Comparison

Hours Tracker vs Harvest

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hours Tracker

Easily track your work hours, pay, tips, and mileage with timers, automatic breaks, and location-based reminders. Features include overtime calculations, customizable reports, and data export. Manage multiple jobs and entries with advanced customization options.

Highlights
  • Timers with breaks and pauses
  • Track pay, tips, and mileage
  • Location-based clock in/out reminders
  • Automatic overtime calculations
  • Customizable reports and filtering
  • Time rounding options
  • Data export via CSV and text
Features
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QUICK AND EASY time entry and editing make time tracking painless • Record time using timers, complete with support for Breaks and Pauses, including automatic breaks • Track your pay, including Tips, Mileage, and flexible ± time and earnings adjustments • Pick any time to start, stop, break or pause the timer (7 minutes ago, 10 minutes from now, whatever you need) • Set job locations to get clock in and out reminders when you arrive or leave or fully automate your time tracking (geofencing) • Manually enter time entries with minimal effort thanks to smart, adaptive defaults • Enter comments of any length with your time entries and optionally include them in your exports • Control timers, dictate comments, and apply tags using your Apple Watch ADVANCED FEATURES and customization set HoursTracker above the rest • Automatic daily and weekly overtime earnings calculations • Built-in reports by Day, Week, and Month and support for most common pay period schedules • Robust tagging and filtering allow you to build your own custom views • Reminders when you've worked your target number of hours per day (even takes time rounding into account) • Automatic time rounding: up, down, or to nearest (including 6 min) • Easily copy an existing job or time entry to save time and effort • Reminders you to clock in on your selected work days • Today Widget for at a glance time and pay monitoring • CSV and formatted text export via e-mail or the iOS Share Sheet • Passcode lock (with Touch ID & Face ID support) helps keep your HoursTracker data private • Cloud-based backup/restore with one re-usable backup slot included free (free account sign up is required) • Web-based reporting access, including charts, graphs, desktop exports, and rolling backups available with optional subscription • Customize your HoursTracker experience in the Preferences section under the More tab. Choose only one or many jobs clocked in at a time, opt-into prompts for comments, choose an elapsed time format (hours:minutes, or decimal hours), and more "Free Edition" stores up to 3 jobs and 21 days of entries. For unlimited entries, subscribe to "Premium" (up to 5 jobs) or "Unlimited" (unlimited jobs). Or, erase older data and continue to use the "Free Edition" until you're ready to buy. Visit our website at http://www.hourstrackerapp.com to learn more, and follow @HoursTracker on Twitter or facebook.com/HoursTracker to hear about upcoming features first. hourstrackerapp.com/privacy hourstrackerapp.com/terms www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Harvest

Streamline your business operations with intuitive time tracking, expense management, and invoicing tools. Capture receipts on the go, monitor team progress, and get paid faster with professional invoices and payment tracking.

Highlights
  • Simple time tracking
  • Expense logging with receipt photos
  • Professional invoice creation
  • Payment status tracking
  • Team time reporting
  • Offline time tracking
Features
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Harvest helps teams thrive with simple time tracking, real-time insights, long-term business intelligence, and tools to help you get paid faster. Easily track time, log expenses, and manage invoices on-the go with Harvest for iPhone. Start a timer when you’re visiting a client, or stop the one you left running at the office. The expense tracker lets you easily snap receipt photos as you enter expenses, and keeps all your records organized. Send professional invoices to your clients and check their payment status, wherever you are. And if you’re part of a team, you can easily access reports to understand how time is being spent and stay in sync. SIMPLE TIME TRACKING & TIMESHEETS - Start and stop project and task timers from anywhere with a quick tap - Use Quick Time Entry to add common time values and save time - Save commonly used time entries to the home screen to start timers even faster - Mark hours as billable or non-billable - View and edit previous time entries - Track time online or offline ACCESS KEY INFORMATION AND KEEP TABS ON TEAM STATUS - View a summary of your time report to understand where your time is going - View how your team’s time breaks down by project and task to stay in sync - Review detailed task notes for better project tracking CAPTURE RECEIPTS AND LOG EXPENSES, CONVENIENTLY - Enter expenses quickly and easily on the go - Take receipts photos right from the app - Track mileage and more for reimbursement - Submit expenses for client projects MANAGE INVOICES AND PAYMENTS - Send professional invoices and reminders - Record and update payments - Easily review past invoices

Screenshots

Hours Tracker4 screens
Harvest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harvest at none against Hours Tracker's 6. Harvest also leads on ads (none vs shown). Hours Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 52%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, update cadence, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hours Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Harvest asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hours Tracker has 57K ratings behind it against 2.7K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Hours Tracker's written reviews are positive against 52% of Harvest's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hours Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Harvest every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hours Tracker versus Harvest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHours TrackerHarvest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (57K ratings) — better4.5 (2.7K ratings)
Positive reviews73.8% of reviews — better51.8% of reviews
Number of ratings57K — better2.7K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#100 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCribasoft, LLCHarvest

Customer experience

Hours Tracker

All ratings56,484 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews572 reviews
Positive73.8%
Neutral7.0%
Negative19.2%

Harvest

All ratings2,713 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews369 reviews
Positive51.8%
Neutral11.4%
Negative36.9%

Bugs and requests

Hours Tracker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Apple Watch app not syncing properly
  • Inconsistent location-based clock in/out
  • Issues with manually editing time entries

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to set different pay rates for weekdays, weekends, and holidays
  • Option to mark entries as 'paid' for invoicing
  • Integration with payroll/accounting systems
  • Customizable pay period and tax settings
  • Improved data export/reporting features

Harvest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Hours Tracker

Subscriptions6
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Premium Annual1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual7 Days trial$47.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual1 Year trial$47.991 Year
None

Harvest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hours Tracker free?
Hours Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Harvest free?
Harvest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hours Tracker or Harvest?
Hours Tracker is rated higher. Hours Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 57K ratings, while Harvest averages 4.5 from 2.7K ratings.
Do Hours Tracker or Harvest have ads?
Hours Tracker shows ads; Harvest does not.
Which is updated more often, Hours Tracker or Harvest?
Hours Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Harvest every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hours Tracker was updated on November 11, 2026 and Harvest on November 10, 2026.

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