Best Task Session Alternatives for Teams That Track Time by Task

Teamwork.com is the strongest alternative here for teams that want project tasks and time logs together. Harvest is a good fit if the team already likes its project tool and mainly wants a dedicated time ledger. If your client portal, billing records, and tasks all live in Task Session, include those in the switching decision.

This guide compares the Task Session product at tasksession.com. Its documentation covers running and manual task timers, client projects, tracked time in the client portal, and filtered reports. Task Session task time · Task Session project management · Task Session reports

Teamwork time tracking · Teamwork plan features · Harvest setup · Harvest reports

Use the same client work in both alternatives

A fictional four-person studio supports Cedar Market. On Tuesday, Ravi spends 35 minutes reproducing ticket CM-17 and 25 minutes preparing its fix. He then spends 15 minutes reviewing an internal checklist. On Wednesday, he adds a forgotten 20-minute Cedar handoff under CM-19. Cedar should see the client work that the studio chooses to share. The operations lead should be able to trace 80 client minutes and 15 internal minutes back to the work.

In Teamwork.com, make CM-17 and CM-19 dated tasks assigned to Ravi. Run the timer against CM-17 and switch activities when he starts the internal review. Log CM-19 manually. Compare the individual entries in the project's Time section with the period report. Teamwork's Time report has requirements for task dates, individual assignees, and recorded time. For the client view, use a separate test client login and check which time permissions it has. Track time against tasks · View tracked time · Time report requirements

In Harvest, create a Cedar project and a separate internal project. Use task categories such as Investigation and Implementation, then add CM-17 to both entries' notes. Enter CM-19 under Handoff. In the detailed time report export, include the Notes field and check that the reviewer can reconstruct all 80 Cedar minutes. Keep assignment, acceptance criteria, and ticket comments in the existing project tool. Harvest's task selection classifies time within a project. A task ID in the notes gives the ledger a reference back to the operational ticket. Harvest time entry · Harvest time report and export

Test the switch with one completed week

1. Export a representative week from Task Session. Capture both the time report and the data export options. List which files contain tasks, clients, and the underlying time entries.
2. Pick a task with two sessions and one edited log. Preserve task and project IDs and verify that the destination can distinguish the entries. Keep the original export as a reference if the destination accepts only totals.
3. Reconcile totals by person, project, and date. Use the same period and check whether filters hide work, whether rounding changes a number, and whether billable status survives.
4. Test the client login and handoff separately. Confirm what happens to shared documents, time visibility, and invoices in your setup before moving a live engagement.

Task Session documents an administrator migration hub and filtered report exports. Those are different operations. Check which records, fields, and relationships each export carries before planning the cutover. Task Session migration hub · Task Session reports

The comparison reflects vendor documentation checked November 10, 2026. If the team can already find its work and only needs a cleaner ledger, begin with Harvest's sample export. If people need to time work from the same record they assign, discuss, and review, start with the Teamwork task test.