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Open source alternatives to Harvest

We track 4 open-source Harvest alternatives, of which 2 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 2 ship a Docker image. solidtime leads on health at 96/100 with 118 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0.

4
Alternatives
17k
Combined stars
220
Commits / 90 days
2
With Docker
Licence family Licence

Showing 4 of 4 tools

All 4 Harvest alternatives, ranked by health

  • Kimai

    85 GOOD

    Track work time and print out a summary of your activities on demand.

    ★ 5k · ⟳ today · 2.67.0 · AGPL-3.0

    PHP
  • Traggo

    59 SLOWING

    Traggo is a tag-based time tracking tool. In Traggo there are no tasks, only tagged time spans.

    ★ 1.6k · ⟳ 2 months ago · v0.8.3 · GPL-3.0

    DockerGo
  • TimeTagger

    46 SLOWING

    An open source time-tracker based on an interactive timeline and powerful reporting.

    ★ 1.8k · ⟳ 4 months ago · v26.1.3 · GPL-3.0

    Python

Harvest alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Harvest?

solidtime scores highest at 96/100, with 118 commits in the last 90 days, 8.9k GitHub stars and its latest release (v0.20.0) published 14 days ago. It is also the most active by raw commit count.

Which Harvest alternatives use a permissive licence?

None of the 4 tracked alternatives use a permissive licence; 4 are copyleft (GPL, AGPL or similar), which requires publishing changes to any modified version you distribute.

Which Harvest alternatives run in Docker?

2 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: solidtime, Traggo. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.