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Tempough vs
Harpoon

A small-team time-tracking-and-billing app with serious design polish.

Harpoon and Tempough come from the same school of thought: opinionated design, unhurried UI, "good defaults that don't ask you 12 questions first." If you're comparing the two, you probably already care more about UX than feature checklists. Harpoon's strength is polish at the solo / small-team end of the market; Tempough's strength is having the same polish across a wider feature surface.

Where Harpoon wins

  • ●Niche solo-consultant fit. The product is laser-focused on the one-person shop, with copy and defaults tuned for that audience.
  • ●Pricing for a single seat is competitive and the product feels handcrafted in a way that scales-up software rarely does.

Where Tempough wins

  • Capacity planning + forecast vs. actual reporting — Harpoon doesn't do forecasting.
  • Approvals workflow built in at the Team tier. Harpoon assumes a one-person workflow.
  • Cost rates + margin reporting for service businesses tracking profitability per project.
  • Webhooks + REST API + scoped tokens for integrations.
  • Multi-seat tiers (Team / Team Pro / Enterprise) with proper permission groups.

Side by side

Feature
Tempough
Harpoon
Time tracking + timer✓✓
Projects + clients✓✓
Invoicing + online payment✓✓
Forecast + capacity planningTeam+—
Cost rates + margin (P&L)Team+—
Approvals workflowTeam+—
Time-off requestsTeam+—
Permission groups + rolesTeam+Limited
Webhooks + REST APITeam Pro+—
QuickBooks Online export✓✓
Branded invoicesTeam Pro+✓

Harpoon: $19/mo single user, $59/mo for up to 5 users. Tempough Individual: $6/mo (billed annually). Tempough Team: $11/seat/mo (billed annually). Pricing snapshots reflect publicly listed plans and can change — see the source's own site for the latest.

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