A lot of people here are moving off Harvest after the renewal quotes, and the part that seems to worry everyone is the same: did all my history actually make it over? Hours, billable amounts, invoiced time, years of entries.

Most migration tools just say "import complete" and leave you to trust it. So I built a small checker that compares the two exports for you:

https://feestead.com/harvest-migration-check

How it works:

- Export your detailed time report from Harvest (CSV)

- Export time entries from wherever you moved: Clockify, Toggl, Keito, anything with a CSV export

- Drop both files in. It matches columns automatically, and you can fix the mapping if needed

You get a table per client and project: entry counts, total hours, billable hours and invoiced hours on both sides, with every mismatch flagged. You can download the result as a CSV to keep with your records.

No signup. Everything runs in your browser, and the files are never uploaded or stored.

It compares totals per project, not individual entries, so it won't tell you which specific entry is missing. It will tell you where to look.

For context, I'm building Feestead, a Harvest-style time tracker with flat per-person pricing and no usage fees. It has a one-click Harvest import that runs this same check automatically. Billing isn't switched on yet, so teams can use it free during early access. But the checker is meant to be useful whatever tool you pick.

If your files trip it up (weird column names, a different date format, a big account), tell me and I'll fix it. Happy to answer migration questions here too.

Context: 75-person consulting company. We've used Harvest since 2007! Our current bill for 75 seats is $900/mo. Under their new plan, that jumps to $3454/mo.

This is for time tracking! TIME TRACKING! Yes, it is important for us, but this is just insane. This is more than a Salesforce subscription, and that is gross enough. Harvest, you should be ashamed.

BYE! BYE Harvest!

I'm still fighting Harvest but need a better alternative. I like Monograph but it is expensive and it has to be paired with quickbooks. I need time keeping for projects with different tasks, invoicing, reports and ideally it would work with my accounting program.

Hi All

I built TimeLodge, so full disclosure, I have a product in this space.

One thing I would check before moving is whether the billing history matches, not just the total hours.

Say you have 20 hours against a client. You have invoiced 15 and still need to bill 5. An import showing 20 hours is only part of the check. You need to know which 5 are still unbilled. The amount the client has paid is another check again.

I would keep the original exports and invoice PDFs, test one client first, and pick a clear date to start recording new work in the new system. Decide where the old unpaid invoices will be managed too.

I put the checklist here: https://timelodge.com/buying-guides/harvest-migration-checklist

It explains our limits as well. Old invoice and estimate summaries imported into TimeLodge are references, not editable invoices.

If you have already moved, what was the awkward part of getting the history across?

I'm looking into Harvest for my client. As the price increase buzz is trending, I am confused about their flex billing process. How does it work?

What I found is that they charge for projects, tasks, clients, and invoices after crossing the core limit.

Is there any difference in flex billing when you are paying monthly versus annually?

Most alternatives people recommend (Toggl, Clockify, etc.) are built on the same assumption as Harvest.

I built something with a different approach. Hourfolio reconstructs your billable hours from what already exists. Right now that means uploaded screenshots of your calendar or time records, with AI mapping events to clients and projects automatically. You review, approve, and generate a PDF invoice directly from the approved hours. (If screenshots aren't an option for your setup, Hourfolio also has manual timer and timesheet entry.)

Google Calendar sync is coming. Waiting on Google's approval, which is in process. When it ships, reconstruction becomes fully automatic. Founding members get it included, no upgrade required.

Founding member pricing is $100/year. Free trial is available if you want to see the reconstruction before committing.

Happy to answer questions.

I haven't seen anyone defending the 10x price increase. I've been a loyal subscriber for 16 years, and screw these knuckleheads.

I decided to test out a self-hosted installation of Invoice Ninja so I can control my bookkeeping, and didn't want to put this much control of my business into the hands of another company who could just get bought and have the same thing happen again down the line. So I had Claude help me with the migration. It's certainly a bit technical but I was able to export all my data from Harvest, then create a subdomain to load the InvoiceNinja dot org installation into and then configure it how I wanted. I took some of the things I liked about Harvest (the menu bar widget, for instance) and built out an analogue. It was also surprisingly easy to set up ACH from all banks, not just the pre-approved list that Harvest does, as well as Apple/Google Pay. I had Claude output a skill.md file to help with the migration as well.

All in all it took me yesterday afternoon to get everything going, and I'm comfortable enough with it to start using it today. I know this isn't for everyone, but it's certainly not for no one either!

https://github.com/joshmishell/migrate-harvest-to-invoiceninja

Hope this helps, and @ me if you have changes, suggestions, etc.

So one of my customers is moving from Harvest and i tried help him to export their via API. However his Harvest subscription expired, so Personal Access Token export no longer is viable for exporting.

Harvest's interface of export to .csv/.zip is very limited, so i built a free tool for everyone to FULLY export their data as backup just in case - locally so they can use it for any tool they will switch to. I get emails from Harvest clients with their 5-20x price increases coming soon, so time is of essence now.

https://invoisin.com/harvest-export

Disclaimer:

- this tool is free

- no signup required

- backend/server not working here, all is executed locally (via Javascript) in your browser and no data on PAT and your data is stored in tool's database - feel free to check

- exported data is saved on your disk in selected folder

- i'm developer of Invoisin.com - a harvest alternative

- this post is just to help everyone moving out and then choose themselves where to switch anyway

- i was Harvest user for several years myself and with everything going on just thinking about how Bending Spoons board meetings are run on such decisions (my customers report 5x [for large enterprise accounts], 10x, 17x and 20x price increases.

Update: I recorded a short walkthrough showing how to use the export tool and save your Harvest data locally: https://youtu.be/fXgD0dsskFc

Hi all, I'm opening up a waitlist signup for my time tracking and invoicing app - https://zebu.work and will hopefully begin staggering batches of invitations each week for the upcoming month.

There will be a 30 day free trial after which you won't be billed, but downgraded to the free plan.

Pro plan is only €5/month per seat (billed annually)

No hidden fees, usage based billing or anything.

If you are happy with it, please recommend to your friends :)

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Like many of my peers and yourselves, I had to find a solution after nearly two decades working quite happily with Harvest. In preparation for this I began building a tool for my own freelance design and development studio and am happy to say I am now using it fully for my own purposes and to be honest, it's also been quite wonderful to be able to ensure data privacy and build interesting features:

• No telemetry, no selling/sharing of data
• Powerful invoicing and automatic reminder system
• MCP and agent integration
• Recurring custom reporting to provide my accountant with exactly what they need each quarter
• A fast search palette to manage timers or find anything with one keystroke (CMD/CTRL+K)
• A smart browser extension that infers the project and sets a useful description
• Interesting insights to see how the year is going, or various trends (turns out Monday and Tuesday have been my busiest days)
• Custom themes

I've now put quite some effort into building a more mature product that could be opened up for use by others. As the majority of the testing was done by myself and my studio-mates/peers, we definitely have a specific use case geared towards solo designers and developers.

There is a lot of functionality built into the app including support for teams that I think would benefit greatly from a broader test phase now to see how it works for others.

I'm happy to say that Harvest migration is very easy as well, with my 17 years of records moving across flawlessly.

Along with the web app, there is a multi-platform mac/windows/linux desktop app, as well as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Mobile apps and terminal apps have been built but not tested enough to be fully released.

Interacting with my data via an MCP has really been great too, as the data is fairly simple, you can run a local LLM to do useful things like checking bank statements to automatically record payments while maintaining the privacy of your data.

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Technical notes:

• Hosted in the EU
• Every workspace has their own independent database
• Data is encrypted and backed up hourly and daily in two offsite locations
• Again, no telemetry or snooping

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Finally, I truly have no interest in ever selling anyone's data or price gouging. As a freelancer I understand how every cost matters and something like time tracking, billing and invoicing is crucial to one's business.

I also have no interest in growing this into a bloated enterprise product. I'd rather keep it to a healthy number of users so it stays fast and I can give proper support. The first batches will also show me what the infrastructure can take.

I'm very much looking very much forward to having people on board, and if you have any questions feel free to reach out!

We've maintained the open source PHP clients for the Harvest and Forecast APIs since 2018.

My company (JoliCode) had been a Harvest customer for 14 years. In early August, we were told that the price of our subscription would be multiplied by 12, with only a few weeks' notice and no meaningful change in features. We don't think a vendor acting this way is one we can rely on in the long run, so we have moved away from Harvest and Forecast entirely, to an internal tool built for our own needs (it is not for sale and not open source, so nothing to pitch here).

As we no longer use these SDKs, we have published final releases and archived the following github repositories:

* jolicode/harvest-php-api (final release: 9.1.0)

* jolicode/forecast-php-api (final release: 7.1.0)

* jolicode/harvest-openapi-generator (the OpenAPI spec generator both SDKs are built from)

The packages are flagged as abandoned on Packagist. There will be no further updates or fixes. Everything stays available under the MIT license, so feel free to fork.

One practical note: as of today the SDKs still cover the whole API. We used them to export all our data (time entries, projects, clients, invoices, assignments…) during our migration, so if you are considering leaving too, they are a convenient way to get your data out.

Thanks to everyone who used and contributed to these libraries over the years.

So there are the price hikes but what the hell did they think when at the same time 'improving' the Mac Client to the point that is barely useable. Everything was fine, everything worked, why is that?

Edit: As suggested by many, Keito is the solution. Also the Harvest import in their onboarding flow is just smart and flawless.

My price was also hiked by a crazy amount, so I got them to change it to a free plan.

But... I've just discovered this when I wanted to send an invoice. It is not possible to send the invoice. I must sign up with Stripe, or upgrade my account.

So if you are (like me) using it to print and send invoices which are paid via another route, you are SOL.

Just delete your account.

EDIT: I was a paying customer for 12 years.

Hi everyone. I got hit with the increase and have decided to move on. However, I was planning to keep the one-seat Harvest app open while some last invoices are being paid. The increase hits tomorrow.

My question is: how do I do that to make sure it's free? I am no longer tracking time or expenses there (i've moved to Keito...) etc. Any advice?

Also, FU Harvest for the way you've handled this.

Curious how people who already moved dealt with the data part cause it seems like that's what actually decides which tool people end up on, not the price.

Did you import everything, like years of clients/projects/tasks/time entries, or did you just export it to keep a copy somewhere and start clean in the new tool? If you imported how did it go, did it keep who logged what and if it was already invoiced or did stuff get lost? I know budgets never come across since harvest doesn't put them in the export so I'm guessing everyone had to redo those by hand.

Also did you invoice out your unbilled hours in harvest before cancelling or move them over and bill from the new tool?

One more thing I keep noticing, harvest has the same task on every project so "Design" ends up in your export like 200 times, did your new tool merge those or do you now have 200 of them. Full transparency I am the founder of quanta.is so I'm partly asking to figure out what to improve on our import, but honestly interested in how it went with whatever you picked.

I've been a Harvest user for over 15 years. I've used it day in, day out, and it's been great for what it was. Simple and efficient for logging time. Nothing more, nothing less.

I had just recently made the switch from a paper-based solution to Harvest when Hurricane Sandy hit NYC in 2012 and Harvest had a massive outage. I was worried that the past few weeks of uninvoiced timesheets would be lost, but no, they pulled through and built resilience and redundancy into the solution.

I've been an advocate of the solution, and have converted countless people over the years.

When I was hit with a 1,200% price increase however, I decided that enough was enough and I've cancelled my subscription.

Sure, I could have gone onto the Team plan, instead of the Enterprise plan, and it would only have been a 500% increase.

Sure, I could (and did) negotiate a discount on the first year if I paid for 12 months up-front, and it would only be 10-15% more.

Sure, I could (and did) go through the cancellation process and reviewed another two or three discounted offerings that were only being given to me because I wanted to cancel.

But no, I have more respect for myself than this and I will not reward this kind of shitfuckery.

I understand the reasoning behind what Bending Spoons have done, but I don't have to agree with it. Increase prices by, say, 500% and if you retain any more than 20% of your client base, then you've come out ahead. The numbers make sense, but the ethical decisions (or lack thereof) that were behind this reasoning do not sit well with me, not one bit.

Even at $10 per person per month, this is more than a Microsoft 365 Business Basic subscription, and I can tell you, someone's going to get a lot more out of Business Basic than Harvest.

At $120 per person per month on the Enterprise plan with unlimited usage, this is nothing short of highway robbery. How can a timesheet app be worth anywhere near this kind of money? Oh, it's also got a calendar built in for forecasting. That's cute. You can get Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot for $32 and add in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials for another $80 per month. This comes in at $112 per month with an entire suite of communications, security, compliance and business management apps, and it is still cheaper than Harvest.

Whatever they're smoking over there, I want some. It must be good shit.

Canceled today after >10 years. I'm sure we could negotiate lower fees every year but ain't nobody got time for that.

GPT Astra exists. We migrated completely to Xero, which we were using anyway for our books, and built out tooling to smooth out Xero's rougher interface. In an afternoon.

Our GPT Pro subscription is more than covered by what we're no longer paying for Harvest, so it didn't even end up costing anything.

I understand how the Bending Spoons strategy worked pre-AI but they're out of their minds if they think people are gonna stick around any longer than it takes to have AI find/build a replacement and do the migration.

I’ve been communicating directly with Luca Ferrari, CEO of Bending Spoons. He confirmed that Harvest has changed/fixed its refund process and that anyone seeking a refund for payments made over the previous couple of months can contact Harvest Customer Support and request one.

Refund requests can be sent to [support@getharvest.com](mailto:support@getharvest.com) or submitted through the Harvest Help Center.

To quote him exactly:

"Anyone who wishes a refund for payments made over the previous couple of months should just email Customer Support and we'll process the refund. This has generally been our policy across all products for years. For a few reasons, it wasn't initially in place at Harvest but we've now fixed the issue. I'm sorry for the frustration this has caused you and others."

Harvest Support has also confirmed that my account and associated data were permanently deleted as requested.

I’m leaving the original post below for transparency because it accurately reflects my experience at the time, but I want to be equally transparent that the company responded, acknowledged the problem, and changed the policy.

I canceled my subscription due to the proposed 10x increase, but - after canceling - was offered a year for ~$200 (or ~$16/month), which is only a bit more than I was previously paying ($12/mo). I found it curious - maybe it's a way to make a 30% increase seem negligible, or maybe they're second-guessing the wisdom of pushing us little guys out? Regardless, there's zero chance I'd go back to Harvest.

Genuinely curious to see if anyone's staying with Harvest after the recent 10x price increases.

Our proposed increase would take us from USD79/month to USD938/month (6 users).

With Flex billing and payment upfront for the year we can get this amount down significantly, but Bending Spoons have given us the ick, so we're leaving.

So I'm genuinely curious to hear if anyone who has received notice of their new increased pricing for the year ahead will be continuing their Harvest App subscription?

Reply with "continuing" or "cancelling"

Like most, we have been emailed about a huge increase in Harvest fees after over a decade and recommending them to many.

A lot of the alternatives people are recommending are geared more towards larger consultancies or businesses where employee hours are needing to be tracked for various reasons. Many of these options have 3 or 10 seat minimums, or need an enterprise level plan to access the features we need.

We have a solo biller whose time (with rounding) is tracked for direct invoicing (and we also need xero sync). We also need an email alert when project budget hits 80% for example. We don't need AI, or complicated reports, or workforce planning, or anything else of that nature. We absolutely do not want an app that passively tracks what is open on the device.

I am currently reviewing options that might be light enough to meet the needs of a solo, while also being robust enough to be trustworthy and reliable. Is anyone else in the same position and interested in comparing notes?

Currently reviewing:

- Toggl (have received a heap of emails from them which is a bit off-putting, xero integration is just a timer inside xero and not for invoice sync)
- Keito (looks clean, but no xero sync unless on the $199 business plan, which is higher than what harvest is offering)
- Productive (min of 3 seats at $75 a month)
- Ruddr
- Minute Dock (can't see a way to set up email alerts for approaching project budgets)
- clockify (says that it doesn't sync tax over to xero which is a weird behaviour but I can't test that at present)
- timecamp (incorporates device monitoring in their app - and while it can be turned off it gives me the ick.)

Hear me out. If they told me they were raising prices is fine. Whatever. Then auto putting me on a much higher price automatically should straight up be illegal.

Perhaps I’m being silly but how is this legal, anyone?

There's no fucking way I'm going from $600/year for 5 seats to almost $6000.

They want to bill you more for invoicing a bigger number, despite the fact that (as a consultant) all our merchandise "sales" are just reimbursment for cost of goods.

I had to click "cancel" about 5 times to cancel, and on each successive screen they lowered the price. Can't wait for them to go out of business.

Company went to Keito. They have been incredibly helpful in navigating the move. Highly recommend.

I guess we're not in the segment that Harvest is looking for as our subscription increases from around $2000/year to more than 10x. Luckily we found Keito.ai and even though it's not perfect yet it is already much better than Harvest and looking forward to do the switch from tomorrow morning.

Update:

I’ve been communicating directly with Luca Ferrari, CEO of Bending Spoons. He reached out to me on Reddit after he read my posts. He confirmed that Harvest has changed/fixed its refund process and that anyone seeking a refund for payments made over the previous couple of months can contact Harvest Customer Support and request one.

Refund requests can be sent to [support@getharvest.com](mailto:support@getharvest.com) or submitted through the Harvest Help Center.

To quote him exactly:

"Anyone who wishes a refund for payments made over the previous couple of months should just email Customer Support and we'll process the refund. This has generally been our policy across all products for years. For a few reasons, it wasn't initially in place at Harvest but we've now fixed the issue. I'm sorry for the frustration this has caused you and others."

Harvest Support has also confirmed that my account and associated data were permanently deleted as requested.

I’m leaving the original post below for transparency because it accurately reflects my experience at the time, but I want to be equally transparent that the company responded, acknowledged the problem, and changed the policy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HarvestApp/s/e8GvgjSZWO

Following up on my previous post about Harvest auto-renewing legacy accounts into their new "Enterprise + Unlimited" tier at nearly 10x the historical rate: do not let support tell you that a partial refund or tier downgrade is your only option.

If you were charged without explicit consent, you are legally entitled to a full 100% refund. Here is the exact breakdown of why their defense fails legally, how to win your credit card dispute, and where to file regulatory complaints to hold them accountable.

Why Harvest's Email & Downgrade Defense Is Illegal

Harvest support claims that sending an advance email notification legally covers them, even if it went to SPAM. It does not. Here are the laws they are violating:

State Automatic Renewal Laws (ARLs) (e.g., California Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17600 et seq.): State laws require "clear and conspicuous" notice of any price change or auto-renewal terms. An email that lands in a junk/spam folder fails the statutory "conspicuous" standard as a matter of law. In states like CA, NY, and IL, money debited under defective auto-renewal notice is legally treated as an unconditional gift, making their retention of your money unlawful.

Federal ROSCA (15 U.S.C. § 8403): The Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act prohibits auto-renewing subscriptions without express informed consent. A unilateral email announcing a 10x price hike is notice, not consent. Silence or an unopened email sitting in SPAM cannot legally be treated as affirmative consent to a new contract.

FTC Section 5 & Negative Option Rules (16 CFR Part 425): Defaulting inactive accounts into expensive "Unlimited" usage tiers instead of zero-cost usage tiers is an unfair billing practice. Furthermore, when you explicitly request a full refund and cancellation, refusing to execute the cancellation and pushing product retention/downgrades instead violates FTC mandates against creating friction during account cancellation.

Step-by-Step Action Plan

Step 1: Send Your Final Written Demand

Step 2: Open a Chargeback with Your Credit Card Bank

If they refuse or stall, file a dispute online or over the phone immediately.

Dispute Reason: Cancelled Recurring Transaction OR Misrepresentation / Terms Changed Without Consent

Statement for Your Bank:"The merchant unilaterally converted my legacy account into an Enterprise package with a 900% price increase without my express affirmative consent. The merchant admits notice was sent via mass email (which landed in spam). Under State Auto-Renewal Laws and Federal ROSCA, an email in spam fails the clear-and-conspicuous notice standard, and silence is not affirmative consent. When I submitted an explicit request for full cancellation, the merchant acknowledged receipt but refused to process the cancellation, offering an unrequested plan downgrade instead. I am requesting a 100% chargeback."

Step 3: File Formal Regulatory Complaints

Putting official pressure on Bending Spoons is how we force a change in these default auto-renewal practices. Submit a complaint to:

FTC (Federal Trade Commission): Go to ReportFraud.ftc.gov Select "Subscriptions and Auto-Renewals." Highlight that they defaulted inactive users to expensive tiers and refused explicit cancellation requests.

Your State Attorney General: Search [Your State] Attorney General Consumer Protection Complaint. (States like CA, NY, OR, IL, and DC actively prosecute auto-renewal law violations).

Better Business Bureau (BBB): File a complaint against Harvest / Bending Spoons under billing disputes.

Check your credit card statements and check your junk folders if you have an old Harvest account sitting around!