Harvest Alternative
hrglass vs. Harvest
hrglass can be a perfect Harvest alternative. Both handle time tracking and invoicing, but hrglass adds full project management, estimates, contracts, taxes, account credit, custom reports, and business branding in one integrated platform.
Built for web designers, photographers, and consultants who bill by the project.
40+
Features Harvest doesn’t have
$16/mo
For solo hrglass Pro plan (annually)
1 tool
Instead of separate apps and subscriptions
14 days
Free trial, no credit card required
hrglass
- All-in-one: projects, tasks, time, invoicing, estimates, expenses, contracts
- Kanban boards & 4 project view modes (Card, Compact Card, Table, and Kanban)
- Accepted estimates become projects automatically — zero clicks
- Multi-project invoicing & recurring invoices
- Taxes module (per-project & per-invoice)
- Account Credit for refunds and overpayments
- Invoice Template Maker & Business Branding (logo, colors, domain)
- Custom Reports Generator & Global Workspace Search
- Team permissions, multi-workspace architecture
- Project/Task deletion recovery
- All features included in every plan
Harvest
- Strong, focused time tracking with native invoicing
- Clean web, desktop, and mobile apps
- Stripe + PayPal online payments built in
- Native QuickBooks Online & Xero accounting sync
- Estimates with client approval, but no conversion into projects
- No built-in project/task management beyond billing categories
- Basic role permissions (Admin / Manager / Member)
- No multi-workspace, contracts, to-do lists, or custom statuses
- No fully integrated project and task management
- No Contracts attached to Estimates
- No Services / Flat Rate Portfolio catelog
Switching from Harvest takes less than 30 minutes.
Your clients/contacts, projects, timers, expenses, and invoices come across from a CSV export. Import into hrglass using our customized Harvest Importer.
Export clients, projects, time entries, and expenses from Harvest as CSV
Sign up for hrglass and import your client and contacts
Import your Projects, Tasks, Time Entries, Expenses, & Invoices
Run both tools in parallel for a week to sanity-check invoices
Cancel Harvest once your first hrglass invoice goes out clean
Feature by Feature
Thirteen categories, checked against what both products actually ship today; including the places Harvest is still ahead.
Project & Task Management
This is the widest gap. Harvest’s “tasks” are billing categories attached to time entries, not work you can assign, sequence, or move across a board. hrglass gives you real project management, which is why most Harvest users end up paying for a second tool.
Time Tracking
Harvest is excellent here and we won’t pretend otherwise; its desktop and mobile apps are more mature than ours. hrglass matches the core: one-click timers, manual entry, retroactive logging, and a weekly timesheet, with every entry tied to a real task.