Comparison

Tempough vs
Harvest

The OG time-tracking-and-invoicing app for consultants and agencies.

Harvest has been the default "time tracking + invoicing" choice for service businesses since 2006. It does the basics extremely well — timer, timesheet, project budgets, invoicing, QuickBooks export — and has the brand recognition and integration breadth that come from two decades of compounding.

Where Harvest wins

  • Brand recognition + a long track record. If a CFO has heard of any time-tracking app, it's probably Harvest.
  • Larger integrations marketplace via Zapier and a deep partner ecosystem.
  • Forecast as a separate product (Harvest Forecast) is more mature for resourcing-heavy agencies.

Where Tempough wins

  • Forecast + capacity planning is built-in at the Team tier — Harvest splits it into a separate paid product (Harvest Forecast).
  • Cost rates + margin (P&L) reporting comes standard at Team. Harvest doesn't do margin reporting at all.
  • Time-flow Sankey, project portfolio matrix, custom report builder — analytics deeper than Harvest's table-shaped reports.
  • Webhooks + REST API at Team Pro. Harvest's API exists but is older REST style with less coverage.

Side by side

Feature
Tempough
Harvest
Time tracking + timer
Weekly timesheet grid
Projects + clients + tasks
Invoicing + online payment (Stripe)
QuickBooks Online export
Approvals workflow
Time-off requestsLimited
Forecast / capacity planningBuilt-in (Team+)Add-on / extra (Harvest Forecast)
Cost rates + margin (P&L) reportsBuilt-in (Team+)
Custom report builderLimited
WebhooksTeam Pro+Limited
Branded invoices (logo + accent)Team Pro+
White-label appEnterprise

Harvest Pro: $13.75/seat/mo (2026). 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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