Harvest is one of the better-known subscription tools in its space — and at $9/seat/mo (Teams, annual; $11 monthly) + new usage-based fees, one of the recurring line items people most often look to replace. If you're searching for a Harvest alternative you pay for once and own forever, Timevault is the OneTimeSuite answer: $29, one time.
Why people go looking for an alternative
Harvest runs $9/seat/mo (Teams, annual; $11 monthly) + new usage-based fees, and like most SaaS the bill never stops — cancel and you typically lose access to your own history. That's roughly $396 over three years. Timevault flips that model: Self-hosted time tracking — one-click timers, hourly rates, weekly timesheets, billable reports.
What Timevault covers
- One-click timer — Description, project, tags, Enter to start. The timer is server state — reload, close the tab, restart your browser, it keeps counting.
- Manual entries — Start + end times, or start + duration ("1:30", "1.5", "90m"). Stop, discard mistakes, or one-click continue any previous entry.
- Projects, clients & rates — Colors, billable flags and hourly rates per project. Archive finished projects without losing history.
- Weekly timesheet — A 7-day grid with inline editing of descriptions and durations right in the cell.
- Reports that invoice — Any range, grouped by project / client / tag / day — bar chart, donut, and exact total + billable amounts from your rates.
The honest trade-off
Harvest will keep shipping features, integrations and managed infrastructure that a pay-once tool won't chase — if that ecosystem is genuinely load-bearing for your workflow, staying is a fair call. For the core job, the math favors owning the tool: $29 once against $9/seat/mo (Teams, annual; $11 monthly) + new usage-based fees forever. Three months of Toggl pays for Timevault outright — after that, every tracked hour is pure margin.
Also worth reading
Timevault's main head-to-head is with Toggl — see the detailed comparison or the product page for the full feature list, FAQ and demo video.
Try Timevault — $29, once
Self-hosted time tracking — one-click timers, hourly rates, weekly timesheets, billable reports.