Harvest vs Moxie Comparison 2026
Harvest is a timer that turns into an invoice: free for one seat and two projects, then $9 a seat a month once you need more. Moxie holds the whole freelance business, clients, proposals, contracts, time tracking, invoicing and scheduling, in one account for $12 a month with a 14-day trial and no free tier. Pick Harvest if hourly time tracking is the one thing you need done well. Pick Moxie if proposals and contracts are eating as much time as the invoice.
At a glance
- Harvest starts cheaper, at $9.
- Only Harvest has a free tier.
Side by side
Harvest | Moxie | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9 | From $12 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 30 days | 14 days |
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
Moxie
The freelance business in one place
Moxie holds the client list, the proposal, the contract, the time log and the invoice in one account, so a freelancer stops paying four tools that each know a quarter of the job. A scheduler and a light set of books are in there as well. Its own pricing page compares it to Bonsai, Dubsado and HoneyBook, which is a fair statement of who it is up against.
Why people weigh these two
- Moxie instead of Harvest
- Moxie bundles the whole freelance business in one place from $12 a month, where Harvest sticks to the narrower job of hours that become invoices.
- Harvest instead of Moxie
- Harvest starts from time tracking and turns the hours into an invoice, narrower than Moxie's full client pipeline but with a free tier to start on.
Which one should you pick
Pick Harvest if the business is billing hours and nothing else needs to move into the same tool. 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 lifts the caps after a 30-day trial with no card required.
Pick Moxie if proposals, contracts and scheduling are also part of the job, not just the invoice. Starter at $12 a month already includes clients, projects, invoicing, proposals, contracts, time tracking and scheduling in one place, with a 14-day trial and no forced annual lock-in. Its own comparison is to Bonsai, Dubsado and HoneyBook, not to Harvest, which says plainly that Harvest's time tracking is the smaller part of what a project-fee freelancer actually needs.
Common questions
- Is Harvest or Moxie cheaper?
- Harvest has a real free tier, one seat and two projects, which Moxie does not offer at all. But once you need proposals, contracts and scheduling too, Moxie's $12-a-month Starter plan likely costs less than paying for those tools separately alongside Harvest.
- Does Moxie track time the way Harvest does?
- Yes, time tracking is included on Moxie's Starter plan and bills against a project like Harvest's does. Harvest is the narrower, more established tool built specifically around that timer-to-invoice step.
- Which one sends contracts and proposals?
- Moxie. It sends the proposal, takes the signature on a contract and holds both alongside the client's invoices. Harvest has no proposal or contract feature; its own guidance says to look at Moxie or Bonsai when work is billed as a fixed project fee.
- Is there a free way to try Moxie before paying?
- There is no free tier, but every plan, Starter, Pro and Teams, carries a 14-day trial, and the pricing page is unusually direct about being able to pay monthly instead of committing to a year. Harvest's free plan, by contrast, never expires but is capped at one seat and two projects.
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