Harvest vs Toggl Track Comparison 2026
Harvest and Toggl Track both start at $9 a month per seat, but they stop at different places: Harvest turns tracked hours straight into an invoice with Stripe and PayPal built in, free for one seat and two projects. Toggl Track only reports where the time went, across more platforms and devices, free for a limited number of users, and leaves billing to a separate tool. Pick Harvest if the invoice is the point. Pick Toggl Track if you just need to know where the week went.
Time tracking that turns into an invoice
Time tracking that stays free for a small team
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Harvest | Toggl Track | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $9 | From $9 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 30 days | 30 days |
| 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 accounting & tax
Toggl Track
Time tracking that stays free for a small team
Toggl Track records where the hours went, across a browser extension, a desktop application and a phone, and it does the awkward part well: reminding somebody who forgot to start the timer and letting them fill the gap afterwards. The free plan covers a limited number of users with no time limit on it. Billable rates, project profitability and required fields are what the paid tiers add. It reports on time rather than turning it into an invoice, so billing still happens somewhere else.
Why people weigh these two
- Toggl Track instead of Harvest
- Toggl Track covers the time tracking and stays free for a small team, with paid plans at the same $9; Harvest's pitch is the invoice written straight from the timesheet.
- Harvest instead of Toggl Track
- Harvest turns the tracked hours straight into an invoice, from $9, billing built into the same tool instead of a second step.
Which one should you pick
Pick Harvest if tracked hours need to become a client invoice without retyping them. The free plan covers one seat and two projects with invoicing and expenses included, and Teams at $9 a seat a month lifts the caps after a 30-day trial with no card.
Pick Toggl Track if the goal is simply knowing where the hours went, on more platforms than Harvest covers: browser, desktop, phone, with idle detection and reminders. Free covers a limited number of users with no time limit, and Starter is $9 a licence a month. Read the Premium footnote before committing to it: $14 a month is a first-year price on annual billing that renews at $18, a 29 percent rise most people do not plan for.
Common questions
- Does Toggl Track send invoices like Harvest does?
- No. Toggl Track reports on time, billable rates and profitability, but billing happens in a separate tool. Harvest is built specifically to turn approved hours into an invoice with the rate already applied.
- Is Toggl Track cheaper than Harvest?
- At the first paid tier they match: $9 a month each, Harvest per seat and Toggl per licence. Toggl's next tier is where it gets tricky: $14 a month is a first-year price on annual billing that renews at $18.
- Which free plan is better?
- They cap different things. Harvest's free plan is one seat and two projects with invoicing included. Toggl Track's free plan allows a limited number of users with no time limit, but no billing feature at any price.
- Which one works on more devices?
- Toggl Track, by a wide margin: web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android are all named. Harvest covers web, macOS and iOS, fewer platforms but with the invoice built in that Toggl Track does not offer.
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