Harvest vs Invio
Harvest and Invio are both invoicing software. Harvest is a commercial product from Harvest. Invio is open source under Unlicense, with 1.2k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Harvest when
- An agency or consultancy bills by the hour and wants staff to track time easily against project budgets.
- Pick Invio when
- A freelancer wants simple self-hosted invoicing with European e-invoice output.
Side by side
Time and expense tracking with project budgets, reports and invoicing from tracked hours, integrated with QuickBooks and Xero.
A small self-hosted invoicing app that creates invoices and exports e-invoice formats including Factur-X/ZUGFeRD, FatturaPA and UBL for PEPPOL.
Resource planning needs the separate Forecast product, and per-seat pricing adds up for larger teams.
Young and the author does not guarantee legal compliance for any country's e-invoicing rules.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, mobile app, desktop app and browser extension
Self-hosted server
Not published
TypeScript and Svelte
Closed source, sold by Harvest
Open source, Unlicense (public domain)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can take the code into anything, including a product you sell, with no conditions.
503 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
1.2k GitHub stars
Not known
Young: started 14 months ago, latest release v2.4.0.
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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.