Harvest vs Toggl Track

Updated October 2026 · AppBreakup editorial

Harvest

Time tracking with built-in invoicing and expenses, long popular with agencies and consultancies.

Free plan + paid

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Toggl Track

A popular one-click time tracker with timers, timesheets and reports for freelancers and teams.

Free plan + paid

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The short answer

Choose Harvest if you bill clients and want time, expenses and invoices in one tool, with budget and capacity reports for project managers. Choose Toggl Track if you mainly want a fast, easy timer with flexible reports and can handle invoicing elsewhere. The biggest difference is what happens after the hours are logged: Harvest turns them into invoices, Toggl focuses on tracking and reporting.

Harvest or Toggl Track: our take

Both trackers use a timer or timesheet in web, desktop and mobile apps, and both offer browser extensions that add timer buttons inside tools like Asana and Jira. Toggl Track is known for how easy its timer is to start and stop, and its desktop apps can record which apps and sites you used to help fill gaps, while calendar integrations turn meetings into entries. Harvest centres on the billing workflow: billable hours and expenses become invoices, clients can pay online, and managers see budget burn, uninvoiced hours and how busy each person is. Scheduling sits in a separate product, Harvest Forecast.

On price they start in similar places. Harvest's free plan covers 1 seat and 2 projects and, unusually, includes invoicing; its Teams plan costs $9 per seat/month, billed annually, with a 30-day trial. Toggl Track's free plan allows up to 3 users; Starter is $9 per user/month and Premium $16 per user/month, also with a 30-day trial. Toggl reserves billable rates and project estimates for paid plans.

Toggl Track has native apps for Linux as well as Windows, Mac, iOS and Android; Harvest covers the web, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android but not Linux. Neither does automatic activity monitoring with screenshots, which suits teams that prefer trust over surveillance.

Agencies and consultants who invoice by the hour and want project budgets tied to time will find Harvest saves a step. Freelancers, small teams and anyone who just needs to know where time goes, or who already invoice from accounting software, will likely find Toggl Track simpler and more flexible in its reports.

Choose Harvest if…

Agencies and consultants who bill clients for hours and want invoices from the same tool
Time, expenses and invoicing in one place
Budget and capacity reports for project managers

Choose Toggl Track if…

Freelancers and small teams who want an easy timer and clear billable-hours reports
You need Linux, which Harvest doesn't list
Very easy start-stop timer on every platform
Browser extension adds timers inside many web apps

What is Harvest?

Harvest combines time tracking with the steps that follow it: turning billable hours and expenses into invoices, taking online payment, and reporting on project budgets and team capacity. People track time with a timer or timesheet in the web app, desktop and mobile apps, or browser extensions and integrations that add a timer to tools like Asana, Jira, Trello and GitHub. Managers see budget burn, uninvoiced hours and how busy each person is, and the separate Harvest Forecast product handles scheduling. There is a free plan for a single person with two projects; Teams and Business plans are priced per seat with a 30-day free trial and add unlimited seats, team reporting and approval workflows. Apps run on the web, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. It is less suited to companies that want automatic activity capture or attendance and shift features, and the per-seat price is higher than budget trackers.

What is Toggl Track?

Toggl Track is one of the best-known time trackers, built around a simple start-stop timer that you can run from the web, desktop apps, mobile apps or a browser extension that adds timer buttons inside tools like Jira, Asana and Gmail. Time entries are organised by client, project, task and tag, and reports show where hours went, what is billable and how projects compare with estimates. Desktop apps can also record which apps and websites you use as a reminder when filling gaps, and calendar integrations turn meetings into entries. The free plan suits individuals and very small teams; paid Starter and Premium plans add billable rates, project time estimates, team reports, timesheet approvals, invoicing and more admin controls, with a 30-day trial. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and the web. It favours ease of use over employee monitoring: there are no screenshots, which some managers want and many employees prefer.

Side by side

Attribute	Harvest	Toggl Track
Pricing	Free plan + paid	Free plan + paid
Open source	No	No
Self-hostable	No	No
Platforms	Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Browser extension	Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Browser extension
Best for	Agencies and consultants who bill clients for hours and want invoices from the same tool	Freelancers and small teams who want an easy timer and clear billable-hours reports
Status	Active	Active

Verified facts, compared

Facts both apps publish, checked on each vendor's own site.

Fact	Harvest	Toggl Track
Free plan	Yes, 1 seat and 2 projects	Yes, up to 3 users
Free trial	30 days	30 days