# Akollo vs Clockify: when to choose which

> Clockify covers almost every way to clock time, from timers to kiosks. Akollo tracks time as part of project management: planned work, the people doing it, what it costs, and an AI that helps within permissions.

## Choose Akollo if

- You need boards, sprints and timelines, not just projects to log against
- Employee records and the org chart should sit next to leave
- You must self-host, or work in Turkish

## Choose Clockify if

- Timekeeping is the whole job: kiosks, GPS and clock-ins
- You want a free plan for a small team
- A choice of US, EU, UK or Australian cloud is enough

## Akollo and Clockify, area by area

Akollo compared with Clockify on ten areas. Clockify information is from its public website, as of October 2026; features vary by plan.

| Area | Akollo | Clockify |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Projects, boards and timelines | Built in: Boards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | Built in: Projects with tasks and estimates; boards are in Plaky, a separate product. |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Built in: Timesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Built in: Timer, timesheets, kiosk; approval on Standard and up. |
| Resource and capacity planning | Built in: Planned against available time, per team and period. | Built in: Scheduling and forecasting on Pro and up. |
| Budgets and profitability | Built in: Budgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | Built in: Rates, costs, profit and budgets by plan. |
| HR basics: people and time off | Built in: Employee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | Built in: Time off requests, balances and approvals; no employee records. |
| CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built in: Accounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | No: No CRM found on Clockify's site. |
| AI assistant | Built in: Admins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | No: No built-in assistant found; an MCP server connects your own AI agent. |
| Self-hosting on your own servers | Built in: Our cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | No: Clockify has said it stopped offering a self-hosted version. |
| Product in Turkish | Built in: Turkish, English and German, written natively. | No: Not among the supported languages. |
| Choice of where data is stored | Built in: Self-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | Built in: US, EU, UK or Australia. |

## Time tracking as part of the plan

Clockify is broad about how time is recorded. Akollo is broad about what happens to it next.

- **Plan the work you track** — Boards, backlogs, sprints and a timeline run on the same tasks people log hours against, so planned and actual time meet without an export.
- **People behind the timesheets** — Employee records, the org chart, leave balances and approvals are built in. Capacity starts from real people and real availability.
- **An assistant that knows the rules** — Akollo's AI assistant is built in. Admins decide who may use it, set limits or switch it off, and it answers within each person's permissions.
- **Your servers, your language** — Run Akollo in our cloud or in your own data centre, with every screen in Turkish, English and German.

## When Clockify is the better fit

Clockify offers a very wide timekeeping toolset. If time capture is your main problem, it may be all you need.

- Shift work with kiosks, PIN or QR clock-ins and GPS
- Small teams that want to start on a free plan
- You need a regional cloud but not self-hosting or project planning

## Move from Clockify

Clockify exports reports to CSV or Excel on paid plans. Akollo imports project and task lists from CSV, up to 5,000 rows per file, with a dry run first.

- **Export from Clockify** — Export your projects and tasks from Clockify as a CSV file.
- **Map the columns** — In Akollo, match each column to a work item field. A key column updates items you imported before.
- **Dry run first** — See how many items would be created, updated or skipped before anything is written.
- **Move team by team** — Start with one team, add timesheets and capacity, then bring the rest across.

## Questions about Clockify and Akollo

### Is Akollo a Clockify alternative?

If you want time tracking inside a project management app, with people, budgets and AI, yes. For kiosk and shift timekeeping alone, Clockify is broad.

### Can Akollo run on our own servers?

Yes. Akollo runs in our cloud or in your own data centre or cloud account.

### Does Akollo handle time off?

Yes. People request leave, managers approve it, balances follow your rules and capacity updates on its own.

## See your time tracking inside a real plan

We will show tracked time, capacity and budgets together, on your own projects.

- [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo)
- [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com)

## Sources

Information about Clockify is taken from its public website and help centre, as of October 2026. Plans and features change, so check with Clockify before you decide. Product names are trademarks of their owners.

- [Clockify: Projects](https://clockify.me/features/projects)
- [Clockify: Pricing (plan features)](https://clockify.me/pricing)
- [Clockify: Features](https://clockify.me/features/)
- [Clockify: Time off](https://clockify.me/features/time-off)
- [Clockify Help: MCP server for AI agents](https://clockify.me/help/integrations-and-add-ons/use-clockify-mcp-server-to-connect-to-ai-agent)
- [Clockify Forum: Local server](https://forum.clockify.me/t/local-server/2116/2)
- [Clockify Help: Profile settings (languages)](https://clockify.me/help/administration/profile-settings)
- [Clockify Help: Data regions](https://clockify.me/help/getting-started/data-regions)
- [Clockify Help: Customize exports](https://clockify.me/help/reports/customize-exports)


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Source: https://akollo.com/en/compare/clockify · [Türkçe](https://akollo.com/tr/karsilastir/clockify-alternatifi), [Deutsch](https://akollo.com/de/vergleich/clockify-alternative)