Harvest

Harvest combines time tracking with invoicing directly built into the same platform, letting freelancers and agencies track billable hours and generate client invoices without exporting data to a separate billing tool, unlike Toggl Track's deliberately tool-agnostic approach. Its integrated billing workflow has made it popular specifically among consulting and agency businesses billing clients hourly.

What Makes Harvest Stand Out

Built-in invoicing eliminates the export-to-separate-tool step that Toggl Track requires. Expense tracking alongside time tracking covers more of a consultant or agency's billing needs in one platform

Clean reporting specifically oriented toward client billing and profitability analysis

Pricing and Plans

Harvest offers a free tier that provides meaningful value for individuals and small teams, with paid plans unlocking additional capabilities as needs grow.

Who Should Use Harvest

Harvest is best for teams and individuals who need time tracking apps capabilities and where built-in invoicing eliminates the export-to-separate-tool step that toggl track requires. It may not be the right fit when less tool-agnostic than toggl track, assuming you want harvest's specific invoicing workflow.

Verdict

Harvest delivers on its core promise as a time tracking apps tool. Harvest combines time tracking with invoicing directly built into the same platform, letting freelan... For teams evaluating time tracking apps options, Harvest is worth considering based on its specific strengths and how they align with your requirements.

Overall rating: 4.2 / 5

Harvest is the time tracking and invoicing platform that combines the two workflows most critical to billable-hour businesses — tracking time spent on projects and converting that time into professional invoices without leaving the tool.

Time Tracking Meets Invoicing

The business case for Harvest is workflow unification: before Harvest, service businesses commonly used one tool for time tracking (Toggl, Clockify) and a separate tool for invoicing (QuickBooks, FreshBooks, a Word template). Data moved from the time tracker to the invoicing tool manually — a reconciliation step that introduced errors and consumed administrative time.

Harvest eliminates this reconciliation: time entries automatically populate invoices at the correct hourly rate for each team member and project. A 40-hour consulting project becomes an invoice with line items for each person's hours at their appropriate rate in three clicks. The tracked time is the invoice data, with no intermediate export or copy-paste.

Timer and Team Time Tracking

Harvest's timer interface (web, desktop, mobile) enables starting and stopping timers for specific projects and tasks. Time entries include description, project, task category, and billable/non-billable status. Weekly timesheets provide an alternative to real-time timer use for team members who prefer to log time in bulk.

Team time tracking enables managers to see logged hours across all team members — identifying who is over or under their expected billable hours, which projects are running over budget, and where capacity exists for new work.

Project Budgeting and Profitability

Harvest's project budgets compare tracked time against project budgets in real-time — alerting when a project reaches 80% or 100% of budget hours before the project is complete. This early warning system enables proactive client conversations about scope before budget overruns become surprises.

Profitability reports show revenue versus cost for each project: what the client was billed versus what the internal team time cost (at billable rate vs. cost rate). This profitability visibility at the project level identifies which client relationships are financially healthy and which are unprofitable.

Harvest vs. Toggl Track

Toggl Track has better timer UX and is more affordable for pure time tracking without invoicing. Harvest costs more but integrates invoicing, project budgeting, and expense tracking — making it the right choice when the billing workflow is as important as the tracking workflow. Teams that primarily need time tracking without billing typically prefer Toggl; teams that invoice clients based on tracked time prefer Harvest.

Pricing

Harvest Free provides 1 user, 2 projects, and unlimited time tracking — useful for solo freelancers with minimal project variety. Harvest Pro ($10.80/user/month billed annually) provides unlimited users, unlimited projects, invoicing, reporting, and all integrations.

Overall rating: 4.1 / 5