Harvest Alternatives After the 2026 Price Increase

Harvest, which Bending Spoons agreed to buy in 2025, now charges per seat plus usage fees for active projects, clients, tasks and invoices. Some long-time customers saw renewals rise more than tenfold. If you are looking at Harvest alternatives, the choice comes down to one question: do you invoice clients from your hours?

If you do, Clockify, Productive, Rize, TimeCamp and Timely all invoice from tracked time, and Toggl Track hands its numbers to the invoicing tool you already use. If you only logged your own hours, DoneThat and Rize's Basic plan track time automatically, without a timer; Timely does the same and also invoices. Disclosure: DoneThat, which publishes this blog, makes one of the tools on this page, and it is not built for invoicing. All prices below were checked on 3 November 2026.

What changed at Harvest

The Harvest price increase came from a change of model: Harvest moved from a plain per-seat price to seats plus usage. For many customers with annual subscriptions, the change only became apparent at renewal, Silicon UK reported, and the press picked it up in August 2026.

The Bending Spoons acquisition

Bending Spoons, an Italian company that buys established apps, agreed to acquire Harvest in June 2025 and completed the deal in 2026, according to Silicon UK (31 August 2026). Bloomberg and Silicon UK describe the new pricing reaching customers after the acquisition; neither says exactly when Harvest introduced it. The owner has a record of fast changes after a purchase. After it bought Evernote, free accounts were limited to 50 notes and one notebook from December 2023 (TechCrunch, 29 November 2023), and after it bought WeTransfer it planned to lay off 75% of the staff (TechCrunch, 8 September 2024).

Harvest pricing in 2026

Harvest's pricing page lists four plans (checked on 3 November 2026):

• Free: $0, 1 seat, 2 projects.
• Teams: from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($108 per seat a year), or $11 billed monthly.
• Enterprise: from $14 per seat a month billed yearly ($168 per seat a year), or $17.50 billed monthly. Adds timesheet approvals, profitability reports and unlimited custom reports.
• Enterprise Plus: custom pricing.

The seat price is not the whole bill. On Teams and Enterprise, the pricing page says "additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on what you use." It does not list what each one costs.

Harvest's help article on pricing plans (updated 30 October 2026) explains the mechanics. Each plan can be billed two ways:

• Flex: a per-seat rate plus usage charges based on the previous billing period: active projects, active clients, active tasks and invoicing. Only items with time tracked in that period count. Each plan includes a free allowance, and you pay only above it.
• Unlimited: a fixed usage fee instead of per-item charges.

For new accounts, usage charges start at the second paid renewal. That is why, in Harvest's own example in the same help article, a bill can jump from a seats-only $44 to $404 once usage is added.

What customers report

Two press reports name customers and their renewal figures.

• A freelance web designer. Bloomberg News reported on 13 August 2026 that Mike Martin, who had paid Harvest for thirteen years and last paid $211.20 for an annual subscription, was told it would renew at $2,547.60, a twelvefold jump (Bloomberg).
• A small consultancy. Silicon UK, citing the BBC, reported that Richard Haldenby, head of the consultancy Salentis, saw his monthly bill rise from $130 to $2,110 (Silicon UK, 31 August 2026).

Bending Spoons said its prices are in line with those of comparable products, Silicon UK reported.

Before you switch: can you cut the Harvest bill?

You may be able to cut the bill without moving. Everything below comes from Harvest's own help center, so check each step against your account before your renewal date.

1. Archive what you no longer use. On Flex billing, only projects, clients and tasks with time tracked in the billing period count. Archived, deleted or untouched items do not (pricing plans article).
2. Run the usage simulator. An Administrator can see current usage and projected charges under Settings > Billing > My usage billing. The Compare subscription options > Simulate usage changes screen lets you model a change before you make it.
3. Price Unlimited billing. If your usage is high, Harvest's pricing plans article suggests switching to Unlimited billing for "a predictable flat cost with no usage charges." The pricing page does not list that fee, so compare it in the billing screen.
4. Remove seats before renewal. Archiving a person does not remove their seat. You have to schedule a seat removal in Billing, and it takes effect on your next renewal date, not straight away (seats article).
5. Check for a Legacy plan. Accounts that upgraded from a trial before 7 November 2024 may be on a Legacy plan with different pricing, according to the pricing plans article. Harvest says a higher Enterprise figure on the upgrade screen is the price of that plan, "not a change to your current renewal," and asks Legacy customers to contact support with questions.

If you work alone on one or two projects, the Free plan allows 1 active person and 2 active projects. On Free you cannot email invoices or export them as PDFs unless you connect Stripe.

Staying makes sense if you rely on Harvest invoicing, Harvest Forecast scheduling and the integrations around them, and the simulator or Unlimited billing brings the bill back to a number you accept. To weigh the cost of a switch in hours, the time value calculator shows what an hour of your time is worth.

Harvest alternatives at a glance

Seven tools, listed alphabetically, not ranked. Every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page, checked on 3 November 2026, in US dollars per user or seat a month. DoneThat is our product; its row shows the gaps first.

None of these pricing pages lists a fee per project, client or invoice, which is the charge that drives Harvest's Flex bills. Pricing pages change, so check the vendor's page before you buy. For a wider view of the category, see our time tracking comparison.

Which Harvest features do you actually use?

Pick the alternative by the Harvest jobs you rely on, not by feature count. A Harvest alternative for freelancers who send a few invoices a month looks different from one for an agency that schedules a team in Forecast. Each line below comes from the vendor pages linked in the sections that follow.

The last row is for a different kind of Harvest user. If you never invoiced from Harvest and only used it to see where your hours went, you were paying for billing features you did not need, and you may not need a timer either.

Clockify

Clockify suits teams that want a low per-seat price and a free plan to start on. It bills per seat: every active or invited user on the Team page takes a paid seat, and the pricing page lists no per-project or per-invoice fees (checked on 3 November 2026).

• Free: up to 5 users, with timesheets, the timer and mobile and desktop apps. Reports on Free cover a one-month data range.
• Basic: $3.99 per seat a month billed yearly, $4.99 monthly.
• Standard: $5.49 yearly, $6.99 monthly. Adds invoicing, recurring invoices, approvals and task rates.
• Pro: $7.99 yearly, $9.99 monthly. Adds scheduling and forecasting.
• Enterprise: $11.99 yearly, $14.99 monthly.

What a Harvest user gives up: invoicing is not on the free plan, and the free plan is capped at 5 users. Clockify documents a Harvest migration by CSV. We have a fuller DoneThat vs Clockify comparison.

DoneThat

DoneThat is for the people in the last row of the features table: those who used Harvest only to log their own hours and kept forgetting the timer. It is the wrong choice if you invoice clients. It has no invoicing, no billable rates and no mobile app, and there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Prices are on the DoneThat pricing page.

From our own product, first-hand: the desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and reconstructs your day from screen and app activity, so there is no timer to start or stop. That history becomes daily summaries, goals and coaching. Screenshots are processed in real time and deleted, and only the structured activity is kept, as our data page explains. You can export your time as CSV, or reach it through the API and the MCP server.

Dilan, a senior operations manager whose team moved to DoneThat from Clockify, put the difference this way: "Clockify told us what we remembered to log. DoneThat tells us what actually happened."

What a Harvest user gives up: everything to do with billing clients. DoneThat does not import Harvest data; it starts recording from the day you install it, so keep your Harvest export for your records. If you were weighing Rize for the same job, our DoneThat vs Rize page sets out the differences.

Productive

Productive is an agency operations tool: projects, budgets, resourcing, invoicing and reporting in one place. It suits agencies that used Harvest together with Forecast and a spreadsheet for budgets. Its pricing page (checked on 3 November 2026) lists:

• Essential: budgeting, resource planning, project management and time tracking. The page shows both $10 and $12 per user a month for this plan in different places, so check the price in the plan selector.
• Professional: $25 per user a month billed yearly, $29 monthly. Adds rate cards, billable time approvals and invoicing integrations.
• Ultimate: custom pricing.

All plans need at least 3 seats, there is a 14-day trial and no free plan, and the iOS and Android apps are included in every plan. The feature list includes creating and sending client invoices from Productive, with accounting integrations such as Xero and QuickBooks Online.

What a Harvest user gives up: simplicity and a low entry price for a solo user. Productive's Harvest importer brings over projects edited in the last 365 days and time entries from the last three months; expenses and invoices are not imported.

Rize

Rize tracks time automatically from your computer, which makes it the closest match to DoneThat on this list. Its pricing page (checked on 3 November 2026) lists:

• Basic: $9.99 a month billed yearly, $12.99 monthly, for one person with no client billing.
• Pro: $23.99 yearly, $28.99 monthly, aimed at freelancers who bill hourly, with client reports.
• Max: $39.99 yearly, $49.99 monthly.
• Team: $29.99 per seat a month billed yearly, $39.99 monthly or quarterly, 2-seat minimum.
• Enterprise: custom pricing; the only plan that lists a mobile app.

Each plan includes a monthly allowance of AI credits, and there is a 7-day trial with no free plan. The same page's FAQ says Rize captures metadata only by default (app names, URLs and window titles) and reads screen content only if you turn on a feature called Vision. Rize's invoicing page says it generates invoices from tracked billable hours and sends them as PDF or email; the pricing page does not say which plan includes it.

What a Harvest user gives up: the pricing page FAQ lists macOS and Windows, with Linux coming soon, and a mobile app only on Enterprise. Rize documents a scripted Harvest migration through both APIs rather than a one-click import.

TimeCamp

TimeCamp suits teams that want flat per-seat pricing with invoicing on a cheap plan. Its pricing page (checked on 3 November 2026) lists:

• Free: unlimited users and projects, with web, desktop and mobile apps.
• Starter: $3.99 per user a month billed yearly, $5.49 monthly. Adds invoicing.
• Premium: $6.99 yearly, $9.99 monthly. Adds the resource planner and billable time.
• Ultimate: $9.99 yearly, $13.99 monthly. Adds billing rates, timesheet approvals, expenses and screenshots.

One usage charge to know about: TimeCamp's AI Time Tracker is "billed by token usage," which the page estimates at about $6 per user a month. The page also carries an older set of lower prices in one section; the figures above are the ones shown with the current plan details.

What a Harvest user gives up: Premium marks time as billable, but hourly billing rates and timesheet approvals need Ultimate. TimeCamp's marketplace lists a Harvest importer for clients, projects, tasks, users and time entries.

Timely

Timely suits people who want automatic tracking and still bill clients. Automatic time tracking and billable rates are on every plan, and it creates invoices from logged time with a QuickBooks Online sync (invoices page). Its pricing page (checked on 3 November 2026) lists:

• Starter: $9 per user a month billed yearly, $11 monthly. Up to 5 users and 20 projects.
• Premium: $16 yearly, $20 monthly. Up to 50 users, unlimited projects, cost rates and team planning.
• Unlimited: $22 yearly, $28 monthly. No user cap, adds capacity management.

There is a 14-day trial and no free plan. The iOS and Android apps support a manual timer and location tracking.

What a Harvest user gives up: the user caps on Starter and Premium can push a growing team up a tier. Timely's Harvest import brings over projects, clients and users; the article does not mention time entries. Our DoneThat vs Timely page covers how the two automatic trackers differ.

Toggl Track

Toggl Track suits teams that like timers, want a free plan for a few people, and are happy to invoice in another tool. Its pricing page (checked on 3 November 2026) lists:

• Free: up to 3 users, with timers and calendar integrations. The page lists iOS, iPad and Android apps.
• Starter: $9 per user a month billed yearly, $12 monthly. Adds billable rates.
• Premium: $16 yearly, $24 monthly. Adds profitability reports, SSO and project member rates.
• Enterprise: contact sales.

On Harvest vs Toggl, the yearly seat price is now the same: $9 a month billed yearly on Harvest Teams and Toggl Starter. Billed monthly, Harvest is $11 and Toggl $12. The difference is what sits around it. Toggl lists no usage charges, but it has no built-in invoices: its invoicing page says Toggl "hands you every number the invoice needs," and you create the invoice in the tool you already use.

What a Harvest user gives up: invoicing inside the tracker. Toggl's Harvest importer brings over clients, projects, tasks, billable rates, team members and up to 12 months of time entries, but not invoices, expenses or Harvest project codes, and it needs a paid workspace. See also DoneThat vs Toggl Track.

How to move your data out of Harvest

Export before you change plans, and do it as an Administrator, since Managers and Members can only export what they can see. The steps come from Harvest's exporting data article.

1. Time entries. Go to Settings > Import/Export and click Export all time for a CSV of all company time. For more columns, export a detailed time report from Reports to Excel or CSV.
2. Invoices. In the same place, Export all invoices downloads a zip of PDFs. For the numbers, run an invoice report under Invoices > Report and export it to Excel or CSV.
3. Projects, clients, tasks and people. Export projects from the Projects section, clients and contacts from Manage > Clients, tasks from Manage > Tasks, and people from Team.
4. Expenses. Export a detailed expense report; the PDF version includes receipt images.
5. Check the totals. Compare a few weeks of hours in the export against Harvest's reports before you close anything. The timesheet calculator helps if you need to recheck a week by hand.

On the receiving side, Productive, Toggl Track, TimeCamp and Timely document a Harvest importer, Clockify takes a CSV, and Rize offers an API script. Each importer leaves something behind, most often invoices, so keep the PDF archive.

Frequently asked questions

Why did my Harvest bill go up?

On Flex billing, Harvest charges a seat price plus usage for active projects, clients, tasks and invoicing in the previous billing period, above a free allowance. For new accounts, usage charges first appear at the second paid renewal, which is why a seats-only bill can jump. Check Settings > Billing > My usage billing for your breakdown.

Does Harvest still have a free plan?

Yes. Harvest's Free plan costs $0 and allows 1 active person and 2 active projects, checked on 3 November 2026. Its help article adds that you cannot import data, and you cannot email invoices or export them as PDFs unless you connect Stripe. When a trial ends, you have to choose Free yourself, or the account is deactivated.

What does Harvest charge usage fees for?

Harvest charges for active projects, active clients, active tasks and invoicing on Teams and Enterprise with Flex billing. Only items with time tracked in the billing period count. Harvest's pricing page does not publish the per-item rates; your account's billing screen shows projected charges and lets you simulate changes.

Is there a Harvest alternative with no usage fees?

Clockify, Productive, Timely and Toggl Track list seat-based prices with no per-project, per-client or per-invoice fees on their pricing pages, checked on 3 November 2026. TimeCamp is also seat-based but bills its optional AI Time Tracker by token usage, and Rize plans include a monthly allowance of AI credits.

Which Harvest alternative tracks time automatically?

Rize, Timely and DoneThat track time from your computer activity without a timer. Timely also does billable rates and invoices. Rize lists invoicing on its site. DoneThat has no invoicing and is meant for people who track their own hours.

Choosing your Harvest alternative

Choose by billing need first, then by price. If you invoice clients, start with the tools in the invoicing row of the features table above and run your own last month of projects through their pricing pages. If you only used Harvest to see where your hours went, you can drop the timer: download DoneThat and try it for 14 days.

Written by Don, DoneThat's AI coach (LinkedIn) - so this article is AI-written. Every price links to the vendor's own pricing page with the date it was checked, and press figures are cited next to the claim. Published by DoneThat (Letss B.V., Amsterdam), which makes one of the tools compared. More about DoneThat; corrections and questions go to support.