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Harvest vs Toggl Track

Harvest and Toggl Track are both time tracking software. Harvest is a commercial product from Harvest. Toggl Track is a commercial product from Toggl.

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 Toggl Track when
Freelancers or teams want simple time tracking that people will actually use, with clean reports.

Side by side

What it does

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

Time tracker with one-click timers, calendar view, projects, billable rates, reports and capacity planning.

Watch out

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

Invoicing is basic and advanced features need paid tiers.

Ready for

Production-ready (both)

Runs as

Cloud service, mobile app, desktop app and browser extension

Cloud service, desktop app, mobile app and browser extension

Built with

Not published (both)

Source code

Closed source, sold by Harvest

Closed source, sold by Toggl

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

503 Wikipedia readers a month on phones

53 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.