Harvest vs My Hours

Harvest

• Agencies and consultancies that bill clients for tracked hours
• Solo freelancers with up to 2 active projects, on the free plan
• Teams that sync invoices and payments to QuickBooks Online or Xero

My Hours

• Small teams of up to 5 that want free project time tracking
• Agencies and consultants billing clients by the hour
• Teams that want timesheets without screenshots or monitoring

Harvest

• The free plan is limited to 1 seat and 2 projects.
• Paid prices are shown as starting prices: the pricing page says additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed based on use.
• Timesheet approvals, profitability reporting and SAML-based SSO need the Enterprise plan.
• No Linux desktop app is listed, and scheduling needs the separately billed Harvest Forecast.

My Hours

• The Free plan stops at 5 active users and has no API access, attendance report or bulk editing.
• Budgets, rates per user or task, invoicing, timesheet approvals and Jira two-way sync all need Pro.
• The desktop app is a progressive web app installed from Chrome, Edge or Safari, and it needs an internet connection.
• There are no screenshot, GPS or activity monitoring features; the vendor says it will not add them.

Harvest

Timers and timesheets

One-click timers, daily and weekly timesheets and calendar imports in the browser, desktop and mobile apps, with automated reminders to submit time.

Invoicing and online payments

Invoices are generated from the tracked time and expenses already in the account, and clients can pay them through the PayPal and Stripe integrations.

Expense tracking

Receipts and reimbursable costs are logged alongside time, so they can be added to the same client invoice.

Budgets and reports

Project budgets update as time is logged. Team capacity and utilization reports start on Teams, and profitability reporting is limited to Enterprise.

Approvals and audit trail

Enterprise adds timesheet approval before hours are billed, an activity log of every time entry and edit, and the option to require notes on entries.

Harvest Forecast

A companion scheduling and capacity planning tool that connects to Harvest. It is billed separately at $5 per person a month on annual billing.

My Hours

Timer or timesheet entry

Start a stopwatch or fill in a daily or weekly timesheet. Each log can carry a description, attachments and expenses, and can be copied or restarted.

Clients, projects and tasks

Every plan allows unlimited projects, tasks and clients, with task templates and projects assigned to users. Assigning tasks to users needs Pro.

Billable rates and budgets

The Free and Basic plans set one billable rate per project. Pro adds rates per user or task, labor costs, profit and loss, and hour or cost budgets with email alerts.

Reports

Dashboard, detailed and timesheet reports can be filtered, downloaded as PDF and emailed. Scheduled reports, Excel exports and your own logo on PDFs need Pro.

Timesheet approvals

On Pro, managers approve or reject submitted timesheets, logs lock automatically after each period, and an audit log keeps 90 days of changes.

Invoicing and integrations

Pro creates invoices from billable time. Integrations import projects from Asana, Basecamp, monday.com and ClickUp, and pass invoices to QuickBooks or Xero.

Harvest

• Free$0

  1 seat and 2 projects, with time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking, project estimates and basic reports.

• Teams$9

  per seat / month, billed annually ($11 billed monthly)

  Unlimited seats, billable and cost rates, team capacity reporting, CSV import, and accounting and payment integrations. Listed as a starting price.

• Enterprise$14

  per seat / month, billed annually ($17.50 billed monthly)

  Adds unlimited custom reports, profitability reporting, timesheet approvals, an activity log, SAML-based SSO and required notes.

• Enterprise PlusCustom

  Adds custom integrations, product customization, a dedicated customer success manager, assisted data migration and white labelling.

My Hours

• Free$0

  Up to 5 active users. Timer and timesheets, unlimited projects, tasks and clients, a billable rate per project and PDF reports.

• Basic$4

  per user / month, billed annually ($5 billed monthly)

  Core tracking for unlimited users. Adds API access, the attendance report, unpaid breaks, bulk edits and editing of the team's logs.

• Pro$8

  per user / month, billed annually ($9 billed monthly)

  Adds rates per user or task, budgets, labor costs, invoicing, timesheet approvals, a 90-day audit log, SSO login and Jira two-way sync.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Pro, plus mandatory SSO, extended audit log history, a dedicated customer success manager and custom reports and integrations.

Harvest

• Annual discount

  20% off when paying for the year up front

  Harvest's pricing FAQ states a 20% discount for yearly payment. Enterprise is listed at $14 per seat a month annually against $17.50 monthly, and Teams at $9 against $11.

My Hours

• Annual discount

  Lower per-user price with annual billing

  Billed annually, Basic is $4 per user a month against $5 billed monthly, a 20% saving, and Pro is $8 against $9.

• Nonprofit

  Discounts for nonprofits and larger teams

  The pricing FAQ says My Hours offers discounts to non-profit companies and larger teams. No percentage is published.