Updated July 2026 · Prices checked July 2026

The 7 best Harvest alternatives in 2026, compared honestly

Harvest is a good product with a pricing model a lot of teams no longer want. Since Bending Spoons acquired it in July 2025 and new terms took effect on 1 January 2026, the plan structure is $9 per seat per month (billed annually) plus usage-based fees for additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks — and teams on legacy plans have reported renewal quotes far above their old bills.

We build Keito, one of the tools on this list, so we have a stake in this comparison. We have tried to be even-handed anyway: every tool below includes what it does badly, Keito included, and for many readers the honest answer is a free Toggl or Clockify account rather than anything paid.

Quick comparison

ToolBest forPriceFree planInvoicingExpenses
1. Toggl TrackFast, simple time captureFrom $9/user/mo (annual)Yes — up to 5 usersNo native invoicingNo
2. ClockifyTeams on a tight budgetFrom $3.99/user/mo (annual)Yes — unlimited usersYes (paid tiers)Yes (paid tiers)
3. KeitoKeeping the Harvest workflow at a flat rateFlat: $19/mo solo, $49/mo teamNo — 14-day trialYesYes
4. EverhourTime tracking inside Asana, Jira, or TrelloFrom ~$8.50/user/moNo meaningful free planYesYes (budgets)
5. My HoursFreelancers and small teamsFrom ~$8/user/mo (annual)YesYesPartial
6. PaymoSmall agencies that want light project management tooFrom ~$5.90/user/mo (annual)Solo/limited onlyYesYes
7. actiTIMETimesheet-first teams; self-hosting optionFrom ~$6/user/moLimited (small teams)Basic (charge summaries)Yes

Prices checked July 2026 from vendor pricing pages; annual billing shown where offered. Vendors change pricing — verify before buying.

Why teams are leaving Harvest in 2026

Three things changed. First, ownership: Bending Spoons — the company behind similar repricing plays at Evernote and Meetup — completed its acquisition of Harvest in July 2025. Second, the model: alongside per-seat pricing, Harvest's current plans meter usage, with additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks billed beyond what the base tier includes. Third, the renewals landed: from January 2026, long-time customers started posting the numbers.

  • An agency on r/projectmanagementreportedgoing from $80/month to a $1,900/month quote — $1,100 on the "more affordable flex option."
  • Our own 15-seat renewal went from $180/month to a $6,100/month quote, "discounted" to $2,162.50 — a 3,200% increase. Weposted the numbers on r/HarvestAppat the time.
  • Solo users have reported annual bills moving from roughly $130 to over $1,150.

These are user-reported figures — one of them our own — not Harvest's published list prices, so your renewal may look different. But the pattern is consistent enough that "harvest alternative" searches have roughly tripled since late 2025, and it is the reason this page exists. We wrote up the full story of that renewal quote, and what we built because of it, inHarvest alternative: the one we built after a 3,200% price increase.

How to choose a replacement

Harvest was never just a timer — for most teams it was the whole loop: track time by client and project, review it, attach expenses, and send an invoice. Before comparing tools, decide which parts of that loop you actually use:

  • Just the timer? Toggl Track or Clockify, and you may not need to pay at all.
  • The full track-to-invoice loop? Keito, Paymo, My Hours, or Everhour — tools with native invoicing.
  • Worried about the next repricing? Check the pricing model, not just today's price. Per-seat plans re-create Harvest's problem as you grow; flat-rate plans and self-hosted options do not.
  • Have API integrations or years of data? Check for an importer and API compatibility before you shortlist anything.

The alternatives, in detail

1. Toggl Track

Fast, simple time capture

From $9/user/mo (annual) · Free plan: Yes — up to 5 users · Invoicing: No native invoicing

Toggl Track is the most direct replacement if what you loved about Harvest was the timer. Start, stop, tag, done — the capture experience is the best in the category, the reports are clean, and the free tier covers teams of up to five. What it is not is a billing tool: there is no native invoicing and no expense tracking, so if you used Harvest to get from tracked hours to a client invoice, Toggl only replaces half your workflow.

Strengths

  • Best-in-class timer and capture UX across desktop, mobile, and browser extension
  • Generous free plan for up to 5 users
  • Deep integration catalogue (100+ tools)

Weaknesses

  • No built-in invoicing — you will need a second tool to bill clients
  • No expense tracking
  • Per-seat pricing still scales with headcount, like Harvest

2. Clockify

Teams on a tight budget

From $3.99/user/mo (annual) · Free plan: Yes — unlimited users · Invoicing: Yes (paid tiers)

Clockify is the budget answer, and its free tier is genuinely usable: unlimited users and projects with core time tracking. Invoicing and expenses appear on the paid tiers, which are still cheaper per seat than almost anything else. The trade-off is polish — the interface is configuration-heavy, features are spread across four plan tiers in ways that take a spreadsheet to compare, and reports need more setup than Harvest users are used to.

Strengths

  • Free plan with unlimited users — the safest zero-cost landing spot
  • Cheapest paid tiers in the category
  • Invoicing, expenses, and approval features exist on higher tiers

Weaknesses

  • Configuration-heavy; the feature-to-tier mapping is genuinely confusing
  • Billing features are thinner than Harvest — invoicing feels bolted on
  • Still per-seat pricing on every paid tier

3. Keito

Keeping the Harvest workflow at a flat rate

Flat: $19/mo solo, $49/mo team · Free plan: No — 14-day trial · Invoicing: Yes

Keito is our product, so read this section knowing that. It exists because the Harvest workflow — track time by client and project, review entries, turn approved time into invoices with expenses attached — is worth keeping, while per-seat pricing is not. Plans are flat: one price whether you have 4 people or 40. It is also the only tool on this list with an automated Harvest importer and a Harvest-compatible API, which matters if you have scripts or integrations built against Harvest today.

Strengths

  • Flat pricing — adding contractors, reviewers, or finance users costs nothing extra
  • Automated Harvest importer: clients, projects, tasks, time entries, expenses, invoices, and estimates
  • Harvest-compatible REST API — existing integrations often need only a URL and token change
  • Tracks AI agent work and costs alongside human billable hours

Weaknesses

  • No free plan — solo use starts at $19/month, so a single freelancer with light needs may prefer Clockify or Toggl free tiers
  • Younger product with a smaller integration catalogue than Toggl or Clockify
  • No employee monitoring (screenshots, activity levels) — deliberate, but if you want surveillance features, look at Hubstaff instead

Two things are specific to switching from Harvest. Theautomated importerconnects to Harvest with a personal access token, previews record counts, then migrates in dependency order — clients, tasks, and expense categories first, then projects and assignments, then time entries, then expenses, invoices, and estimates. And theAPI is Harvest-compatible: same field conventions, date formats, pagination shape, and error bodies, so scripts written against Harvest usually need a base URL and token change rather than a rewrite.

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4. Everhour

Time tracking inside Asana, Jira, or Trello

From ~$8.50/user/mo · Free plan: No meaningful free plan · Invoicing: Yes

Everhour takes a different approach: instead of being a destination app, it embeds timers and budgets directly inside the project tools you already use — Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp, Monday. If your team lives in one of those, it is the least disruptive option here. Used standalone it is weaker, and there is no real free plan.

Strengths

  • Best-in-class embedded tracking inside PM tools
  • Native invoicing and budget tracking tied to billable rates
  • Clean reporting

Weaknesses

  • Much weaker as a standalone tracker — it assumes a host PM tool
  • No meaningful free plan
  • Per-seat pricing

5. My Hours

Freelancers and small teams

From ~$8/user/mo (annual) · Free plan: Yes · Invoicing: Yes

My Hours is a straightforward, freelancer-friendly tracker with a free plan and invoicing built in. It covers the essentials of the Harvest loop for small teams at a fair price. Reporting and the mobile experience are basic compared with the rest of this list, which starts to bite as the team grows.

Strengths

  • Simple to learn; free plan for basic tracking
  • Invoicing from tracked time and rates is built in
  • Fair mid-range pricing

Weaknesses

  • Reports and mobile apps are basic
  • Limited expense tracking compared with Harvest
  • Less suited to larger teams with approval workflows

6. Paymo

Small agencies that want light project management too

From ~$5.90/user/mo (annual) · Free plan: Solo/limited only · Invoicing: Yes

Paymo bundles time tracking with task management, invoicing, online payments, and expenses — a mini agency suite at a low per-seat price. That breadth is the appeal and the drawback: if you only need the Harvest loop, the interface carries a lot of project-management weight you will not use.

Strengths

  • Full loop: time → expenses → invoice → online payment
  • Task and project management included
  • Low per-seat price

Weaknesses

  • Crowded interface; heavier onboarding than a pure tracker
  • Free tier is effectively solo-only
  • Per-seat pricing

7. actiTIME

Timesheet-first teams; self-hosting option

From ~$6/user/mo · Free plan: Limited (small teams) · Invoicing: Basic (charge summaries)

actiTIME is the timesheet veteran: weekly grids, approval flows, and project cost accounting, with a self-hosted edition if you want your hours on your own server. The UX is dated next to the SaaS-native tools on this list, and client-facing invoicing is more "charge summary" than polished invoice, but it is dependable and cheap.

Strengths

  • Solid weekly-timesheet and approval workflow
  • Self-hosted option available
  • QuickBooks integration; low price

Weaknesses

  • Dated, timesheet-centric interface
  • Invoicing is rudimentary compared with Harvest
  • Fewer integrations than SaaS-native rivals

When none of these is the answer

Some teams should look elsewhere entirely. If you want employee monitoring — screenshots, activity levels, location — none of the tools above does it; Hubstaff is the usual pick. If you need full professional-services automation with resource scheduling and quoting, Scoro or Productive are closer, at several times the price. If you are technical and want free forever, the self-hosted open-source tracker Kimai is worth a look. And if your Harvest renewal came in unchanged and the workflow works — staying is a legitimate option; switching tools has real costs too.

Moving your data out of Harvest

Whichever tool you choose, the same rules apply. Export everything from Harvest while your subscription is active — time reports, clients, projects, invoices, and expenses all export to CSV. Keep Harvest available as a read-only reference until you have reconciled record counts and financial totals in the new tool, and only then cancel. Pick a clean cutover date (a month or quarter boundary), freeze new entries in Harvest at that point, and start all new work in the replacement.

If you are moving to Keito, thestep-by-step migration guidewalks through the importer with screenshots from a real migration, and themigration docsinclude a reusableverification checklistandcutover planthat apply to any destination, not just ours.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Harvest?

It depends on what you used Harvest for. If you mainly need the timer, Toggl Track is the most direct replacement. If budget is the constraint, Clockify has a free plan with unlimited users. If you need the full Harvest loop — time tracking plus invoicing and expenses — at a flat price instead of per-seat billing, Keito covers that workflow and includes an automated Harvest importer.

Why are so many teams leaving Harvest in 2026?

Harvest was acquired by Bending Spoons in July 2025, and new terms and pricing took effect on 1 January 2026. The current model is $9 per seat per month billed annually plus usage-based fees for additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks beyond what the base plan includes. Teams on legacy plans have publicly reported renewal quotes many times their previous bill, which triggered a wave of migration research.

Is there a free Harvest alternative?

Yes. Clockify offers a free plan with unlimited users, and Toggl Track is free for up to 5 users. My Hours also has a free tier for basic tracking. Harvest itself still lists a free plan, but it is limited to 1 seat and 2 projects. Note that free timers generally lack the invoicing and expense features Harvest users rely on.

Which Harvest alternatives have invoicing built in?

Keito, Paymo, My Hours, and Everhour all create invoices from tracked time natively. Clockify includes invoicing on paid tiers. Toggl Track does not have native invoicing — you would pair it with separate invoicing software.

Can I move my existing Harvest data to a new tool?

Harvest data can be exported to CSV from reports, and several tools offer importers. Keito has an automated Harvest importer that connects with a Harvest personal access token and migrates clients, projects, tasks, team members, time entries, expenses, invoices, and estimates in dependency order, with a preview of record counts before anything runs.

What happens to my Harvest API integrations if I switch?

For most tools, custom scripts and integrations built against the Harvest API have to be rewritten. Keito is the exception: its API v2 is Harvest-compatible — same snake_case field conventions, date formats, pagination shape, and error bodies — so most integrations can be repointed by changing the base URL and credentials rather than rewriting request handling.

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