Harvest vs Solidtime
Harvest and Solidtime are both time tracking software. Harvest is a commercial product from Harvest. Solidtime is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9k 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 Solidtime when
- An agency wants a modern self-hosted Toggl or Clockify replacement.
Side by side
Time and expense tracking with project budgets, reports and invoicing from tracked hours, integrated with QuickBooks and Xero.
A time tracking app for freelancers and agencies with projects, clients, billable rates and reports.
Resource planning needs the separate Forecast product, and per-seat pricing adds up for larger teams.
Still pre-1.0, and some features are in the paid cloud.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service, mobile app, desktop app and browser extension
Self-hosted server, cloud service and desktop app
Not published
PHP, Laravel, Vue, TypeScript and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Harvest
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
503 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
9k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.22.1.
Other comparisons
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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.