TrackTimer vs Harvest: no usage fees on top of seats
Harvest can charge for extra projects, clients, and invoices on top of seats, and lists profitability reporting under Enterprise. TrackTimer shows profit on every project, never charges extra for clients, projects, or reports, and is free during early access.
Start tracking freeWhat you get with TrackTimer
Seat pricing without extra project or client usage charges
TrackTimer includes: No project or client usage fees, now or after launch
Not included: Harvest Teams / Enterprise: additional projects, clients, tasks, and invoices can incur usage charges. Source: Harvest source for Seat pricing without extra project or client usage charges
More than one team member for free
TrackTimer includes: Team tracking included
Not included: Harvest Free: one seat. Source: Harvest source for More than one team member for free
More than two projects for free
TrackTimer includes: No two-project cap
Not included: Harvest Free: two projects. Source: Harvest source for More than two projects for free
Profitability reporting included for free
TrackTimer includes: Billable value, pay, and gross profit included
Not included: Harvest Profitability reporting is listed under Enterprise. Source: Harvest source for Profitability reporting included for free
| What you get | TrackTimer | Harvest |
|---|---|---|
| Seat pricing without extra project or client usage charges | Included: No project or client usage fees, now or after launch | Not included: Teams / Enterprise: additional projects, clients, tasks, and invoices can incur usage charges. Source: Harvest source for Seat pricing without extra project or client usage charges |
| More than one team member for free | Included: Team tracking included | Not included: Free: one seat. Source: Harvest source for More than one team member for free |
| More than two projects for free | Included: No two-project cap | Not included: Free: two projects. Source: Harvest source for More than two projects for free |
| Profitability reporting included for free | Included: Billable value, pay, and gross profit included | Not included: Profitability reporting is listed under Enterprise. Source: Harvest source for Profitability reporting included for free |
Follow an hour all the way to payment
Recording an hour is only the first step in getting paid. Harvest can turn recorded time and expenses into invoices, accept online payments through its payment integrations, and connect invoicing with accounting software. If your main frustration is rebuilding invoices from timesheets, those features deserve a direct trial. TrackTimer lets an administrator preview completed billable time and manually create a USD invoice in Mercury. Review and sending happen in Mercury; TrackTimer does not provide native invoice sending, payment collection, or scheduled invoice creation.
Separate earned value from money collected
TrackTimer's billable value reflects recorded billable time and its saved rate. Gross profit subtracts recorded team pay from that value. Those figures help an agency understand its work, but they are not proof that a client has paid, and they do not include every business expense. For example, software subscriptions and subcontractor costs outside the recorded pay model still need to be considered in your accounting. Keep that distinction clear when evaluating either product's financial reports.
Choose the scope you need
Harvest documents expense capture, reporting, timesheet approvals, and tracking across devices. TrackTimer may fit a studio that already has an invoicing system and primarily needs consistent project timers, separate pay and billable rates, and contractor access boundaries. Harvest may fit better if you want the billing workflow bundled with tracking. Neither choice should be reduced to which product has fewer screens; consider which system will own each step of your process.
Test a real month-end scenario
Use a client with hourly work, some non-billable revisions, and an expense. Reconcile the resulting hours and financial totals, then prepare the invoice using the process you intend to keep. If you are moving away from Harvest, plan how you will retain invoice history, payments, expenses, and attachments. Moving the timer alone does not migrate those accounting records.
See what your time earns.
Set up your first project in a few minutes. Free during early access.
Sources
Free-access rows compare with Harvest Free after its trial. The usage-pricing row compares TrackTimer’s planned paid model with Harvest’s published Teams and Enterprise terms. An X means the benefit is restricted, paid, or unavailable on that plan. Written by TrackTimer, the maker of one of the products compared, from the official sources below, reviewed . Plans change, so check each provider’s current terms.