Harvest is a time-tracking and invoicing platform popular with agencies and consultancies. Cut Time is the all-in-one app for video editors — lives in everyone's menu bar, tracks projects, hours, and earnings automatically while they cut. Harvest waits for you to log. Cut Time already knows.
What Harvest gets right
Harvest bundles time tracking with invoicing and expense tracking — a legitimate all-in-one for agencies that bill hourly. If your main pain is "my clients need invoices," Harvest is strong.
Why Cut Time fits editors better
For editors, the hardest part of time tracking isn't invoicing — it's remembering to log anything at all. Cut Time removes that step entirely by reading directly from your editing software. Your team's real hours are captured whether anyone "logs" or not, and the exported timesheets work with any invoicing tool.
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Does Cut Time do invoicing?
+Not today. Cut Time exports a verified PDF timesheet per project — you plug that into whatever invoicing tool you already use. We focus on getting the hours right; billing platforms are a commodity.
Can I switch from Harvest without losing data?
+Export your Harvest time-entry data as CSV, then upload it to your own storage. Cut Time starts fresh with automatic tracking from install day. Historical Harvest data stays searchable in Harvest or your export.
Is Cut Time cheaper than Harvest for studios?
+For a 10-editor team: Cut Time is 10 × $8 = $80/mo. Harvest would be $150/mo on the Team plan. Cut Time scales linearly with your team — annual billing saves you another 2 months on top.
Does Cut Time integrate with Harvest?
+Not directly. You can export timesheets from Cut Time and import into Harvest manually. A direct integration isn't on the near-term roadmap.
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