Harvest

Harvest is the veteran time-tracking tool that turns tracked hours straight into invoices — frictionless timers, budget monitoring, and deep integrations with the project tools teams already use.

What is Harvest?

Harvest has been converting timesheets into revenue since 2006, long before "time tracking" became a category investors cared about, and its longevity shows in the polish of the core loop: start a timer wherever work happens, watch project budgets burn down in real time, then turn accumulated hours into an invoice without retyping a number. The tool deliberately avoids pretending to be project management — there are no Gantt charts or sprint boards here — instead embedding itself inside the tools teams already use through native integrations that let you track from within Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Jira, and Slack. Reviewers rate it 8.8 out of 10 across roughly 212 TrustRadius reviews, consistently crediting the frictionless logging, clean reports on where time actually goes (visibility several reviewers say directly improved their pricing decisions), invoicing that reduced administrative drag and improved cash flow, and expense capture that keeps client billables complete. The recurring gripes are equally specific: reporting customization stops short of genuine profitability analysis, the QuickBooks integration underperforms with slow syncs and awkward project-setup timing, larger teams find the project-management depth wanting, and the interface shows its age. Harvest remains the right answer for service businesses whose primary question is "what did we do, what did it cost, and who owes us for it" — freelancers, agencies, consultancies — while shops needing automatic capture or deep financial reporting should look at Timely or keep their accounting suite authoritative.

Key Features

• One-Click Timers — Track from web, desktop, or mobile apps
• Timesheets — Weekly views with reminders to fill gaps
• Invoicing & Payments — Hours become invoices; clients pay online
• Project Budgets — Real-time burn tracking against hours and fees
• Expense Tracking — Receipt capture tied to projects and clients
• Team Capacity — Scheduling and utilization visibility on Premium
• Native Integrations — Track inside Asana, Trello, Jira, Basecamp, Slack
• Reports — Time by project, client, task, and team member

Who is it for?

• Freelancers and consultants billing hourly for their work
• Agencies tracking billable hours across many client projects
• Teams living in Asana/Trello/Basecamp who want tracking embedded there
• Managers who need budget-burn warnings before overruns
• Small businesses wanting time-to-invoice without an accounting suite

Who is it NOT for?

• Teams relying on automatic background time capture
• Companies needing deep profitability analytics out of the box
• Large organizations requiring heavyweight project management
• QuickBooks-centric workflows sensitive to integration quirks
• Anyone wanting employee-monitoring style surveillance features