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Alternatives to Harvest
19 professional services tools sit alongside Harvest in this directory. Below is what separates each from Harvest on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 19
- With a free tier
- 8
- Cheaper to start
- 4
- Harvest starts at
- Free, then $9/month
Why people look past Harvest
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Harvest has a free tier, and starts at $9/month against a category median of $19/month. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Time tracking that's easy, powerful, and frictionless
Priced and rated the same as Harvest on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Projects, timesheets, invoices done right
- Starts $2.9499999999999993 a month dearer, at $11.95/month.
- 4 tiers to Harvest's 3.
The all-in-one solution for growing, single-entity firms
- No free tier, where Harvest has one.
- Starts $11 a user/month dearer, at $20/user/month.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 4 tiers to Harvest's 3.
Agency management software for operations, projects and finances
- No free tier, where Harvest has one.
- Starts $44 a month dearer, at $53/month.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 2 tiers to Harvest's 3.
Simple, all-in-one invoicing and billing software
- Starts $9 a month cheaper, at Free.
- 4 tiers to Harvest's 3.
Find freelancers, find a job
- Starts $9 a month cheaper, at Free.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 5 tiers to Harvest's 3.
Every Harvest alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest (this page) | Free, then $9/month | Freemium | 3 | |
| Toggl TrackTime tracking that's easy, powerful, and frictionless | Free, then $9/month | - | 3 | vs Harvest |
| AvazaProjects, timesheets, invoices done right | Free, then $11.95/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Harvest |
| BigTimeThe all-in-one solution for growing, single-entity firms | $20/user/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Harvest |
| Function PointAgency management software for operations, projects and finances | $53/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Harvest |
| Hiveage | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Harvest |
| Guru | Free | Subscription | 5 | vs Harvest |
| Freelancer.com | Free | Transaction | - | vs Harvest |
| Teamwork | Free | Subscription | 5 | vs Harvest |
| Bonsai | Free, then $9/user/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Harvest |
| FreshBooks | Free, then $23/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Harvest |
| Certinia PSA | On request | Quote | - | vs Harvest |
| Scoro | $17/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Harvest |
| Netsuite OpenAir | $500/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Harvest |
| TravelPerk | Free | Usage-based | - | vs Harvest |
| Kantata | On request | Quote | - | vs Harvest |
| Productive | $10/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Harvest |
| Plutio | $19/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Harvest |
| Accelo | On request | Quote | - | vs Harvest |
| PracticePanther | $49/month | Subscription | 8 | vs Harvest |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Harvest badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (8)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Toggl Track , Free, then $9/month
- Avaza , Free, then $11.95/month
- Hiveage , Free
- Guru , Free
- Freelancer.com , Free
- Teamwork , Free
- Bonsai , Free, then $9/user/month
- FreshBooks , Free, then $23/month
Cheaper than Harvest (4)
Entry price under Harvest's $9/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Hiveage , Free
- Guru , Free
- Teamwork , Free
- TravelPerk , Free
What you would be giving up
Harvest is most often brought in for time tracking against projects and clients, turning tracked time into invoices, expense capture alongside billable hours, team capacity and utilisation reporting on the paid plans, feeding billed time into quickbooks or xero. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Harvest is broadly right and the question is cost, the Harvest pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Professional Services category lists everything the directory holds, and best professional services tools ranks them.
Harvest runs on web, macos, windows, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Harvest alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Harvest?
- 19 other professional services tools are listed in this directory, led by Toggl Track, Avaza, BigTime, Function Point. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Harvest?
- 8 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Toggl Track, Avaza, Hiveage, Guru, Freelancer.com.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Harvest?
- Yes. 4 of the alternatives below start under Harvest's $9/month: Hiveage at Free, Guru at Free, Teamwork at Free, TravelPerk at Free.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Harvest?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Harvest has a free tier, and starts at $9/month against a category median of $19/month. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Harvest?
- Harvest is most often brought in for time tracking against projects and clients, turning tracked time into invoices, expense capture alongside billable hours, team capacity and utilisation reporting on the paid plans, feeding billed time into quickbooks or xero. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Harvest?
- None of the professional services tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Harvest alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Professional Services, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Harvest against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Harvest covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every professional services tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Professional Services category, 19 tools beside Harvest. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.