Harvest vs Toggl vs Clockify for studios

Harvest, Toggl and Clockify all track time well. They differ in what happens after the timer stops. Does the client get an invoice, and a reminder when it's late? Who approves the week's hours? Did the project make money? And where is the work itself planned? This comparison looks at those questions for a team of five to fifteen people, with prices from each vendor's own pricing page in October 2026. We make LooperTask, so it's in the table too, and we've tried to be fair about where it loses.

The short version

	Harvest	Toggl	Clockify	LooperTask
Per seat a month, billed yearly	Teams $9, Enterprise $14, plus usage charges or a flat usage fee	Starter $9, Premium $16	Standard $5.49, Pro $7.99	Team $8.33 ($100 a year)
Free plan	1 seat, 2 projects	Up to 3 users	Up to 5 users	1 user, 1 project
Task board	No	Yes	In Plaky, a separate app	Yes
Client invoices	Yes	No, export to your invoicing tool	Standard and up	Yes
Timesheet approval	Enterprise	Premium	Standard and up	Yes
Profitability / margin	Enterprise	Premium	Pro	Yes
QuickBooks Online / Xero	Both, Teams and up	No	QuickBooks Online (time only) on Standard; Xero (invoices) add-on $4.99 a month	Not yet
Apps	Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, browser	Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, browser	Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, browser	Browser and extension

Toggl here means the new Toggl, which became the company's main product in September 2026. Toggl Track is still supported for existing customers.

Harvest

Harvest does the most for getting paid. Clients can pay online from the invoice, Harvest reminds them about late ones by itself, and invoices and payments copy to QuickBooks Online or Xero. For a studio with an outside accountant, that last part can settle it.

The catch is the plan. Timesheet approval and the profitability report are only on Enterprise, at $14 per seat a month billed yearly. Paid plans also carry a usage charge: either a fee for active projects, clients, tasks and invoices above an allowance, at rates Harvest doesn't publish, or a flat fee on its Unlimited billing. There's no task board; tasks are a list you log time against.

Toggl

The new Toggl is a time tracker with planning built in. A board, a task list and a calendar are on every plan including Free, and a timeline comes with Starter. It has native apps for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. What it doesn't do is invoicing: its own FAQ suggests exporting a CSV or PDF and using the invoicing tool you already have.

Timesheet approval, labor costs and profitability reports are on Premium, at $16 per seat a month billed yearly. If your invoices already live in an accounting tool and you mainly want a timer next to a board, Toggl fits that.

Clockify

Clockify is the cheapest by a distance. Standard, at $5.49 per seat a month billed yearly, has invoices from tracked time (you record payments, partial ones included), timesheet approval and a QuickBooks Online sync for time entries. Labor cost and profit reports need Pro at $7.99. A $4.99-a-month add-on sends invoices to Xero and brings payment status back. It has apps for every platform, Linux included.

The thing to know is that there's no board in Clockify. Tasks are a layer under a project, and the Kanban board is in Plaky, a sister app with a free plan.

LooperTask

In LooperTask a project is a board. The timer runs on a card, and the hours tracked on each card are what the invoice is made from. Invoices go out by email with a link the client opens without an account. Reminders email the client on up to five days after the due date that you pick, and stop once the invoice is paid. Timesheet approval and Finance, with revenue, cost and margin by project, client or person, come with every plan.

Where it loses: there are no native desktop or phone apps, only the browser and a browser extension for the timer, and there's no QuickBooks or Xero sync yet. On price it sits between Clockify and the other two.

What ten seats cost for a year

Taking the cheapest plan of each that includes timesheet approval:

Which one to pick

• Your accountant works in QuickBooks Online or Xero and you want invoices and payments to flow there: Harvest. For Xero alone, Clockify's add-on does it too.
• Price per seat decides, and two apps are fine: Clockify, with Plaky if you want a board.
• You want native timer apps next to a board and invoice somewhere else: Toggl.
• You want the board, the hours, the invoices and the margin in one place: LooperTask.

LooperTask imports the time export of all three (Harvest's Detailed time, Toggl's Time logs or Track's Detailed, Clockify's Detailed), plus Harvest's invoices with their payments; the Harvest migration guide shows how. For a closer look at one tool, see LooperTask vs Harvest, vs Toggl Track and vs Clockify, or start on the free plan.