EARLY Is Now Part of TimeTac

If you’ve landed here looking for a time tracking solution, there’s one thing worth knowing before anything else: EARLY is now part of TimeTac. 

Same product. Same people behind it. A bigger team and platform around it.

Here’s what happened, why the two of us fit together, and what it means for you – whether you’ve been tracking your working hours in EARLY for years or you’re just weighing up your options.

Are You an EARLY User? Read This First 

Short version: Right now, nothing changes for you. 

• The same people are still behind it. The entire EARLY team moved over to TimeTac, support included. If you write in, you’ll get an answer from the same people as before. 
• The product stays the same. Same app, same login at product.early.app, same features you use every day.
• Your price stays the same. No new plan, no repricing, no fine print.
• Your Tracker keeps working. The eight-sided dice on your desk isn’t going anywhere.

So keep tracking your time exactly as you do today. If anything about your account ever does change, you’ll hear it from us directly by email, with plenty of notice. Not from a banner, and not from a blog post.

Questions in the meantime? Our Help Center is still the fastest route.

What Actually Happened

TimeTac acquired Timeular, the company behind EARLY, in June 2025.

If that sounds like a big corporate story, it really isn’t. Both companies were built in Graz, Austria, a few kilometres apart. Both spent years obsessing over the same question from different angles: where does work time actually go, and how do you capture it without making people hate the process?

Since then, we’ve been getting on with the work: the whole EARLY team joined TimeTac. It’s the same people working on the product, only now with 86 more colleagues behind them. Just over 100 of us in total. What’s new is that you can now see the change. The banner, the footer and the sign-up flow for new customers all point the same direction now. 

Two Products, Two Sides of Time Tracking

Here’s the part that made this an easy decision: we barely overlap.

EARLY is built for project time tracking. Automatic tracking in the background, billable hours you can actually defend in front of a client, and reports that show where a project quietly lost its margin.

TimeTac is built for employee time tracking and leave management. Legally compliant working-time records, clocking in and out for teams on site or in the field, leave approvals that don’t live in a spreadsheet, and the the complexity most tools avoid: collective agreements, custom working-time models, overtime rules and premium rates. 

Most growing companies need both. Until now, they usually bought two tools and stitched them together. That gap is the reason this combination makes sense. TimeTac has been at this since 2009 and is used daily by around 150,000 people at more than 10,000 companies in over 30 countries. That’s a lot of working hours, and a lot of edge cases already solved.

Shared Values Beat a Shared Feature List

Products are easy to compare. Values take longer to spot, and they matter more.

Neither company ever built surveillance software, and neither one was going to start. We both think tracking time should take seconds a day, that people should be able to see their own numbers, and that the point of measuring time is to spend it better – not to police it.

That’s the part that made this feel less like an acquisition and more like an obvious fit.

Bringing EARLY under a brand as established as TimeTac opens up perspectives we couldn’t have reached on our own. Our strengths complement each other almost too neatly: we spent years making project time tracking effortless, TimeTac spent even longer making employee time tracking reliable. Together, that’s a platform that supports the way people actually work today and manages to stay simple while doing it

Manuel Zoderer, Co-founder of EARLY

New Here? Start With TimeTac

If you came to sign up for EARLY, you can now get started through TimeTac.

New sign-ups now go to new.timetac.com/en/.

Not because EARLY stopped being good at what it does, but because TimeTac is where we’re taking the platform forward. Starting there means you get employee time tracking, project time tracking and leave management in one place. One product that will keep growing rather than joining one half of the story. 

The Bottom Line

EARLY set out to make tracking time so easy that people would actually do it. That hasn’t changed, and neither has the team behind it. What’s changed is what sits underneath: a company with more than fifteen years of experience solving the parts of time tracking nobody finds glamorous, but every business needs. 

If you’re already with us, there’s nothing you need to do. Keep tracking. 

If you’re new, start where the whole picture lives: Try TimeTac

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