Time tracking and invoicing
Tockly vs Harvest
Harvest is the premium time-and-invoicing suite for agencies and consultancies: a fast manual timer wired into client invoicing with online payments and accounting sync, and a firm no-monitoring policy.
Tockly is work tracking that reads AI activity: every minute scored as hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle. Here is how the two compare, line by line.
At a glance
| Capability | Tockly | Harvest |
|---|---|---|
| Classifies human vs AI-agent minutes | Every minute: hands-on, agent running, steering, or idle | No |
| Credits time supervising an AI agent | Reads agent activity directly and credits it as work | Manual timer counts the time but cannot label it |
| Screenshots | Every 10 minutes, tied to the minute they capture | Never, by policy |
| Activity tracking | Input event counts only, never keys or content | None |
| App and site usage | Active app and window titles | No |
| Invoicing from tracked time | Free for up to 3 clients, unlimited on Pro | The category's most mature, with payments |
| Free tier | Full capture, unlimited activity history | 1 seat, 2 projects |
| Entry price (annual) | Free. Pro $12, Team $16 per seat/mo | $9/seat/mo plus usage fees |
Harvest details verified against its public pricing and documentation as of July 2026. Products change; check Harvest's site for current numbers.
The minute Harvest can't see
Harvest measures that time was spent and which project it bills to, on the honor of a manual timer. It has no capture, so an hour is an undifferentiated billable block whether you typed it all or steered a coding agent through it. Its published rates also carry usage fees on invoices, projects, clients, and tasks, which kick in at your second paid renewal, so the seat price is a floor rather than the bill.
Pricing
Tockly
- Personal: free. Full capture, invoicing for 3 clients, screenshots from this month and last.
- Pro: $12/seat/mo annual ($15 monthly). Unlimited clients, 12 months of screenshot receipts.
- Team: $16/seat/mo annual ($20 monthly). Org rollups, roles, per-person AI adoption.
Harvest
- Free: 1 seat, 2 projects.
- Teams: $9/seat/mo annual ($11 monthly), plus usage-based fees on invoices, projects, and clients.
- Enterprise: $14/seat/mo annual ($17.50 monthly). Approvals, SSO, profitability.
Which should you pick?
Pick Harvest if invoicing is the whole job: retainers, estimates, online payments, QuickBooks and Xero sync, and profitability reporting are the most mature in the category.
Pick Tockly if the hours behind the invoice need to be verifiable, or if AI does part of the work. Harvest bills whatever the timer says. Tockly bills a classified, screenshot-backed record that shows the client how the hours actually happened.
Frequently asked
Why would I use Tockly instead of Harvest for client billing?
Harvest produces a great invoice from self-reported hours. Tockly produces the evidence behind the invoice: every billed hour has a per-minute classification and periodic screenshots, so a client questioning a line item gets receipts instead of recollection. And for AI-augmented work, Tockly's invoices can show the human versus agent split, which no honor-system timer can.
What changed with Harvest's pricing?
After the July 2025 Bending Spoons acquisition, Harvest's published plans are per-seat plus usage fees: additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks bill on top, starting at your second paid renewal. Harvest does offer a fixed-fee alternative to metered usage, but it does not publish that price. Tockly is flat per-seat, with every figure on the pricing page. No metered surprises.
Does Harvest monitor employees?
No. Harvest states plainly that it takes no screenshots, tracks no keystrokes, and monitors no apps or websites. It is trust-based by identity. Tockly does capture activity and screenshots, because its buyers, contractors proving hours and teams that want real utilization data, need the record. If you need verifiability, Harvest is the wrong shape.
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