Harvest alternative
If you picked Harvest for time tracking and project budgets, Timix.AI does that core for less per seat, adds AI sentence logging and hard-stop budget alerts Harvest doesn't, and rolls up true client margin. The honest trade: Timix.AI generates commercial invoices (Professional+) but doesn't collect payment or do country-specific cleared e-invoicing — and we're the newer product.
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01 The problem
Plenty of small firms run Harvest purely as a time tracker and bill from their accounting tool anyway. That means per-seat money going to an invoicing engine you've switched off — and missing the budget and margin controls you actually wanted.
When the invoicing and payments side sits unused, the seat price still reflects it. On a small team every seat counts, and you're funding a billing suite to get a timesheet.
Knowing a project is over budget after the fact is the common case. What small firms keep asking for is a cap that actually blocks further hours at the ceiling, not just a bar that turns red once the margin's gone.
Tracking revenue is easy; matching the cost of delivery back to each client to get real margin usually ends up in a side spreadsheet, rebuilt every quarter and trusted by no one.
02 How Timix.AI fits
Timix.AI focuses on the time-tracking core small firms run Harvest for, then adds the budget enforcement, AI capture, and margin that tipped you into looking for an alternative — at a lower per-seat price.
Clients, projects, tasks, three billing types, and approvals — the everyday tracking you ran Harvest for — at aggressive per-seat pricing, with a free tier and a 90-day reverse trial so the switch costs nothing to test.
Customer → Project → Task → SubTask with 3 billing types; free tier + 90-day reverse trial, no card.
Put a soft limit that warns and a hard limit that blocks further entries on any project, task, or subtask, with the alert threshold you choose — enforced at the moment of entry, the control teams say Harvest's budgets don't give them.
Budgets at project/task/subtask; soft warns, hard stops at the moment of time entry, with configurable thresholds.
Type "log 2 hours on the Initech rebrand" to Timix.AI and the entry appears, and ask it which projects are over budget instead of building a report — capture and answers Harvest doesn't offer.
Timix.AI logs entries from a sentence and answers budget/margin/hours questions (Starter+).
Every hour carries a customer rate and an effective-dated cost rate, so revenue, cost, profit, and margin roll up per client and project — no side spreadsheet to reconcile.
Dual rates → revenue/cost/profit/margin rollups; effective-dated cost rates.
03 Try the switch
Create a workspace, bulk-import your clients and projects from CSV, set rates and a project budget, and log a few hours — by timer or by sentence to Timix.AI. See the hard-stop cap and client margin work on your own data. Full access, 90 days, no card.
90-day free trial, full access, no credit card.
Want to look around first? Pre-seeded IT-services, law-firm and construction demo workspaces are open to everyone and show budgets, AI logging, and margin on realistic data. Open the IT-services demo
04 FAQ
For the time-tracking-and-budgets core, yes — pricing is aggressive per-seat with a genuine free tier and a 90-day full-access reverse trial, so you can confirm the saving on your own seat count before paying anything. Check current Harvest pricing against ours for your team size; we don't claim to undercut every plan in every case.
Mostly. On Professional and up, Timix.AI generates commercial invoices from approved hours (line items, tax, branded PDF) — the same kind of document Harvest produces. It doesn't take payment, and it doesn't do country-specific cleared e-invoicing; for those, export billing-ready hours (Unbilled Time and Customer Billing to PDF/CSV) or bill from your accounting tool. If in-tracker payment collection is essential, that's still Harvest's job.
Three things teams switch for: budgets with a hard limit that actually stops entry at the ceiling (not just a warning), Timix.AI that logs time from a sentence and answers budget and margin questions, and dual-rate client margin rolled up live. All built in, no add-on.
We are newer, with a smaller track record and no ready-made third-party connectors yet (a key-authenticated Integration API is coming on Professional+). What you get for that: a focused, lower-cost tool, the budget and AI features above, and a 90-day reverse trial to de-risk trying it. Bulk CSV import moves your existing clients and projects in.
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