Tidst vs Harvest
Friday afternoon. Half the team forgot a timer on Tuesday, and everyone is rebuilding their week from a calendar and a task list.
Harvest is a well-established time tracker with invoicing, expenses and estimates built in, plus apps for desktop, phone and browser. Tidst is narrower. Each person's finished tasks and meetings come back on their own to be confirmed, so the week is mostly there before anyone opens a timesheet. It works for one person, and for teams since November 2026.
I make Tidst
So this is not an independent review. Harvest does several things Tidst deliberately does not, invoicing first among them, and the sections below say where. Harvest's details were checked against their own pages on 9 November 2026; check them again before deciding, because they change.
The biggest difference is where the week comes from
In Harvest the week is built by the person tracking it. They start a timer when they begin, or fill in the timesheet afterwards. A calendar event can be pulled in from the timesheet, which helps with meetings. Everything else depends on someone remembering.
In Tidst the week is built from what already happened. A task finished in Asana, Todoist, Trello or one of the other connected tools, or a meeting from Google Calendar or Outlook, arrives in The Queue. The person confirms it, adjusts the time if they need to, and logs it. There is a timer too, for the work that never becomes a task.
The question is whether your team's hard part is measuring the work, or remembering it.
Side by side
| Tidst | Harvest | |
|---|---|---|
| Main audience | People who bill their own time, and teams since November 2026 | Individuals and teams |
| Timer | Yes | Yes |
| Manual time entry | Yes, or type a line like "2h call with Wave 6" | Yes |
| Finished tasks come back for review | Core workflow, from Asana, ClickUp, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, monday.com, Notion, Todoist and Trello | No, its task-tool integrations track time from inside the tool |
| Timer inside task tools | No | Yes: Asana, ClickUp, Jira, monday.com, Notion, Trello and more |
| Calendar meetings | Google Calendar, Outlook: each meeting arrives for review | Google Calendar, Outlook.com: pull an event into the timesheet |
| Timesheet | Your week day by day, drag entries between days | Yes |
| Desktop apps | No | macOS, Windows |
| Mobile | Installs to the home screen as a web app | Native iOS and Android apps |
| Browser extension | No | Chrome, Edge, Firefox |
| Invoicing | No, it hands the billable work to your invoicing system | Yes, on every plan |
| Expenses | Premium, carried into the billing extract | Yes, on every plan |
| Team reports | Hours per person, client and project, by week or month | From the Teams plan |
| Weekly timesheet approval | A team setting, with reminders to anyone who has not sent their week | From the Enterprise plan |
| Client reports under your own brand | A live link with the team's logo and colour, on your own domain if you connect one | White labelling is listed on Enterprise Plus |
| Team price | $4 per person a month, billed for at least two; every seat includes Premium | Per seat, see their pricing page |
| Free plan | Yes, one person, no limits on clients or projects | Yes, one seat and two projects |
Harvest's column was checked against getharvest.com on 9 November 2026. Their prices are left out on purpose: they change, and a stale figure on a competitor's behalf is worse than none. See their pricing page for current numbers and plan limits.
Two rows worth reading twice
- Harvest sends invoices. Tidst does not.
- Harvest turns tracked time and expenses into an invoice on every plan, and connects to accounting and payment tools from its Teams plan. Tidst stops one step earlier: it gets a client's billable work for a period ready, priced and grouped, and you take it to whatever issues your invoices. If the invoice is why you use Harvest, that matters more than anything else on this page.
- Approving the week sits on different plans
- Harvest's pricing page lists timesheet approval from its Enterprise plan, a tier above Teams. In Tidst it is a setting on every team: each person sends their week, an admin approves it or sends it back with a note, and reminders go to anyone who has not sent theirs on Friday and again on Monday.
What happens when someone forgets the timer
This is the case that separates them, because on a team it happens every week.
With Harvest, a forgotten timer means a manual entry from memory. The calendar helps with the meetings. The two hours spent on a client's homepage on Tuesday afternoon depend on someone remembering them on Friday.
With Tidst, there was no timer to forget. The homepage task was ticked off in the task app, so it is waiting in that person's Queue with the meeting beside it. What Tidst cannot recover is work that left no trace at all: the unplanned phone call, the fix that never became a task. That still needs a manual entry, or a line typed like "2h call with Wave 6".
Your task tools work differently in each
Harvest puts its timer where your tasks are. It tracks time from inside Asana, ClickUp, Jira, monday.com, Notion, Trello and other tools, through a browser extension or the tool's own integration, so you can start tracking without switching to Harvest.
Tidst reads the projects and boards each person connects, server-side, and brings the finished tasks in for review afterwards. A task ticked off on a phone still reaches The Queue. On a team, those tasks land on the team's shared clients and projects, and nothing from anyone's own tools or calendar is visible to the team until they log it.
Choosing
Harvest is clearly stronger if you need
- invoices sent from the same tool that tracks the time
- expenses and project estimates alongside the hours
- native desktop and mobile apps
- a timer inside Jira or another tool Tidst does not connect to
- profitability reporting and organisation-level controls
Tidst may fit better if
- your team keeps its work in Asana, ClickUp, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, monday.com, Notion, Todoist or Trello
- timers get forgotten and Fridays go to rebuilding the week
- you want each person to confirm their own week before the team sees it
- you want weekly approval and reminders without moving to a higher tier
- you share client reports and want them under your own logo and domain
- you work alone and want the same flow for your own clients
Harvest is a mature product with years of invoicing and reporting behind it. Tidst's argument is only that most of a team's week already left a trace somewhere, and the timesheet should start from that.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tidst a replacement for Harvest?
- For some teams. Harvest does more: it sends invoices, tracks expenses and estimates, and has desktop, mobile and browser apps. Tidst does one workflow well, for one person or each person on a team: the work you finished comes back to be confirmed, and the hours reach the team. If your invoices go out from Harvest today, keep that in mind before you switch.
- Does Tidst work for a team?
- Yes, since 8 November 2026. The owner adds the team's clients and projects and invites people by email. Each person connects their own calendar and task app, confirms their work from their own Queue, and logs it onto the team's projects. Admins see the hours per person, client and project, approve weeks if the team wants that, and export everything as CSV. How Tidst works for teams.
- Can a team approve timesheets?
- In Tidst it is a team setting. With it on, each person sends their week, an admin approves it or sends it back with a note, and an approved week is locked until an admin reopens it. Anyone who has not sent theirs gets a reminder on Friday and again on Monday. Harvest's pricing page lists timesheet approval from its Enterprise plan.
- Does Harvest work with my task manager?
- With many of them. Harvest tracks time from inside Asana, ClickUp, Jira, monday.com, Notion, Trello and other tools, so you can start a timer next to the task. Todoist was not on its integrations page when this was written. Tidst works the other way round: it reads the tasks you finished and brings them back to ask how long they took, so a task ticked off on your phone still arrives.
- Does Tidst send invoices?
- No. Tidst gets the billable work for a client and period ready, priced and grouped, and hands it to whatever system issues your invoices. Harvest invoices on every plan, and if you want time tracking and invoicing in one place, that is a real reason to stay.
- Does Tidst record my screen or applications?
- No. Tidst does not monitor apps, websites, browser history or screen activity. It reads only the task tools and calendars each person connects, the emails they forward to it, and its own timer and manual entries. On a team, nothing reaches the team until its owner logs it.
- Is there a Tidst mobile app?
- Not a native one. Tidst installs to your home screen as a web app and runs full-screen, but it needs a connection. Harvest has native iOS and Android apps.
- Can I bring my Harvest history into Tidst?
- Yes, from a CSV export. Tidst reads Toggl and Clockify files directly; a Harvest export comes in through the column mapper, which works for any CSV with a date, a duration and a description. You pick which column is which, and nothing is written until you have reviewed where each project will land. See the import guide.
- What does a team cost in Tidst?
- $4 per person a month, or $40 a year, billed for at least two people. Seats follow the people on the team, and every seat includes Premium for each person's own work too. A team started before 1 January 2027 stays free for as long as it exists. Harvest charges per seat; check its current pricing page for the figures.
Rebuild the week, or confirm it.
Choose Harvest if you want time tracking, expenses and invoicing in one tool, and your team is happy running timers.
Choose Tidst if the invoice already lives somewhere else, and the hard part of your week is remembering what happened in it.
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Already on Harvest? Your history can come with you. How to import it
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