People look for a Harvest alternative when the per-seat price or the usage-based extras grow, when they want a free plan for more than one person, or when they prefer a different owner. Most go to Toggl, Clockify or TimeCamp for time tracking, and to Paymo or Productive for projects and billing.
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What each alternative does differently
1. Toggl (formerly Toggl Track)
One-click time tracking with a widely liked interface · Estonia
Time tracking first, with a Free plan for a limited number of users. Starter is $9 and Premium $16 per user per month, with a 30-day trial. Premium adds profitability reports and fixed-fee projects. Invoicing is not its main strength, so billing usually lives elsewhere.
Switch from Harvest if you want the closest feature match and a polished timer for a team.
Pricing: Free plan for up to three users; Starter $9 and Premium $16 per user per month billed annually ($12 and $24 monthly), with Enterprise on quote and a 30-day trial. (free plan)
Full review: #1 of 18 in our ranking ·
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2. Clockify
Low-cost time tracking with timesheets, rates and reports · United States
Free for up to 5 users with unlimited tracking. Standard is $5.49 per seat per month billed annually and adds invoicing, approval and time off, Pro is $7.99 and Enterprise $11.99. Every invited user takes a paid seat, so cost follows headcount.
Switch from Harvest if you want a free plan for a small team and cheap paid seats with invoicing.
Pricing: Free plan for up to five users; paid tiers from about $4 per seat per month on annual billing, with a bundle across CAKE.com apps. (free plan)
Full review: #3 of 18 in our ranking ·
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3. TimeCamp
Automatic time tracking that drafts timesheets from activity · Poland
Free forever with unlimited users. Starter is $2.99 per user per month billed annually and adds invoicing and attendance, while Ultimate at $7.99 includes billable rates. It adds automatic tracking of apps and sites, which is closer to monitoring than Harvest's manual timers.
Switch from Harvest if you want a free plan for many users or automatic tracking of computer activity.
Pricing: Free plan with unlimited users; paid tiers from $2.99 per user per month on annual billing, with billable rates and approvals on the $7.99 Ultimate tier. (free plan)
Full review: #5 of 18 in our ranking ·
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4. Everhour
Time tracking embedded inside your project management tool · Cyprus
Free for up to 5 seats, with a two-week trial of the paid plan that unlocks everything. It is built to sit inside other project tools through integrations, rather than to be a stand-alone invoicing system, so billing is less central than in Harvest.
Switch from Harvest if your tasks already live in another project tool and you want timers inside it.
Pricing: Free plan for up to five seats; Team from about $8.50 per seat per month billed annually, with a five-seat minimum. (free plan)
Full review: #6 of 18 in our ranking ·
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5. Jibble
Free time clock and attendance app for hourly teams · United Kingdom
Free forever with unlimited users, positioned for attendance as well as time: its menus list time tracking, attendance, timesheets, locations, time off and kiosk. It is a workforce tool, so project invoicing and expenses are not what it is built around.
Switch from Harvest if you track attendance and shifts for staff, not billable client hours.
Pricing: Free forever plan with unlimited users; paid per-user tiers add advanced reporting, geofencing and payroll features. (free plan)
Full review: #10 of 18 in our ranking ·
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6. Paymo
Project management, time tracking and invoicing in one app · Romania
Combines time tracking with tasks and projects. Free covers one user, one client and two projects. Solo is $5.90 for three months and then $9.90 monthly, and Plus has unlimited users and projects. Retainer and flat-rate projects arrive on paid tiers.
Switch from Harvest if you want tasks, time and client billing in one tool for a small studio.
Pricing: Free plan for one user with one client and two projects; Solo $9.90 per month and Plus $15.90 per user per month on monthly billing after three introductory months at $5.90 and $10.90, with an annual discount and a 15-day trial. (free plan)
Full review: #12 of 18 in our ranking ·
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7. Kimai
Open source web time tracker, self-hosted or cloud · Austria
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence, available self-hosted or as a SaaS. You run it yourself and can extend it, so data sits on your own server. That means you also maintain updates and backups. Client invoicing depends on the edition or plugins you use.
Switch from Harvest if you must host the data yourself or want an open-source codebase.
Pricing: The software is free under the AGPL; Kimai Cloud costs €2.99 to €3.99 per user per month on annual billing after a 30-day trial, and paid plugins extend the self-hosted edition. (open source)
Full review: #16 of 18 in our ranking ·
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8. Hubstaff
Time tracking with activity monitoring for remote teams · United States
Aimed at remote and field teams. It has no free plan, only a 14-day trial with no credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Its Team plan is about $10 per seat per month. It leans toward productivity monitoring rather than lightweight billing.
Switch from Harvest if you manage a remote team and want activity data beside the hours.
Pricing: Per seat per month in tiers, Team around $10 per seat, with a 14-day free trial and no free plan. (free trial)
Full review: #4 of 18 in our ranking ·
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9. Timely
Private automatic time tracking that drafts timesheets for you · Norway
Automatic time capture. Starter is limited to 20 projects, Premium allows up to 50 users and Unlimited has no cap, each with a free trial. Prices are quoted per user per month, about $9 on Starter billed annually. It tracks in the background rather than through timers.
Switch from Harvest if you want hours captured automatically instead of by pressing a timer.
Pricing: Starter $9 per user per month billed annually for up to five users and 20 projects, Premium $16 for up to 50 users, Unlimited $22, with a 14-day trial. (free trial)
Full review: #7 of 18 in our ranking ·
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10. ClickTime
Timesheets with approvals, cost rates and budget reports · United States
Finance-oriented time and expense for professional services firms. Starter starts at $12 per user per month, Team adds approvals and billing rates at $19, and Premier $31. Starter covers up to 25 users and there is no self-serve trial, only a demo.
Switch from Harvest if your finance team needs approvals, billing rates and audit-ready timesheets.
Pricing: Published per-user tiers from $12 a month on Starter billed yearly ($15 monthly), approvals from the Team tier, nonprofit discounts, a demo instead of a self-serve trial, and a quote for enterprise. (none)
Full review: #13 of 18 in our ranking ·
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11. BigTime
Time, billing and project accounting for professional firms · United States
Professional-services software where time tracking, invoicing, expenses and payments are built together. Essentials starts at $20 per user per month. Advanced adds multi-currency expenses, and Premier adds project budgeting and multi-level approvals. It costs more than Harvest.
Switch from Harvest if you need project budgeting and multi-level approvals for a larger firm.
Pricing: Published per-user monthly pricing from $20 on the Essentials edition, Advanced and Premier tiers above it, a quoted Enterprise tier, and onboarding usually scoped separately. (none)
Full review: #15 of 18 in our ranking ·
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12. Productive
Agency management with time, budgets and profitability · Croatia
Agency operations rather than a timer. Its menus list resource planning, time tracking, budgeting, invoicing and forecasting, sold in Essential and Professional tiers with a free trial. It replaces Harvest and a project tool together, and is heavier to adopt than either.
Switch from Harvest if you want budgets, resource planning and invoicing in one agency system.
Pricing: Published per-user monthly tiers from about $9 on annual billing, a 14-day trial, and a quoted Ultimate plan that adds revenue forecasting and scenario planning. (free trial)
Full review: #17 of 18 in our ranking ·
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