Comparison

Hourglass vs Harvest

Both track time and invoice clients. Hourglass adds resource planning, project health and 10 built-in reports in the same product.

If you need a platform that connects time tracking to delivery management, invoicing, utilisation visibility and profitability insight — without stitching together multiple tools — Hourglass is purpose-built for professional services teams.

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Harvest

A popular, well-established tool for time tracking, expenses and invoicing, with project budgets and reporting. Resource scheduling is available through its companion product, Forecast.

Hourglass

Time tracking and invoicing connected to resource planning, RAG project health, utilisation and profitability reporting — in one product, built and supported in the UK.

Feature comparison

FeatureHourglassHarvest
Time tracking
Invoicing
Xero integration
Free plan
Resource planning in the same productSeparate product (Forecast)
Built and supported in the UK

What's included in Hourglass

Time tracking with a live timer, billable and out-of-hours flagsAll plans
Projects, tasks, milestones and a client portalAll plans
Team Performance, Time Audit and Task Breakdown reportsAll plans
Budget tracking with RAG project health scoresPro
Engineer planner with time off and capacityPro
Profitability, utilisation, client billing and executive summary reportsPro
Invoicing with Xero syncPro
AI report summaries and capacity forecastingPro
AI budget risk and anomaly detectionBusiness

Free for up to 3 users · Pro £12/user/month · Business £18/user/month · 14-day full-feature trial

When to choose Hourglass over Harvest

You want resource planning in the same product as your time tracking and invoicing

You want to see utilisation across the team, not only hours per project

Your PMs need delivery visibility: budget burn, RAG health, team assignments

You want 10 reports built in, from profitability to executive summaries

You would like a UK-built product with GBP pricing and UK-based support