A Harvest alternative with project boards built in
Harvest is a strong tool for tracking time and sending invoices, but you need a separate app to manage tasks. Mono puts time tracking inside your project boards, linked to the client's contract, with invoicing in the same place.
Your hours are in one app. Your tasks are in another.
Harvest tracks hours very well, but the tasks those hours belong to live in a separate tool such as Asana or Trello. Keeping the two in step is a daily chore, and the contract the work was sold under is in neither.
Mono brings all three together. Your team logs time against tasks on a board, and every board belongs to a client contract with its agreed days and dates.
Time tracking that lives with the work
Start a timer on any task
Start the timer from a task or from its card on the board. It keeps running even if you close the tab, and you can stop it from the top of any page.
A clear Timesheet
See your time by week, month or year with a running total. Add or fix entries by hand, filter by team member or board, and export to a spreadsheet (CSV).
Project boards included
Plan work on kanban or scrum boards, with sprints, a backlog and automation. No second app to keep in step.
Effort against the contract
Each client contract shows how many of the agreed days are used and how many are left, and flags it when you go over.
No forgotten hours
When a task is finished but its estimated time was never logged, Mono drafts the missing entries for a manager to confirm or reject.
Invoices and profit per client
Create invoices linked to the client and see each client's profit, including the cost of your team's time. Included in the Pro plan.
Mono and Harvest side by side
Where each one fits, including where Harvest does more.
- Timer and timesheets
- Mono: Yes
- Harvest: Yes
- Task and project boards
- Mono: Kanban and scrum boards built in
- Harvest: Not built in; connects to tools such as Asana and Trello
- Invoices from tracked time
- Mono: No, you type the invoice lines yourself
- Harvest: Yes, invoices can be created from tracked hours and expenses
- Online invoice payments
- Mono: No, you record payments as they arrive
- Harvest: Yes, through payment integrations
- Budgets
- Mono: Days used vs. days agreed on each client contract
- Harvest: Project budgets in hours or money
- Client follow-ups
- Mono: Contacts, notes and follow-up reminders
- Harvest: Client and contact records
Based on each product's publicly documented features as of October 2026. Products change, so check their websites for the latest details.
Try Mono alongside Harvest
Pick one client
Add the client and their contract, with the days you agreed.
Plan the work on a board
Create a board under the contract and add the tasks your team is working on.
Log a week of time
Track time on those tasks for a week and compare what you see with what you get today.
Part of one workspace
Each piece reads the same client, contract and task records, so delivery and billing never drift into separate systems.
Time tracking
A timer and weekly timesheet where every hour is logged against a task — and so against a client contract.
Project boards tied to contracts
Kanban and scrum boards that belong to a client contract, so every task carries its scope, deadline and day allowance.
Invoicing and finance
Invoices linked to the client and contract, PDF downloads, payment tracking and a finance dashboard with per-client ROI.
Frequently asked questions
Not yet. You type the line items on the invoice yourself. If creating invoices straight from timesheets is essential for you, Harvest does that today.
No. Mono doesn't process payments. You send the invoice PDF, then mark it paid or part paid in Mono when the money arrives.
Time tracking is on every plan, including the free trial. Invoicing and the finance dashboard are included in the Pro plan.
Track time where the work actually happens.
Put one client on Mono and log a week of time against real tasks. The trial is free and needs no credit card.