What does Winnows cost?

Free for 2 people and 1 active project. Beyond that, $9 per active member per month, month to month. Archived members are free and there are no usage fees on projects, clients, tasks or invoices.

Can I import my Harvest data?

Yes — the whole account: clients, projects, tasks, people, bill rates and every time entry, with full history. The import ends with a reconciliation report that compares every total against Harvest's, to the cent, by client, project, member and year, so you can check before you cancel anything.

Does Winnows do invoicing or expenses?

No. Winnows tracks time and exports invoice-ready line items for QuickBooks or Xero, where the invoicing happens. It has no expenses, estimates, payments or retainers.

Is there a seat minimum?

No. One person can use it free; a team pays only for active members.

Winnows

Time tracking for teams that bill by the hour. Nothing else.

Clients, projects, tasks, bill rates, timesheets, approvals and reports that reconcile to the cent. No AI, no monitoring, no fees on how many projects you have.

Start free See it with sample dataFree for 2 people and 1 active project · then $9 per active member / month

Leaving Harvest?Import the whole account — every client, project, rate and hour — and get a report that reconciles every total against Harvest’s, to the cent, before you cancel.Import your Harvest data →

The week grid: projects and tasks as rows, days as columns, a running timer in the status bar — The week, one row per project and task. Type a duration, or run the timer.

The import's reconciliation report: every total compared against Harvest's, reading Reconciled to the cent — After an import: every total against Harvest’s, to the cent, before you cancel anything.

The honest comparison

Winnows deliberately does less. If you need what’s on the right, you need a bigger tool — and that is fine.

Winnows has

✓ Clients → projects → tasks (Harvest-shaped)
✓ Member × project bill rates, effective-dated
✓ Week-view timesheet + running timer
✓ Approvals-lite and a payroll lock date
✓ Reports that reconcile to the cent + CSV everywhere
✓ Invoice-ready export for QuickBooks/Xero
✓ Full-history Harvest importer with a reconciliation report
✓ Read-only reports API

Winnows does not have

— Invoice generation (we export; your accounting tool invoices)
— Estimates, expenses, payments, retainers
— Native mobile apps (responsive web + PWA)
— A browser-extension timer (coming, not promised with a date)
— SSO/SAML, integrations marketplace

Free for two people

A freelancer and a partner run Winnows free, forever: bill rates, dollar reports, approvals, exports — the whole product, one active project at a time. Wrap a project, archive it, start the next; the history stays. More than two active members, or more than one project at once, is the whole bill: $9 per active member per month, flat.

What would your team cost?

Active team members

Winnows

$135/mo

Flat. No usage fees, ever. Archived members free.

Harvest Teams (published, monthly plan)

$165/mo + usage

$11/seat on a monthly plan like ours ($9/seat if billed annually), plus usage-based fees on projects, clients, invoices and tasks — we can’t know yours, so we won’t invent them.

What changed at Harvest in 2026

Harvest’s published 2026 pricing moved from flat per-seat to a per-seat base plus usage-based fees on projects, clients, invoices and tasks (Teams at $11/seat/mo on monthly billing, $9 billed annually; Enterprise from $14). Third-party analyses report renewal increases ranging from modest to many-fold on legacy accounts. Sources: Harvest pricing, Productive, TrackingTime.

Winnows’ answer is structural, not promotional: flat per-seat, monthly, no usage fees ever — it is a product constraint, not a marketing choice.

Why not Toggl or Clockify?

They are excellent stopwatches. Winnows is the Harvest-shaped operating layer: the client → project → task model your books already mirror, member×project rates with effective dates, a full-history importer, and reports whose dollars reconcile to the cent against your old Harvest numbers — proven at import time, on your own data.

Questions people ask before switching

What does Winnows cost?: Free for 2 people and 1 active project. Beyond that, $9 per active member per month, month to month. Archived members are free and there are no usage fees on projects, clients, tasks or invoices.
Can I import my Harvest data?: Yes — the whole account: clients, projects, tasks, people, bill rates and every time entry, with full history. The import ends with a reconciliation report that compares every total against Harvest's, to the cent, by client, project, member and year, so you can check before you cancel anything.
Does Winnows do invoicing or expenses?: No. Winnows tracks time and exports invoice-ready line items for QuickBooks or Xero, where the invoicing happens. It has no expenses, estimates, payments or retainers.
Does Winnows use AI or monitor my screen?: No AI features, no screenshots, no keystroke counts, no activity scores. A timesheet is a record you keep, not something that watches you.
What happens to my data if I leave?: Full-fidelity CSV export and a read-only API at all times, and 90 days of export access after you cancel. It is written down as an exit guarantee.
Is there a seat minimum?: No. One person can use it free; a team pays only for active members.

Leave whenever you like

Month-to-month. Full-fidelity CSV export and a read-only API at all times, and 90 days of export access after you cancel. Your data is yours; holding it hostage is the complaint that made this product exist.

No AI. No screenshots of your desktop, no keystroke counts, no “activity scores”. A timesheet is a record you keep, not a thing that watches you.