| Basecamp |
pricing
Free for 1 proj & unlimited users |
lacks effective tasks (Cannot attach todo items to a milestone. Need unwieldy lists) |
● Nice simple and clean |
● very easy to use because of so few features |
● Dashboard page is missing good calendar
● Plans are expensive |
missing vital task functionality |
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| Intervals |
pricing
#0 days free. Starts at $20 for 15 projects & unlimited users |
very complete |
● very slick |
● much more complete time/cost management than any other product |
● overkill if you don’t need detailed time recording |
If this is what you need, it could pay for itself very quickly |
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| Unfuddle |
pricing
Free for 1 proj & 2 users |
very complete |
● not as cool looking as some
● some parts look overly complex |
● nice % completion graphics |
● some processes can be a bit fiddly because of so many options |
workable solution but free plan is limiting |
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| GoPlan |
pricing
Free for 3 proj & 2 users |
very complete |
● Very nice clean interface |
● Tickets as well as tasks
● Really nice creation of events on calendar
● subtasks is a really nice idea
● includes time tracking |
● none that I can find |
hard to find any disadvantages except that it is not free |
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| TeamworkPM |
pricing
free plan includes time tracking |
same problem with tasks as basecamp |
● good |
● |
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missing vital task functionality |
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| Wrike |
pricing
charcged per user |
ok |
● good |
● |
● expensive (charged per user)
● no free starter plan |
too expensive |
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| Central Desktop |
pricing
no free starter plan |
complete |
● over featured |
● full online office replacement, not just PM |
● full online office replacement, not just PM |
over featured |
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| ActiveCollab |
pricing
outright purchase of source |
complete |
● Extremely nice and slick system |
● very clean and obvious to use
● allows tagging
● provides “what’s happening” stream
● nice % completion graphics
● multiple company & client support |
● Expensive: $250/$500, not including upgrades |
Feng Office forked from ActiveCollab when it went closed-source, but I think Feng is actually ahead now. Nevertheless, a good solid product. |
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| ProjectPier |
open source fork of activecollab |
missing full task functionality |
● looks nice, and easy to use |
● multiple company & client support
● allows tagging
● provides “what’s happening” stream |
● no dates on anything except milestones
● basecamp style task-lists
● tasks are very simple, no room for comments |
missing vital task functionality |
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| Feng Office (was OpenGoo) |
pricing
open source version avaliable
● (fork of activecollab) |
everything |
● very slick with nice drag-and-drop JavaScript goodness |
● extremely complete with a unique concept of “workspaces”.
● Can be customized by reducing functionality when a simpler system is required. |
● I am using this in earnest now and have yet to find a downside |
Amazing product, way ahead of virtually everything else. This is what I ended up recommending for most of my clients. |
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| Planigle |
pricing
or free hosted “community” edition, or open source version with less features |
releases can function as milestones |
● flash - reasonably good |
● pretty good agile support
● blocked tasks are supported—a major feature |
● only one project at a time for community version
● have to get used to Agile terminology |
Agile support gives a wholly new dimension to this PM
Not so good at tracking large numbers of small tasks |
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| Rockclimbr |
Open source and totally free |
All the essentials are there |
● Really not polished enough for use
● Lots of Drupally bits show causing confusion |
● integrates into Drupal
● good handling of todo-items |
● minimal feature set |
promising, but not ready yet |
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| Open Atrium |
Open source and totally free |
totally missing calendar/time on todo-items (fatal flaw) |
● Looks really cool |
● chat room
● nice social integration and a few other tools
● integrates into Drupal |
● no milestones
● can be a bit confusing to navigate |
missing vital calendar functionality |
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| Storm |
Open source and totally free |
Seems to have no time-aware features, a fatal flaw |
● ok |
● integrates into Drupal |
● limited |
missing vital calendar functionality |
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| TeamBox |
Open source and totally free
● plus a free online hosted service! |
complete |
● very simple and cool, but not totally obvious what are tasks and what are lists |
● tasks have start as well as end date which allows Gannt charts
● gives a twitter-like stream of events |
● no milestones—have to use tasklists (but function similarly)
● RoR code is a little harder to install |
Could be very good for some situations |
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| WebCollab |
Open source and totally free |
all the essentials seem to be there |
● simple and easy to use, but not polished |
● simplicity |
● no milestones, but there are sub-tasks which do as well
● no user avatars
● very basic |
I will recommend this to one of my clients as it would meet their need perfectly for a very simple, minimal system |
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| Redmine |
Open source and totally free |
Hard-core software project tracker (RoR) |
● unpolished |
● optimized for high ticket volume |
● Not really general purpose as far as I can see |
Minimal but clean and effective ticket tracking system, inspired by Trak |
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| Lighthouse |
pricing
free hosting for your open source projects |
looks complete |
● good |
● activity streams
● has an API
● supports a public ticketing system
● integrates with version control |
● expensive |
Yet another improved basecamp? |
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| DeskAway |
pricing
Free for 3 projects & 5 users |
same problem with tasks as basecamp |
● good |
● looks nice |
● real tasks |
missing vital task functionality |
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| Agilefant |
Open source and totally free |
review here |
● very complex because of all the features |
● will manage an enterprise |
● massivly featured |
not suitable for simple project management |
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| XPlanner-Plus |
Open source and totally free
● xplanner-plus.sourceforge.net |
full Agile PM system |
● nice looking and clean |
● Could be the best tool in the future
● blog at: http://blog.xplannerplus.org/
● demo at: demo.xplannerplus.org sysadmin/admin |
● stories can only be used as containers for tasks
● not quite ready yet |
Keep checking back for progress. May be the best Agile tool |
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