Harvest vs Invoicely Comparison 2026
Harvest starts with a timer: track hours against a project and bill them, free for one seat and two projects with Stripe and PayPal built in. Invoicely starts with the invoice itself, capped at five a month on the free plan with three saved clients and PayPal as the only payment route, then $9.99 a month for a hundred invoices and multi-currency billing. Pick Harvest when the hours are what you are billing. Pick Invoicely for straightforward invoices with clients paying in more than one currency.
Time tracking that turns into an invoice
Invoicing with a free plan that stays free
At a glance
- Harvest starts cheaper, at $9.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Harvest | Invoicely | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9 | From $9.99 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 30 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
Harvest
Time tracking that turns into an invoice
Harvest counts hours against a project and then bills them, which removes the worst half hour of any freelance month: reading a timesheet back and typing it into an invoice. Expenses and receipts attach to the same project. The free plan covers one person and two projects, and for a solo creator that is often where it stops.
Our note
Harvest is the pick when the hours are the invoice. If work is billed as a fixed project fee, Moxie or Bonsai cover more of the job for similar money and the time tracking is the smaller part of what you need.
Only on this side
- Covers creator finance
- Covers project management
Invoicely
Invoicing with a free plan that stays free
Invoicely sends invoices, estimates and recurring statements, and tracks time, expenses and mileage against them. The free plan is capped at five invoices a month rather than at a trial period, so a freelancer billing one or two clients never has to pay. Billing in any currency is on every paid tier, which matters if your clients are not all in one country.
Why people weigh these two
- Invoicely instead of Harvest
- Invoicely keeps a free plan that stays free and adds paid tiers from $9.99, a plain invoicing tool for anyone who does not need Harvest's time tracking at all.
- Harvest instead of Invoicely
- Harvest works from the timesheet, turning tracked hours into invoices, with a free tier and paid plans from $9, close to Invoicely's $9.99.
Which one should you pick
Pick Harvest if hourly billing is the business and the invoice needs to come straight out of tracked time. The free plan covers one seat and two projects with time tracking, invoicing and expenses all present, and Teams at $9 a seat a month removes those caps after a 30-day trial with no card.
Pick Invoicely if the job is professional invoices, estimates and recurring statements without Harvest's project structure. Free covers five invoices a month and three clients with PayPal only, and Basic at $9.99 a month lifts that to a hundred invoices, twenty-five clients and multi-currency billing, useful the moment a client pays in something other than dollars. It stops at invoicing, though: the moment bookkeeping or reconciliation enters the picture, look at Wave instead.
Common questions
- Which free plan is more generous, Harvest or Invoicely?
- They cap different things. Harvest's free plan is one seat and two projects with no stated invoice limit. Invoicely's free plan allows up to three clients, but only five invoices a month, whichever a freelancer hits first.
- Does Invoicely track time against a project like Harvest does?
- It has time, expense and mileage tracking, but Harvest is built specifically around a timer running against a project and turning approved hours into an invoice with the rate already applied. That is Harvest's core mechanic, not Invoicely's.
- Which one bills in multiple currencies?
- Invoicely, on every paid tier from $9.99 a month. Harvest's own feature list does not mention multi-currency billing, so a freelancer with clients paying in different currencies is better served by Invoicely.
- Can either one replace real bookkeeping software?
- No, and Invoicely says so about itself: it is worth using while invoicing is the only accounting job you have, and outgrown the moment reconciliation matters. Harvest is narrower still, focused on turning hours into invoices rather than running the books.
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