Notes for people leaving Harvest

• Harvest alternatives in 2026, including what Winnows doesn’t have

  The tools people are comparing, the question to ask each, and an plain account of where Winnows fits and where it does not.

• Reading looks idle to a time tracker. Here's how to check the hours instead.

  Idle detection counts keyboard and mouse input, so reading a guideline or checking a source can log as idle; here's what Ango Hub, Hubstaff and Harvest say about it, and how to verify reading-heavy hours from the work and an approved timesheet.

  2026-11-02

• Your contractor was reading, and the tracker logged it as idle: what three vendors' own docs say happens to those minutes

  Apploye, WebWork and iMerit's Ango Hub count keyboard and mouse, not reading; here is what their own help pages say happens to a reader's quiet minutes, and who decides whether they count.

  2026-11-02

• Matching your Harvest project totals is a good start. Here's where imports still drift

  A project-total check is worth running after a Harvest import, but per-person hours, billable dollars, negative corrections and rounding can move inside a total that matches; here's how to check each against Harvest's own numbers.

  2026-10-26

• Leaving Harvest for Clockify? Its new Activity monitoring sorts your apps into Productive and Unproductive and takes screenshots

  Clockify added Activity monitoring to its Pro plan in September, an agent that labels apps Productive or Unproductive, takes screenshots and gives each person a utilization percentage, and here is what a Harvest team should check before switching.

  2026-10-26

• Monitask's stealth mode, its idle setting, and what payroll needs instead

  What Monitask's own pages say about stealth mode and deleting idle time, and why payroll and client billing run on an approved timesheet like Harvest's.

  2026-10-20

• Toggl's AI will now log your time for you. That is the one thing a timesheet must not do.

  Toggl's new AI chat can log time for you and its desktop app suggests entries, so here is why a timesheet is the one record software shouldn't write, and five questions to ask any tool before you bill from it.

  2026-10-20

• Toggl says there are no forced migrations to Toggl 2.0. Count your Track hours before you import anyway.

  Toggl says no Track user is forced onto Toggl 2.0, but its own import docs stop at a 30-month gap and skip task-level rates, so here is how to count your Track hours by year, member and project before you import, and again after.

  2026-10-20

• Harvest Flex or Unlimited? Run Harvest's own usage simulation before your renewal

  Harvest bills each plan as Flex or Unlimited, and its help center says usage charges start at a new account's second paid renewal, so here is how to run the simulation inside your account and what to compare before you choose.

  2026-10-12

• Export Toggl to JSON on the Free plan: 30 API requests an hour, an HTTP 402 when you run out, and how to pace a full-history pull

  Toggl Track's Free plan allows 30 API requests an hour per user and answers with an HTTP 402 when they are spent, so here is the arithmetic for a full-history JSON pull, how to pace it, and how the same job compares on Harvest.

  2026-10-12

• What happens to your Harvest data after you cancel: ten days or six months, depending on which button you press

  Harvest's help article gives three different clocks for your data after you leave: a one-week download link, a ten-day deletion and a six-month hold, and which one you get depends on how you cancel.

  2026-10-05

• Export Clockify to JSON on the Free plan: 30 API requests an hour, and what that means for getting your history out

  Clockify's Free plan allows 30 API requests an hour for the whole workspace, so the page size you ask for decides whether a JSON export of your history takes one hour or a working day.

  2026-10-05

• The billing increment chart: every minute from 1 to 60 in tenths and quarters, under both rounding rules

  When you turn timesheet minutes into billable hours for an invoice, this chart converts every minute from 1 to 60 to tenths and quarters of an hour, rounded up and rounded to the nearest, and shows whether Harvest and Toggl round each entry or the total.

  2026-09-28

• Invoices that start in your books

  Winnows now creates the invoice directly in QuickBooks Online or Xero and leaves it unsent, and this post walks through the setup, what stays in your books, how nothing gets billed twice, and what it costs.

  2026-09-18

• The renewal is the price: Harvest’s twelvefold quote and Toggl’s renewal fine print

  One Harvest renewal came back roughly twelve times higher, and Toggl’s help articles bill empty seats at renewal: what to read before any time tracker renews.

  2026-09-16

• Clockify moved CSV report exports to paid plans: the exit test, applied

  Clockify’s free plan now exports reports as PDF only, 31 days at a time; here are our five exit questions, answered from Clockify’s own help pages.

  2026-09-16

• Harvest's owner has done this before: the Bending Spoons pattern, product by product

  Evernote, Filmic, Meetup, StreamYard, WeTransfer, komoot, Harvest, Vimeo, AOL, Eventbrite: what changed after each purchase, with sources, and what it means for a win-back offer.

  2026-09-11

• The Harvest switchover month: run both, reconcile at the end

  How to move a team without a hard cutover: import, keep logging in both, re-run for the deltas, and cancel when the report says the numbers match.

  2026-09-07

• The negative-hours problem: what Harvest corrections do to a migration

  One real account carried 15 negative entries worth 52 hours and $3,317. Most importers drop them without a word.

  2026-09-03

• Will my Harvest history reconcile to the cent after import?

  What the import's reconciliation report checks, what it caught in a real account, and what 'rounded to the minute' means.

  2026-09-01

• Six-minute increments and the rounding rule your clients expect

  How to write the rule down, how exact-minute storage reconciles with tenths of an hour, and what to check in any tool.

  2026-08-30

• Bill by the hour, invoice from your books

  The bookkeeper workflow: approved hours become an unsent invoice in QuickBooks or Xero. Why we stop there on purpose.

  2026-08-26

• How to export everything from Harvest before your renewal

  The five separate exports, the order that keeps names matching, and what each one leaves out.

  2026-08-19

• What Harvest's 2026 pricing actually charges for

  The published structure, a per-seat base plus usage fees, what is and isn't public, and how to estimate your own bill.

  2026-08-14

• Harvest usage fees, explained line by line

  What a project, a client, a task and an invoice each cost you under the 2026 model, why the rate card is not public, and how to read a renewal notice.

  2026-08-12

• Time tracking that does not watch you

  The category is filling with screenshot and activity-score tools. A timesheet is a record you keep. Here is the line we draw.

  2026-08-03

• Two people, one project, free. What that means and what it does not.

  What a free plan is when it is not a trial, how the trial starts only when you grow or import, and why archived people cost nothing.

  2026-07-20

• Leaving any time-tracking tool: the exit test

  Five questions to ask a vendor about your data before you sign up, and what the answers should be.

  2026-07-06