Toggl Track vs Harvest
The honest version: both are capable, both have real weaknesses their users write about constantly, and there's a third option this comparison won't hide until the end — it's free, so we can afford to be fair about the first two.
Toggl Track
Free (≤5 users); ~$9–$18/user/mo
The beloved one-click timer — clean, cross-platform, and increasingly expensive for what its own users call its gap: no real invoicing.
Toggl runs $9 (Starter) to $18 (Premium) per user per month — with a $14 first-year promo that quietly renews at $18 — and its most-cited shortcoming is native invoicing: the built-in generator makes one-way, unlinked documents.
- “No native invoicing — the hours dead-end in reports”
- “The $14 promo quietly renewed at $18”
- “Timers fall out of sync between devices”
Harvest
~$9–$17.50/seat/mo + unpublished usage fees
The time-and-invoice classic — acquired by Bending Spoons in 2025, now with unpublished usage fees and Bloomberg-documented 12x renewal shocks.
Harvest's seat prices ($9–$17.50) now sit under usage fees on projects, clients, tasks and invoices with no published rate card — Bloomberg covered renewals jumping from $211 a year to $2,547, and from $130 to $2,110 a month. The unpredictability is the product now.
- “Our $211 renewal came back as $2,547”
- “The usage fees have no published rate card”
- “Custom reports live behind higher tiers”
you want the cleanest pure timer and bill elsewhere.
you want native time-to-invoice — and can stomach the new usage fees.
The option Toggl-vs-Harvest articles skip
Coordinator covers what both do — free, with unlimited users and no usage meters — inside one system that also runs the rest of a small business: real books, projects with job costing, booking pages, client records, and a network where your invoice lands in your client's books. The honest trade: it's web-only today, and each specialist keeps its deepest niche feature — both comparison pages above say exactly which.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
Competitor pricing approximate, from published plans as of August 2026.
Settle it with the free one
Try the third option this afternoon — if it doesn't fit, the other two aren't going anywhere.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.