A free Harvest alternative for freelancers

Updated 2026-10-21 · Written by the Feestead team

If you're a one-person business, time tracking shouldn't cost more than your software for accounting. Feestead is free for one person — with unlimited clients and projects.

Free means free

• 1 person, unlimited clients and projects (Harvest's free plan stops at 2 projects)
• No card required, no usage fees, no trial that runs out
• Full Harvest import, so you keep years of history

Everything a freelancer needs day to day

• Start/stop timer that keeps running in the background, or type hours in as 1:30, 1.5 or 90m.
• Weekly timesheet to fill in the week at once, copy last week's rows.
• Hourly rates per project or per task; non-billable work kept separate.
• "What do I bill this month?" — a report of uninvoiced time per client, and an invoice-lines CSV for QuickBooks or Xero.
• Works on your phone in the browser.

Bring your Harvest history

Create a Harvest personal access token, paste it into Feestead, and everything comes over — clients, projects, rates and every entry — with a per-project check against Harvest's totals. Re-run it before you cancel to pick up the last few days. Want a backup too? Here's how to export everything from Harvest.

If you grow

Add a subcontractor or a partner and you move to Team: $11 per person per month, still with no fees per client or project.