clients, projects and expenses, time tracking by project, late payment reminders and 1 GB storage. |
| Pro | $45 per month for up to 5 users, billed monthly ($475 billed yearly) | Starter extended to 5 users, with team timesheets, a live tracker, reminders, billable team rates and access levels. 2 GB storage. |
| Enterprise | $75 per month for up to 15 users, billed monthly ($790 billed yearly) | Pro plus timesheet approval, team performance overview, an employee planner, skill-based resource planning and an own SQL database copy. |

Read from https://zistemo.com/prices on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zistemo before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Yearly billing costs less than 12 months** (Annual discount): The pricing page has a Yearly toggle: for example $158 a year for Starter against $15 a month, and $475 against $45 for Pro. Source: https://zistemo.com/prices

## Key features

- **Project time tracking:** Time tracker on the mobile app, plus monthly or weekly timesheets on the web app, with reminders and planned-versus-actual comparisons.
- **Attendance time:** Clock-ins, breaks and overtime with automatic flextime balances, escalation rules and detailed time reports.
- **Absence management:** Several leave types, bank holidays handled automatically, time-off requests and a department calendar.
- **Invoices and estimates:** An invoice wizard turns tracked time into invoices, and web-based offers cover estimates. Clients can pay by PayPal or credit card.
- **Tasks and planning:** Tasks with tags, attachments, checklists and dependencies, plus an employee planner and skill-based resource planning on Enterprise.
- **Swiss data hosting:** The vendor says data is stored in a Swiss data center with automatic backups; trial data is kept 60 days after the trial ends.

## Good for

- Small agencies and consultancies that track time and invoice in one place
- Solo workers, since the entry plan covers one user
- Teams that want data kept in Switzerland

## Worth knowing

- Plans include a fixed number of users: 1, 5 and 15. Additional users on Enterprise cost $5 a month each.
- Timesheet approval and the employee planner are listed only on the Enterprise plan.
- Cancelling an account permanently deletes its data, so export first.
- Payment is by PayPal or Visa or MasterCard cards, as stated on the pricing page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Zistemo puts project time, attendance, absence and invoicing in one Swiss-hosted app. But plans are fixed blocks of 1, 5 or 15 users, timesheet approval and the employee planner sit on the $75 Enterprise plan, and there is no free plan. If you are one person, $15 a month is a lot for what you get.

- **Value for money: C.** $15 a month for 1 user ($158 a year), or $45 for 5 users, which is $9 a head. That's in the dearer part of what time trackers charge, and a solo user pays the full $15.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** 14-day trial, no card needed, and nothing after that. There's no free plan.
- **Features: C.** Time, attendance, absences, tasks and invoices in one place. Gap: timesheet approval and the employee planner are Enterprise only.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It's a web app where you set up clients, projects and leave rules before it's useful.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus iOS and Android, with QuickBooks, Asana, Jira, HubSpot and Slack. No desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Zistemo'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

- Zistemo'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 $15 a month, against a middle price of $6.99 for the category: 69 of the 80 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 38 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 Zistemo you could make: time tracking, time off, invoicing, expense tracking, tasks and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 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 $180 a year.

- You could make: Time tracking, time off, invoicing, expense tracking, tasks 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 real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks, Asana and Jira among them.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

QuickBooks, Asana, Jira, HubSpot, Slack

**Tags:** Time tracking, Time clock, Time off, Invoicing, Expense tracking, Tasks, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Harvest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/harvest): Time tracking that turns logged hours into client invoices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/harvest-vs-zistemo)
- [Clockodo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clockodo): Work time and project time tracking for service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clockodo-vs-zistemo)
- [TimeTac](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetac): Work hours, leave and project time tracking for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/timetac-vs-zistemo)
- [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-zistemo)
- [actiTIME](https://toolgpa.com/tools/actitime): Timesheets with project budgets, billing and a self-hosted option. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/actitime-vs-zistemo)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://zistemo.com/prices
- https://zistemo.com

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/zistemo
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