Choose a time tool around the work you need to finish: recording project time, reviewing contractor hours or preparing a client invoice. This comparison separates those needs instead of declaring one tool best for everyone.
All Harvest and Clockify facts here are as listed on their site, November 2026. Their official pages are linked below. Plan availability and prices can change, so check the live terms before choosing.
Compare the core workflow
| Area | Harvest — as listed on their site, November 2026 | Clockify — as listed on their site, November 2026 | TymTrack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main audience | Professional services teams, freelancers and businesses tracking project time and billing. | Teams across industries tracking project time, attendance and billable work. | Contractors and agencies organising weekly hours, approvals, rates and client invoices. |
| Public pricing | Public free and paid pricing; features vary by plan. | Public free and paid pricing; features vary by plan. | Free Solo, then from $9.99 AUD/month including GST; team limits depend on plan. |
| Time entry | Timers and daily/weekly time entry. | Timer, calendar and weekly timesheets. | Weekly timesheets against clients and tasks. |
| Approval | Submission and approval on supported plans; pricing lists approvals under Enterprise. | Submission, approval and locking on paid plans. | Manager/approver review with email deep links to signed-in timesheets. |
| Invoicing | Client invoices from tracked time, listed in its plan descriptions. | Downloadable invoices from billable time on a paid plan. | Monthly client invoices from approved billable hours; optional pending-approval hours are explicitly tagged. |
| Payroll boundary | Its help centre says Harvest does not provide payroll services; external payroll integrations are separate. | Describes cost/pay calculations and payroll exports, with external QuickBooks payroll connectivity; this is not evidence of native wage payment. | No payroll processing; assignment pay and bill rates support costing and billing. |
Start with your approval requirement
For contractor work, the important question is not just “does it have approvals?” Check which plan includes them, who reviews a submitted week and how corrections return to the contractor. Do you need a manager to review only direct reports? Will a client contact review hours, and under what account access?
TymTrack’s review email links open the relevant week after sign-in. Review permissions still apply. It does not offer anonymous approval simply because someone received an email. Test your intended approver’s access before relying on the workflow for a billing deadline.
Keep billing and payroll separate
A bill rate is the hourly amount charged to the client. A pay rate is a costing input for the worker’s time. Neither an hours export nor a margin report proves that a product pays workers or meets your payroll obligations.
If payroll is essential, confirm exactly what is calculated, who makes the payment and which filing service is responsible. TymTrack is not a payroll replacement. Harvest’s published no-payroll statement and Clockify’s payroll-supporting exports should be read with the same distinction in mind, as listed on their site, November 2026.
Compare costs fairly
This page does not convert competitor prices into AUD or imply their tax treatment matches TymTrack. Check currency, billing period, paid-user rules and the plan needed for both approvals and invoicing. A free time-entry plan is not automatically a free end-to-end approval and billing workflow.
Try the same sample week in each shortlisted product. Include two clients, a non-billable task, a correction and a month-end invoice. The most useful comparison is whether that workflow is clear for the contractor, approver and administrator.
See TymTrack’s features, current plans and free signup. For a fuller agency workflow comparison, read our Karmly alternative guide.
Official sources
Harvest facts are as listed on their site, November 2026: About Harvest, pricing, timesheet submission and approval and payroll services FAQ.
Clockify facts are as listed on their site, November 2026: Clockify, pricing, Standard plan, payroll information and QuickBooks payroll add-on.
This is a TymTrack-published comparison, not an independent benchmark or an endorsement by Harvest or Clockify.