# Forecast Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Forecast the right Resource Management solution for you? Explore 31 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/166339/Forecast/reviews --- Forecast 4.3 (31) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Forecast Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 4.1 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews HK Heather K Technical Learning PartnerComputer Software, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It’s a great way to visualize what projects are going on in the business and see what you will be working on in the future“ January 6, 2025 AD Alexander D Lead AnalystReal Estate, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Customization felt limited and hard to work around.“ May 19, 2025 AD Alexander D Lead AnalystReal Estate, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The interface is clean and modern.“ May 19, 2025 BC Brenda C Office ManagerConstruction, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The visual appearance showing availability of team members was concise and easy to navigate.“ March 7, 2025 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 31 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Christopher K. Delivery Systems and Training Manager Defense & Space Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Forecast is great if it suits your business structure" December 17, 2025 5.0 I use Forecast to track the resourcing of our employees and subcontractors across projects. It provides visibility of leave, expected burn on projects, and employee assignments. Forecast highlights who is already resourced, who has capacity, and allows us to foresee expected burn and invoicing monthly. It also shows project end dates and drop-off dates for each person so they can be lined up with other projects. Forecast is straightforward to set up and use and interfaces with Harvest for project tracking and finances. Resourcing in Forecast appears against the linked project in Harvest as a projected burn of the project's budget. However, it can only link one instance of Forecast to one instance of Harvest. Pros I like that Forecast is straightforward to set up and use for organizations it suits. It provides clear top-level information about when a person is covered until, and interfaces with Harvest for project tracking and finances. It highlights visibility of leave, expected project burn, and helps track who is working on which project and when. I find it useful that it allows us to foresee expected burn and invoicing month on month, and it makes it easy to see when projects are expected to finish so that people can be lined up for other projects. Cons Forecast only links to one Harvest instance, which doesn't work for organizations that have grown to include multiple business units each with their own Harvest instance. It would be great if it could handle multiple 'organizations' under one tool. Additionally, I wish it could automatically load public holidays, track leave from Harvest or another system, and show this in the Forecast calendar. Also, tracking future engagements or opportunities and future starter people could be improved, as well as resourcing based on a +30-day view instead of manually filling in days between dates. Review Source BC Brenda C. Office Manager Construction Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Availability at a Glance" March 7, 2025 5.0 Easy to train people - harder to always get them to cooperate - but the tool works great when utilized correctly. Pros The visual appearance showing availability of team members was concise and easy to navigate. The ability to see the most important information on one screen & then to filter or drill-down from there makes it a great tool. Cons Getting users to actually use it correctly is challenging in almost any company. Switched from [Google Calendar](https://www.capterra.com/p/213340/Google-Calendar/) Not enough capacity and customization available in Google Calendar Review Source Response from Harvest March 14, 2025 Thanks for your wonderful review! We love hearing how Harvest helps keep work running smoothly. Please feel free to reach out with any Forecast questions or feedback via https://www.getharvest.com/contact. Peter L. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A good (almost brilliant) project management SaaS tool" October 16, 2018 3.0 We use Asana and Forecast to manage time allocation to tasks, and use Forecast to plan out our resource allocation. Harvest Forecast seem to work well for us when planning work schedules over the next few weeks, but we do not seem to successfully use this for longer term project management. We use Harvest Forecast daily - it has become mission critical to the successful running of our business. However we resort to spreadsheets (and Asana) to manage longer term forecasts, and for this have marked it down a star. I suspect that this is not the fault of the software per se, but our work flow process from Asana making this just too clumsy. Still, Harvest Forecast a good, stable, well written piece of software. It is reasonably priced and one of the best methods to properly forecast project-based work. Pros Forecast is easy to use and does the job as a forecast management tool for us. The ease of use should not be underestimated - we have trialed many other project management tools and they were just too hard to set up. Moreover the integration to our Harvest itself (a time tracker) makes this much more powerful than a classic project management tool. We use it to manage our software development processes, which has a mix of short 1-2 days tasks and longer multi-month projects. Forecast and has some neat features: particularly like the quick way of setting up milestones. Forecast now also allows time planning around weekends so you can accommodate over time and will work in countries where the weekend is not Saturday and Sunday. Cons The integration method to Harvest Forecast is lumpy. You have to manually select which products in Forecast you import, and it is not perfectly linked, so change a name in, say, Asana and you have to manually fill this in. It is hard to include public holidays. Review Source HK Heather K. Technical Learning Partner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Forecast makes project planning easy" January 6, 2025 5.0 Overall forecast is a great tool - I enjoy using it and it helps me in my daily work Pros It’s a great way to visualize what projects are going on in the business and see what you will be working on in the future Cons I have noticed a few connectivity issues lately and it has been slow to load on some occasions which is frustating Review Source Response from Harvest January 17, 2025 Thanks for these kind words! Our support team is always happy to help troubleshoot any performance issues with you. You can reach them at support@getharvest.com. CR Coey R. Sales Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Forecast and make your life easier" October 17, 2025 5.0 Forecast with all the features it provides such as automation using AI, project and time management, such a helpful tool. Pros Customer service above the bar. Top notch help when it comes to the support they provide for the business. Cons I have no complaints with this program. The ai features are so helpful of make thing clean and sharpe Review Source AD Alexander D. Lead Analyst Real Estate Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Looks nice but didn’t meet our planning needs" May 19, 2025 4.0 It had potential but didn’t really fit how our team works. We tried to make it work but ended up switching tools. Pros The interface is clean and modern. It’s easy to jump in and start using without a ton of upfront training. Cons The forecasting logic didn’t match how we track projects. Customization felt limited and hard to work around. Review Source Response from Harvest May 30, 2025 Thanks for the feedback! While it didn't work out, we still appreciate you taking the time to test Forecast and share your thoughts. P.s. If you needed task-level scheduling, we just released it! Morgan C. Director Of Digital Media Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Intuitive Time Planning Software That Adapts to Any Team Size" May 6, 2019 4.0 The software works like a dream if your organization has the depth of project management/trafficking skill to understand how to balance its functions with the needs of the people captured by the system. This is NOT a great software for agile environments in my opinion. Pros Forecast (and its partner Harvest) make for a powerful program that can assist in planning any work that requires team effort. The process is easy, the interface readily understandable. Setup is very simple and new projects are easily managed in Forecast. You can be as detailed as you'd like, or very high-level. Perfect for traffic management, not so great for creativity. Cons This isn't a software for agile environments, and it's VERY easy for project managers to get caught in the objective of making red into green (a person is over budgeted time allotments versus a person has time to do the work) rather than thinking about what they're actually splitting or assigning. This can be a big problem in creative environments where team members may need large chunks of time for thinking, creating, or researching. Review Source Chris A. Driver Manager.... and Author Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy to use" November 30, 2022 4.0 Pros This tool has made it easy for me to schedule projects and forecast who will be available to do specific job at the company. It's so easily to use and it helps me assign task and distribute the workload. Cons For a large organization like ours having lots of drivers and big teams project visualization can get quite overwhelming. Review Source Gerson C. Arquitectura, Diseño y Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Predict accurately each project" April 26, 2018 4.0 Make precise calculations based on profits and benefits of each project in real time, knowing which of them is the most profitable and how the work team defends itself in each area to know what the strengths and weaknesses are. Pros The main functionality or where the application is focused is the ability that gives you to correctly forecast and schedule each project in composite with workers as a team, but in which it differentiates to others, which allows you to calculate costs based on time spent , this is the main advantage, you can see the benefit at the time of each project, when it is profitable and when it is not, so you can project the profits, know when a project extends more than it should and how this affects the profits of the company. Cons It lacks some tools based on the management of projects at times may be too simple in excess and this will affect you when you reuyeras complete functionalities for management. Review Source Flavio A. Creative Director Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Bird's Eye View for Project Planning" September 25, 2019 5.0 Forecast is a great little tool for project managers and directors, allowing them to organise and get an overview of upcoming tasks and projects for different teams as well as individual employees. Pros Forecast was probably the best innovation from Harvest in recent years. Even though the parent tool is in dire need of a refresh, Forecast gives managers a bird's eye view of their upcoming projects, allowing them to individually assign tasks and distribute the workload. Cons Despite the fact that it is a great forecasting tool, project visualisation can get a bit overwhelming on larger organisations with bigger teams. Review Source TS Tyler S. Owner / Creative Director Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Gantt Charts FTW!" February 28, 2019 5.0 We use Forecast with Harvest to suck in projects and schedule the work our creatives will be working on. It serves as a pipeline so we know who's busy and who's got capacity. Pros Super slick way to schedule people's work and see where the bottlenecks lie in our future workflow. Cons Wish you could choose to not schedule people and schedule only projects/tasks instead. Sometimes we don't know who will be working on what until it's time to be worked on. Review Source AJ Abby J. HR Alternative Medicine Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very convenient to use" November 24, 2024 5.0 I was very pleased with my experience with Forecast and it is great for scheduling Pros Very conveniently helps you keep track of all of your scheduling needs Cons I didn’t notice anything that I didn’t like however some of the employees had issues updating theirs Review Source Response from Harvest December 6, 2024 Thanks for the kind words! If your team runs into any more trouble, they are more than welcome to reach out to our Experts at support@getharvest.com for an assist. RV Reka V. Jr. HR Specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "If You Liked Harvest, You'll Love Forecase" September 22, 2023 5.0 Pros Super easy to use, the calendar feature is very straightforward and visually clear. Harvest had some bugs where their "scheduling assistant" feature often did not work, but I find that Forecast specializes in that feature. Keeping track of time and finding time to work with coworkers are extremely simple with Forecast. Cons If you are switching from Harvest, you do need to individually carryover all features one by one, which may be tedious. If you do not have a specific project you are working on but are working on internal projects or are helping a coworker with their project, it may be hard to track time because you need a preset "task" in order to track time. I'd recommended having a general "internal" task to track time for work that does not relate to an existing project. Switched from [Harvest](https://www.capterra.com/p/75598/Harvest/) To integrate better with Jira Review Source Response from Harvest September 30, 2024 Thanks for your review! We’re so happy to hear how much you’re enjoying Forecast. I've also noted your feedback for the rest of the team. VR Verified Reviewer Project Manager Graphic Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good product" May 4, 2020 5.0 Overall, it's a very helpful tool that keeps our business running. I think it's a great tool and would recommend to others. Pros It makes it easy to schedule our team's days and weeks while also prioritizing projects. It also is helpful per team member to keep track of your projects, and set milestones for the projects ahead of time. Cons The only thing I don't like about this software is when you shift things around if a new project comes in or an old drops off, it's a little challenging to do because you have to click every single element after that project. Would be easier if there was a "bump" feature of some sort. Review Source JW Jack W. Head of Digital Marketing Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Useful tool for planning team members' time but not the most intuitive" January 17, 2019 4.0 Overall, Forecast is a time saver for managing teams, and the feedback from the team members is that it helps co-ordinate their week ahead and know what they need to be working on. If they can work on improving the design and layout, it could be the perfect team management system. Pros Forecast's direct integration with Harvest (time tracking) makes it a simple and easy process to assign tasks to a team member in Forecast and have it automatically appear in Harvest for them to log time against, helping streamline the process and reducing the number of steps. Cons While the interface for Forecast is fairly easy to use, it isn't all that intuitive. It can be difficult to see what a team member is working on, and if there's a few people on the team, there is a lot of faffing around to open up each team member's list and see what they're assigned to. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Jr Software Engineer Biotechnology Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Forecast is great for project management for timelines/resources -- goodbye static gant charts." July 3, 2018 4.0 We get an agreed upon view of what is going on -- our management knows the project schedules and our employees know where they will be allocated in the future. That also means we can prevent time collisions for project planning purposes and figure out where we went wrong if timelines are missed. Pros The reporting and planning of project timelines is so simple with forecast. Once you learn where the UI controls are, it is easy to report over timelines and view data. I love that you can zoom in and out between how granular data is. It is really easy to tell what is going with just one glance at the screen. Cons Setting up clients, employees and projects can be cumbersome. Once the entire thing is set up, it is easy to modify or edit -- but getting our things in order to get it all inside of forecast took some time. That combined with slower page load times on the app (when we were using it at least) made it a bear to onboard. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "An early beta product that doesn’t work, with a premium product price and arrogant culture" March 12, 2022 1.0 When we raised issues with the product, they refused to accept the premise of the issue and ridiculed us. When it finally became impossible to reject the obvious flaws in the product, they asked us to help them design the solutions. I have no issues giving ideas to a startup to help them improve the product, but I am less inclined to do so after being treated poorly. Pros What it is supposed to do, in theory, is a great concept. However, in practice, it doesn’t deliver and is a waste of time and money. Cons The product has many fundamental flaws. For example, if you charge a deposit for a project via Forecast, it doesn’t actually credit the deposit against completed work. It is a half baked beta project. Reason for choosing Forecast Promised (though not real) benefits of Forecast Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Managing Partner Management Consulting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Both Forecast and Harvest are good - but the integration is horrible" April 15, 2019 3.0 Recommended if you only need one or the other tool ... but don't use it if you want to use the (logical) combination. Pros Every one of the two tools (Harvest / Forecast) does what it should do. Using it is easy as long as you don't want to combine those two tools. Cons The integration of Harvest and Forecast (which is meant to go together) does not work at all. The process is not thought through and is highly unintuitive. Just to give you one example. In Harvest Users can't create clients (only admins) but in Forecast everyone can create clients (you can't even change this setting). However to link projects and clients obviously they need to have exactly the same name AND you have to do it manually. So now that I have trained 30 people in NOT creating a new client (although the tool allows them to) I have learned that if I try to centralize this process to solve the problem described above I cannot archive a project only in one of those 2 tools which means that now I have a problem because Forecast is not build to keep a good overview about 100+ projects whereas this is no problem in Harvest.... Really terrible. I believe the product manager (who by the way does not want to talk to me although I asked for) has never actually used the process himself. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Digital Strategist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simple but limited" April 2, 2020 3.0 Pros The ability to quickly edit timelines and assignments is fast and easy. Cons You can easily integrate it with other services and the reporting is very limited. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Scrum Master Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great online project allocation software" May 29, 2019 5.0 Pros Forecast is an easy to use application for project allocation. I use this software to set up team members allocation across 9 teams. It's an easy way to see what the allocation is for each one and to keep track of off days as well. The management of the applications is easy and intuitive, set up is quick and team management is as easy as clicking or dragging. Cons The way filtering is handled is ok, but it could be better on how to view allocation across multiple team members. Review Source KC Kevin C. Project Manager Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool for tracking and updating team members' schedules. " November 8, 2017 5.0 Pros (1) Great UX, low learning curve (2) Visual representation of team members schedules, their projects, and tasks (3) Added functionality for when team members are "overbooked" or "under-booked" Cons Less useful for larger projects that require multiple, dedicated team members for a long period of time. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Project Manager Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Forecast is great lightweight tool for planning project and team capacity. " March 6, 2018 5.0 Easy to use capacity planning software for understanding the capacity of my teams! Pros I'm a project manager who has tried MANY different forecasting tools. I was frequently frustrated by forecasting tools that were too exact and cumbersome for agile planning for small teams. Forecast is a great lightweight tool for estimating and understanding capacity of your team in one view. Cons This tool would make my life even easier if it had some type of automated reporting that would give me historical data on my teams capacity and project durations for future planning. Review Source IS Ivona S. Designer Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Its really good" April 6, 2021 5.0 Pros I really like how it connects together, when I am working on a task, I can just choose that specific tasks, without me writing it. Also I like that it is an app. You can have it in your computer, not the browser. Cons I would not use it myself because it is a bit too expensive for me. Review Source Joe P. VP, Design Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Forecast has made utilization planning for our teams so much simpler!" December 5, 2017 4.0 The forecast has allowed us to move our utilization planning out of manually updated spreadsheets and into a tool built for the job. It's been awesome, and the added cost is nominal compared to the value it delivers. Pros Love the integration with Harvest. Being able to sort and filter by different criteria makes it super simple to like at Product teams, functional teams, offices, etc. the visibility we've gained with a Forecast has been a game changer. Cons I wish it were a bit more directly integrated into Harvest (as opposed to living outside as a separate platform. As is, it's easy to accidentally create people, etc that aren't tied to a Harvest entry. Integrating would simplify our toolset as well, giving us one place to go to manage time tracking and team planning. Review Source MB Megan B. Program Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "One click forecasting that integrates with Harvest" August 13, 2019 3.0 We use Forecast because of its integration with Harvest. Unfortunately, we are not usually able to use it for much beyond its visual representations of individual team schedules week-to-week because of the lack of reporting tools. It requires a lot of additional work inside Excel to filter down to anything useful. Pros Harvest integration ties in with your existing projects Cons Non-existent reporting means you need to export a CSV and create your own reports. Review Source Talk to a Capterra advisor for free and get results within 15 minutes.