Stintt vs Harvest
- No timer to start or stop
- Timesheet drafted from calendar events
- Log off-calendar work from a chat message
Harvest is a timer with a serious billing engine attached. Stintt keeps the billing discipline and replaces the manual entry with the calendar.
HarvestStart-and-stop timers
- Someone has to press start
- Right only if they remember
Calendar events, read-only
- The week is already written down
- Chat covers what never got booked
- No agent on anyone’s laptop
Accurate only for as long as somebody remembers to press the button.
A calendar extension can start a timer from an event; the entry is still yours to create.
Stintt vs Harvest, row by row
The same twelve rows every comparison on this site uses, so nothing is cherry-picked for Harvest. Where a capability is optional or plan-gated, it is marked partly rather than rounded either way.
Harvest is the tool agencies buy when invoicing matters more than tracking, and it is good at exactly that: budgets, rates, retainers, invoices out the door. The weak point is upstream. Every number in a Harvest invoice originates in someone typing an entry or running a timer, so the invoice is only as accurate as the least diligent person on the team that week. Stintt attacks the upstream half: the week is drafted from calendar events, reviewed rather than reconstructed, and approved before anything reaches a client.
Compared August 2026 from each vendor's public documentation and pricing pages. Products change — check with the vendor before you decide.
Three steps, and none of them is a migration.
There is no import from Harvest, and pretending otherwise would be the first promise we broke. There does not need to be — a connected calendar arrives carrying the history a new tracker would spend months collecting.
Connect a calendar
Read-only access, granted once. It cannot create, edit or delete an event, and there is nothing to install on anyone's machine.
The history is already there
Existing calendar events become a draft timesheet immediately, so the first week is a review rather than an empty grid waiting for data to accrue.
Review, approve, bill
Correct the draft, log anything off-calendar from chat, and approve. Only approved entries reach a client invoice, and discarded time stays on the record.
What Harvest leaves on the table
Three specific things, not a feature count.
The hours are already there on Monday
Harvest gives you a clean invoice from whatever was entered. Stintt makes sure something was entered — the week is drafted from calendar events before anyone opens a timesheet.
Non-billable time stops disappearing
Meetings, focus, admin and breaks are categorized separately, so the real margin on a retainer is visible instead of assumed.
Meeting load as a number, not a feeling
Harvest reports capacity well. What a timer cannot tell you is which recurring meetings are eating the week — Stintt ranks them by the hours they consume, because it reads the calendar those meetings live in.
When Harvest is the better choice
If your invoicing workflow is already built around Harvest — retainer budgets, per-project rates, integrations into your accounting stack — that machinery is more mature than ours and worth staying for.
If none of that describes your team, the rest of this page is the case for switching. If some of it does, Harvest is a reasonable buy and we would rather you knew that here than after a trial.
What people ask about Harvest and Stintt
It covers the core: clients with their own rates, approved hours as line items, a tax engine with Modern and India GST templates, and PDF export. Harvest goes further on recurring invoices, payment collection and accounting integrations — if you need those today, Harvest is ahead.
Hours are categorized and aggregated as they land, so utilization and category split are readable mid-month. Formal budget-vs-actual alarms on a fixed fee are not the same feature Harvest ships.
Connect a calendar once, then review a draft week instead of building one. There is no timer to start and nothing to install on anyone's machine.
