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Memtime vs. timeBuzzer

Software

Memtime is a time tracking desktop app that focuses on accurate project-based time tracking by logging conputer activities so users can create time entries retroactively.

Best for: Freelancers and professionals in consulting, IT, creative industries that want to track and bill their projects accurately.

Feature highlights:

Detailed offline app activity tracking, simple desktop-only approach, productivity reports, project management integrations

Web app:

Memtime offers a web portal for payment and setting up integrations, but not an actual web app. Time tracking, aswell as reporting and project management is built into the “offline” desktop app. However, if you have an integration connected time entries can be send via API to online tools.

Memtime offers a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The desktop app logs computer activties like apps, documents or emails and displays these in a vertical timeline. To enable its activity capturing feature, users are required to grant Security and Privacy permissions on their operating system, including access to documents and browsers.

Based on the captured activities which shall serve as a “Memeory Aid”, users can manually create their time entries to assign time to projects via click and drag in a second timeline. Also editing via drag & drop is easily possible in that timeline.

Additional features include notifications, reminders, and idle detection, which helps to detect and track pauses.

Memtime is only available for desktop and doesn’t offer any app for mobile.

timeBuzzer is a time tracking software with optional hardware that focuses on accurate project-based time tracking by making it effortless, intuitive, and hard to forget.

Best for: Freelancers, agencies and small to medium-sized service businesses that want to track and bill their projects accurately.

Feature highlights:

Effortless project time tracking, customizable layer system, clear reports, easy-to-use team & role management & member assignments

Web app:

timeBuzzer offers a powerful web app where you can manage everything. From project management, reporting, setting up integrations or managing your team with roles & permission or assignments. With a flexible layer system you can customize timeBuzzer perfectly to your workflow.

timeBuzzer also offers a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Instead of tracking all computer activities in the background, timeBuzzer puts the user in control of his time and provides a simple timer (that can also be controlled with a special hardware add-on). Same as Memtime, time entries are displayed in a timeline, giving users a clear overview of their day. Also it allows users to easily edit time entries using drag an drop, or add additional time entries via click and drag. Unlike Memtime, we display time entries in an horizontal instead of a vertical timeline because we think that it better represents how we humans perceive time.

The desktop app also offers additional features like notifications and reminders, and idle detection, which helps to users to easily adjust time entries if they forget to stop the timer, when making a break, or if users get interrupted by a colleague.

For on the go, timeBuzzer also offers a mobile app for iOS and Android.

Like the desktop app, it provides a simple timer that lets users easily start and stop tracking time, as well as manage recorded time entries. Same as the desktop app, the app is focused solely on time tracking, with advanced reporting and management features intentionally kept in the web app to maintain simplicity and avoid distractions.

Hardware

Memtime is entirely software-based and does not support dedicated hardware for time tracking.

Users must manually create time entries retroactively based on an “Memory Aid” Timeline which displays all captured activities on the computer of the user.

timeBuzzer offers an optional desktop buzzer alongside its software, turning time tracking into something simple and fun — and making it easy to capture even short activities like e‑mails or phone calls that often go untracked.

Learn more about the desktop buzzer

Integrations

Memtime offers various direct integrations, making it easy to connect with these specific tools. However, they don’t support automation platforms or offer an open API.

timeBuzzer offers an open API and various integrations, including automation platforms, making it easy to connect with your existing tools.

Pricing

Memtime’s software subscription plans cost up to $34 per user per month, with a 20% discount for annual billing and a 33% discount for two-year billing.

A 14-day free trial is available without requiring credit card details,

Cancellation: You can cancel your subscription at any time; it will remain active until the end of the billing cycle. After your subscription expires, you will no longer have access to the app or your data until you resubscribe.

timeBuzzer‘s software subscriptions cost up to €10 per user per month, with a 20% discount for annual billing. The optional desktop buzzer costs a one-time fee of €59 per device and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it risk-free. Volume discounts are available when purchasing multiple devices.

A free 15-day trial of all the paid software features iis available without requiring credit card details. If you order at least one desktop buzzer to test, your software trial is automatically extended to 30 days!

Cancellation: You can cancel your subscription at any time. It will remain active until the end of the billing cycle, after which you’ll smoothly transition to our free limited version. Your data remains securely stored and fully accessible again the moment you resubscribe.

Support

Memtime, based in Germany, EU, offers support in English and German via email. Business hours and response times are not specified.

A Help Center is available in English, German, and Spanish, featuring detailed documentation, FAQs, and video tutorials for self-service.

Support levels vary by plan, with priority support provided for paid users.

timeBuzzer, based in Germany, EU, offers support in English and German via email and scheduled calls within 24 hours, during business hours from Monday to Friday, 9 am–6 pm CET you usually can expect much faster response times.

A Help Center is available in English and German, offering detailed documentation, FAQs, and video tutorials for self-service.

All users receive equal, personalized assistance, and user feedback is actively incorporated into product development.

Conclusion

Memtime could be a good fit if you want to add automated activity tracking to an excisting time tracking or project management solution and prefer creating time entries retroactively instead of using timers. It quietly records your computer activity offline as a memory aid, making sense if you mostly work at your desk and don’t need mobile or advanced team or management features.

timeBuzzer could be the better fit if you want project-based tracking in real time. While Memtime argues that manual timers don’t work, our desktop app and hardware button prove otherwise — making time tracking effortless, accurate, and even supportive of focus, without the overhead of reconstructing fragmented activity later.

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See how timeBuzzer makes a difference.

“Roughly speaking, we save about 3–4 hours per employee per week. We also tend to bill more — around 10% — because we can now record activities more accurately”

Christian Euler
HOCH3 GmbH

“We used to track our time with spreadsheets, which was a pain and often forgotten. With timeBuzzer, our time tracking is now more flexible and yet easier to use. Especially the billing of projects has never been so easy and reliable.”

Katrin Schuler
KP PressConsulting

“We save around 30–60 minutes per employee per day. Billing has also become significantly more precise – we can clearly show which services were delivered and avoid any uncertainties.”

Marc Lübbers
beeNoord Marketing