Harvest vs Invoify
Harvest and Invoify are both accounting software. Harvest is a commercial product from Harvest. Invoify is open source under MIT, with 6.4k 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 Invoify when
- You need to produce good-looking one-off invoices without signing up for an invoicing service.
Side by side
Time and expense tracking with project budgets, reports and invoicing from tracked hours, integrated with QuickBooks and Xero.
A web invoice generator with 13 templates, live preview, PDF rendering with headless Chromium, email sending and data kept in the browser.
Resource planning needs the separate Forecast product, and per-seat pricing adds up for larger teams.
No client ledger or payment tracking, and saved invoices live only in that browser's storage.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, mobile app, desktop app and browser extension
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Not published
TypeScript, Next.js, React, shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS
Closed source, sold by Harvest
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
503 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
6.4k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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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.