Reviews & Comments of Harvest Time Tracker chrome extension

Overall like it but github extension stopped working due to extensions attempting to send a request to https://https//platform.harvestapp.com/platform, i hope this gets fixed as soon as possible

Latest update has broken this extension on GitHub, and is forcing a ton of useless notifications to Windows.

Doesn't display a counter, I assumed that was the entire purpose of the extension. It does turn orange, but it's easy to forget your timer is running and how much time you've spent. 5 stars if it showed the live task time in the toolbar, with the amount of $ we're paying for this I can't believe Harvest has neglected the extension.

It was great until the recent update where they added a "Sign out" button where the "My Timesheet" button previously was. Now I constantly accidentally sign out because I'm so used to hitting the my timesheet button there. Bad UX choice.

Extension works as intended on all listed browsers. Sadly there is no Opera support. It's usable on opera through the chrome extension addon but features like the basecamp integration are sadly out of reach. I would love to see Opera beeing supported in the future.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS EXTENSION!!!!! It's actually malware or a virus designed to use up all the available ram on your computer! The extension and the web software didn't work for our company, just didn't meet our needs, so we cancelled during the free trial. Now, none of us can remove the extension from our Chrome browser, nor can it be disabled. Five different employees, no domain, no group policy, all individual installs of the extension on separate accounts. It's also a huge resource hog when chrome is open. Before the addition of this extension, chrome never used more than about 3gb of ram, no matter how many tabs or windows were open. After the addition of the extension, it regularly uses 5 or 6gb even if there is only one tab or window open. It appears to be little better than Malware, except that no anti-malware software sees it as suspicious, so it can't get rid of it.

Works great.

It does the job, but it's pretty basic. Navigating the dropdowns is annoying even with a few projects. A "recently used" list would make that better. Takes a while when starting/stopping for the button color to actually change.

Harvest came up with the extension and is not doing anything to add new functionalities. There is no even integration with Gmail. Harvest could learn a lot from a company like ClickUp, where they listen to their community and collaborate with them, finding ways to build a better product.

Not logging source url as external reference

Works great. But there is one problem bothers me a lot. It doesn't support emojis in the issue title, the whole title will be trimmed if it starts with an emoji

While the Microsoft Store App is good, the Chrome Extension seems like a very careless effort. The interface is outdated with 3D buttons, there's only one task that is visible in the list, and the only option you have is to stop the timer of the shown task! Once you stop the timer the orange Harvest extension icon grays out, and then when you click on the extension icon again, it gives you a new option to create a new task or duplicate one of your older tasks from before. The funny thing is once the timer to start again with one of the older tasks from the list, the time starts from 0:00 and not from where we'd left off, thereby actually duplicating the task (as a new one) which gets reflected in the Web and App interfaces.

I love Harvest the software for invoicing, however this Chrome extension is useless. I've just now sent a support ticket to them for a resolution, but even after uninstalling/reinstalling the Chrome extension, it is completely non-functional. I cannot click on any of the buttons or drop-downs, cannot enter notes, buttons to start/stop the timer don't work. It's completely dead.

Doesn't really work. Can't even sign in or activate it. Just dead buttons

I use this daily and, aside from a few quirks, it works great. My only request would be to add a "recent categories" list. I only use a handful, but my company has hundreds of categories and subcategories, and it's a pain having to search through them all every time I switch. Even with the search functionality, it takes longer than it should.

The extension only shows the running timer or the drop down to select a timer. If you have already started and paused timers for any given day, you can't choose a paused timer without visiting your time sheet. This defeats the convenience of the extension. Since I still need to open my time sheet in a browser window to restart a timer. I have a shortcut that does that.

I've used Harvest for years. Sadly, the integration with Basecamp 3 is now broken. How hard can it be for Harvest to update their API integration with Basecamp. An essential tool and essential integration seems to be simply dropped. Not what I expected from Harvest that has been topnotch until now.

We used Harvest for a number of years when we had Basecamp 2. Unfortunately, even though Basecamp 3 has been out for over a year, they have not yet updated the plug-in to integrate with it. Basecamp 3 has a lot of features we need so it looks like we will need to sign-up with another time tracker.

Not working with basecamp3 .. if you use basecamp3 then it's useless at this point.

Works fine, but it can be a bit slow to load and I keep being signed out. Would appreciate it being made a bit more reliable and zippier. The H button is often grey or orange and doesn't seem to relate to whether the timer is active or not. The timer should have an hour marker on top too, to see how long it's been running. Too easy to forget. It also had no ability to see what hours you've added for the day or week or other useful basic reporting tasks.

Very helpful because this extension integrates Github time tracking.

Who is a project manager knows that tracking time and rebill the clients is a very hard task. The most hard is to make people to TRACK time. Harvest, with this extension, makes it possible AND easy to track time into Trello (which we use for project management). People don't have to write any comments on their time sheets, it's into Trello. They click START at the beginning of the task, and STOP at the end. So easy, monkeys can do it! :-)

I love and pay for Harvest, sadly with some update the button is displaying the wrong state usually. This is unacceptable for a product which is supposed to be just a time tracking tool that I pay for.

This is pretty lame and could do with having an overall view of your day, so that you can avoid having to use the web interface except for more complex tasks.

Makes working with Basecamp and tracking time very easy

I use it with Trello, meets the basics to track time within a card

I like it a lot in principal, but its supposed to be a productivity app. It slows down my email and browsing so much that its wasting a lot of my time and I'm considering uninstalling it even though I don't want to. :(

Stopped working inexplicably

it used to integrate with trello, however over the weekend it stopped working.

it used to work, but today it stopped integrating itself with trello.

Guys you need to take a look at the "Hayfever for Harvest" extension. Send this guy some money and use that extension as the basis for your next version...

Not free, just a free trial. Starts at $12 /month. That's fine, but be upfront about it, please.

Harvest has been great for tracking time and billing customers especially the credit card payment set up. The ability to manage employees worked very well. Nice app especially for a small business.

very good and handy extension! but free version is very limited, and paid plans are very expensive.

I prefer using the mobile version on my IPad or Android; or if i have a full browser, I use their live site instead of this extension.

Love the time tracking, hate that it breaks Basecamp drag-and-drop functionality. I'd rather they took off the integration with Basecamp altogether as I really need the time tracking in Harvest, and I really need to be able to rearrange items in Basecamp lists. As a time-tracker integrated with Harvest, it's great though. :) UPDATE: after turning extension on and off and restarting drag and drop works again. So I just LOVE! :)

This plugin would be a lot more useful if it would actually show the timer directly in google chrome bar. This would also help me remember that the timer is running and that I need to stop it.

This make life using Basecamp and Harvest so much easier. Thanks for the helpful extension!

Long time harvest user, they are the #1 time tracking software for my business. This extension makes everything much easier, as I pretty much live in chrome. It's fast and lets me start a new timer or access my timesheet. In and out. No wasted time.

Inferior to the now dead Windows Gadget. Easily over looked if you have lots of other Chrome tools installed, no visual indicator of hours on clock, can't see previous entries, doesn't appear to monitor time away from computer. Really not all that useful.

just not my cup of tea, much better apps with the same info for free.

EDIT after latest update: Works as expected. Very helpful, recommend for anyone who uses Harvest.

If you could 'Create' a new harvest job based on the Basecamp "To Do List" title whilst in Basecamp, Then I and you would have a 5-star extension.

I think Harvest is just the bomb. Between Android & Apple phones/Tablets, Laptop/Desktop Browser, and Desktop Widgets, Harvest is always available. Time and Expense tracking is so easy with Harvest, and I can close-out my weekly invoices in minutes knowing they are dead-on accurate, include notes and billable backup + pretty intense reporting capabilities. With Harvest in the cloud, I don't have to worry about backup or any data loss. What a time saver, what an absolute must-have business tool. Kudos to Harvest !!

I tried it w/ Basecamp. It worked. But unfortunately, I can't see how much time is on any given task or whether the timer is even running. Pausing and restarting a task (as I often to) results in multiple timesheet entries, instead of picking up the existing session. A few times, I left a timer running overnight without the visual queue to turn it off after finishing a task. This extension is good idea, but the desktop timer works better.

Works perfectly in the new version. I haven't had any issues, and it's very reliable.

Harvest team is dedicated to improving their product - I admire that. Their updated extension is much better than the previous version but I still highly recommend using 'Hayfever for Harvest' instead. Hayfever offers more features, shows running task time in the corner of Chrome, shows a history of timed tasks for the day, syncs flawlessly, and very robust.

Yes! This is so much better now! Thanks Harvest.

Retracting previous review. They've updated the extension and now it's better than ever!

Works great, much easier than having to go to the site to track my time. Thanks!

Just today, I couldn't reach any webpage. After awhile I noticed it said at the bottom of the page "waiting for Harvest Time Tracker to load". So I went to extensions and disabled it. Everything immediately started working. Not sure why it suddenly stopped working.

Super Buggy, no use.

Deeply disappointing. Much more work now and reliance upon other variables in order for it to actually work. Will look for other time tracking solution also.

Doesn't work. Just shows a greyed out button now, only worked the first time.

I only use occasionally. Used to work, but now has stopped. Click the button and just nothing happens, new tab or busy tab. frustrating.

pretty much nice and smooth well

Needs work... thanks to one other reviewer I discovered it only works when you're not on the new tab page... most peculiar glitch. A useful thing though when it does work especially with Yahoo widgets no longer supported... improve it please harvest folks!

Freezes any other loading tab if it can't reach Harvest website. Makes me think there's something really wrong with it.

Was really useful, when it worked right. However, the past several versions have been buggy, and now that Trello has changed its URLs, the default project and billing role are no longer selected the first time Track Time is clicked. The official word is that this is something the dev team "can't do anything about", even though there is an open API for getting all the information they need. I think we will find a different time tracking solution.

Ugh, there is no option to edit a note while the timer is running...? How am I supposed to track all the changes I'm billing my client for.

Consistently causes severe lag when loading pages. Chrome says "Waiting for Harvest Time Tracker Extension" in status bar. Also, why does this require access to all websites?

Love the functionality (Trello integration!), but having it randomly slow down and stall when loading unrelated pages makes this a non-starter.

Nice idea, when it works.

Installed it and clicked the button... nothing happens unless I'm already on the Harvest page. What's the point?

Why does this app need access to all websites? Continually slowed down page loads on sites not related to harvest... kind of hard to trust this

It doesn't work on Chromium on Linux

Why do you need permission to access all websites?

Doesn't work. Click and nothing happens. Also don't like allowing permission to all websites...waste of time.

Not working for Chrome Version 25.0.1364.97, Windows 7.

Very buggy, I will stick with the website to enter my hours.

LOVE Harvest! BUT: this is not working for me at all (Chrome 28, Mac, Mountain Lion). Button stays greyed out, clicking does nothing. Nowhere to set settings. Alternatives: 1) the menu-bar app works great, I use it all the times. 2) And yes, Hayfever is a good browser extension alternative.

worked once -and now it won't open. Please fix your buggy extension.

does not work. I'll stick to the normal buggy app.

This app just does not work. For a better solution with running timers, use Hayfever for Harvest. Search the Chrome store.

Newest version works much better with Trello. One SUPER helpful feature to consider adding would be to show a notification in the extension area that a timer is running (especially if it counted up in real time)

To those that say this does nothing, the point of this add-in is to integrate with other add-ins that can use the time tracking functionality provided by Harvest. Try installing Trello, create a card, then click "Track Time". You will be prompted for your Harvest account creds.

Rather king of buggy. Freezes randomly and no visualisation of currently running task. The idea is great though.

Works flawlessly [Trello]. I have two complaints regarding features: * There is a limit to one Harvest Project per Trello Board. This really sucks since I have multiple boards for the same "company" and an "internal" Harvest Project which needs to be able to be linked across them all. * In Trello, after you start the timer it's not very apparent what's going on other than the button being blue. Would be nice if there was a static notification showing the timer.

Doesn't work if "block 3rd party cookies" is enabled :-/

Doesn't work!

My only complaint is that it seems I can only set one Harvest Project per Board, which effectively makes this useless for me as I use Trello to track across projects and plan my days/weeks.

There is no information anywhere on how to use it - or it's well hidden! It doesn't show up on chrome, I can't see how to use it in trello!

Works well with Trello. My only complaint at this time is that I have to open each card in order to locate the one on which the timer is currently ticking. I'll be looking for the appropriate place to suggest an enhancement regarding this.

Perfect!