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Harvest vs ManicTime
March 10, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
7★
Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing, and powerful reporting software. Simplify employee timesheets and billing. Get started for free. Whether it’s from the web, your smartphone or another application, it’s never been so easy to track time. With a simple, intuitive interface, getting you and your team on board is fast and easy. Harvest’s powerful reporting gives you real-time access to keep your projects on time and on budget.
1★
Manictime sits in the background and records your activities, so you can just forget it is there and focus on your work. When you are finished you can use collected data to accurately keep track of your time. After you have finished working, you can use MT to keep track of your hours. That means no more "punch-clock" like software, where you always forget to start or stop the clock. Just sit back and do your work. After you are finished, you can easily use collected data to accurately keep track of your time.
Time tracking is a strange and bewildering human activity, mostly undertaken by people who suspect they are spending too much of it on cat videos but would rather have a chart proving it. Both Harvest and ManicTime attempt to solve this existential dilemma by offering tools to measure, analyze and ultimately guilt-trip their users into being more productive. They automatically log work hours, generate reports with an air of quiet judgment and allow teams to collectively wonder where the last eight hours went. Each works across various devices, ensuring no one escapes their ever-watchful gaze.
Harvest, the older and arguably more sociable of the two, emerged in 2006 from the bustling, coffee-fueled tech world of the USA. It was designed with freelancers and businesses in mind—people who need to track time, bill clients and occasionally reassure themselves that work is actually happening. It integrates with every app under the sun, from Asana to QuickBooks, making it feel less like a tool and more like an overenthusiastic assistant. However, being largely web-based, it has a slight aversion to being useful when the internet is down, which is precisely when you realize you should have been tracking time in the first place.
ManicTime, on the other hand, hails from Slovenia and was born in 2007, presumably in a place with fewer distractions. It takes a more introspective approach, silently recording every moment spent in applications, documents, and—yes—social media, so you can later marvel at your own inefficiency. Unlike Harvest, it thrives offline, hoarding data locally as if preparing for an apocalypse where time tracking is the only thing that matters. It lacks Harvest’s built-in invoicing features, presumably because it assumes you’ll be too embarrassed to bill anyone once you see how much of your day was spent arguing on the internet.
See also: Top 10 Time Trackers
Harvest, the older and arguably more sociable of the two, emerged in 2006 from the bustling, coffee-fueled tech world of the USA. It was designed with freelancers and businesses in mind—people who need to track time, bill clients and occasionally reassure themselves that work is actually happening. It integrates with every app under the sun, from Asana to QuickBooks, making it feel less like a tool and more like an overenthusiastic assistant. However, being largely web-based, it has a slight aversion to being useful when the internet is down, which is precisely when you realize you should have been tracking time in the first place.
ManicTime, on the other hand, hails from Slovenia and was born in 2007, presumably in a place with fewer distractions. It takes a more introspective approach, silently recording every moment spent in applications, documents, and—yes—social media, so you can later marvel at your own inefficiency. Unlike Harvest, it thrives offline, hoarding data locally as if preparing for an apocalypse where time tracking is the only thing that matters. It lacks Harvest’s built-in invoicing features, presumably because it assumes you’ll be too embarrassed to bill anyone once you see how much of your day was spent arguing on the internet.
See also: Top 10 Time Trackers
