Harvest vs Time Tracker Comparison Chart

Pros

It feels that a lot thinking is put in designing this product - the creators made it very easy to start and to use. Very handy feature of exporting in Excel format.

Cons

This product has a lot more features then the similar tool, but frankly all we needed was a simple tracking tool.

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Used with a team of contractor developers to track time spent on the project. Worked great with 15+ remote devs and helped us stay on budget. Great UI and features.

Cons

Works well for time tracking but invoicing and estimates are lacking in features.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

There is virtually no ramp up time for Harvest, its incredibly intuitive and a new user can understand it on day one. I really appreciate the stopwatch feature and the integrations with other software like JIRA.

Cons

I don't personally work with the reporting features, but I've from others that it takes some work to understand how to organize them and get the right output.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

(1) User experience is exceptional. Tracking time within projects is extremely intuitive. (2) Very visual product in terms of forecasted costs on a given project. (3) Reporting is the best part - gather data based on team members, area of work, date range, etc.

Cons

(1) It appears there are multiple different funnels to get to the same information. These flows make the platform seem convoluted, redundant, and sometimes confusing. (2) Invoicing UI could be improved. For example, creating and linking invoices to projects follows a seemingly arbitrary rule set.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Can send invoices directly from Harvest from time tracked, and also misc invoices.

Cons

Does not have time tracking reminder feature.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

The software makes it easy to track employee time as well and allow us to keep an eye on who is not submitting time sheets properly to ensure accurate billing and time tracking for client profitability.

Cons

When looking up a specific client and adding someone to a certain project it automatically redirects you from the client listings, were are frustrating. Each time you edit one project you have to click projects to bring you back to the listings of every client and it is time consuming and i feel like there could be a much easier way to do this that is less time consuming.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Simple tool to manage project time. It works for any person or agency that needs software to keep track of the time worked. Harvest easily displays the detail of the time invested and you can generate reports.

Cons

In our case we could not continue to use it since we needed a software that would be integrated with our workflow (which is a bit complicated). Currently we use JIRA to take control of project incidents and although Harvest has a plugin that integrates with JIRA, we were not able to generate reports as we need it. For teams or agencies that do not require something so specific, I'm sure it should work very well.

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

We switched to Harvest after our last time tracking software disabled the Mac widget we were accustomed to using.

Cons

I haven't encountered anything i don't like about the software yet

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Harvest makes it incredibly easy to keep mission-synced, goal-oriented time on all of your work. Whether billing hours or just keeping track of time spent on a project, Harvest allows you to concurrently and retroactively track your effort, keeping you on plan or on budget.

Cons

The biggest con of Harvest has little to do with the software. Harvest is a tool of habit, and if you don't leverage that tool, the value is greatly reduced. Use it daily, and it pays off fast.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Solved my time-tracking requirements with clients.

Cons

Not much to dislike really. It would be nice to be able to apply set discount levels for certain clients.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Good time tracker that enables you to segment activities by task

Cons

Solid overall no major complaints with the software.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Very easy to use and integrates well with Xero, Quickbooks or other backend bookkeeping software. The invoicing system is well done also.

Cons

The reporting features are generally good, but uninvoiced versus invoiced can get a little opaque at times.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Super easy to set up and use, simple to add projects and team members.

Cons

I mean, it's still time-tracking and you have to remember to start & stop the timers.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Monthly

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

It took so long to start tracking that I needed a separate tracker just for my time tracker! Harvest integrates with a lot of project management softwares as well.

Cons

I don't particularly care for the expenses portion. But that's just because I don't often request expenses. I can't really speak to it's functionality.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Very simple to use and have your entire team time tracking. Clever reporting, and project management.

Cons

Team capacity forecast tool is very complicated, so we ended up using a different tool . Also, a couple of the integrations we've tried don't work the way they are supposed to.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

I have been through a lot of time tracking software systems and Harvest is one of the best.

Cons

As a freelancer who has to pay out of pocket for all of my apps and programs, I found harvest a little bit pricey for just offering time-tracking.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Harvest is a really simple time tracking tool, has the basic features you need and that's it.

Cons

I like the simplicity, but it's so simple from the users end that I don't feel like I have any control of what my dashboard looks like. I also dislike that I can't add a task for myself and have to choose from the default list created by my admin.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

- Integration with Asana (includes the Asana link for the task being tracked) - Free option (up to 2 projects at a time) - Downloadable report - Ease of use - Time tracking - Time tracking is also editable, which is great and convenient at times - Start and end dates for projects

Cons

- Sometimes it'd be nice to be able to reorder tasks in the time tracking section

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

This is a must have app for software houses. After initial setup it helps with: - billing the client like a pro - transparency with the client - keep tracking of utilization of the devs - maintain records of works done

Cons

After around 2 weeks teams acquired habit and remember to use time tracker correctly with issue tracker (tickets/jobs numbers).

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

A time tracker that has a chrome extension and integrates with my bookkeeping software - what is there not to like?

Cons

What I don't like is the fact that it'll only ask me if I've left my timer running for about 10 hours. I'd prefer to be able to check it to like 4 or 5-hour increments.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Daily

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

I like that this software is extremely user friendly. You only have to train someone one time for them to understand entering time correctly.

Cons

I sometimes have trouble reading budget bars. It seems odd that the overbudget projects red bar seems to eat back over the original budget. Visually, I think it makes sense to have the budget used up and then have the red extend past the budget bar indicating you are over budget instead of coming back and eating the blue bar up.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

It does what it does and it does it best! Time tracking on projects has never been so easy for our organisation.

Cons

Harvest lacks decent support of monthly retainer 'projects'. It's not a show stopper for us, but it makes us do manual checks of the hours we make for our clients. I would love Harvest Forecast to be part of Harvest by default instead of the invoicing functionalities, since we use other software for that.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Harvest madness time tracking easy and painless, with different views (daily, weekly) that make it a breeze to review and submit timesheets.

Cons

The web version does not let you modify a timer that is currently running, so that your have to stop the current timer to make adjustments to it.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

The clean UI, easy to use time tracking and idle reminders make for a great experience.

Cons

Every once in awhile a timer won’t start when created, but it’s rare.

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting

Pros

Two things make me love it. 1) It works with Asana. The integration allows me to easily log time with tasks and keeps my notes and tasks clean. Keeps me from leaving out details when I go back to check. 2) Running reports to track my team's time is extremely easy. Just click a button and you can start tracking your time spent on a project. Use it at my agency!

Cons

Occasionally checking on back time would get wonky, but was easy enough to edit with date checks. Just need to confirm when things are billable vs non-billable to make sure it shows in reports right. Not really an issue with the software, more something that end users need to be aware of.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Harvest

Online time tracking, invoicing & project reporting