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Clockify vs Harvest

Clockify and Harvest are both time tracking software. Clockify is a commercial product from CAKE.com. Harvest is a commercial product from Harvest.

Which to pick

Pick Clockify when
A team wants free time tracking for many users and may add paid features later.
Pick Harvest when
An agency or consultancy bills by the hour and wants staff to track time easily against project budgets.

Side by side

What it does

Time tracker and timesheet app with a free unlimited-user plan, plus paid scheduling, approvals and invoicing.

Time and expense tracking with project budgets, reports and invoicing from tracked hours, integrated with QuickBooks and Xero.

Watch out

Many useful features such as approvals and audit logs are on paid tiers.

Resource planning needs the separate Forecast product, and per-seat pricing adds up for larger teams.

Ready for

Production-ready (both)

Runs as

Cloud service, desktop app, mobile app and browser extension

Cloud service, mobile app, desktop app and browser extension

Built with

Not published (both)

Source code

Closed source, sold by CAKE.com

Closed source, sold by Harvest

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)

How widely known

No Wikipedia article of its own

503 Wikipedia readers a month on phones

Other comparisons

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Every time tracking product and project, ranked

Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.