--- description: Learn more about Forecast. We provide Australian business users the most detailed information on pricing, benefits, and disadvantages of software that will make your choice easier. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/getapp/og_logo-94fd2a03a6c7a0e54fc0c9e21a1c0ce9.png title: Forecast Reviews, Cost & Features | GetApp Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Resource Management Software](/directory/1237/resource-management/software) > [Forecast](/software/109303/forecast) # Forecast Canonical: https://www.getapp.com.au/software/109303/forecast Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/109303/forecast?page=2) > Forecast organizes your team’s schedule into visual plans that let you map out your upcoming projects and make smarter resourcing decisions. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 31 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Key benefits of Forecast Map out project plans in Forecast so you can see exactly how long a project is going to take and who's available to work on it. Make smarter resourcing decisions with the help of Forecast's color-coded capacity graphs. See who has availability to take on new work and who's overbooked. Keep projects on track with the Harvest integration. See when a project is projected to go over budget so you can make adjustments or talk to your client. Pinpoint problem areas with a report that allows you to see where the actual work your team is doing deviates from what you anticipated. Improve your estimates on future projects by seeing exactly where your schedule was off. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 31 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Harvest - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 6.25 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: $5.00/user/month - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and 2 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Assignment Management - Availability Management - Calendar Management - Capacity Management - Collaboration Tools - Data Import/Export - Drag & Drop - Employee Management - Employee Scheduling - Forecasting - Gantt/Timeline View - Group Scheduling - Multiple Projects - Online Booking - Prioritization - Project Management - Project Planning - Projections - Real-Time Data ## Integrations (1 total) - Harvest ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Resource Management Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/1237/resource-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Scheduling Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/233/scheduling/software) - [Calendaring Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/679/calendar/software) - [Resource Management Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/1237/resource-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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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. > > Easy to use capacity planning software for understanding the capacity of my teams\! ----- ### "Very convenient to use" — 5.0/5 > **Abby** | *24 November 2024* | Alternative Medicine | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **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 > > I was very pleased with my experience with Forecast and it is great for scheduling ----- ### "Both Forecast and Harvest are good - but the integration is horrible" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *15 April 2019* | Management Consulting | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10 > > **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. > > Recommended if you only need one or the other tool ... but don't use it if you want to use the (logical) combination. ----- ### "If You Liked Harvest, You'll Love Forecase" — 5.0/5 > **Reka** | *22 September 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. ----- ### "Great tool for tracking and updating team members' schedules." — 5.0/5 > **Kevin** | *8 November 2017* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/109303/forecast?page=2) ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/109303/forecast) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-MX | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data