# Akollo vs Harvest: when to choose which > Harvest is a focused tool for tracking time and billing clients. Akollo tracks time too, but around it plans the projects, staffs them with the right people and shows what the work costs. ## Choose Akollo if - You plan the work in the same place you track it - Capacity, leave and approvals matter as much as hours - You need Turkish screens or data outside the US ## Choose Harvest if - You mainly need simple timers and client invoices - You bill through Stripe, QuickBooks Online or Xero - A small team that wants to start in minutes ## Akollo and Harvest, area by area Akollo compared with Harvest on ten areas. Harvest information is from its public website, as of October 2026; features vary by plan. | Area | Akollo | Harvest | | --- | --- | --- | | Projects, boards and timelines | Built in: Boards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | No: Projects, tasks and clients for tracking and billing; no boards or Gantt. | | Time tracking and timesheets | Built in: Timesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Built in: Timers and timesheets; approval on the Enterprise plan. | | Resource and capacity planning | Built in: Planned against available time, per team and period. | Add-on: Harvest Forecast is a separate product. | | Budgets and profitability | Built in: Budgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | Built in: Project budgets and rates; profitability reports on Enterprise. | | HR basics: people and time off | Built in: Employee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | No: No leave or employee records on Harvest's feature pages. | | CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built in: Accounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | No: Client and contact lists only. | | AI assistant | Built in: Admins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | Built in: Harvest AI assistant, in beta and off by default. | | Self-hosting on your own servers | Built in: Our cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | No: Harvest says it cannot be hosted on your own server. | | Product in Turkish | Built in: Turkish, English and German, written natively. | No: Harvest says its interface is English only. | | Choice of where data is stored | Built in: Self-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | No: Harvest says data is stored in the US. | ## Hours are where it starts, not where it ends Harvest answers how long things took and what to bill. Akollo also answers who should do the work next, and whether they can. - **Plan the project, then track it** — Boards, backlogs, sprints and a timeline sit on top of the same tasks people log time on. Planned and actual hours meet in one place. - **Capacity that knows about leave** — Employee records, the org chart and leave approvals are part of Akollo, so the capacity view shows who is really available next week. - **Approval on every timesheet** — Managers approve, send back or lock weeks, and approved hours are priced with cost rates against the project budget. - **Your servers, your language** — Run Akollo in our cloud or in your own data centre, in Turkish, English or German. The AI assistant works within each person's permissions. ## When Harvest is the better fit Harvest does one job very well. If that job is all you need, a bigger product is not an improvement. - Agencies and freelancers who track time mainly to invoice clients - Teams that pay through Stripe or sync invoices to QuickBooks Online or Xero - You want to try it on a free plan before anything else ## Bring your Harvest history Harvest exports time and project reports to CSV. Akollo imports project and task lists from CSV, up to 5,000 rows per file, with a dry run first. - **Export from Harvest** — Export your projects and tasks from Harvest as a CSV file. - **Map the columns** — In Akollo, match each column to a work item field. A key column updates items you imported before. - **Dry run first** — See how many items would be created, updated or skipped before anything is written. - **Move team by team** — Start with one team, add timesheets and capacity, then bring the rest across. ## Questions about Harvest and Akollo ### Is Akollo a Harvest alternative? If you need time tracking together with project planning, capacity and HR basics, yes. For simple tracking and invoicing alone, Harvest is a focused choice. ### Does Akollo send invoices? Akollo prepares billing from approved work, with budgets and profitability, and hands it to your accounting system, which stays the book of record. ### Can people track time automatically? Yes. Besides manual entries, an optional desktop app measures time on the computer under your organisation's recording policy. ## See your hours turn into a plan We will show tracked time, capacity and budgets in one view, on your own projects. - [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo) - [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com) ## Sources Information about Harvest is taken from its public website and help centre, as of October 2026. Plans and features change, so check with Harvest before you decide. Product names are trademarks of their owners. - [Harvest: Pricing (plan features)](https://www.getharvest.com/pricing) - [Harvest: Forecast](https://www.getharvest.com/forecast) - [Harvest Help: Meet Harvest AI](https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/47194279427597-Meet-Harvest-AI) - [Harvest Help: Can I host Harvest on my own server?](https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048181352-Can-I-host-Harvest-on-my-own-server-) - [Harvest Help: Using Harvest in other languages](https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/12917201128973-Can-I-use-Harvest-in-a-language-other-than-English) - [Harvest Help: Security FAQ](https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048685851-Security-FAQ) - [Harvest Help: Reports and exports](https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/360054457791-What-reports-and-exports-are-available-in-Harvest) --- Source: https://akollo.com/en/compare/harvest · [Türkçe](https://akollo.com/tr/karsilastir/harvest-alternatifi), [Deutsch](https://akollo.com/de/vergleich/harvest-alternative)